Archives, Internet
Blogs & RSS Feeds
Calculators & Converters
Diagrams
Digital File Storage
Forms
Language Translators
Word Processors

Archives, Internet

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.
 

Blogs & RSS Feeds

A Weblog Primer

A PowerPoint presentation about weblogs produced by Memo Cordova, a librarian at Albertsons Library. Also available at his site are presentations about News Readers & RSS and social software in general.  

Bloglines

Bloglines is a FREE online service that helps you subscribe to and manage lots of web information, such as news feeds, weblogs and audio. Bloglines tracks the information you're interested in, retrieves new stuff as it happens, and organizes everything for you on your own personal web news page.

Calculators & Converters     

American Secular Holidays Calendar

Site sections include a holiday calendar calculator and links to official rules governing federal holidays in the U.S.

Calendar Converter

This page allows you to interconvert dates in a variety of calendars, both civil and computer-related.

Conversion & Calculation Center

Includes a calendar generator, the current time in 1000 places, a world time clock, and more.

Cost of Living & Salary Calculator at Sperling's Best Places

"...compare two cities side-by-side in all the categories you need, such as taxes, housing, food, and other costs."

The Currency Site

Find current and historical exchange rates, currency names by iso or country name, and create handy currency cheatsheets at this award winning site.  Recommended for travelers.

FinAid

"custom calculators can help you figure out how much school will cost, how much you need to save and how much aid you'll need. The most popular calculators are the College Cost Projector, Savings Plan Designer (Flat Contribution), Expected Family Contribution and Financial Aid Calculator and Loan Calculator."

Inflation Calculator

"Adjusts any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2005."

Interactive Units Converter

Interactive calculators for common and unusual measurement systems. Includes measures of weight and mass; distance and length; capacity and volume; area; speed; temperature; time; pressure; energy, work, torque; power; circular measure; and computer storage.

MeasuringWorth: Compute the Relative Value of a US Dollar Amount Five Different Ways: 1790 - 2005

By CPI, GDP Deflator, Unskilled Wage, GDP Per Capita, or (relative share of) GDP.

MeasuringWorth: Purchasing Power of Money in the United States from 1774 - 2005

Created by economics professors Lawrence H. Officer and Samuel H. Williamson.

Mortgage Calculator

One of many housing and moving-related calculators available at this website. The official site of the National Association of Realtors.

Online Conversion

" Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units, and 30,000 conversions."

TinyURL

Converts a long url into a short url. It is available as a free browser toolbar add-on.

VassarStats: Web Site for Statistical Computation

This award winning site is a companion to Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics which is a free, full-length, and occasionally interactive statistics textbook." 

Weather Calculator

Calculates temperature, moisture, pressure, wind, and other conversions.  From the National Weather Service.
 

Diagrams

Gliffy

A free web-based product that allows you to create, collaborate, and share diagrams such as Flowcharts, UI wireframes, Floor plans, Network diagrams, UML diagrams, or any other simple drawing or diagram

Digital File Storage

MediaMax

MediaMax formerly Streamload is an Internet service that allows digital users to easily and securely send, store, move, receive and access their digital files.You can sign up for a free 25 GB storage account. PC World Review
 

Forms

Allforms

Provides free form to email and other form handling services.
 

Language Translators

AltaVista: Translate with BabelFish

Enter up to 150 words for translation or enter the web address of the page you'd like translated. According to the Librarian's Index to the Internet, it offers "real-time bi-directional translation from/to English from/to Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Also will translate Russian to English."

FreeTranslation.Com

Enter text for a free machine translation or enter the web address of the page you'd like translated. Fast and tries to translate by phrase rather than word-for-word according to the Librarian's Index to the Internet.
 

Systran: Internet Translation Technologies

Enter up to 150 words for translation or enter the web address of the page you'd like translated.
 

WordReference.com

Superior translation dictionaries for French, Italian, and Spanish. Among them are WordNet developed at Princeton and Espasa Calpe's 2005 Diccionario de la lengua espanola.

 

 

Word Processors

More Google Products >>Docs & Spreadsheets formerly Writely

A free browser-based word processor that allows you to save to the Web, so you can get to all your documents from whatever machine you're using. Requires  registration.

Zoho Writer

Another free browser-based word processor that allows you to create html, PDF, doc, and SXW(StarOffice or OpenOffice word processing document) formats and share, publish, email (inline or as an attachment) or export. Requires registration.