| ALMANACS |
Library Spot <http://www.libraryspot.com/> : Ready reference site for quotations, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. The Libraries section has Libraries Online, Law Libraries, Medical Libraries, Music Libraries, Image Libraries, and the Librarian's Shelf. The Reference Desk takes you to Acronyms, Almanacs, Associations, Ask an Expert, Biographies, Business Info, Calculators, Calendars, Country Info, Current Events, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Genealogy, Phone Books, Quotations, Statistics, Style Guides. Thesauri and other subsections. There is the Reading Room containing Books, Journals, Literary Criticism, Newspapers, Newswires, Magazines, Poetry and Speeches. Then there are selected sites and articles
| CALCULATORS |
Bank of Canada. Inflation Calculator <http://www.bank-banque-canada.ca/english/inflation_calc.htm> : The Inflation Calculator uses monthly consumer price index (CPI) data from 1914 to the present to show changes in the cost of a fixed "basket" of consumer purchases. These include food, shelter, furniture, clothing, transportation, and recreation. An increase in this cost is known as inflation. The calculator's results are based on the most current month for which the CPI data are available. This will normally be two months prior to the present month.
Complete Intranet Resource, Intranet Reference Site <http://www.intrack.com/intranet/> : Topics include: Intranet Issues to address, Intranet Architecture, Measuring Intranet ROI, Intranet Cost Calculation, Intranet Myths, Online Demos, Applications, Intranet Publishing Guidelines, Extranets. Features also include intranet FAQ, beginners guide, free software,discussion forum, moderated mailing list, articles, white papers, case studies, product libraries, etc.
Cost of Living Calculator <http://www.NewsEngin.com/neFreeTools.nsf/> : This calculator computes cost of living changes from 1913 to the present based on the US CPI. It uses the historical Consumer Price Index for urban consumers (CPI-U) to convert dollar values between different years. This allows a comparison of the real buying power of historical dollar amounts, adjusted for inflation
Euro Calculator <http://www.eurocalculator.com/> : The euro is the single currency of the European Monetary Union adopted by 11 Member States from 1 January 1999. These are Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland. Calculates each currency to the Euro value and from the Euro to each.
Financial Calendar <http://financialcalendar.com/freestuff/index.htm> : Millennium Holidays It may be a global celebration, but it's not a worldwide holiday. Find out who'll be getting a holiday for the Millennium, and who won't / Today’s Holidays Find out who’s on holiday today / Next Good Business Day For all you value-at-risk mavens, here’s your one-day time horizon / T-Plus Calculator Calculates up to five business days forward from today in over 100 countries and dozens of exchanges / Day-of-the-Week Calculator Pick a date and it’ll tell you the day of the week/ International Comparisons The number of holidays you get depends on where you live. Find out where you stand / Jealousy Calculator You may have to work on your birthday, but not everyone does. Find out how many people are working on any day through 2029 / Patterns Find out the most common days, months and years for holidays.
Global Financial Data <http://www.globalfindata.com/> : Fee based service for long-term historical indices on stock markets, interest rates, exchange rates, inflation rates and historical data on over 100 countries. Some information is free such as Current Indices: providing closing values for the previous month for 40 countries, Composite Indices, 1919-1999: providing annual data for the United States, the World Index, EAFE (Europe, Australia and Far East), Europe, Latin America and Emerging Asian Markets, National Indices, 1800-1999: providing annual data for the United States Standard and Poor's 500 Index, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. Data are calculated in dollars so that direct comparisons can be made, Stock Markets since 1693, Interest Rates since 1700, and Inflation Rates since 1264.
Historical Daily Currency Exchange Rate <http://www.jeico.com/cnc_old.html> : Currency rates tabulated on a monthly and daily basis from 1995 to last month. Also links to a present day currency exchange calculator.
How Far is it? Distance between 2 places <http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist/> : This service finds the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them. It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.
iFigure <http://www.ifigure.com/index.html> : iFigure is a metasite which provides links to online calculators and worksheets. These are interactive, educational tools that provide information to help in planning, solving and making decisions for a multitude of problems and tasks that come up daily, such as buying a home, checking on your health, investing money, figuring business profits, making statistical comparisons, or calculating pump pressure.
Inflation Calculators <http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/inflate.html> : Calculators include: Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation Calculator | Employment Cost Index (ECI) Inflation Calculator | GDP Deflator Inflation Calculator | International Price Index (IPI) Inflation Calculator | Producer Price Index (PPI) Inflation Calculator
Invisible Web <http://www.invisibleweb.com/> : The InvisibleWeb consists of sites whose contents cannot be indexed by traditional search engines.These include databases, archived material, and interactive tools such as calculators and dictionaries. Since these resources are embedded within thousands of individual Web sites, they are generally not picked up by search engines.
