| Chodakowski's Freeware
& Business
Links |
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| A S T R O N O M Y |
Photopic
Sky Survey |
True-color
all-sky survey,
with constellation and star name overlay option. News
articles
state it is the largest of its type. Well worth it. |
| John Walker |
Sky Screensaver shows current location of planets, moon and sun, star names, etc. Home Planet is sky map, orrey, and more. | |
| Stig's
Sky Calendar |
Online version of below (requires java). Set location using "Earth" (top, left). Downloadable version. | |
| Seti at Home |
Join the search for intelligent life "out there" with this screen saver. | |
| Date
Converter |
Gregorian to Julian, Julian to Gregorian calendar, date converter by Rahul Mittal. Also: Times of Minima Table calculation. (On Villanova Unversity web site.) | |
| Night Sky This Week | Weekly information about the night sky, astronomy articles and observations. Interesting site. Pack full of information. | |
| WX Tide32 | Determine high or low tide at many locations through out the world. See site for details and current version. | |
| NOAA Climate Data | NOAA Climate data tables. Individual table link down a bit on page. Wind, rain fall, humidity, etc. | |
| Weather Calculator | Calculates or converts various weather related items: temperature, wind speed, etc. Portable: install, copy exe, ocx, & 2 dll files to new folder and uninstall. Create shortcut to new location. | |
| The Weather Calculator by Tim Brice and Todd Hall | Html based weather calculations. Portable version available, runs in browser. National Weather Service, El Paso, Tx. Other NWS locations have calculators, but this one is the most extensive I have found. | |
| Air Quality today | What the air quality today, in various parts of the US. | |
| NIST US Time | Official US Eastern Time Zone time. To change time zone, use "change timezone" button. | |
| See the far side of the moon | MPEG showing the moon in rotations, thus making the side we normally can not see visable. Click "CONTENTS" to see what else this site has to offer. It is extensive. | |
| Apparent motions of the Sun and Moon | Excellent diagrams and interactive explanations of seasons, phases of moon, and eclipses. | |
| SpaceWeather | "News and information of the Earth-Sun environment." Solar winds, X-Ray solar flares, number of sun spots, and more. Including forecast. | |
| M I S C |
Portable Freeware | Excellent free software for your USB or computer. Also see: Portable Apps |
| Wolfram Alpha computation engine | From the site: "Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer." | |
| Geology.com | Maps of various types: satellite, altitude, rivers, major roads, etc. Not in great detail, but interesting. | |
| General tax information (USA only) - Forms and information | |
| IRS - Internal Revenue Service |
Frequently
Downloaded Forms & Pubs Link to all forms & pubs Online Version of Publication 78 List charities for which donations are allowable deductions |
| Federation of Tax
Administrators |
Link to your
state's taxation department via
a map. Easy to use. Check if your state has internet filing, use pull
down menu: "Internet Filing". NJ Gross Income Tax forms. |
| Social Security Administration |
Social
Security Online - Home Page
Calculator to determine benefit reduction due to earnings over limit. Retirement estimator - make certain you accept cookies. Medicare site |
| Sales Tax |
Tax Cloud Internet Sales Tax Guide: Shows sales tax rate for a location (state plus local), and by category (food, clothes, etc.) |
| Tax Foundation | 2013 Comparison of state plus
local sales
tax
rates. 2010 State & Local Tax Burden Ranking (latest year) rank by total of all taxes. 1977 - 2010 State & Local Tax Burden use pull down menu to select state. |
| Other sites of Interest | |
| Leapfrog Group | Scores hospitals for medical errors. Mentioned in AARP Newspaper. Hopefully, the hospital you look up responded, Virtua in sothern NJ did not. (11/9/2012) |
| Get
Human.com Dialahuman.com Lucyphone.com |
Helpful
information on how to get a human when the company has a very
early model pre-"Data"
(Star
Trek: The Next Generation)
answering the phone. If you find a way to get to a human, add
it to GetHuman and help others. Many companies, like
PSE&G (NJ) go out of their way to prevent your speaking with a
human, or contacting them through their web site. Dial-a-human & Lucy-phone are similiar. |
| Social Security Death Master File | Free, but not the latest information. Research date of death of an individual. Appears to include 2011 data. |
| National Council on Aging - Benefits Check-up | National Council on Aging - benefits check-up. For 55 and over: find out if there are benefits you are missing out on. |
| Top Retirements.com | More information for retiring by state. |
| Choose to Save retirement calculator | Choosetosave.com retirement calculator was mention in a piece on NBC. See what you think of it. |
| My State Will | What are the rules in your state if you die WITHOUT a will. They may not be what you expect. |
| Department of Labor - State Minimum Wage | Federal DOL site list minimum wages by state. Local minimum wages law not referenced. |
| 50 States.com | General information about each state. On individual state page, click state name to link to state's site. |
| Inflation Calculator | Calculate the amount of inflation from 1800 to today. |
| www.catalogchoice.org | Get rid of those catalogs. |
| www.acxiom.com/opt-out-request-form | Opt out of junk mail. |
| www.optoutprescreen.com | Opt out of credit card offers. |
| www.donotcall.gov | Do not call me registration. It works for the most part. |
| www.dmachoice.org | Direct marketing association. Difficult to registrator with Firefox, $1 charge if by mail. |