Airline Flight Tracking

My Thoughts: I have used these in the past when my family is traveling and although most are kinda "nerdy", they all basically do the same thing. I personally like FlightAware.com, but they are all pretty good:

Link: http://flightwise.com/

Flightwise is the most advanced free flight tracker on the Internet.  Quickly access tracking data for any aircraft or flight on an IFR flight plan with a fast, efficient interface that lets you get to the information you need quickly.  Pull up detailed specifics on any of the last 10 flights, or subscribe to our premium flight tracking services for access to our long-term archives with data from as early as November of 2001.  Track single flights or entire fleets.

Stay on top of aircraft movements at all times with Flightwise Flight Alerts; with the most extensive capabilities in the industry, users can receive text alerts to their cell phones or email to notify them of departures, arrivals, and even flight plans.  Use Twitter to broadcast alerts on aircraft movement.   Get beeped everytime an aircraft departs for your facility, or find out when a flight is 15 minutes out.  You can even have Flightwise place a voice phone call to alert users and VIP's to aircraft movements.

In addition to the extensive flight tracking features, Flightwise has a number of other features that are all interwoven and tightly integrated, providing an amazing utility for the aviation community.  Our free flight planning engine allows users to quickly create and access flight plans online.  Store them online and file them whenever you're ready; print out approach charts, get aviation weather including textual Digital ATIS, and you're ready for takeoff.

Link: http://flightaware.com/

Founded in 2005, FlightAware was the first company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and commercial air traffic in the United States and quickly rose to become the most popular flight tracking service in the country.
FlightAware currently provides private aviation flight tracking in over forty countries as well as global solutions for aircraft with satellite uplinks. FlightAware continues to lead the industry in free, worldwide airline flight tracking and airport status.
FlightAware's seamless integration of worldwide data sources combined with FlightAware's powerful, intuitive, responsive, and reliable web-based interface yield the most capable and useful flight tracking application and service.
FlightAware is privately held and has offices in Houston and New York.

Always Aware

FlightAware provides live flight data, airport information, fuel prices, FBO reservations, weather maps, flight planning, and navigation charts, as well as aviation news and photos to over two million users a month via the FlightAware.com web site as well as mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Phone 7.
FlightAware also powers operational management and dispatch software, airport flight information displays (FIDS), and provides reporting data to aircraft and airport operators.

YouTube - LeanBack

My Thoughts: I watch a bunch of YouTube videos (mostly Documentaries and Educational stuff), but this is kind of neat and it removes all the horrible "White-Bright" stuff from the edges which makes it a bit more easy on the eyes when viewing in a dark room. I'm still figuring out how it all works, but so far I'm pleased.

Here's the Link - I couldn't really find any type of "About" or "FAQ" so this is all I got:

http://www.youtube.com/leanback

AppRemover - Remove Any Security Application

My Thoughts: This thing has saved my butt more times than I can count. It's not perfect, but damn close to it.

Here's the link and info from the site:

http://www.appremover.com/

The free AppRemover utility enables thorough uninstallation of security software like antivirus and antispyware applications from your computer.

Use AppRemover

• When replacing one security application with another
• When competing security applications tie up your computer
• When the application's built-in uninstall process fails
• When you have forgotten the application password

About:

Uninstall the following application types:

• Antivirus

• Antispyware

• Firewall

• Security suites

Use AppRemover:

• When replacing one security application with another

• When competing security applications tie up your computer

• When the application's built-in uninstall process fails

• When you have forgotten the application password

AppRemover is spyware and virus free

Chockadoc - Watch Free Documentaries Online

My Thoughts: I'm a News junkie and also a Documentary junkie. This is one of the better sites to watch Documentaries online. I personally don't like the fact they want you to logon/register, but you can still watch most everything without providing any info. They pretty much just link to found documentaries on YouTube.

Here's the link and description from the site:

http://www.chockadoc.com/

Watch free documentary films online at Chockadoc.com. We have thousands of free documentary movies for you to watch and enjoy straight away. Browse, watch and enjoy our free documentaries!

PipeBytes - Instantly send music, movies, presentations or any other files to anybody!

