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Also see Zoomii.
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Plot nearby showtimes and movie theaters on Google Maps.
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"Here is a list of commands you can execute from the Run command prompt in XP."
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"OSX labels physical memory (RAM) as follows: Wired, Active, Inactive, and Free."
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"Tweet Scan is a real-time search engine for Twitter, identi.ca and eight other(see below) Laconica based sites. We index all public messages on these services so you can find the conversations, people, and messages you want. You can search by keyword or author with results available via email(Twitter only for now), RSS, JSON, and Twhirl."
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"A reverse IP domain check takes a domain name or IP address pointing to a web server and searches for other sites known to be hosted on that same web server. Data is gathered from search engine results, which are not guaranteed to be complete. Knowing the other web sites hosted on a web server is important from both an SEO and web filtering perspective, particularly for those on shared web hosting plans."
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"Fill out and submit the form below with the spammer's name and email address. The spammer will receive this anonymous email. The spammer will recognize the error of their ways and stop emailing unsolicited jokes, chain letters and urban myths to everyone in their address book."
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"For example, let's say you entered contact information for someone that you are talking to on the phone. Tap the Phone icon on the right side, and Slap will show you what it thinks is the first name, address, city, state, zip, phone numbers and email addresses of the person. You can make any changes needed, then press the Add button. The contact information will be placed in your address book, and you will be taken to the address book entry so you can make any additional changes required. Going back to Slap is as easy as tapping the memo button."
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"This page provides a product summary for each Apple model, ordered by the amount of time that has past since its last update, relative to the average amount of time that has passed between previous updates to that model, historically. The intent is to clearly indicate which products are most likely to see updates in the coming weeks and months."
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It's this coding that let me conditionally forward calls I didn't pick up on my T-Mobile cell phone to GrandCentral. "To change the call forwarding number - **004*+country_code/phone_number# [SEND] (all conditional call forwarding) e.g. **004*+13115552368# - **61*+country_code/phone_number# [SEND[ (forward on no answer) e.g. **61*+13115552368# - **62*+country_code/phone_number# [SEND] (forward on unreachable) e.g. **62*+13115552368# - **67*phone_number# [SEND] (forward on busy) e.g. **67*+13115552368# To change everything back to your T-Mobile's voicemail number - ##004# [SEND]"
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"After wandering around my Mac's folder for a bit I found the folder containing the indexes used by Quicksilver: /Library/Caches/Quicksilver/Indexes/ I quit Quickilsilver, moved the folder to the trash and reopened Quicksilver … it worked!"
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Sort of a sensible version of WeirdConverter.com, this uses "sensible units" — i.e., a liter is such-and-such a number of beer cans, etc.
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"Do you have trouble visualizing product size when shopping online? If so, try this free comparison tool."
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"Determining the relative value of an amount of money in one year compared to another is more complicated than it seems at first. There is no single 'correct' measure, and economic historians use one or more different indicators depending on the context of the question."
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"Use a hyphen (dash) to give the location of a missing letter: w-rd or -are. Use an asterisk (star) for any number of unknown letters: lett* or *gry or ar*ct. Exclude words containing the letters that follow a caret (hat): ma-e ^kt. Or enter a few letters (without hyphens or asterisks) to see if they make any words."
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"Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know the right word to use, we'll help you find it. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook(r) search engine."
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For when moderators decide to be children.
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"The purpose of our anagram unscrambler is to find all of the words that can be formed from a given set of letters (up to 16) and ? (wild) character(s), and determine their scrabble scores. The words can be sorted in order by length of word or by score."
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"You can use the Google Maps Distance Calculator to find out the distance between two or more points anywhere on the earth. In other words, the distance between A and B. Click once on the map to place the first marker and then click again to position the second marker. The distance between the points will then be displayed. You can also build up a series of locations to find a total distance."
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Very, very convenient!
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Compare the rent you're paying against apartments in the area, so you can determine whether or not you're overpaying.
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This seems to provide a lot of useful techie data on any existing or potential phone number.
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"Enter a 6 to 10 digit phone number and we'll show you what words and phrases your phone number spells to help you decide if you want to keep it. Opening a business and need a new phone number? Pick a new 7 or 8 digit phone number by typing in an available exchange (first 3 to 5 digits) and see what one-word numbers you can choose from."
