THE TECH POINT: February 2008

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

TOP SPAM FIGHTING TEMPORARY EMAIL SERVICES

2Prong.com - Just visit the site and a disposable address is auto-generated and saved to your clipboard for easy pasting.
Dodgeit.com - For creating receive-only fake email addresses to help you fight spam.
E4ward.com - Reusable aliases that you can get rid of at anytime you want.
Emailias.com - Create as many disposable email addresses as you think you may need.
GishPuppy.com - Create aliases as you please, have them forward to your normal address, figure out who is giving out your info.
GuerrillaMail.com - Spam fighting email address that last only 15 minutes.
MailExpire.com - Set up a temporary email address for anywhere from 12 hours to 3 months to keep spam out of your normal inbox.
Mailnator.com - Don’t even have to sign up before creating an address, make any email address you like, use it where you fear spam, and check the inbox from their page.
PookMail.com - Create a email address for 24 hours, and then never think of it again as it auto-deletes.
Spam.la - Throw away addresses for site registrations.
Spambox.us - Create a disposable address for 30 minutes to 1 year that will forward registration info to your normal inbox.
Spamex.com - A highly regared site for generating disposable addresses for you to use to keep your real email address safe.
Spamgourmet.com - Disposable email addresses to help in the non-stop war on spam.
TempInbox.com - A free, receive-only temporary email address for you to use.
ZoEmail.com - With a bit of management, you can make this disposable email account virtually spam free.

Monday, February 25, 2008

FREE DVD RIPPERS

DVD Rip-O-Matic is a simple DVD-to-XviD ripping application for Unix. The wizard was designed to be very easy to use; it automatically detects the optimal settings for you. It should also produce very high quality AVI files, even if you have no idea what the settings mean and just use it in the next-next-next-finish way.

DVD Rip-O-Matic Features:

Automatic detection of optimal encoding settings
Option to copy original surround soundtrack to AVI file.
Rip subtitles
Rip to multiple AVI files, splitting happens at scene boundaries.
Supports cropping of black edges
Generate ripping shell scripts, run as background process

MediaCoder

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet.

MediaCoder Features:

Convert to and from many audio and video compression formats and re-multiplex into various container formats in batches
Full control over transcoding parameters, you can learn about audio/video encoding and play with various codecs
Strong decoding capability for partial or corrupted contents
Simplified UI for popular mobile devices (e.g. PSP, iPod)
Fully standalone, no dependance on system codecs/splitters
Extension (scripting language) infrastructure to expand user interfaces and improve user experience

MediaCoder Applications:

Improving compression / reducing size for audio/video files
Converting for audio/video playback devices (digital audio player, MP4 player, mobile phone, PDA, PSP, VCD/DVD player etc.)
Extracting audio tracks from video files
Ripping audio/video discs
Reparing corrupted or partial downloaded video files

DVDFab HD Decrypter

DVDFab HD Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab Platinum. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying. It also comes with full HD-DVD and Blu-Ray support (Removes AACS).

OGMRip

OGMRip is an application and a set of libraries for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI, OGM, MP4, or Matroska files using a wide variety of codecs. It relies on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, mkvtoolnix, oggenc, lame, and faac to perform its tasks.

The GUI features a clean HIG-compliant GNOME 2 interface and tries to minimize as much as possible esoteric settings.

A CLI client is also available, it's called shRip.

OGMRip suppoers Linux and FreeBSD.

OGMRip Features:

Transcodes from DVD or files
Outputs OGM, AVI, MP4, or Matroska files
Supports a lot of codecs (Vorbis, MP3, PCM, AC3, DTS, AAC, XviD, LAVC, X264, Theora)
Calculates video bitrate for a given file size
Autodetects cropping parameters and scaling factors
Supports multiple audio and subtitles streams encoding
Extracts subtitles in SRT or VobSub format
Uses maximum quality codecs switches
Rips contiguous chapters
Supports external audio (PCM, MP3, AC3, DTS, AAC, Vorbis) and subtitle (MicroDVD, SubRip, SRT, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, PJS, MPSub, AQT, JacoSub, VobSub) files

FREE SPYWARE REMOVAL SOFTWARE

Lavasoft AdAware

Ad-Aware 2007 Free remains the most popular anti-spyware product for computer users around the world, with nearly one million downloads every week. Our free anti-spyware version provides you with advanced protection against spyware that secretly attaches and takes control of your computer, resulting in aggressive advertising pop-ups, sluggish computer activity, even identity theft through stolen bank details, passwords, and credit card account numbers.

