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reminders to others, but Memo to Me
will charge you for those features. On
the other hand, Time Cave charges for
the ability to repeat messages (monthly,
weekly, etc.), which is standard with
Memo to Me.
2. Way Back Machine
<
www.archive.org/web/web.php>
Is a website you’re seeking no longer
around? If it was active as late as 1996,
you’ll probably find it easily in this
huge archive.
3. Centerwatch Clinical Trials
<
www.centerwatch.com>
Gives information on more than 41,000
active clinical trials in which you could
participate. (Some compensate you
handsomely for helping, along with free
medical monitoring.) Includes a
notification service for trials in areas of
your interest. Also describes the newest
drug therapies.
4. Objectgraph Dictionary
<
www.objectgraph.com/dictionary>
A combination standard dictionary,
technical dictionary, and thesaurus.
(There’s also a dictionary of chemical
elements, of rather limited interest). A
unique feature is the site’s ability to
“read your mind” if you’re not sure of
the word you’re thinking of—or its
spelling—or if you just want to save
typing.
5. Myway E-mail
<
www.myway.com>
An excellent Web-based e-mail
provider with an exceptionally clean
interface (no banner ads or pop-ups).
Unlike the case with competitors like
Yahoo mail, Myway will respond to
support inquiries.
6. Myway Weather
<
weather.myway.com>
The best weather page on the Web.
Even though its weather information is
from weather.com, you’ll see when you
use it that the interface is much cleaner
(and loading therefore faster) than if
you were to bring up either weather.com
or one of its competitors. You can
personalize the weather according to
your home town or zip code; the page
you’ll want to bookmark is that
personalized page.
7. Past Weather
<
www.weather.com/activities/other/
other/weather/yesterday.html
www.weather.com/activities/other/
other/weather/yesterday.html>
Use this site to compare today’s forecast
with yesterday’s weather. There’s also
interesting historical data and a graph
showing the weather for the past seven
days. The past weather information can
easily be compared with the forecast
from Myway weather, which derives
its data from the same source.
8. Furl
<
www.furl.net>
Bookmarking is useful, but what do
you do when you find that a
bookmarked page has disappeared (left
the Web)? Or maybe it’s still there,
but—as with many newspaper sites—
you can’t read it without going to a paid
archive. This won’t be an issue if you’ve
Furled the page. Furl allows you to
create a set of special bookmarks that
can be easily searched or browsed—or
shared with others—but whose contents
are permanently stored on your hard
drive. (If you feel the need to save parts
of a page, try Net Snippets Free at
<www.netsnippets.com/basic>. This
does require a download.)
9. Password Generator
<
http://mistupid.com/computers/
passwordgen.htm
http://mistupid.com/computers/
passwordgen.htm>
Random characters compose the safest
passwords. This tool will create a
password with random characters
according to your specifications. On