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Plots area code and prefix area on Google Maps.
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"Type the phone number in the box below and click 'Get Details' to find out who is using this phone number. If there are no comments yet, be the first to leave one."
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"When you're tired of wasting money and time due to phone systems that require you to press 10 or more options in order to reach a real person and spending many minutes or even hours on hold, consult the GetHuman database of secret phone numbers and codes that immediately get an actual, live person on the line for customer service at nearly 1000 major companies."
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"If a user wishes to break the law (or they live in a country that doesn't respect US copyright law), lets see exactly how they could go about setting up their computer to auto-download their favorite TV shows. This information is, of course, for educational purposes only and I in no way encourage anyone to violate copyright laws."
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"Torrentz.com is a search engine, not a torrent site.Torrentz.com does not host torrent files in any way, shape or form. Torrentz.com links to other independent web pages that do host torrent files. We have absolutely no control over those pages."
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"Welcome to isoHunt, the most comprehensive BitTorrent search engine. With cross-referenced trackers data you won't find anywhere else, all updated to the hour. This is your all-in-one P2P files search engine and community."
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"This article examines non-chemical options for battling bed bugs when pesticides may not be an option."
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"In the warmer weather between February and October, bedbug call-outs are as high as those for rats and mice. “We are getting thousands of bedbug call-outs a year. There has been a phenomenal increase over the past decade,” Michael O’Mahoney of pest-control company Rentokil said." To keep in mind as I'm someday hoping to head out to Ireland.
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Plots user-submitted reports of bedbug infestations on Yahoo! Maps. 48 plotted on Illinois, but no expiration.
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Plots user-submitted bedbug infestations on Google Maps. Seems light on bedbug reporting in Chicago.
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"The purpose of this site is to help people learn how to fix their own bikes. While I don't work in a shop anymore, I still have all of my tools and some parts so I might as well share what I know (and learn from you)."
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Enter a word. Get shorter synonyms.
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"Tweader is a new way to view twitter conversations. Long gone are the days of going through all of a tweet's @replies to get a grasp of the conversation. All you have to do now is enter the tweet's ID below and have it all done for you."
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"Make your very own simulated stacks of wax! Just enter some text and click the 'Go' button. A picture of a record will be generated for you. Collect 'em, trade 'em, put 'em on your website, or e-mail 'em to your friends."
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"Splicd.com allows you to isolate an interesting tidbit from a YouTube video and provides you with a link to share it with your family, friends, and colleagues."
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"Find that word that you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember."
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A web engine to find help you find restaurants or other businesses halfway between two addresses.
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"So what’s an eco-conscious consumer to do when you just want a quick bite? I’ve done you the favor of sampling some of the finest junk foods my co-op had to offer. (The things you do for research.) Consider some of these alternatives."
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"With the help of this tool I found out that both activities require approximately 300 Calorie. [...] And to help you estimate the portion size, I added some well known items to each picture."
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Creating kitchen clones of America's best-loved fast foods.
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"Supercook returns recipes you can actually make right now with the ingredients you have. It even tells you exactly how many recipes you can make, broken down into 'Starters', 'Entrees' and 'Dessert' categories. With Supercook, finding a great recipe is no longer a hassle, simply put in all the ingredients you have at home and Supercook will instantly provide you with hundreds of recipes that are all within your reach."
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"Foods That Do Not Freeze Well. Containers for Freezing. Headspace to Allow. How Long Can I Store Frozen Foods. Packaging and Labeling Foods. Freezing Pointers. Care of the Freezer. Freezer Management. Thawing & Preparing Foods for Serving. What to do if the Freezer Stops."
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How-To YouTube + Cooking = Nice.
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"Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read!"
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Healthy versions of junk food.
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"The whole purpose of this page is to help you find an image or photograph (doctored is fine) that shows you at a normal weight."
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"What are some good ways to keep my attitude on track, to distract myself from my displeasure over how I am or soothe my constant food desires and keep my eyes on the prize? I'm a typical social/emotional/bored eater. I just feel like I forget to make good decisions sometimes, how to remember??"
