My bags of tricks.

I've a Bookmarks folder which is titled "Tricks" some of these you may find useful. Other tricks are welcomed!

Anonymouse: Anonymous browsing using a "proxy" server which is sort of like a relay.

Babelfish: Online translation. Alas Latin is not included!

Bugmenot: Allows you to read those newspapers that ask you to subscribe and offer all sorts of spam opportunities.

Bandwidth Test: Tests your connection speed. Usually proves your ISP to be a liar.

Guardster: Another anonymous surfing site.

Make a shorter link: Good for shortening big long links when you subscribe to usenet, mailing lists and other forums. Long links tend to get cut and unusable when e-mailing.

Privacy analysis: I occasionally use this to remind myself of what a firewall doesn't do.

Tiny URL: Same as the make-a-shorter link above.

Shields Up:Firewall and port scanning tester.

Traceroute: Allows you to do backward seaches on DNS entries etc.

Whois: Whois search that seems to be the quickest, easiest and most reliable. No pop-ups, registration and other annoyances.

XE Com: Currency converter. Useful in the shrinking global village