The
following sites have been found to be of merit!
. They are presented here for your information and no warranty is expressed
or implied by Helbig Consulting.
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Note that 
indicates useful tool for home and 
indicates tool is more oriented toward office or business
use.
Also note that 
means very useful site and/or service,  indicates
useful but have not tested it very much, and  means
appears to be useful but have not tested it |
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Kill SPAM and junk email
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Try SPAM INSPECTOR (Company recently purchased by Microsoft) |
Cheap
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Find Pictures on the Web - Quickly!!
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For that piece of clip-art or photo to illustrate your
document -
"...ditto.com is the leader in visual search. ditto.com's core focus is
providing pictures as a fun, fast and effective way to find the information
users are looking for on the web..."
Google has a good image search engine |
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Free Graphics
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Backgrounds, fonts, wallpaper, Animated Graphics |
Free
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Freegraphics.com |
Microsoft Clip Art OnLine
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Clip Art on-line for Office 2000 onwards from Microsoft
- ** (Don't know if this works for older versions of Office !!) |
Free
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Free Symbols
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Need that Smiley Face or radiation symbol (or whatever)
for a document or presentation? |
Free
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| Become net Wise! |
The Internet offers kids many opportunities for learning,
constructive entertainment, and personal growth. At the same time, parents
are concerned about the risks kids face online. The challenge for parents
is to educate themselves and their children about how to use the Internet
safely. GetNetWise can help. |
Free
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News
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Supposedly "The world's largest collection of webfeeds",
with news headlines from over 1500 sources - free of charge |
Free
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On-line Tutorials
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Learn how to remove a tree stump, how to play the piano,
how to speak Chinese (complete with audio files), or lots of other things.
Also has many tutorials on technical type things at this new Australian
site |
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| Information on Viruses and Virus hoaxes |
For information regarding Viruses and the impact thereof,
refer to one of these sites:
Remember: If you receive an e-mail message from someone
other than your local computer support, warning you about a potential
virus, then the chances are that the message is a hoax. There are millions
of these hoax virus messages circulating round the Internet, wasting
a great deal of people's time. So, before you circulate the warning
round your friends and colleagues, please check first whether this is
a genuine warning
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Acronym Finder
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Acronym Finder - Including reverse searches - e.g. Entering
"QED" displays 8 different meanings |
Free
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On-line Dictionary
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Great On-line Dictionary and Thesaurus. Even a language
translator for selected languages. You can also learn a new word each
day by subscribing to their "word of the Day" e-mail newsletter. |
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Bad-spellers Dictionary
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Effectively a Bad Spellers Dictionary - use "Approx"
option if you cannot spell it and you will be given various options |
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Templates for your Office Software
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Instead of starting from a blank document, get your work
done faster by starting from a professionally authored template. |
Free
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Setup and manage an e-mail group
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Send e-mail to your group o Share photos & files, Coordinate
events & more! ...or move your existing mailing list to eGroups. Quite
a good way to easily maintain an e-mail distribution list with many customisable
options |
Free
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Your own Fax Number (within Australia)
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Get Free Voicemail/Fax Number and an e-mail address and
receive both voicemail and faxes via this "browser based" e-mail (like
hotmail) You need sound card for voicemails - It works well. Great as
a private fax number that is secure and you can view from ANY Internet
connection using your own password/logon |
Now starts at AU$20 per year
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| Resume / CV |
Want a professional resume created or yours reviewed?
(very professional and friendly - based in Chirnside Park, Victoria) |
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Send messages to mobiles within Australia (SMS) from
your Browser |
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Using your Favourites on Different
computers
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Favourites are good, but how do you search them? Answer:
Store your favourites online at http://www.backflip.com/ and have the
ability to search and/or use your favourites from any PC - Great Idea!
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| Search using multiple Search engines at once |
Instead than using just one Search engine or swap between
a few, try Dogpile and search many at once.
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Refer also to "Webferret" tool mentioned in
"Tools" page |
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Technical, PC's, & Building
Web Sites
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Business/Company Name search
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ASIC Free Company/Business Name Search |
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On-line Tutorials
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refer above |
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| Search for or Register a Domain name |
Generates Domain Names and advises on those taken, available
ones, those for sale - Applies to ".com" rather than ".com.au" etc. |
free
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IT Specific Encyclopedia
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A great site for all sort of technical IT stuff |
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Web Site Monitoring
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Netwhistle.com can monitor your Web site for you, for
Free! If it ever becomes unavailable, we'll send an e-mail to you or your
pager with detailed error information. - |
no longer free
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View Australian Maps on-line
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If you want a map of a street address somewhere in Australia
then try one of these Links. You can print the maps and even e-mail a
map to someone. WhereIs is also associated with the Australian White
Pages and Yellow
Pages, and allows direct viewing of locations retrieved using either
of these phone directories. Very Handy! |
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more to come in the following categories... |
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| Useful Business Directory |
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