NOTE: I've used this a bajillion times and it has never failed me. I've needed to send a file to someone that is too big for email or requires me to rename a file which the receiving end needs to rename back - and some of my customers simply don't understand how all that works. It's not the fastest transfer method in the world, but is easy enough for novices to use which is what I like and need sometimes.

Here's the link and description from the site:

http://www.pipebytes.com

• No software to install. All you need is web browser.
• No hassle registrations, and we don't even require your e-mail address!
• Send files of any size!
• Your buddy could start downloading file as you upload it.
• It's private unlike BitTorrent or other P2P techologies.
• The file is not shared on Internet - it is sent directly to your recipient.
• Now transfer speed is up to 30Mbit/sec per file! Send large files in seconds!
• Free Widget for your web pages.

SimilarSites - Discover the Best Websites and Their Alternatives!

NOTES: I've found this utility very useful when I'm searching or researching something. The service has really been improved over time and it's worth a look. I've found a ton of new websites that I didn't even know existed and I would call it more of a research site than an "alternate-to" site. Several of my friends have found this tool to be quite invaluable. See for yourself and decide.

Link and description from the site:

http://www.similarsites.com/

Stop Searching, and Start Discovering

The quality of your Internet usage experience is limited by the quality of the websites you visit. With all of the sites on the net, it is easy to find yourself on sites which add nothing to this experience. Instead, valuable time gets wasted, and little of value gets accomplished.
SimilarSites.com helps improve your Internet usage experience by presenting you with the websites that you want to see. This is accomplished through the use of our proprietary similar websites algorithm. Years of research and development have been invested into its development, and the results are truly amazing.
Whether you are using SimilarSites.com through our website, or through our Website Plugins, the results will never cease to amaze you. Give it a try today, and see for yourself.

Hundred Zeros - Free ebooks for Kindle

NOTE: I don't personally use this site because I don't have a Kindle nor do I read novels that much, but my daughter reports that it's great. I'll have to take her word for it since it seems that is all she does; read books.

Here's the link and info from the site:

http://hundredzeros.com/

Hundred Zeros is a frequently updated catalog of best-sellers that are free on Amazon. You can also download and read Kindle ebooks on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or the browser.

PDFescape - Online PDF Editor and Form Filler

NOTE: I've used this service on many occasion and there is no need to register which I like. It's not perfect, but pretty darn close.

Link and Description from the site:

http://www.pdfescape.com/

Free PDF Editor & Form Filler

• Annotate PDF Documents
• Create New PDF Forms
• Edit PDF Files
• Fill Out PDF Forms
• Password Protect PDF Content
• Share PDF Documents
• Save & Print PDF Files
• View PDF Files Online

The Coral Content Distribution Network

I've used this service since they started and have had mixed results. MOST of the time it really does speed things up, but your use may very. I recommend you give it a go and see for yourself. I've tried it in multiple locations with different ISP's both private and open and really didn't notice a difference between the two. If it works for you great, if not, well - I tried. It is a great concept and if I were to guesstimate my performance increase I'd put it at 50/50. The sites it does work with is a total plus and a huge increase in speed. That's just my personal opinion.

Here's the link and info from the site:

http://www.coralcdn.org/

What is CoralCDN?

CoralCDN is a free and open content distribution network based around peer-to-peer technologies, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. It allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, all for the price of a $50/month cable modem.

Publishing through CoralCDN is as simple as appending a short string to the hostname of objects' URLs; a peer-to-peer DNS layer transparently redirects browsers to participating caching proxies, which in turn cooperate to minimize load on the source web server. CoralCDN proxies automatically replicate content as a side effect of users accessing it, improving its availability. Using modern peer-to-peer indexing techniques, CoralCDN will efficiently find a cached object if it exists anywherein the network, requiring that it use the origin server only to initially fetch the object once.

One of CoralCDN's key goals is to avoid ever creating hot spots in its infrastructure. It achieves this through a novel indexing abstraction we introduce called a distributed sloppy hash table (DSHT), and it creates self-organizing clusters of nodes that fetch information from each other to avoid communicating with more distant or heavily-loaded servers.

CoralCDN has been continuously operated since March 2004, running on 300-400 servers on the PlanetLab testbed, spread worldwide. As of 2011, it receives 25-50 million requests per day from a few million unique clients.