Spybot Search & Destroy

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a threat often not covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

TOP MOST QUALITY FREE EMAIL PROVIDERS

30Gigs.com - A free email provider that gives you 30GB of storage.
AIM Mail - From America Online comes this email address anyone can use and get the power of AOL behind you.
Aussie Mail - A free email service provider based out of Australia, but can be use from anywhere.
BigString.com - Not only is it an email provider, but you can recall/erase an email after it’s been sent, eliminating sender regret. 2GB to 20GB of storage depending on account type.
Bluebottle.com - Heavy spam protection, even to the extent of only accepting email from “trusted” persons.
Boarderemail.com - A no bells-and-whistles email service that is open to anyone.
Canada.com - Just in cased you ever wanted an email address that sounds like you speak for a whole nation.
Canoe.ca - Another Canadian based free email providers.
Care2.com - A free email service with a heart as 5% of all revenues go directly to charities.
DCEmail.com - Washington D.C. centric free email service.
DBZMail.com - Powered by Outblaze, all the Anime fans out there can get themselves a Dragonball Z email address.
DidaMail.com - Supports bilingual English/Arabic interface and has the ability to collect email from external POP3 accounts.
EmailAccount.com - Hard to get more memorable than that for an domain name!
Fastermail - Another free email service powered by Outblaze.
FastMail.fm - Anywhere from 10MB to 2GB of storage with your account depending on what level of membership you go.
Gawab.com - 1GB of storage, support for 12 languages.
Graffiti.net - Free email service offering 100MB of storage and powered by Outblaze.
Hotpop.com - 100MB of online storage, bt you won’t it as they also give you free POP3 Acces.
Hushmail.com - Encrypted email and document storage.
ICQmail.com - Free accounts and up to 2GB of storage for premium accounts.
Inbox.com - 5GB for online torage or 2GB if you want IMAP access.
India Times - Free email available in 11 Indian languages as well as English, a calendar and reminder service and much more.
InMail24.com - 16MB of storage, free POP3/IMAP access for you to download your mail.
Jubii.com - Offers email and integrates it with chat, Voice over IP, uploading and sharing files.
LinuxMail.org - Another specialized email service powered by Outblaze.
Litepost.com - Currently in alpha testing, but makes promises of a more flexible online email experience.
Lycos Mail - Up to 3GB of mail storage and no size limits for attachments.
Mail.com - Over 250 domain names to choose from and lots of the standard features you expect.
Mail2World.com - Unlimited storage and over 2,000 domain names to choose from are just a few of their services.
MailSnare.net - 40MB to start you off, upgradeable to as high as 10GB for premium accounts.
MerseyMail.com - Provided by the University of Liverpool
MSN Hotmail - One of the, if not the, oldest free email providers.
MuchoMail.com - Free version has 25MB of storage, premium has 1GB.
MyWay.com - Believes in nothing but text ads to help your load times.
Opera Mail - In support of the Opera browser, has 3MB of stoage.
OutGun.com - Another site for email powered by Outblaze.
Postmaster.co.uk - Free UK Based email service with 1GB oo storage.
ProntoMail.com - 25MB of storage with support of attachments up to 2MB.
Rediff.com - Free accounts get 1GB of storage and attachments of 10MB,larger sizes available at a price.
Runbox.com - 10GB of email storage, 1GB of file storage, ad-free and a lot more features.
SacMail.com - 25MB of storage and 3.5MB attachment limits.
Safe-mail.net - Only 3MB of storage, but their big selling point is heavy encryption for emails sent between members.
UReach.com - Giving you a taste of their UOrganize service for free.
VFEmail.net - Free storage has 15MB, and you canupgrade to larger accounts with more storage.
Yahoo Mail - Another of the oldest/biggest free email providers.
Zilladog.com - Email specially designed for use by kids with extra safeguards, games, and more.

