Internet Information and Tools
 
  • Clip Art and Graphics Collections.

  • Color Converter - RGB to HEX.
    Uses a standard 216 color palette.

  • Color Lab from Visibone.
    Color palette for webmasters. Click on a color on the chart to get its information.

  • Color Helper.
    Select background and text colors for your homepage using the imagemap or by entering RGB values. The imagemap consists of the 216 colors.

  • Color Picker
    A convenient online aid for web page color scheme design by Professional Web Design.

  • Color Scheme Designer.
    Create color schemes for monochromatic, complementary, triad, tetrad, analogic, and accented analogic color schemes.

  • Computer Use and Ownership Statistics.
    From the U.S. Census Bureau, computer Use data collected in various supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS). Beginning in 1997, the survey included questions on Internet use.

  • Convert It.
    Free online conversions for audio files, documents, images, video files, and zip files. Simply browse for a file on your hard drive and select a format for conversion. The file will be sent to your email address.

  • Dynamic Drive.
    Wonderful web resource for DHTML. Has many free scripts and the latest DHTML information.

    EMAIL -- The following sites offer free email accounts:

  • Excite.
  • Google Mail.
  • Hotmail.
  • Lycos.
    • EMAIL Greeting Cards -- The following sites offer free email greeting cards.
  • Blue Mountain Arts.
  • Cardmaster.
  • Extract YouTube.
    Search for YouTube videos and download them from this site.

  • GIF Wizard.
    A free online utility that will reduce the file size of your GIF files so they load faster and take less directory space.

  • Hampton Roads Internet Association.
    Open to all who wish to learn more about the Internet. Lists scheduled meeting dates, programs, and directions to the meeting site.

  • Internet Archive.
    A non-profit organization, collaborating with other institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, to prevent the Internet's "born-digital" materials from disappearing. Includes video, audio, and text files.

  • Internet Crime Complaint Center.
    Created by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, this site was created for victims of Internet fraud. It provides a reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of a suspected criminal or civil violation. The site acts as a central repository for complaints and works to quantify fraud patterns. It provides statistical data of current fraud trends.

  • Internet Service Providers.
    Search for a service provider by area code. This list gives detailed information about types of service, rates, Web and email addresses, and more.

  • Internet Traffic Report.
    Monitors the flow of Internet traffic around the world. Graphs to show response times and packet loss on an hourly basis.

  • Java Machine.
    Create Java Apps online -- free!

    LISTSERVS

    Archives
  • LIBNT-L.    Windows NT for librarians
  • PUBLIB and PUBLIB-NET.    Public library groups
    • Indexes
  • Tile.net.
    Inteernet discussion and information lists. Search by name of the list, description, or domain.

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  • Poor Man's Image Mapper.
    Enter the address of a gif or jpg image that you would like to create an image map for, and the program will return a page to you with that image. You can then click on the vertices of whatever geometric shapes you want to map URLs to in the image, and the program will return to you the location of your mouse clicks so you can build a map file. Alternatively, you can use it to build a client-side imagemap.

  • Sam Spade.
    A variety of specialized tools to search and uncover website and e-mail ownership. It is designed to combat spammers, but will also help you track down people and companies on the web.

  • Second Life.

  • Spammers and Scammers.
    How spammers and scammers hide and confuse their URLs. Instructions to convert "dword," "octal," and "hexadecimal" URLs into domain names that can be traced.

  • TransWeb Transparency Apparatus.
    Make transparent GIFs. Enter an URL for your GIF. You will be presented a clickable map of your image. Click on the color you want transparent and you will get a new page with the transparentized image. Do "save as" in the usual manner and you have a transparent GIF.

  • W3C HTML Validation Service.
    Checks HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML Recommendations and other HTML standards.

  • Way Back Machine.
    Ever wonder what a webpage looked like years ago? The Way Back Machine takes you back in cyber time to see.

  • WebFX.
    A web-based graphics effects generator by Bill Kendrick. Takes any image from any URL and applies wonderful special effects to it.

  • Webmonkey.
    Collection of links to web tools and information for web page designers.

  • Web Design.

  • Web Robots.
    Also called Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders, this site has information about how to direct robots to your web site, a database of currently known robots (with descriptions and contact details), and a link to a search-engine-watch.

  • Zamzar.
    Convert files under 100MB from any format to any format for free and emails you the results.

    Network Tools

  • Whois.
  • Whois Source.
  • Psychic Whois with auto-completion of domain lookups
  • Domain Tools whois with reverse IP lookup, ping, traceroute, and more.
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