Chodakowski's Freeware Links
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Sky Screensaver Screensaver by John Walker, shows current location of planets, moon and sun..
Home Planet John Walker's Home Planet is sky map, orrey, and much more.
Stig's Sky Calendar Provides rise and set times for sun, moon, planets, calendar of events. And more. There is a web version and a downloadable program.  
Seti at Home
Join the search for intelligent life "out there" with this screen saver.
Moon StruckMoonStruck sits in your system tray; provides moon and sun: rise, set, & transit. Additional information on moon.  Icon changes with moon phase.

     
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Weather Watcher Current conditions, sun & moon rise & set, and much more.  You can create a list of locations and change form one to another easily.  Large selection of  weather maps. System tray icon provides current conditions and more.  Most information I have looked at is from Weather.com.  
Excellent program.
WX Tide32 Determine high or low tide at many locations through out the world. See site for details and current version.
NOAA Climate DataNOAA Climate date through 2008.  Individual table link down a bit on page.  Wind, rain fall, humidity, etc.
Weather CalculatorCalculates 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 HallHtml 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.
Weather Conversion Calculators from US Army Fort BraggSome of the calculations are flight related, other are not weather but general - volume, etc.

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1st Page 2000 Create your own web page. HTML editor. See what it looks like, in the preview window, as you key your code. I use it for this site. Has built in reference material.
Nvu WYSIWUG web site editor.  Use to create this page. 
           
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Night Sky This Week Weekly information about the night sky, astronomy articles and observations.  Interesting site.
Air Quality today What the air quality today, in various parts of the US.
Got the time? Official US Eastern Time Zone time.  To change time zone, use left 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.
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Wolfram Alpha computation engineFrom 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."
   


Background is "Cosmic Latte". "Approximate color of the cosmos, as indicated by the 2 degree field survey of some 250,000 galaxies." Science News and The Cosmic Spectrum and the Color of the Universe By Karl Glazebrook & Ivan Baldry. Previous light green has been corrected.  

Modified December 31 2009

Background Cosmic Latte R255-G248-B231 - FFF8E7