Source - mashable.com

Saturday, February 23, 2008

TOP 20 NETWORK SECURITY TOOLS

Nessus [Vulnerability Scanner]
Premier UNIX vulnerability assessment tool. Nessus is the best free network vulnerability scanner available, and the best to run on UNIX at any price. It is constantly updated, with more than 11,000 plugins for the free (but registration and EULA-acceptance required) feed. Key features include remote and local (authenticated) security checks, a client/server architecture with a GTK graphical interface, and an embedded scripting language for writing your own plugins or understanding the existing ones. Nessus 3 is now closed source, but is still free-of-cost unless you want the very newest plugins.
Wireshark [Packet Sniffer]
Sniffing the glue that holds the Internet together.Wireshark (known as Ethereal until a trademark dispute in Summer 2006) is a fantastic open source network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, delving down into just the level of packet detail you need. Wireshark has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session. It also supports hundreds of protocols and media types. A tcpdump-like console version named tethereal is included. One word of caution is that Ethereal has suffered from dozens of remotely exploitable security holes, so stay up-to-date and be wary of running it on untrusted or hostile networks (such as security conferences).
Snort [Intrusion Detection System]
Everyone's favorite open source IDS.This lightweight network intrusion detection and prevention system excels at traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. Through protocol analysis, content searching, and various pre-processors, Snort detects thousands of worms, vulnerability exploit attempts, port scans, and other suspicious behavior. Snort uses a flexible rule-based language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, and a modular detection engine. Also check out the free Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE), a web interface for analyzing Snort alerts.
Open source Snort works fine for many individuals, small businesses, and departments. Parent company SourceFire offers a complimentary product line with more enterprise-level features and real-time rule updates. They offer a free (with registration) 5-day-delayed rules feed, and you can also find many great free rules at Bleeding Edge Snort.
Netcat [Utility]
The network Swiss army knife. This simple utility reads and writes data across TCP or UDP network connections. It is designed to be a reliable back-end tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need, including port binding to accept incoming connections. The original Netcat was released by Hobbit in 1995, but it hasn't been maintained despite its immense popularity. It can sometimes even be hard to find nc110.tgz. The flexibility and usefulness of this tool have prompted people to write numerous other Netcat implementations - often with modern features not found in the original. One of the most interesting is Socat, which extends Netcat to support many other socket types, SSL encryption, SOCKS proxies, and more. It even made this list on its own merits. There is also Chris Gibson's Ncat, which offers even more features while remaining portable and compact. Other takes on Netcat include OpenBSD's nc, Cryptcat, Netcat6, PNetcat, SBD, and so-called GNU Netcat.
Metasploit Framework [Vulnerability Exploitation Tool]
Hack the PlanetMetasploit took the security world by storm when it was released in 2004. No other new tool even broke into the top 15 of this list, yet Metasploit comes in at #5, ahead of many well-loved tools that have been developed for more than a decade. It is an advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code. The extensible model through which payloads, encoders, no-op generators, and exploits can be integrated has made it possible to use the Metasploit Framework as an outlet for cutting-edge exploitation research. It ships with hundreds of exploits, as you can see in their online exploit building demo. This makes writing your own exploits easier, and it certainly beats scouring the darkest corners of the Internet for illicit shellcode of dubious quality. Similar professional exploitation tools, such as Core Impact and Canvas already existed for wealthy users on all sides of the ethical spectrum. Metasploit simply brought this capability to the masses.
Hping2 [packet crafting tool]
A network probing utility like ping on steroids.This handy little utility assembles and sends custom ICMP, UDP, or TCP packets and then displays any replies. It was inspired by the ping command, but offers far more control over the probes sent. It also has a handy traceroute mode and supports IP fragmentation. This tool is particularly useful when trying to traceroute/ping/probe hosts behind a firewall that blocks attempts using the standard utilities. This often allows you to map out firewall rulesets. It is also great for learning more about TCP/IP and experimenting with IP protocols.
Kismet [Packet Sniffer]
A powerful wireless sniffer.Kismet is an console (ncurses) based 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It identifies networks by passively sniffing (as opposed to more active tools such as NetStumbler), and can even decloak hidden (non-beaconing) networks if they are in use. It can automatically detect network IP blocks by sniffing TCP, UDP, ARP, and DHCP packets, log traffic in Wireshark/TCPDump compatible format, and even plot detected networks and estimated ranges on downloaded maps. As you might expect, this tool is commonly used for wardriving. Oh, and also warwalking, warflying, and warskating, ...
Tcpdump [Packet Sniffer]
The classic sniffer for network monitoring and data acquisition.Tcpdump is the IP sniffer we all used before Ethereal (Wireshark) came on the scene, and many of us continue to use it frequently. It may not have the bells and whistles (such as a pretty GUI or parsing logic for hundreds of application protocols) that Wireshark has, but it does the job well and with fewer security holes. It also requires fewer system resources. While it doesn't receive new features often, it is actively maintained to fix bugs and portability problems. It is great for tracking down network problems or monitoring activity. There is a separate Windows port named WinDump. TCPDump is the source of the Libpcap/WinPcap packet capture library, which is used by Nmap among many other tools.
Cain and Abel [Packet Sniffer]
The top password recovery tool for Windows.UNIX users often smugly assert that the best free security tools support their platform first, and Windows ports are often an afterthought. They are usually right, but Cain & Abel is a glaring exception. This Windows-only password recovery tool handles an enormous variety of tasks. It can recover passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. It is also well documented.
