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PriusChat.com What is a Prius you ask. The gas-electric hybrid Toyota Prius is the most technologically advanced car on the road today and I have one. But with all this high tech, one needs guidance on how best to ultilize the cutting edge technology crammed into this vehicle, and Priuschat.com fits the bill. Come talk with Prius owners or just people who are thinking about owning one.
Besttests.com Have a question about the latest in technology? problems with your computer? or hoping to work in the IT field one day? Here is a site of dedicated people in the IT field who are willing to share the knowledge they have spent so much time attaining. All you have to do is ask.
Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth Want pictures of your state taken from 22,000 miles up? Or just wanna see what the astronauts see when circling the Earth. Well this is the place to go. Here is over 400,000 images taken from space. Most of the pictures provide fabulous view of our great planet Earth. The "map" of Oregon on my rafting page was obtained at this site. Special image enhancing filters reduced the distortion caused by the atmosphere and cloud cover. The pics are all in the public domain. NASA asks that you acknowledge the fact that they took the picture.
How Things Work.com Ever wondered how something works but were afraid you wouldn't be able to understand the explanation? Well fear no more. How Things Work.com has easy-to-understand explanations covering a huge variety of topics. There are even subjects covered in the "fantasy" or "What if" catagory. A very fascinating site!
California Coastline.org This site contains pictures in a database photographing every inch of the California coastline. The pictures were taken from a helicopter using a high resolution digital camera hooked up to an Apple Mac laptop by firewire. Basically the helicopter flew down the coast while the camera snapped one pic every 2 seconds. The main attraction here is that the high resolution pics enables you to zoom in close enough to be able to count the number of people lying on the beach. If ya want to see some of the most breath-taking views in the state, this is the way to do it. Barbra Streisand is suing the guys who made the site because she thinks they violated her privacy by photographing her backyard. Just an indication of how good these photos are!
Search for Extraterristrial Intelligence Do you believe in UFO's? Well whether you do or not you can still help others prove their existence. In the Steven Spielberg movie, "ET" phoned home. Now you can use your computer to see if "ET" is trying to phone Earth. Just click on the link and then download the Setiathome client. This program scans information gathered from the largest radio telescope in the world, the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Panama.
Project Gutenberg is a group of people dedicated to getting books on-line for everyone to read free of charge. These are books that the average person would not run across in print. This all-volunteer project takes older books and publications out of the depths of college and university libraries for all to enjoy. If you can spare as little as 5 minutes occasionally, put that time to good use by helping to proof read these books. There are books for all skill levels and abilities. Help us preserve our literary heritage.
Feed an animal Are there too many animals in your neighborhood going to bed hungry? If you want to help, click on the link. It will take you to a site where each click will provide .6 bowls of food to an animal at a local animal shelter. This is completely free and there is a limit of one click per computer per day.
Street Maps at Yahoo! Are you the type of person who will never admit that you are lost? Need some direction in your life? Then go to the Yahoo! Maps page, simply type in the street address you are looking for and presto! Yahoo provides a map with your destination highlighted with a little red star. The map has a "print" button and comes in many different zoom levels. For an example of their work just check out the maps on this page.
AirphotoUSA Want to see what the birds see? Or you want to see how your neighborhood is laid out and and has troubles imaging it spatially? AirphotoUSA provide high quality aerial color photos of the USA. Just type in the address and they provide the pics. They have free images that are watermarked and compressed, but they also have high-resolution glossies for a price. My house photo came from here.
Paint Shop Pro Demo JASC Software provides a demo of their award winning image editing software. This is a timed demo good for 60 days. I used this and Animation Shop 3 also from JASC to create the animated effects on the banner below.
