Note: One of the most useful things I use when surfing is "right click" over the link and select "open in new window", especially when shopping or searching - you can compare or look at the new pages without loosing your place. You can switch back and forth by clicking on the page on the bottom tool bar or have more than one browser on the screen by tiling ( right click on bottom tool bar and select vertical or horizontal). Try it, as it will reduce frustration. On the links below I do it for you, and automatically open a new page so you don't loose your place.

Newest links are at the top of each section

GET THE BEST PRICE ON THE WEB

I have found more than $200 differences in prices on a $400 item - these are some useful sites - use all at once on the same product for the best possible price. Read reviews, go to manufacturer's site, find the model you want and then use these for the best price, you will be amazed. Before you buy, price isn't everything if you don't get what you want, check out the company - see next section.

http://www.ibuyer.net/ Internet Buyer Network

http://www.pricegrabber.com/ Price Grabber

http://www.pricewatch.com/ Price Watch

http://www.price.com/ Price.com

http://shopper.cnet.com/ CNet

BUT BEFORE YOU BUY - CHECK OUT THE COMPANY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bbb.org/ Better Business Bureau

http://www.bizrate.com/ Biz Rate

COMPUTER & INTERNET SOFTWARE & SUCH

http://www.thebat.net/ Tired of outlook express and all the virus worries, want to send e-mail to as many people as you want without the LIST of people in the to cc or bcc section, also personalize it to EACH person. Want to BACK UP your entire e-mail system - address book - all e-mails - all filters - all settings - etc. etc. in one ziped up small file you can save. Well check out these people! We have been using it since October 2001, I filter our mail at an average of 80% junk plus downloads our e-mail almost 4 times faster than outlook did.

http://www.boardwatch.com/ Find An Internet Service Provider

http://www.dslreports.com/ How Do The ISP's Rate

http://www.dsoft.com.tr/stripmail/ Do you get the annoying forwarded e-mail with all the < >etc in it, do the world a favor and download strip mail - It's FREE. You just cut and paste into strip mail and it strips characters like '>' and '|' from e-mail text. Formats text into paragraphs to make it easily readable. Changes right margin of text by indenting etc. Tell your friends and your email will be easier to read in the future.

http://www.dotcomdirectory.com/ Find a company on the web

http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ Find manufacturer name - Can't find who made your electronic device, all devices have FCC #s,  find the manufacturer by searching the FCC# 

SEARCH ENGINES

TIP: copy and paste your search words into several search engines to find what you want, all are different and will give you different results.

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ All about search engines and a complete list of all of them including specialized search engines

http://www.google.com No. 1 ranked search engine for 2nd year

http://www.alltheweb.com

http://www.dogpile.com multi search engine

http://www.northernlight.com/ No. 2 ranked search engine for 2nd year

MISC.

http://www.indyscan.com/ Scanner Frequencies - all the local frequencies

http://www.mapquest.com Maps now with aerial views

http://www.reversephonedirectory.com Reverse Phone Directory - or find anyone

COMPUTER TOOLS ALSO CHECK THE MANUFACTURER'S SITE

you can usually type in the manufacturers name .com or nameusa.com or enter the full name in google with "name etc" inside quotes to find their site

http://www.driverguide.com Drivers - want to update your printer / cd / scanner drivers

http://www.powerarchiver.com/ Are you reluctant to pay a shareware fee for a decompression utility like WinZip? Power Archiver is a full-featured, free alternative for opening .zip and other compressed file formats. (Freeware)

http://www.thenextwave.com/burnHP.html Deleting files from your Mac's Trash does not completely remove the data from your hard disk. If you want to delete sensitive data, this file wiping utility can make sure the data is deleted securely. (Freeware)

LEARNING - ON LINE

http://www.tutorialfind.com/ You can learn something new every day thanks to this index of online tutorials. Although the site leans pretty heavily toward computer-related tutorials (software, operating systems, and the Web, for example), it also covers arts and crafts, computer basics, health and fitness, sports, and other topic areas.

http://www.learn2.com Learn anything from software to brewing the perfect cup of tea.