Library Spot <http://www.libraryspot.com/> : Ready reference site for quotations, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. The Libraries section has Libraries Online, Law Libraries, Medical Libraries, Music Libraries, Image Libraries, and the Librarian's Shelf. The Reference Desk takes you to Acronyms, Almanacs, Associations, Ask an Expert, Biographies, Business Info, Calculators, Calendars, Country Info, Current Events, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Genealogy, Phone Books, Quotations, Statistics, Style Guides. Thesauri and other subsections. There is the Reading Room containing Books, Journals, Literary Criticism, Newspapers, Newswires, Magazines, Poetry and Speeches. Then there are selected sites and articles
Mega Convertor <http://www.megaconverter.com/_Conv/cv_home.htm> : megaConverter.com is an ever-growing set of weights, measures and units conversion / calculation modules. megaConverters allow users to discover things like how many seconds old they are, the difference between a gallon in the USA and a gallon in the UK, how many nanometers in an inch, how many quarts in a chaldron, and what the heck a nebuchadnezzar is.
Metric Conversion <http://www.irlgmbh.com/ph21/phconv.htm> : Metric conversion chart and calculator. Includes length, temperature, volume, weight, distance
Power Reporting <http://PowerReporting.com/> : Metasite compiled primarliy for journalists. Has links to calculators, news, weather, finding tools, dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference books, demographic materials, etc. Site is updated daily
Virtual Reference Site <http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/reference.html> : These Sites contain over 2,500 of the most popular information reference locations and tools on the Web. The site includes Maps, Facts, Calculators, Dictionaries, Directories, Chat, Travel, Health, Languages, Sports, Calendars, Jobs, Weather, Music, Autos, Humor.
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations <http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html> : The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, and FREE multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources. Includes: Calculators, Plotters, Function Integrators, Probability Distribution Functions: Tables, Graphs, Random Number Generators, Descriptive Statistics, Histograms, Charts, Contingency Tables, Cross-tabs, Chi-Square Tests, Regression, Correlation, Least Squares Curve-fitting, Non-parametric Correlation, Bayesian Methods, etc.
| CALENDARS, EVENTS and TRADE SHOWS |
Financial Calendar <http://financialcalendar.com/freestuff/index.htm> : Millennium Holidays It may be a global celebration, but it's not a worldwide holiday. Find out who'll be getting a holiday for the Millennium, and who won't / Today’s Holidays Find out who’s on holiday today / Next Good Business Day For all you value-at-risk mavens, here’s your one-day time horizon / T-Plus Calculator Calculates up to five business days forward from today in over 100 countries and dozens of exchanges / Day-of-the-Week Calculator Pick a date and it’ll tell you the day of the week/ International Comparisons The number of holidays you get depends on where you live. Find out where you stand / Jealousy Calculator You may have to work on your birthday, but not everyone does. Find out how many people are working on any day through 2029 / Patterns Find out the most common days, months and years for holidays.
| CAREERS EMPLOYMENT RESUMES and JOBS |
Salary Wizard <http://swz.salary.com> : The Salary Wizard accesses Salary.com's proprietary compensation database, which contains salary information on thousands of job titles. The Salary Wizard calculates salaries based on job title and geographic location.In addition to the Salary Wizard database, Salary.com links to hundreds of publicly available compensation surveys that provide relevant salary information for selected job categories. These surveys are published by many sources and are valuable as complements to the results of the Salary Wizard.
| COMPUTER BASED TRAINING |
StudyFinance / Study Finance <http://www.studyfinance.com/> : Studyfinance.com is the web site for students of introductory finance at the University of Arizona. It is designed to serve as a starting point to learn about what finance majors do, and how to get started in a finance career. Online lectures and overviews include: Time Value of Money / Financial Calculators / Valuation / Depreciation / Overviews / Time Value of Money / Valuation of Corporate Securities / Types of Business Organization / Basic Financial Statements / Ratio Analysis / Working Capital Management / Capital Budgeting / Dividend Policy / Getting Started with Excel / Valuation on Excel / Time Value on Excel
| EDUCATION and LEARNING |
StudyFinance / Study Finance <http://www.studyfinance.com/> : Studyfinance.com is the web site for students of introductory finance at the University of Arizona. It is designed to serve as a starting point to learn about what finance majors do, and how to get started in a finance career. Online lectures and overviews include: Time Value of Money / Financial Calculators / Valuation / Depreciation / Overviews / Time Value of Money / Valuation of Corporate Securities / Types of Business Organization / Basic Financial Statements / Ratio Analysis / Working Capital Management / Capital Budgeting / Dividend Policy / Getting Started with Excel / Valuation on Excel / Time Value on Excel
| FINANCE |
Global Financial Data <http://www.globalfindata.com/> : Fee based service for long-term historical indices on stock markets, interest rates, exchange rates, inflation rates and historical data on over 100 countries. Some information is free such as Current Indices: providing closing values for the previous month for 40 countries, Composite Indices, 1919-1999: providing annual data for the United States, the World Index, EAFE (Europe, Australia and Far East), Europe, Latin America and Emerging Asian Markets, National Indices, 1800-1999: providing annual data for the United States Standard and Poor's 500 Index, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. Data are calculated in dollars so that direct comparisons can be made, Stock Markets since 1693, Interest Rates since 1700, and Inflation Rates since 1264.