Ettercap [Packet Sniffer]
In case you still thought switched LANs provide much extra securityEttercap is a terminal-based network sniffer/interceptor/logger for ethernet LANs. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones, like ssh and https). Data injection in an established connection and filtering on the fly is also possible, keeping the connection synchronized. Many sniffing modes were implemented to give you a powerful and complete sniffing suite. Plugins are supported. It has the ability to check whether you are in a switched LAN or not, and to use OS fingerprints (active or passive) to let you know the geometry of the LAN.
OpenSSH / PuTTY / SSH [Secure Shell]
A secure way to access remote computers.SSH (Secure Shell) is the now ubiquitous program for logging into or executing commands on a remote machine. It provides secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network, replacingthe hideously insecure telnet/rlogin/rsh alternatives. Most UNIX users run the open source OpenSSH server and client. Windows users often prefer the free PuTTY client, which is also available for many mobile devices. Other Windows users prefer the nice terminal-based port of OpenSSH that comes with Cygwin. Dozens of other free and proprietary clients exist. You can explore them here or here.
Paros proxy [Web Vulnerability Scanner]
A web application vulnerability assessment proxy.A Java based web proxy for assessing web application vulnerability. It supports editing/viewing HTTP/HTTPS messages on-the-fly to change items such as cookies and form fields. It includes a web traffic recorder, web spider, hash calculator, and a scanner for testing common web application attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
Dsniff [Packet Sniffer]
A suite of powerful network auditing and penetration-testing tools.This popular and well-engineered suite by Dug Song includes many tools. dsniff, filesnarf, mailsnarf, msgsnarf, urlsnarf, and webspy passively monitor a network for interesting data (passwords, e-mail, files, etc.). arpspoof, dnsspoof, and macof facilitate the interception of network traffic normally unavailable to an attacker (e.g, due to layer-2 switching). sshmitm and webmitm implement active monkey-in-the-middle attacks against redirected ssh and https sessions by exploiting weak bindings in ad-hoc PKI. A separately maintained partial Windows port is available here. Overall, this is a great toolset. It handles pretty much all of your password sniffing needs.
NetStumbler [Packet Sniffer]
Free Windows 802.11 Sniffer. Netstumbler is the best known Windows tool for finding open wireless access points ("wardriving"). They also distribute a WinCE version for PDAs and such named Ministumbler. The tool is currently free but Windows-only and no source code is provided. It uses a more active approach to finding WAPs than passive sniffers such as Kismet or KisMAC.
Netfilter [Firewall]
The current Linux kernel packet filter/firewall. Netfilter is a powerful packet filter implemented in the standard Linux kernel. The userspace iptables tool is used for configuration. It now supports packet filtering (stateless or stateful), all kinds of network address and port translation (NAT/NAPT), and multiple API layers for 3rd party extensions. It includes many different modules for handling unruly protocolssuch as FTP. For other UNIX platforms, see Openbsd PF (OpenBSD specific), or IP Filter. Many personal firewalls are available for Windows (Tiny,Zone Alarm, Norton, Kerio, ...), though none made this list. Microsoft included a very basic firewall in Windows XP SP2, and will nag you incessantly until you install it.
Sysinternals [Utilities, Rootkit Detector]
An extensive collection of powerful windows utilities. Sysinternals provides many small windows utilities that are quite useful for low-level windows hacking. Some are free of cost and/or include source code, while others are proprietary. Survey respondents were most enamored with:
ProcessExplorer for keeping an eye on the files and directories open by any process (like LSoF on UNIX).
PsTools for managing (executing, suspending, killing, detailing) local and remote processes. Autoruns for discovering what executables are set to run during system boot up or login. RootkitRevealer for detecting registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit.
TCPView, for viewing TCP and UDP traffic endpoints used by each process (like Netstat on UNIX). Update: Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July 2006, promising that “Customers will be able to continue building on Sysinternals' advanced utilities, technical information and source code”. Less than four months later, Microsoft removed most of that source code. Future product direction is uncertain.
Retina [Vulnerability Scanner]
Commercial vulnerability assessment scanner by eEye. Like Nessus, Retina's function is to scan all the hosts on a network and report on any vulnerabilities found. It was written by eEye, who are well known for their security research.
Tripwire [Rootkit Detector]
The grand-daddy of file integrity checkers. A file and directory integrity checker. Tripwire is a tool that aids system administrators and users in monitoring a designated set of files for any changes. Used with system files on a regular (e.g., daily) basis, Tripwire can notify system administrators of corrupted or tampered files, so damage control measures can be taken in a timely manner. An open source Linux version is freely available at Tripwire.Org. UNIX users may also want to consider AIDE, which has been designed to be a free Tripwire replacement. Or you may wish to investigate Radmind, RKHunter, or chkrootkit. Windows users may like RootkitRevealer from Sysinternals.
RKHunter [Rootkit Detector]
An Unix Rootkit Detector. RKHunter is scanning tool that checks for signs of various pieces of nasty software on your system like rootkits, backdoors and local exploits. It runs many tests, including MD5 hash comparisons, default filenames used by rootkits, wrong file permissions for binaries, and suspicious strings in LKM and KLD modules.
Fragroute/Fragrouter [Intrusion Detection System]
A network intrusion detection evasion toolkitFragrouter is a one-way fragmenting router - IP packets get sent from the attacker to the Fragrouter, which transforms them into a fragmented data stream to forward to the victim. Many network IDS are unable or simply don't bother to reconstruct a coherent view of the network data (via IP fragmentation and TCP stream reassembly), as discussed in this classic paper. Fragrouter helps an attacker launch IP-based attacks while avoiding detection. It is part of the NIDSbench suite of tools by Dug Song. Fragroute is a similar tool which is also by Dug Song.

