Links

Local (Southwest Michigan)

Dan Brown - author of two of my favorite books, Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code
John Grisham - popular author of legal suspense thrillers
Brad Thor - author of several intelligent thrillers

Airtreks - Cheap multi-city international flights
CIA World Factbook - An impressive collection of data about every nation on Earth
Lonely Planet - Lots of good travel info here
MichaelBluejay.com - How to find the cheapest airfares
MyWorld66 - Neat tools for making maps of places you've visited
Working Nomad - One man traveling while earning money from the Internet

BitPim - a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on many phones
Midlet.org - tons of free J2ME games and apps for your phone
SprintUsers.com - plenty of information about Sprint PCS phones, as well as an excellent WAP portal

Mozilla Firefox - a feature rich, standards-compliant browser that is much safer from spyware than IE
Mozilla Thunderbird - this e-mail client is the best free alternative to pricey MS Outlook
Mozilla Lightning and Sunbird - a calendar client that can run stand-alone or as a plug-in to Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird Help: How To Manage Profiles - includes instructions to backup your e-mail in Thunderbird
Google toolbar - a worthy browser plug-in, includes a pop-up blocker and useful search and navigation tools
Yahoo! toolbar - similar to the Google plug-in, but with anti-spy as well

MSN Messenger - IM application from Microsoft
Yahoo! Messenger - IM application from Yahoo
Y! Tunnel Pro - useful add-on for Yahoo! Messenger that removes ads and blocks spam bots

BootDisk.com - need a boot disk?
Kill-Win - utility for scheduling Windows shutdowns and restarts
Memtest86 - stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers
Partition Manager - free non-destructive partitioning tool
Startup Control Panel - allows you to configure which programs run when your computer starts

Active Ports - tells you what applications are using which ports
AVG Anti-Virus - good, free anti-virus software
Clam AntiVirus - a popular open-source anti-virus package
The Cloak - provides anonymous web surfing
LavaSoft Ad-Aware - adware and spyware removal tool
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer - tool to test computers for compliance with Microsoft security recommendations
Sam Spade - useful network query tool
Spybot - Search & Destroy - another good adware and spyware removal tool
Zone Alarm - firewall, blocks unwanted internet traffic; incoming and outgoing by application

Favicon Editor - convert your image into a valid favicon.ico file
Flash Player Settings Manager - change your security settings to allow access to local files during development
FLVTool2 - add cue points and metadata to FLV files
free-ed.net - has lots of tutorials on various programming and IT topics
java.sun.com - everything Java
gotoAndLearn() - ActionScript tutorials
WDVL - lots of good web technology information here