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Favourite Links
Best search tools Copernic Agent Professional: probably the best search-engine on the net Megaspider and Metacrawler: other good search engines About.com: good site for learning about anything;Hotlinks search-engines Lexibot: searching within databases; Aberja: hyprid search engine All the web, CNET,ZDNet, GO, DMOZ, E-groups,Looksmart, Raging: good international search engines MSN-search, Sharelook,Search, Bluewin: Swiss search engines Metager, Acoon,Google, Ruhr, Dino,Wissen, Wissensnetz,Xipolis: german search engines Argus (search center); Ask.com, Webhelp: Premier search engines (asking real questions!) Websom: internet-exploration by maps; Libraries Metalog, WebToday: weblog ratings; Search engine watch Beobachter: swiss magazine with excellent link-page;VIIP: another very good link page Chronik: all events (actual and historical) at any day of the year Britannica: the ultimate encyclopaedia Getabstract and Soundview: compressed knowledge and summaries Worldbiz: international business information; Weka: swiss business knowledge
Travelling the world Big Topics: travel search engine; Expedia, Travelocity: flight fares Mapquest: excellent and detailed worldwide maps (countries, cities, streets...) Route planners: map24,Auskunft,Reisen, Mappy,Falk, Michelin; european overview, worldwide overview Lonely Planet,VirtualTourist: worldwide infos about travelling The earth live from space (fantastic!), Seasons and more, live weather on earth and more, StarCalc Calendars, Time and Time Zones;Interntional Time Zones; Greenwich Timezones and Local Timezones; World time map; Time Zone Map; Time Zone Data; World Time; interactive world time; world time server;worldclock; country codes and world time; CNN Time-Links Unit converters online: Online Conversion, Convert-me,Converter-index,Measurements Converter; for currencies: FX-converter, xe.com; and as software:Unit Converter Pro,MI Convert,Currency Converter,Universal Calendar calculator Country- and travel-information from swiss and german government
Computer and internet tools, safety Babylon: excellent online-translator Computer channel, PC-Guide: german and swiss magazines Search tools for discussions and mailing lists Webfxmall: computer tools DU Meter: excellent time and data-counting while connected to the internet Visualroute and eMailTracker: excellent IP-tracer engines; also good: Neotrace and SamSpade CommView: monitoring all network traffic from own PC WebWasher: disables advertisment-banners Spamkiller: good tool to fight against Spam (unwanted Emails) Anonymizer, Freedom, HushMail and Steganos Security Suite: being anonymous in the internet ZoneAlarm Pro, BlackICE Defender, Norton Internet Security, PestPatrol,Ad-aware: probably the highest possible internet safety when used together Info about internet safety and cable-networks; Security-Pool (in german) Various Huxley and Netzwoche: cool german magazines Bookstores: Amazon, Barnes&Noble (english); Librairieonline, Fnac,Alapage, Bol (french);Orell Füssli, Bücher,Buchhandel (german) PC-Ahnen and FOKO: german genealogy sites Family doctor,OnHealth,Health-Info,MyMed, Hausarzt,Yavivo and Gesundheit: online health services under construction - various possibilities Marlo, Bluemountain,Digital Postcard: electronic greeting cards Swissguide: information searchtool about Switzerland Comparis: comparing expenses in Switzerland; Priceline: Prices in USA Teletext (short infos) Online TV: real-time TV My suggestions ICQ (my favourite communications- and chat-tool – my ICQ-Number is 6402545) iVision: excellent grafiker and fotographer;OneWeb: excellent webhosting and -design Swissair training center (my former working place) and Swissair Group (it’s holding company) KS Kaderschulen (PHW Zurich): where I studied economics Rose 1 and Rose 2: wonderful roses and poems about friendship SMS: the page to send messages to mobile fones worldwide NZZ: my favourite newspaper SBB: the swiss railways Converse AllStar: my favourite sneakers |