The Steve Zappe Useful Pointers Page

Well, at least I find them useful... Maybe some of them belong on the eclectic interest page!

• My Virtual Reference Desk - this single page leads to all sorts of useful information.
• Search.com - search for people (e-mail, phone, etc.).
• AnyWho.com - another neat place to locate people.
• Search Center - a super people finder that links to search engines and  directories of nearly everything.
• Birthdays In One Step - find birthdays for many adults in the US.
• Search Systems - free searchable public records database collection covering the US, Canada, and international locations.
• Machine translations of text and web pages are available from Alta Vista and FreeTranslation.com .
• ZIP+4 Lookup - get the real ZIP code for any address in the US.
• USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - obtain feature details of locations in the US and links to mapping services
• U.S. Gazetteer - identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census Lookup server.
• Snopes.com - "Rumor Has It..." helps dispel rumors, urban legends and other assorted crap well-intentioned folks forward to you as e-mail.
  

Page modified 4/4/2010