For those who are searching for websites to visit when gathering information, this will be a big help.

1. Useful Websites
Kimberly Mae I. Ortego
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3. For general information, the following online sites are worth
visiting:
About.com (www.about.com) provides expert
guides on a wide variety of subjects.

4. Acronymfinder.com (www.acronymfinder)
as its name suggests, helps decode acronyms
and abbreviations.

5. Answers.com (www.answers.com)
provides one-click definitions and other
information.

6. • CIA-The world factbook
(hhtp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/)
gives information about countries of the world,
including baseline ICT data such as number of personal
computers, telephone line and Internet users.

7. • Dictionary.com
(hhtp://dictionary.reference.com)
is a popular online dictionary.

8. • FACSNET news sources
(http://www.facsnet.org/sources/newssourc
es/)
helps locate expert sources.

9. • Hoovers online (http://www.hoovers.com/) provides
information on listed companies.
• How stuff works (http://howstuffworks.com/) does a good
job of explaining how complicated technology works.

10. • Internet archive (http://www.archive.org/) includes the
Wayback Machine that provides copies of Web sites as they
were in the past.
• Network solutions WHOIS
(http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/) helps in finding
out who registered a domain name and in viewing additional
registration and Web site data.

11. • The free dictionary (http://www.thefreedictionary.com)
a free online dictionary, encyclopedia and thesaurus that
include not only sound links that allow listening to how
words should be pronounced but also medical, legal, financial
and computing dictionaries.

12. • Whois.net (http://www.whois.net), like Network Solutions
WHOIS, gives information about registered domains.
• Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org), an open online
encyclopedia that encourages visitors to add or edit entries. its
openness raises concerns about the reliability of the
information it provides.

13. Other Lesser Known But Useful Websites and Web
Apps
• ctrlq.org/screenshots – for capturing screenshots of web pages on
mobile and desktops.
• dictation.io – online voice recognition in the browser itself.
• zerodollarmovies.com – find full-length movies on YouTube.
• goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes.
• unfurlr.com – find the original URL that’s hiding behind a short
URL.

14. • qClock – find the local time of a city using a Google Map.
• copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t
on your keyboard.
• postpost.com – a better search engine for twitter.
• lovelycharts.com – create flowcharts, network diagrams,
sitemaps, etc.
• office.com – download templates, clipart and images for your
Office documents.

15. • followupthen.com – the easiest way to setup email
reminders.
• jotti.org – scan any suspicious file or email attachment for
viruses.
• wolframalpha.com – gets answers directly without searching
• joliprint.com – reformats news articles and blog content as a
newspaper.
• coralcdn.org – if a site is down due to heavy traffic, try
accessing it through coral CDN.

16. • pdfescape.com – lets you can quickly edit PDFs in the
browser itself.
• scr.im – share you email address online without worrying
about spam.
• regex.info – find data hidden in your photographs
• livestream.com – broadcast events live over the web,
including your desktop screen.
• wetransfer.com – for sharing really big files online.

17. • polishmywriting.com – check your writing for spelling or
grammatical errors.
• everytimezone.com – a less confusing view of the world time
zones.
• translate.google.com – translate web pages, PDFs and Office
documents.
• wordle.net – quick summarize long pieces of text with tag
clouds.
• bubbl.us – create mind-maps, brainstorm ideas in the
browser.

18. • feedmyinbox.com – get RSS feeds as an email newsletter.
• ge.tt – quickly send a file to someone, they can even preview
it before downloading.
• pipebytes.com – transfer files of any size without uploading
to a third-party server.
• tinychat.com – setup a private chat room in micro-seconds.
• draw.io – create diagrams and flowcharts in the browser,
export your drawings to Google Drive and Dropbox.

19. • google.com/history – found something on Google but can’t
remember it now?
• urbandictionary.com – find definitions of slangs and informal
words.
• scribblemaps.com – create custom Google Maps easily.
• alertful.com – quickly setup email reminders for important
events.
• snopes.com – find if that email offer you received is real or
just another scam.

20. • safeweb.norton.com – check the trust level of any website.
• deadurl.com – you’ll need this when your bookmarked web
pages are deleted.
• minutes.io – quickly capture effective notes during meetings.
• youtube.com/leanback – Watch YouTube channels in TV
mode.
• youtube.com/disco – quickly create a video playlist of your
favorite artist.

21. • talltweets.com – Send tweets longer than 140 characters.
• builtwith.com – find the technology stack to know everything
about a website.
• woorank.com – research a website from the SEO perspective.
• mixlr.com – broadcast live audio over the web.
• notes.io – the easiest way to write short text notes in the
browser.
• otixo.com – easily manage your online files on Dropbox,
Google Docs, etc.

23. Beware of Hoaxes!

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