(What's with the Google ads? Our Illuminati measurement project sought to understand how IP addresses and public information characterize Web clients. One related question is how such information plays a role in pay-per-click advertising, so we decided to run some ourselves to better understand how such systems work.)

Print What You Like

PrintWhatYouLike lets you print the good parts of any web page while skipping ads and other junk.

NOTE: The service requires you to signup for additional features, but I've found that the non-registered version does exactly what I want. I personally don't need the other features. I would recommend you give it a go without signing up and make a decision after a few rounds with the standard version. 

http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/

Bookmarklet:  Add PrintWhatYouLike to your browser

Website Button:  Create a printer friendly version of your website

Sign up  for additional features:

• Change Sets: Save the changes you make to a page and automatically format other pages from the same site
• Clips: Save snippets of pages and compile them together in one document for printing

Jotti's malware scan is a free online service that enables you to scan suspicious files with several anti-virus programs. Scanners used are Linux versions; detection differences with Windows versions of the same scanners may occur due to implementation differences. There is a 25MB limit per file. Keep in mind that no security solution offers 100% protection, not even when it uses several anti-virus engines (for example, this scan service). 

Files uploaded here are shared with anti-virus companies so detection accuracy of their anti-virus products can be improved. Read more about this in our privacy policy. If you do not want your files to be distributed, please do not send them at all.

http://virusscan.jotti.org/en

FollowUpThen

When to use FollowUpThen

• "This email is sitting in my inbox, but I don't need it for 2 weeks!" (Forward it to: 2weeks@followupthen, then archive the message).
• "I have to have a response to this email!" (Forward it to: 3hours@followupthen, or bcc 3hours@followupthen.com on the original message).
• "I need to call someone while I'm in the car." (Email 10am-sms@followupthen.com with the phone number in the subject-line).
• Sales Person: "Hi Customer, I understand there's not a need now. I'll follow up in a few months." (Bcc: 3months@followupthen.com).
• Project Manager: "Please do important task xyz as soon as possible. I need to hear back asap!" (cc: 3hours@followupthen.com)
• Sales Person (to self): "I should follow up in 3 days to make sure he got the proposal." (Bcc: 3days@followupthen.com on proposal email)

Is it really that simple?

Yes. It's easy, free, safe and secure. FollowUpThen is the most efficient reminder on the market. It sends only one email reminder per request (ie, we will not spam you, or your recipient). It takes only seconds to use. Go ahead and try it!

What about spam?

We hate hate spam, too. We will never sell your information to spammers or 3rd party "marketing" companies. We built a serivce that we would love to us ourselves, and spam is not part of that equation. On top of this, the message bodies of your emails are all encrypted on our servers, then deleted after the followup was sent. See our Privacy Policy for all the details, but rest assured knowing that we are here to make a helpful service, not to collect information.

Free DVD Burning Software - DVD Author Plus

Use DVD Author Plus to create Data and Video DVDs using a simple drag-and-drop interface. The simple wizard-based interface makes copying discs or creating and burning disc images just as easy.

VoxOx | Call, Text, Chat, Fax and More. One Place to Connect

Voxox is a free consumer software and service that enables you to make free or super cheap calls, including VoIP Internet to mobile calls, anywhere in the world, as well as text, chat, fax, share files and so much more. All in one place. It starts with a free phone number for calling, two-way texting, and fax.

Scheduled sending and email reminders | Boomerang for Gmail

Boomerang is a plugin for Firefox and Chrome that adds scheduled sending and the easiest, most integrated email reminders to Gmail, helping you reach Inbox Zero.

Online Alarm Clock

Online Alarm Clock - Information about OnlineClock with a complete sitemap & list of all our alarm clocks, countdowns, stopwatches, timers & time tools.

Moborobo - The Android Smartphone PC Manager. Free for Life!

Moborobo - The All-in-one Android Management Tool

Now supports transfer of contacts between Android Phones and iPhones!

Ever wonder how you can back up all your contacts on your old smartphone, and transfer them to a new one? Ok there is Cloud, but maybe you prefer privacy and might not want your data to be up in those corporate servers, and rather keep them local to your PC?

Get a new phone but does not know where to download/install cool games and Apps? Or you wish to download Apps from places other than your phone manufacturer's App store?