[Source - sectools.org]

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Biggest Heap of Content Sources for Bloggers

There are two aspects of finding content for your blog.

First, it is to find the inspiration that generates original content on your blog. This can come from a variety of sources. Basically, it can be a news story, fellow blogger’s post, an interesting web page you stumbled across, something a friend said, or anything that interests you enough to research and write about it.
The second aspect is to find links. A lot of bloggers seem to specialize in finding interesting content and providing a link and maybe a few words to recommend to their readers that they check out the original content on someone else’s blog or site. While this isn’t so much about finding original content for your blog, it is about finding information and resources that is helpful to your readers.

There is simple classification of different types of resources for finding content for your blog:

Top News Stories
Industry News and Resources
Tagging and Social Bookmarking
Most Popular/Highest Traffic
Top Search Results
Research: Reading What Other People Wrote
Facts, Figures and Statistics
Search Engines, Search Blogs, and Search Resources
Tracking Stories
Internet Traffic, Web Trends, and Page Rank

Top News Stories

CNN - Most Popular Stories
Research Buzz - Kebberfegg
Topix News Headlines
Online Newspapers
180n (Top Sited News Stories)
Crayon - Most Popular News Sites
People’s Daily from China - Most Popular News Stories
New York Times - Most Emailed Stories
New York Times - World News
Meta Eureka - Top News Stories
Yahoo Top News Stories - Most Viewed
News is Free - Most Popular News Stories
1st Headlines - Top Breaking Headline News
Yahoo News - Full Coverage and Topical Roundup of World News Stories
Google Alerts
Google News
Today’s Front Pages from the Newseum
Newslink - Major Metro US Newspapers
News Link
Headline Spot - News Wires
Reuters Free Top News Stories
Rapid Tree - List of Worldwide Media Resources like Newspapers, Magazines, TV, and More
Meta Grid - Access and Search 8000 Newspapers and Magazines Online
News Directory
Online Newspapers
I Want Media - Links and Media Resources
News Place - News Resources
Ananova - Breaking News Portal
World News
News in Essence - Aggregator
I Have News Aggregator Top Stories
Wall Street Executive Library News Resources
News Trawler
WorldPress.org - Worldwide News
Lexis Nexis - Free News Headlines
News Ahead - News Forecast
Slate
News Wise - News Tracker and Search Engine Service
CNN Email News Alerts
Yahoo Email News Alerts
E-News Wire
Infomaniac - News Research Behind the Stories

Industry News and Resources

New Scientist (dinosaurs, evolution, being human, endangered species, technology, health and more)
BlogPulse
Blodex - Top Blogged Stories
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Magazines and Information Resources on Health, Science, and Medicine
Geography Network of Canada (maps, geography, and data)
Silicon.com - Most Popular White Papers from Silicon Valley
Above Top Secret - Top Conspiracy Theory News
Business Week - Technology Research Library Top 50 Resources
Business Week - Blogspotting
Netcraft - Web Server Survey
Webmaster World
Wired - Blogs
ZDNet Blogs on Technology
Inbox Robot - Most Popular Newsletters
Inbox Robot - Hot Newsletter Topics
All Bookstores - Most Popular Books
Spacetoday.org - Research Resources for Journalists
Writer Magazine
About.com’s Urban Legends Blog
Hill News - News About the US Congress
Business Wire
ZDNet - Technology News
The New England Journal of Medicine
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus - Medical News and Information
The Educator’s Reference Desk
Jane’s News On Defence, Airport, Transportation, Security And Risk Developments
Landings.com - Aviation History, Accident, and Archives
Newsforge - News about Linux and Open Source
Internet News
Editor and Publisher News Headlines
Bloomberg Financial News
OneWorld.net - Human Rights News
Book Wire - Book Publishing News
Idea List - News from the International Non-Profit World
ReferenceShelf - Docuticker - News from Librarians
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Freedom of Speech Resource Center
Internet News Bureau - Most Recent Stories
Research Buzz - Search Engine News and More
Biz Journals - Business News
The Smoking Gun
WebReference

Tag and Social Bookmarking Services

Technorati
IceRocket
Daypop
BlogPulse
Blodex - Top Blogged Stories
Blogsearch.com
Blogs of the Day
180n (Top Sited News Stories)
Gada - Graphic Meta Search Engine
Furl.net - Latest Headline Entries
CodeCubed - Tree Map (based on Del.icio.us)
Newzingo - Google Tag Map
Flickr
BlinkList
Connotea - Scientific Tags
De.lirio.us (Del.icio.us clone)
Digg
Furl
Blogmarks
KB Cafe Tag Search
Shadows - Social Bookmarking Service
Bloghop
Simpy
Oishii - Most Popular Bookmarks
Citeulike - Free Citation Service
Common Times - Reader Controlled News
Wists - Social Shopping
Spurl
Scuttle
LookMarks
Frassle
GiveALink - Donate Bookmarks
Netvous
Memeorandum
Ask Jeeves (now uses tags)
LinkFilter
Hyperlinkomatic
FeedMarker
BackFlip
Yummy.printfu - PDF Social Bookmarking
Diigo
Quimble - Poll on Favorite Social Bookmarking Manager
StumbleUpon
Filangy
Riffs - Social Recommender
RawSugar
Linkagogo
Gibeo.net
Linkroll
OpenBM - (Open Bookmarks)
SearchFox
Bloogz
Findory
Wink
Blog Top Sites
Indiza - Europe and International Social Bookmarking