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"Why did Weight Watchers work so well? For a really fascinating reason: because it isn't a normal diet. It's something more. Something fun. It's an RPG. The Weight Watchers program is designed precisely like a role-playing dungeon crawler. That's why people love it, stick to it and have success with it. And it points to the way that we could use game design to make life's drudgery more bearable."
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"What's the easiest/best way of 'calorie counting' meals cooked from scratch? What's the best? Are there any sites which specialize in assembling ingredients and weights into weight divisible calorie portions? How about meals I didn't prepare, say something at a restaurant other than a nation wide chain? I definitely don't need 100% accuracy, is there a easy estimator that will get in into the 80% range? Lastly — the calorie part of it doesn't make much sense without the portion part of it — what are the good tips for portion measuring on the go? A small scale?"
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Mortal Combat played as the Obamas, the McCains, Biden and Palin.
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A text-adventure version of Pacman.
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Remember the PC game "Lemmings"? I love how others help fulfill nostalgia …
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"You'll be randomly paired with a partner who's online and using the feature. Over a two-minute period, you and your partner will: View the same set of images. Provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. Receive points when your label matches your partner's label. The number of points will depend on how specific your label is. See more images until time runs out."
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Very much like Katamari Damacy, at least in terms of the aesthetic.
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"A collection of 6,288 images from smithsonianimages.si.edu which appear to be overwhelmingly in the public domain. See our memo for more information."
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"With this website, you have at your fingertips all the best rules of thumb I've collected since book number one plus everything voted into the Main Collection by online contributors like you. Each rule is followed by a source, or rumored source, or the name of the first person who sent it to me."
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"This collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper, although only about twenty percent of the images in the collection were published in the newspaper. Most of the photographs were taken in Chicago, Illinois, or in nearby towns, parks, or athletic fields. In addition to many Chicagoans, the images include politicians, actors, and other prominent people who stopped in Chicago during their travels and individual athletes and sports teams who came to Chicago. Also included are photographs illustrating the operations of the Chicago Daily News itself and pictures taken on occasional out-of-town trips by the Daily News's photographers to important events, such as the inauguration of presidents in Washington, D.C. "
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"The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a 'sounds-like' type of browsing and more, up- and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license, and interact with fellow sound-artists!"
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Fan fiction about everything under the sun, including some very odd subjects to write fanfic about.
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"The Encyclopedia of Chicago is a dynamic and unprecedented metropolitan history. Thousands of historical resources-including articles, photos, maps, broadsides and newspapers-related to Chicago's colorful and complex history are at your fingertips."
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Deletionpedia "rescues" (apparently, automatically) all articles successfully processed for deletion from Wikipedia.
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Interconnections between various worlds of Stephen King's novels and the Dark Tower series
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"Local classifieds and forums for more than 550 cities in over 50 countries worldwide - community moderated, and largely free."
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"A Google version of my Chicago L 2050 map , which attempted to speculate what the L system would look like if some of the currently planned short term and long term expansion projects would actually come to pass. The Mid-City Transitway stations were made up by me based on past station placement patterns and feedback suggestions. As for the rest, all station locations came from the latest versions of extension plans I could find."
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"American Science & Surplus continues to offer a unique mix of industrial, military and educational items, with an emphasis on science and education. We supply a wide range of unusual and hard to find items (some say bizarre stuff) to the hobbiest, tinkerer, artist, experimenter, home educator, do-it-yourselfer, and bargain hunter. Customers have used American Science and Surplus items in home made cars, sculptures, precision instruments, home made telescopes,costumes, model railroads, window dressings, holiday decorations, and innumerable science projects. Our items are great gifts, inexpensive supplies, and an endless reason for a giggle or a 'Gee whiz!' We try to be scrupulously honest in presenting whatever we know about what we have, and always take it back, no questions asked, if the customer isn't satisfied with it."
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"These eighty sites are the places I turn to when I’m trying to figure out how to accomplish any particular goal. Any time I’m facing a new project, I start searching for how-tos that will help me figure out how other people did similar things and how likely I am to finish the project with all ten fingers still intact. I’ve broken them up into a few different categories, just to help you narrow down what you might be looking for. Some are simply archives full of tutorials. Some are blogs that publish how-tos fairly regularly. Some are just great resource sites. But they all have provided me with the information necessary to carry through on a project."