Like a piece of music and wish to set it (or part of it) as your ringtone? Want to set a picture on your PC as the background of your phone? Your phone is running out of storage, and there are too many junks on your phone. Have you ever wish there is an easy way to clean up some of the hidden files and programs to free up some space?

Introducing Moborobo 2.0, the Android smartphone management software that does all of the above, and much more. One of the most exciting new features added to Moborobo 2.0, is its abilitly to allow transfer of contacts between Android phones and iPhones.

Moborobo 2.0 is owned and published by Moborobo Inc. We welcome your feedbacks and bug reports and please report them through the user forum or by emailing
support@moborobo.com. 

Moborobo - The Android Smartphone PC Manager. Free for Life!

Gmvault: gmail backup

From the site:

Backup all your emails on disk.

Use the full sync mode to backup your entire gmail account in a unique directory. Your email backup repository can then be easily tarred and moved from one machine to the other.

Update your backup in minutes.

Gmvault can run a quick sync mode regularly (ie. every day) to keep your backup up to date.

Restore emails in any Gmail acc.

With the restore command Gmvault can recreate your gmail mailboxes in any Gmail account. All attributes such as Gmail labels are preserved and recreated. With restore, you will recover your Gmail account exactly as it was.

Handle all Gmail IMAP hiccups.

Even being the world's best email service, Gmail and especially its IMAP service is not without bugs. Gmvault handles all these issues to provide the smoothest experience to the user. Gmvault deals with the most common issues and always let the user with an uncorrupted email database.

Encrypt saved emails.

All the emails saved in your email repository can be protected with encryption. With this feature, you can put your backup emails on a cloud storage system while protecting your information.

For geek and non-geek users.

Gmvault has been designed with users in mind and is stuffed with the most common defaults to work directly out of the box. In addition, a detailed tutorial and installation guide allow all types of users to make the most of Gmvault in seconds.

Available on many platforms.

Shell/batch client available on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. A tailored installation has been created for Windows to allow a smooth installation for non-geek users.

Filesystem as a database.

No databases (SQL or NoSQL) are used to organise the emails storage. This makes all emails easily accessible and moveable. In addition manually deleting emails or emails' directories does not prevent Gmvault from working.

Highly customisable.

With Gmvault, users can choose an email search request to pick-up a restricted set of emails to backup. The search request can use the IMAP or the GMail search dialect.

File Sync & Online Backup - Access and File Sharing from Any Device - SugarSync

This Online Backup and File Sync service just keeps getting better and better....

File Sync & Online Backup - Access and File Sharing from Any Device - SugarSync

From the site:

ANYTIME, ANYWHERE ACCESS

SugarSync makes it easy to backup, share and access your files, anytime, anywhere. With SugarSync you get online cloud storage for all your files — documents, music, photos, and video. When you make a change or add files on any of your PC or Mac computers, SugarSync automatically syncs your files to the cloud, where you can access them from any Internet-connected device — including your smartphone or iPad.

PDF to Excel Converter Free Online

Convert PDF to Excel.
Turn hard to use PDF into
editable Excel documents
Free and Easy!

PDF to Excel Converter Free Online

PST Viewer - Free tool to open and view content of PST files without Ms Outlook

PST Viewer - Free tool to open and view content of PST files without Ms Outlook:

"Free PST Viewer
Open PST file without Microsoft Outlook using Kernel Outlook PST Viewer. The software encompasses following salient features:
Absolutely free tool to view the content of PST file
Can open PST without Outlook i.e. MS Outlook does not need to be installed on your computer
Supports both ANSI and Unicode formats of PST
Can easily open PST created using any version of MS Outlook
Displays the email folders like Inbox, Drafts, Outbox, Sent Items, etc. in the same way as you see them in MS Outlook
Simple to use and self-descriptive graphical user interface
Enables viewing the content of PST file having minor corruption
Enables viewing the password protected PST file even if the password is not known
Open PST files corrupted due to 2GB size issue"

History Viewer - a free digital forensics software to view history data

History Viewer - a free digital forensics software to view history data: "History Viewer is a handy, powerful and efficient tool that helps you easily view the history of all that has been done on your computer."