INTERNUTS

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TAKE A RIDE ON THE READING

Viewzi.com is a new visual alternative to Google. Instead of text descriptions of sites that correspond to your search terms, you get pictures…

A WHOOP AND A HOLLER FROM WOOPRA

Business owners who want to find out who’s using their website can use an amazing new tool called Woopra. And it’s free…

TINY URL GETS PERSONAL

TinyURL.com turns long web address into small ones…

REALLY FREE (AND EASY) WEBSITES

Webon.com has the easiest set of Web site creation tools we’ve ever seen, and they’re free. Go to the Web site and you can choose from any or all of five styles: a personal site, a blog, online photo album, wedding

album, or travelogue.

CYBER SQUATTING FOR $$$

Cyber Squatting refers to the practice of registering Internet domain names you have no intention of ever using but hope to sell. Squatters might register names like “gold” or “horses…”

WE’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT

One of more familiar joke lines of dark comedy is: “We’re from the government and we’re here to help you.” Sure you are…

THE SET-TOP BOX MOVES ON

Joy has been trying out a number of set-top boxes that promise to bring the computer to your TV, and even bring TV to the TV…

TINY WEB SITES

Webcards lets you create small web sites, about the size of large index cards, for businesses that don’t have the time or money to build and maintain their own. Just fill in a form and it’s done…

A DROP IN THE INDIAN OCEAN

You can post a video to YouTube for private or wide audience viewing, but there’s a ten-minute limit. There are free programs, such as SecureZip from securezip.com that let you compress and encrypt a file with just a couple of mouse clicks. That’s nice for sending it through email, but not convenient for a large group.

There’s a free and easy solution available from a new service called Drop.io…