Hot Free Services
Colour codes and symbols used at this site:
Green Links: You haven't
been there lately.
Blue Links:You've already
been there.
A Brosco Favourite.
On this page you will find:
1) Free Reminder Services
URL Minder - A FREE service
to inform you by Email when a site's content changes.
Do you occasionally forget to visit your favourite sites that get updated
weekly, fortnightly, monthly, etc. Never forget again. Simply register
the site with URL Minder and they will check for you every few days and
notify you by email if the registered page has had any changes. There is
no limit on the number of sites you can register. This is a 100% free service
- no strings attached! I use this service in conjunction with WindownLoad.
Get Reminded Offers a free
service, but for a fee, Webmasters are able to send out a newsletter to
subscribers.
The Informant: Offers
a free service, of monitoring 5 URLs and changes to results of 3 Search
submissions. You can set the frequency that the monitoring is performed,
with the shortest frequency being 3 days. You are notified by Email if
there are any changes, and you visit The Informant to find which sites
changed.
2) Free Home Pages
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Crosswinds UNLIMITED free space
providing it does not have commercial content. I use this site to store
my Liberty Basic source code. If you are a LB user then be sure to
visit my site to
get some program examples, tutorials and help files.
SureSite - You Personal
Start Page.
Sick of loading Netscape's home (or Microsoft, your ISP, etc.) when
you first connect to the Internet. Why not have your own HOME page. Suresite
provides this FREE, and allows you to add your favourite links, email addresses,
etc. Provides a Notepad and quick jumps to the popular search engines and
much more. Fast to load and a great place to start your Internet day.
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Planet
Tridod - Your free Web site (Refer to banner at bottom of this
page) Geocities - Your free Web
site
Both Tripod and Geocities provide you with 2meg to build your website....FREE.
They each use slightly different approaches, so you should check to see
which one provides the service best suited to your needs. (I prefer Tripod's
approach, but I use the mail forwarding service at Geocities). You cannot
build an XXX site, but you are able to build just about any other non-commercial
site. You are given direct access to your area to update and change it
as often as you like. (Some people attempt to build XXX sites here but
they are deleted very quickly).
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ADULT Sites - Yes, there
are places to build Adult Sites - for FREE. Like Tripod and Geocities
- you will need to carry a banner of their chosing, but, in return, you
will get 2meg of free space. I am unable to give the URLs here (Tripod
does not allow me to carry adult content - or links to adult content) but
if you send me an email
I can give you the URL of two sites that provide this service.
3) Free Email Services
HotMail - Your Free Email address
Do you share your Internet connection with others (colleages, children,
etc.), then you are probably sharing your Email address. At HotMail you
can set up as many addresses as you want: one for work, one for private,
one for each of your children, etc. No one will ever have access to your
mail again. (I'm unable to use this service as I connect to the Net via
a proxy server - so if you have problems - that might be the reason).
Geocities - Your free Web site
I use the Email forwarding service at this site. You will notice that
any Email link to me at this site has my address as brosco@geocities.com
. Why not use my email address at my ISP? The answer is simple! If in the
future I decide to change my ISP, I would have to: a) Notify all my friends,
b) Update all my webpages, c) Change all my entries at the URL-Minder services
and d) Probably a few others that I have forgotten! By using Geocities,
if I change my ISP, I just register the my new Email address there and
I can be confident that I will not miss any of my mail.
Free
Emails on the WWW A list of sites that provide free Email services.
4) New Site Links
New Webaholics
Thousands of sites are submitted to search engines every day. When
you perform a search, you get presented with thousands, even hundreds of
thousands of sites that meet your search criteria. The sites on the top
of the list have paid to be there, whereas a humble, unfinancial site like
mine may be number 125,231 of 127,267. How do you stumble across the potentially
good sites that just cant afford the cost of paying to be in the top 100?
Now a unique service is available from Webaholics. Visit this page and
you will see the latest sites as they are added to the search engines.
Visit one or two sites and when you come back, hit RELOAD, and you will
find new sites added to the top of the list, and some dropped from the
bottom. This list is realtime - not just a random site lister. I added
my site to their search engine and I had 5 minutes of glory of being on
top. Over the next hour I saw my site dropping in the list as new ones
were added, until I eventually dropped off the bottom. But WOW, for
5 minutes I was on top!!!!! You cant predict what you will find
here, it could be bogus sites selling their stupid pyramid and chain letter
schemes, or it could be that rare and wonderful find of the type of site
that you've been spending months searching for. Go on, take a chance!
5) Virus Checking
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The
only online Virus checker. I got this to work with Internet Explorer, but
had no luck with Netscape. Please let me know!
Know
about a good free service?
