Websites Discussed and Shared March 13, 2013

FlightAware - Flight Tracker / Flight Status / Flight Tracking Quick and accurate site for tracking airline departure and arrival times. Additional information on equipment, and reasons for delays. 

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | The Collection An extensive collection of old maps that can be overlaid by current maps to see what's changed.

WhatWasThere - Put history in its place!  Pictures of previous buildings overlaid by current Google Maps Street view. Search by city, and click sites on Google maps.

Simon's Cat - Home Website displaying animated cat videos, books and cartoons by Simon Tofield

Firefox Web Browser — Plugin Check & Updates This site will check whether your Internet plug-ins are up to-date. Can be used with any browser, not just Firefox

Terms of Service; Didn't Read Gives plain English evaluation of the Terms of Service of your accounts on many Internet sites

Dead People Server - Dead Celebrities, Dead People and Other Interesting Passings A database of interesting celebrities who have died and when.

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records A database of the final resting places for 95 million people around the world.

The Price Guide for Everything - Priceonomics A good place to check the value of used electronics when you go to sell them.

Mac2Sell - Argus, Evaluation, Guide to used Mac, iPad, iPhone & iPod - Occasion See the fair market value of used Apple products

http://chrome.com/supersyncsports/ A website illustrating the interaction of a mobile phone and a computer though the network. Only works in the Chrome browser on both devices.

Welcome to iCalShare A website where you can subscribe to publicly available calendars that can be used with iCal (Calendar on iOS and OS 10.7 or 10.8) and other popular calendaring systems that use the ics file format

Identifont - Identify fonts by appearance, find fonts by name Can identify the font name by answering a series of questions about the don'ts appearance.

Veromi.net | People Search Can be used to find an individual by where they lived and relatives.

Fone Finder query form Can be used to identify whether a phone number is cellular or land line and possible service provider.

Spokeo People Search | White Pages | Find People Can find people by name a gives location on a map where they live and house values in the neighborhood. Can also provide names of relatives, income, and social websites they use.

http://www.in.gov/apps/indcorrection/ofs/ofs Indiana offender registry maintained by department of corrections. look up an individual by name or number to see why they have been imprisoned and for how long. 

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/  Helps identify the font used by uploading an image sample of the font.

Let me google that for you A site that will generate a link to be sent to someone when they ask you for something they could have looked up themselves but were too lazy.

Political Cartoons -- Newsmax.com A large collection of online political cartoon websites

GoComics.com Similar to the site above but indicates which have been update today.

join.me – Free Screen Sharing and Online Meetings An easy to use, light weight screen sharing site from LogMeIn where users can share another persons screen including tablets and smartphones for user support, or demonstrations. Up to 10 simultaneous users with free account.

DMAChoice.org DMAchoice™ is an online tool developed by the Direct Marketing Association to help you manage your mail and lessen the amount of junk mail catalogs you receive.

http://hadonejob.com A site showing funny pictures where something is wrongly installed, and why the individual only had one job before being fired.