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My Shortcuts page has links to the favorite pages I use everyday. The recommended web sites below have links and brief descriptions to additional web resources and also my home page. Some may have changed so I welcome corrections and updates (see feedback section at the end of the web page). I'm in the process of updating the links: headings marked "2009 update" are newly reviewed while others may be out of date.

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ART - OFF THE BEATEN TRACK (2009 update)


ART - TRADITIONAL (2009 update)

AUTOMOBILES (2009 update)

BUSINESS, FINANCE, and MONEY

COMPUTING and WEBCASTING

EDUCATION (2009 update)

EMPLOYMENT

GENEALOGY - Boynton

GENEALOGY - Quine

GENEALOGY - General - SOCIAL MEDIA

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES (2009 update)

HUMOR

KID-FRIENDLY WEB SITES

MOVIES

MUSICIANS - BEATLES (other groups in next section)

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MUSICIANS (Beatles in section above)

MUSIC REFERENCES

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NEWS and HISTORY

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PHILATELY - STAMP COLLECTING

POSTAL AUTOMATION and MAILING

QUINE PAGES (2009 update)

[Amazon Associate] REFERENCE, LIBRARY, and BOOKS

SCIENCE, HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, and FOOD

TAXES

  • Internal Revenue Service stylish, up to date site to download federal and state forms, use questionnaires to compute deductions
  • 1040.com download state forms
  • Ernst and Young US tax information
  • Flat Tax Calculator for comparison
  • Tax Web helpful list of links to federal and state tax sites, tax publishers, software developers, discussion groups, and mailing lists [PC Magazine]
  • Taxing Times 1997 download federal tax forms and find IRS phone numbers

TELEVISION

THEATER

TRAVEL and PLACES:

WEB SEARCH ENGINES (this site is listed in most)

  • About reference information (formerly Mining Co)
  • All4One Search Engine combining Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, and Yahoo
  • AllTheWeb (powered by FAST from Norway) very efficient and very broad web searches
  • Alta Vista powerful engine: Search and Display the Results
  • Alexa: Recommendations and Find Lost Web Pages cure the 404 File Not Found blues using archives of the web to find old web pages; recommendations for related pages [Newsweek; PC Magazine]
  • Ask Jeeves metasearcher - answers to plain English questions [Business Week]
  • Bing.com Microsoft's 2009 addition to the crowded search engine space
  • Deja News Usenet searcher PC Magazine Editor's choice [PC Magazine]
  • Direct Hit search based on site popularity
  • DogPile combines multiple search engines
  • Excite conceptual searcher
  • Galaxy search the Web, Gopher, and Telnet
  • Google large database - clearly the best in 2004 - especially helpful because it keeps a cache copy of each web page
  • Go To vendors can pay to be listed higher
  • Hot Bot exhaustive Web searcher: with a flashy interface (compliments Alta Vista and Webcrawler; PC Magazine Editor's choice)
  • Hot Wired leading edge Internet graphics and technology
  • InfoSeek / GO.com search the Web, newsgroups, and Usenet
  • Internet Archive THE way to view old web pages and trace their history
  • Lycos exhaustive Web searcher
  • Mamma multiple engines
  • MetaCrawler metasearcher combines multiple search engines [PC Magazine Editor's choice for simple searches]
  • Pathfinder Internet access interface to news, weather by ZIP code, etc
  • Planet Search [PC Magazine]
  • ProFusion metasearcher [PC Magazine Editor's choice for complex searches]
  • SavvySearch ranks results
  • Search.Com lists dozens of search engines from A to Z
  • Snap growing
  • WebCrawler Web searcher
  • Yahoo topical searcher

WEB COMMERCIAL SITES and BUYERS GUIDES (2009 update)

  • Amazon.Com the extraordinary on-line shopping site
  • Compare Broadband compares ADSL, Naked, Cable, ADSL2+, Satellite, or a Mobile wireless plan
  • Ebay largest Online Auction site

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