Most Popular/High Traffic

Alexa - Top 500 websites
Alexa - Top 500 global websites
Technorati - Most Popular Posts and Tags
Fark
BlogPulse
Hot Links
Reddit
Truth Laid Bear’s website ecosystem
Technorati Top 100
Feedster Top 500
Memeorandum
Furl.net - Most Popular
Chuquet - Most Linked To Posts
Blo.gs - Most Watched Blogs
Bloogz - Most Popular Blogs
National Geographic - 15 Most Popular Stories
WayPath Most Popular Blogs, Topics, and Search
Topix News Headlines
Variety - Most Popular Entertainment Stories
Most Popular Sites
Village Voice - Most Popular Stories
Yahoo - Most Emailed Photos and Slideshows
CNN - Most Popular Stories
Flickr - Most Popular Photo Tags
Bloogz Most Popular Blog Ranking
Most Popular Historical Biographies
Bloglines - Top Links
Technorati - Most Popular Blogs
Bloglines - Top Blogs
Yahoo News - Most Popular Stories
Salon Radio Community Server - Statistics by Page Read Rankings
Topten.org - Most Popular Top Ten Nuggets
Blog Rankings - Most Popular Blogs
Right Wing News - The Most Popular Political Blogs On The Net
What is Making Blog News - Top 10 Posts List
Top Ten Sources - Popular Posts
Amazon Bestsellers
USA Today - Hot Sites and Hot Shows
Info Please - Top Tens List
Blog Top Sites
DayPop - Top 40 Stories
Blogmarks - Most Popular Posts
FeedMeLinks
Jots
LiveMarks
Most Popular Del.icious Posts of All Time
EarthCam Announces 25 Most Interesting Webcams
Tail Rank - Popular Blog Posts and Comments

Top Search Results

Webcrawler Search Spy - Live Viewing of Search Keywords (Adult and Filtered Views)
MetaSpy - Live Viewing of Search Keywords (Adult and Filtered Views)
LiveMarks - Live Del.icio.us Feed
Digg Spy - Live View of Diggs
LiveMarks - Top Ranking from Del.icio.us
Kanoodle Search Spy - Live Search Preview
Meta Eureka - Voyeur (Manual Refresh)
Joe Ant - Top Search Keywords Live
AOL Hot Searches
Dogpile - Search Spy Live Search Preview (Adult and Filtered Views)
Search Words
Search Hippo
Search King - Top 25 Search Words
Eurekster - Advertising and Keyword Search
Fravia - Web Searchlore (Keyword and Search Tips, Techniques, and Methods
Analogx - Top Search Keywords
MSN Insider - Top Searches
DWoz - Top Keywords and Search Phrases
Yahoo Buzz - Top Searches
Google Zeitgeist Global - Top Search Results Globally
Google Zeitgeist - Top Search Results
Google News Top Searches for 2005
Lycos Top Searches for 2005
Yahoo Top Searches for 2005
Search.com Top Searches for 2005
Ask (aka Ask Jeeves) Top Searches for 2005
AOL Top Searches for 2005
Dogpile.com (via Infospace - metasearch engine searches Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, and others for 2005
A9’s Top Search Words with 9 Letters for 2005
Search Engine Watch - Google and Yahoo Make Dogpile’s Top Searches Of 2005 List
Yahoo! Canada 2005 Year in Review Top Searches
London Free Press - Janet Jackson top pick for Google searches
The Manila Bulletin - Top IT Stories for 2005
BBC News - Google Taps Into Search Patterns
Search Engine Watch - 5th Annual Search Engine Awards (from earlier this year)
Year in Review: Year of Heroes and Weasels
CodeCubed - Tree Map (based on Del.icio.us)
Newzingo - Google News Tag Map

Research: Reading What Other People Wrote

Mag Portal for online magazines and research information
Comment Content - part of Creative Commons
LookSmart - Find Articles
Bloglines (Aggregator/Feeds)
FeedDemon (Aggregator/Feeds)
Feedreader (Aggregator/Feeds)
Findory (Aggregator/Feeds)
NetNewsWire (Aggregator/Feeds - MAC)
NewsGator (Aggregator/Feeds)
Radio UserLand (Aggregator/Feeds)
Crayon - Create Your Own Customizable Online Newspaper
PR Web (Press Releases)
US National Archives
About.com - About Everything
News Lab
US News Archives - Newspaper Archives
University of Toronto - Internet Resources and Metasites
Ask a Librarian
The Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
Librarian’s Internet Index
The Gateway to 21st Century Skills in Education (US Gov)
High Beam Library Research for News, Images, and Statistics
H2O Playlist - Intellectual Content and Reading Lists
Poynter Online - Journalist Links and Resources
CyberJournalist Super Search Tools
Power Reporting - Free Research Tools for Journalists
PR News Wire
News Trove - Search News by Viewpoint
Yahoo Directory of RSS Formats and Aggregators
Time Magazine Archives
Bloghop - Connects Readers with Blogs
Assignment Editor - Newsroom Home Page
E-How - How Things Work
How Stuff Works
Journalism Net - Massive Research Resources and Links
Internet Public Library
National Press Club - Library and Research Links and Resources
The Refdesk
Bartleby References and Quotes
Journalist Express - One Stop Links and Resources for Journalists
Monitor This - Create Custom RSS Search Feeds
Voice of the Shuttle

