GENERAL TOOLS
Quick answers from Answers.com: Take a moment to download the Answers.com application. Then ALT click on any word, in any document, and it automatically defines the word.
Free Dictionary: Another free dictionary (from Merriam-Webster), but without the cool Alt click function.
Free Encyclopedia: Wikipedia is the best free encyclopedia on the Web. It’s a WIKI, which means that the worldwide community of Web users add to it every day. Check out Sandom!
Free Maps: Mapquest: The old favorite for driving instructions and maps.
Literary Resources: A great location for several online resources, including Bartlett’s Quotations, and Roget’s Thesaurus … and it’s all free!
Holidays: Forgot when Thanksgiving is? This site lists all major holidays … so you can send those online cards!
Time around the World: Tired of waking up your Australian friends in the middle of the night? Get the time in every part of the world … except cyberspace, of course!
PUBLISHERS
Cornucopia Press (Philadelphia) is dedicated to helping unrecognized American authors self-publish their work. Do you need help getting your self-published title into print? Have you already had a book published in the traditional way, but now it's no longer in print, and you want to get your rights back and self-publish? They've helped dozens of authors make their self-publishing dreams come true.
The Digital IN (Influence Network) helps self-published authors commission reviews of their book(s) on Amazon and GoodReads.com for only $10/review!
SEARCH TOOLS
Mainstream Search
Google (The most accurate search engine); Yahoo! (Not bad); and MSN (If you want to make Gates richer).
More Esoteric Search
Ask (what happened to Gieves?); Dogpile (A “funnel” of multiple search sites. Saves you from going directly to 4 search engines seperately); Altavista (One of the original search engines, and still pretty good); High Beam (More than search, they say: It’s research. Good.); Yippy! (One of my personal favorites; a search engine that provides automatic clustering of topics into "Clouds" of content … to make your search easier. Often far more useful than Google!).
Social Bookmarking Search (Communities)
Eurekster (Search powered by community members; share bookmarks and leverage the searches that others have already done!); Blinklist (Another social bookmarking/search engine; purchased by Google, and therefore billed as a “personal discovery engine”); kaboodle (Another social bookmarking/search engine, primarily useful for product search/shopping); and, of course, delicious (The granddaddy of social bookmarking/search engines, based on user-defined/user-generated tags - AKA categories).
Blog Search
Technorati (A great blog search tool); Blog Search Engine (Decent blog search engine - the name says everything); Blogdigger (Good blog search engine); Blog Pulse (A very cool search engine from Nielsen SearchMetrics, and a personal favorite); Blog Search (from Blogger); and the Google blog search engine.
COMMUNITIES
International Thriller Writers (a cool community of thriller afficionados)
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