The Animal Rescue Site Clicking here once a day feeds animals in need.

Any Soldier "Want to send a care package to Any Soldier in Iraq, but have no idea of what to send, who to send it to, or how to send it?"

ASK a Librarian permits you to chat live, one-on-one with a librarian.  The service is free, very easy to use, and available from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday.

BHO Demon Browser Helper Objects are small programs that run every time you start your Internet browser.  Some BHOs are as insidious and invasive as viruses or spyware. 

BreakTheChain.org  "To break the chain of junk e-mail we must each think critically and question everything.  This site helps you do just that."

Bugs, Glitches & Stuffups  Excellent collection of information about things that go wrong with your computer, and what you can do about them.

Center for Digital Government recently selected the "Best on the Web" websites for government & education.  Congratulations to Tampa for taking 1st place in the Local Government category: www.tampagov.net/

Computer Manufacturers' Support Phone Numbers  Here's a handy link to have available.

Consumer Reports Search on "spam" at the top of the page.  They have several well-written articles available about spam.

DCOMbobulator is a small download that tests the status of DCOM on your computer, and will turn it off for you at your command. It's free and easy to use, and it comes from Steve Gibson.

Dictionary.com is an online Dictionary, Thesaurus, and so much more.

Digital Photo Resources Page Jack Rowland's inks to printing sites, photo recovery software, plug-ins, and more.

DriverGuide.com offers a huge searchable archive of over 70,000 driver files, manufacturer information, and links.  Registration is free.

DVDR Help will help you to make your own VideoCDs, SVCDs or DVDs that can be played on your standalone DVD Player from video sources like DVD, Video, TV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like DivX, MOV, RM, WMV and ASF.

Earth's City Lights this image of Earth’s city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS).

Escape Cell Hell  On November 24, 2003 new legislation will force cell phone companies to let you take your phone number with you if you decide to switch carriers.  Or will they?  They've fought this legislation for 4 years already, and they're still trying to delay and defeat it - even though they've been charging us for it!  This site (created by the publishers of Consumer Reports Magazine) explains the issues and recommends action.

The Financial Planning Toolkit  Over a thousand pages of essential information and tools to help you manage your personal finances through planning, investing and asset protection strategies.

Free eBooks for Tampa Bay residents.  You can download library books to your home computer from any location 24 hours a day for free.  Tampa Bay residents can access over 2,300 ebooks on topics from Shakespeare to holistic medicine to computer programming via netLibrary.

Getting Started with Linux Free Linux self-study, online course.

HouseCall is a free, online virus scanner from Trend Micro.

howstuffworks.com I'm not interested in promoting war, but as I watch it being waged, I hear references to all sorts of military technology.  If you're trying to understand how that technology works, several pages at this site provide relevant background information.

The Hunger Site about 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes.  This special program is helping to feed hungry people all over the world.  Please bookmark the site, visit it once a day, and press the "Give Free Food" button.  It doesn't cost you anything.  Corporate sponsors send a serving of food to a starving person every time someone presses the button.

iHateSpam & iHatePopups Two products.  I think their names say enough.  I believe the company is located in Clearwater.

Iraqi 55 Most Wanted List Would you like to know the status of the Iraqis on the deck of playing cards?

JunkBusters  mission is to free the world from junk communications.  Their website has one of the world's most comprehensive collections of information about junk messages and how to stop them.

Microsoft Producer currently in beta release, this is the next version of this very popular add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint. It provides powerful features that make it easier to synchronize audio, video, slides, and graphics to create engaging and effective media-rich presentations.

The Molecular Genealogy Research Project Their main purpose is to create a database that will allow people to enhance and extend their genealogical research through the use of genetics.  They will harvest the DNA (via a mouth swab) of volunteers who have done their genealogical chart to include in their database.

National Do Not Call Registry once you register your phone number(s) with them, many telemarketers will be forbidden to place calls to the numbers you register.

Northern Lights pictures are absolutely gorgeous.

Operation Hero Miles Donate your Frequent Flyer miles to our troops in Iraq. "Your extra miles today can help our soldiers get home to their families tomorrow"

PC Pitstop free, online diagnostic tests for your computer.

PCinspector has a variety of interesting and useful utility programs available: security, cryptography, privacy and more.

Protect your PC Microsoft developed this site to help consumers protect their computers.  The site attempts to be very user-friendly.  It includes videos and step-by-step instructions

SAproxy provides spam protection for POP3 email.

Software Utilities our Resource Center crew frequently recommends several programs to our members.  Member Howard Poindexter created a webpage that has the links to download them.

Startup Programs Do you have too many programs running when you boot your computer, but you don't know which ones you actually NEED?  This site tells you what all those cryptic names stand for.

St. Petersburg YMCA (click on "Schedules" then "Computer Classes")
Ongoing classes in the Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & Outlook) at reasonable prices.

sysinternals.com Wonderful freeware utilities for the more advanced computer user.

Thank You, TBCS! emails from people that our club has helped.

Using GIF and JPEG Graphics Formats Here's a short, but informative excerpt from a Dummies.com book that clearly explains these two types of graphic files.

W3Schools.com "The best things in life ARE free."
If you are interested in learning a wide variety of computer and Internet skills, try some of the free online tutorials here.  They have tutorials on HTML, CSS, ASP, XML, JavaScript, SQL, Flash, and many, many more.

Windows-Help.net "this site includes more than 2500 Web pages with a vast array of free information and resources for the Internet community, including Shareware, Internet Search, Internet Relay Chat, Web Design, and other computer-related technical information."

Wunderground.com Excellent weather site.

ZoneAlarm my favorite firewall (and it's FREE!).