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by By Roger Poverny— TUGNET, www.tugnet.org , rogerp@socal.rr.com - June 02, 2001 at 15:03:21:
Three more outstanding websites you may want to include in your Bookmarks or FavoritesHeadline News—www.1stheadlines.com
Here’s a site that updates the news every ten minutes, presenting it in headline form so that you can quickly scan until you find a news story that interests you. Then, by clicking on the headline, you are linked (via a separate window) to the detailed article where you can then read it in depth if you so desire. The headlines are divided into seven major news categories: US & World, Business, Health, Lifestyles, Sports, Technology and Weather. Clicking on any of these will take you to a page that features only the news in that category. Each news page has a listing (alphabetically by news source) of the current headlines. On the left hand side of each page is another list, entitled Popular Topics. The topics vary within each of the seven news categories, but each topic applies to the category’s main subject.
To give an example: on the evening I wrote this article, I clicked on Business. There were 30 top Business News headlines from such news sources as The BBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, New York Times and The Chicago Tribune. On the left hand side, under the column labeled Popular Topics, was a list of the Dow Jones 30 Industrials (by company) and an extensive list of General topics covering subjects from Accounting to Venture Capital. Then there was a list of Industry topics, thoroughly covering industrial news from Agriculture to Utilities. When you click on any one of these listed topics a new set of headlines appears, each pertaining to the selected topic. The site also has a Headline Search feature. I was very impressed with this web site. I think you will be impressed too.
Airline Arrivals and Departures—www.flightarrivals.com
Have you ever had this happen to you? You were about to leave for the airport to pick up a relative or friend and you wondered if the flight was on time. You decided to check on the flight status before leaving, but you didn’t have the phone number of the airline or you didn’t remember the flight number. Flustered, you wasted a lot of time trying to find out what the real situation was. Well, relief from this situation is here at a web site called www.flightarrivals.com which People Magazine described “… as handy to travelers as a Swiss Army knife.” This is a FREE service that offers independent and comprehensive real time arrival/departure/delay and cancellation information for all commercial airline flights operating to/from/within the United States. You can even find information on flights where you don’t know the flight number, and can check on airport conditions and delays at 40 major airports.
To get the information you want, you click on one of the following: Arrivals, Departures, Delays, Sched.Changes or Airport Status. Then you can fill in the airline, date and flight number and it will give you the current status of the flight. If you don’t know the flight number, you have several other options: you can search by City/Airport, Airline/Airport or Airline & Airport Pair. Hopefully, the next time you need to go to the airport, www.flightarrivals.com will help you avoid wasting your time.
A Visual Search Engine—www.searchshots.com
SearchShots is a new kind of visual search engine that provides preview screen shots of every site. You search in the normal way, but when the search is over, instead of just a text listing of hits in a column down the page, this search engine actually shows a visual screen shot of the web page represented by the hit, complete with a description of the site and a clickable link to that website. These are displayed three abreast and twelve to a page. You click on a more sites arrow to get the next page of twelve, or a previous sites arrow to return to earlier pages. If you don’t like twelve to a page (which is the default) you can even customize the number of thumbnail images on a page to as few as six and as many as 60. They remain three abreast, however.
On the main page, there is a directory of websites listed by major category, with sub categories listed below each one. For instance, under the major category “ARTS” you will find the subcategories Movie Trailers, Graphic Design and Music Videos. Clicking on any of these subcategories brings up a page of screenshots as previously described. But, if you click on the major category “ARTS,” you will get a list of dozens of additional subcategories, any one of which will bring up a visual page. Currently there are over 1.3 million
Screen shots represented in the directory database, each one reviewed by highly selective expert editors, so users get the most targeted results. Parents and educators also appreciate that SearchShots.com does not include blatantly pornographic content in its results. Who was it that said “A picture is worth a thousand words?”
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