Search Engines, Search Blogs and Search Feeds

Google Blog Search
Yahoo News & Blog Search
Feedster (Feed Search)
Blogdigger {Feed Search)
Bloogz - Blog Search
Dogpile - Searches 5 Major Search Engines
Hot Sheet - List of Top News and Information Sites and Search Engine
Mamma - The Mother of All Search Engines
Metacrawler
Search Engine Colossus - International Directory Of Search Engines
Lycos
Journalism Net - Find People
Oxide - Jump Search Engine
I Want Media - Facts, Statistics, Links and Media Resources
Teoma Direct Hit Search
Vivismo Clusty - Cluster Search Engine
Rocket News - Feed Search Engine
Snap - Virtual News and Search Engine
News Wise - News Tracker and Search Engine Service
Bloogz
Blogwise - Top Blogs Search
Vivisimo - Clusty Blog Search
Blog Search Engine
Blogarama Blog Directory
A9 Search Engine and Maps
KartOO - Graphic Search Engine
Click City - City Guides
Killer Info Cluster Search Engine
Info Please
DMOZ - Open Directory Project
DMOZ - Open Directory Project - Weblogs Resources
DMOZ - Open Directory Project - Blog Search Engines
Blog Top Sites
Search Engine Base
Search Engine Showdown
Jux2 - Search Engine evaluates Page Ranks
Blogdigger Local - Find Local Bloggers
FeedMap - Blog Map
Tag Cloud - Heat Map of Feed Keywords Tool
BrowseDelicious - Visual Browsing
Blog Universe Directory
All Your Words - Word Association Search
Vox Delicii - Graphic Search Engine
My Web 2.0 Yahoo Search - Custom Search Page
Wists - Social Shopping
StumbleUpon
Filangy
WayPath Blog Search

Tracking Stories

PubSub
PR News Wire - Feed Categories
Steven Bell’s Keeping Up Website - Web Page Change Detection Services
Watch That Page
Library Journal - Do I Detect a Change
Infominder Website Tracking
Change Detection - Website Administrator Tool
Website Watcher
Change Detect
Check and Get
Right Web Monitor
Track Engine
Site Up
Chikaboo
New York Times - News Alerts by Category
TV Eyes for Consumers - Free Email Alerts on TV Stories
Net News Tracker - Tracks News Groups
Google Alerts
Google Groups - What Are They Saying?
TalkDigger - Tracking Search Engines, Blogs, Tag Services and Social Bookmarking
Tail Rank - Popular Blog Posts and Comments on Posts
I-Tools Search
News Wise - News Tracker and Search Engine Service
TRAC.SYR.EDU - Transactional Record Access Clearing House - Tracking US Government News
Feedster Ego Builder Feed - Custom Feed Maker
Rocket News - Feed Search Engine and Custom Feed Maker
BBC News Feed Factory - Custom and Category Feeds
Associated Content - Custom Categorized Feeds
LifeHacker - Creating Custom Live Digg Feeds
Yahoo News Feeds and Custom Feeds
Netvibes - Custom News Page
Topix - Advanced Search Custom Feed (scan for feed on search results)
Inform - Custom News and Feeds

Facts and Statistics

US FedStats - Statistics from the US Government
US Freedom of Information Act
US Department of Labor - Labor Statistics
Population Reference Bureau
US National Center for Education Statistics
US Energy Information Administration
US Center for Disease Control - Data Warehouse for National Center for Health Statistics
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
FBI Crime Report Statistics
US Bureau of Justice Statistics Data for Analysis
Crime.org - Crime Links and Statistics
World Health Organization - WHO Statistical Information System
US National Institutes of Health
City-Data - US Cities Data and Statistics
Cornell Law - Legal Information Institute
Library of Congress - Thomas Search the Laws
Louisiana State University - Libraries Federal Agencies Directory
USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System
USDA State Facts
Find Law
US FedWorld
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education
US Department of Defense
National Conference of State Legislatures - State Legislatures Internet Links
Cornell - US Code
CIA World Factbook
Defense Statistics
Pentagon Facts & Figures
CIA World Fact Book
Securities and Exchange Commission - EDGAR - Research Companies
US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
US National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB)
I Want Media - Facts, Statistics, Links and Media Resources
Statistics Every Writer Should Know
Jonathan Oatis - How to Get Public Records Online
WWW Virtual Library - International Affairs Resources
Nation Master - Compare Nations
Hyperstat Online Textbook - Statistics
Stats.org
Statistics.com
United Nations Statistics Division
US Government Documents - Statistics on the Web by University of Michigan
Acronym Finder
US Census Bureau
Info Please
US State Department
World Wide Web Virtual Library - Demography and Population Studies
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Freedom of Speech Resource Center
TRAC.SYR.EDU - Transactional Record Access Clearing House - Tracking US Government News
Google Scholar Search - Search for Scholarly Resources
United Nations Population Information Network
National Statistics for the UK
Statistical Resources on the Web Environment

Internet Traffic, Web Trends, and Page Rank

AWIS - Alexa Blog - Article on Watching Net Trends
BlogPulse
Alexa (top websites/trends)
Alexa - Top 500 websites
Alexa - Top 500 global websites
Blo.gs - Most Watched Blogs
TalkDigger - Who is Blogging About You?
DMOZ - Open Directory Project - Weblogs Resources
Jux2 - Search Engine evaluates Page Ranks
Clickz - Trends and Statistics
43 Things - Keeping Up With Current Web Trends
Internet Traffic Report
Cyber Geography Research - Mapping the Internet
GVU Research and Technology Reports
Internet Systems Consortium Internet Domain Survey
Search Engine Watch
Netcraft - Server and Web Status and News
Nielsen and Net Ratings - News Releases
The Counter - Statistics
Global Research - Global Internet Statistics
Internet Pulse
Zooknic Internet Intelligence and Geography Project
Search Engine Optimization - Bandwidth Reports
EMarketer - Online Business and Marketing
Web Hosting Info - Global Stats for Web Hosts
ComScore - Internet Statistics News
Internet World Stats
Research Buzz - Search Engine News and More
Cybergeography and Web Statistics
CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
Webhosting.info - Hosting Statistics and Information
Browser News - Statistics
Browser News
Net Applications - Marketshare
International Telecommunications Union - Global Statistics
Complete Guide to Internet Statistics and Research
Internet Demographics Directory
Security Space Internet Research Studies
Sociosite - Internet Use(r)s Demographics
European Internet Statistics
CIO - Technology Articles, Forecasts, and News
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) - A National Online
US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Forrester - Online Research, Surveys, and Polls
Pew Internet and American Life Project

[ For more info see original post at lorelle.wordpress.com]

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Free MySpace Proxy List

Here are some known

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So, it's our todays Free MySpace Proxy List:

www.looklocked.info - http://www.looklocked.info/
www.lookfreely.info - http://www.lookfreely.info/
www.rapidvisit.info - http://www.rapidvisit.info/
www.coolproxie.info - http://www.coolproxie.info/
www.fastsight.info - http://www.fastsight.info/
www.coolproksea.info - http://www.coolproksea.info/
www.sitesurfing.info - http://www.sitesurfing.info/
www.instantlook.info - http://www.instantlook.info/
www.surfsites.info - http://www.surfsites.info/
www.proxieview.info - http://www.proxieview.info/

You can use these MySpace compatible proxies to login to your MySpace account. But do you School work first =)

(MySapce proxy are often the same as YouTube proxy or Facebook proxy.)

16+ List of Data Mining Blogs

Here is a small listing of blogs related to Data Mining:

Abbott Analytics: both industry and research oriented posts covering any topic related to data mining (Will Dwinnell and Dean Abbott)
Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media: a focus on data visualization and the blogosphere (Matthew Hurst)
Data Miners Blog: data analysis and visualization from an industry point of view (Data Miners Team)
The MineThatData Blog: data mining from the marketing point of view (Kevin Hillstrom)
Intelligent Machines: news related to data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence (Damien François)
Juice Analytics: data analytics with an emphasis on data visualization and corresponding tools (Juice Team)
Crime Analysis and Data Mining: everything is in the title (Shyam Varan Nath)
Data Mining in MATLAB: posts related to the use and possibilities of Matlab for data mining related problems (Will Dwinnell)
Machine Learning Thoughts: philosophical and theoretical discussions about machine learning in general (Olivier Bousquet)
Machine Learning (Theory): a strong emphasis on theoretical aspects of machine learning (John Langford)
Machine Learning, etc: Theory behind machine learning and news related to this field (Yaroslav Bulatov)
Enterprise Decision Management Blog: data mining and analytics in decision automation (James Taylor)
Diamond Information and Analytics: analytics and its applications in marketing and operations (Amaresh Tripathy)
Oracle Data Mining and Analytics: A blog focusing on the use of Oracle for data mining. It covers news, code and applications related to Oracle (Marcos M. Campos)
Data Strategy: This new blog (started in June) discuss data strategy in general. Data acquisition, visualization and data mining are examples of topics (Chuck Lam)
Data Mining et al.: A new blog about data mining with details on particular applications in this field (Georg Russ)

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