StudyFinance / Study Finance <http://www.studyfinance.com/> : Studyfinance.com is the web site for students of introductory finance at the University of Arizona. It is designed to serve as a starting point to learn about what finance majors do, and how to get started in a finance career. Online lectures and overviews include: Time Value of Money / Financial Calculators / Valuation / Depreciation / Overviews / Time Value of Money / Valuation of Corporate Securities / Types of Business Organization / Basic Financial Statements / Ratio Analysis / Working Capital Management / Capital Budgeting / Dividend Policy / Getting Started with Excel / Valuation on Excel / Time Value on Excel
| INTRANETS |
Complete Intranet Resource, Intranet Reference Site <http://www.intrack.com/intranet/> : Topics include: Intranet Issues to address, Intranet Architecture, Measuring Intranet ROI, Intranet Cost Calculation, Intranet Myths, Online Demos, Applications, Intranet Publishing Guidelines, Extranets. Features also include intranet FAQ, beginners guide, free software,discussion forum, moderated mailing list, articles, white papers, case studies, product libraries, etc.
| MEASUREMENT |
Calculators <http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN_US/diy_main/pg_diy.jsp?CNTTYPE=NAVIGATION&CNTKEY=calculators/index.jsp> : A series of calculators from Home Depot for calculating amounts of materials required for the job. Available in standard and metric measurements. Choices include paint, cermaic, drywall, grass seed, wall paper, carpet, etc.
Metric Conversion <http://www.irlgmbh.com/ph21/phconv.htm> : Metric conversion chart and calculator. Includes length, temperature, volume, weight, distance
| QUOTATIONS |
Library Spot <http://www.libraryspot.com/> : Ready reference site for quotations, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. The Libraries section has Libraries Online, Law Libraries, Medical Libraries, Music Libraries, Image Libraries, and the Librarian's Shelf. The Reference Desk takes you to Acronyms, Almanacs, Associations, Ask an Expert, Biographies, Business Info, Calculators, Calendars, Country Info, Current Events, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Genealogy, Phone Books, Quotations, Statistics, Style Guides. Thesauri and other subsections. There is the Reading Room containing Books, Journals, Literary Criticism, Newspapers, Newswires, Magazines, Poetry and Speeches. Then there are selected sites and articles
| REFERENCE AND MISCELLANEA |
Euro Calculator <http://www.eurocalculator.com/> : The euro is the single currency of the European Monetary Union adopted by 11 Member States from 1 January 1999. These are Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland. Calculates each currency to the Euro value and from the Euro to each.
Historical Daily Currency Exchange Rate <http://www.jeico.com/cnc_old.html> : Currency rates tabulated on a monthly and daily basis from 1995 to last month. Also links to a present day currency exchange calculator.
How Far is it? Distance between 2 places <http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist/> : This service finds the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them. It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.
iFigure <http://www.ifigure.com/index.html> : iFigure is a metasite which provides links to online calculators and worksheets. These are interactive, educational tools that provide information to help in planning, solving and making decisions for a multitude of problems and tasks that come up daily, such as buying a home, checking on your health, investing money, figuring business profits, making statistical comparisons, or calculating pump pressure.
Mega Convertor <http://www.megaconverter.com/_Conv/cv_home.htm> : megaConverter.com is an ever-growing set of weights, measures and units conversion / calculation modules. megaConverters allow users to discover things like how many seconds old they are, the difference between a gallon in the USA and a gallon in the UK, how many nanometers in an inch, how many quarts in a chaldron, and what the heck a nebuchadnezzar is.
Metric Conversion <http://www.irlgmbh.com/ph21/phconv.htm> : Metric conversion chart and calculator. Includes length, temperature, volume, weight, distance
Power Reporting <http://PowerReporting.com/> : Metasite compiled primarliy for journalists. Has links to calculators, news, weather, finding tools, dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference books, demographic materials, etc. Site is updated daily
Virtual Reference Site <http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/reference.html> : These Sites contain over 2,500 of the most popular information reference locations and tools on the Web. The site includes Maps, Facts, Calculators, Dictionaries, Directories, Chat, Travel, Health, Languages, Sports, Calendars, Jobs, Weather, Music, Autos, Humor.
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations <http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html> : The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, and FREE multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources. Includes: Calculators, Plotters, Function Integrators, Probability Distribution Functions: Tables, Graphs, Random Number Generators, Descriptive Statistics, Histograms, Charts, Contingency Tables, Cross-tabs, Chi-Square Tests, Regression, Correlation, Least Squares Curve-fitting, Non-parametric Correlation, Bayesian Methods, etc.
| SEARCH ENGINES COMPARISONS and TUTORIALS |
Invisible Web <http://www.invisibleweb.com/> : The InvisibleWeb consists of sites whose contents cannot be indexed by traditional search engines.These include databases, archived material, and interactive tools such as calculators and dictionaries. Since these resources are embedded within thousands of individual Web sites, they are generally not picked up by search engines.
| STATISTICAL INFORMATION |
Bank of Canada. Inflation Calculator <http://www.bank-banque-canada.ca/english/inflation_calc.htm> : The Inflation Calculator uses monthly consumer price index (CPI) data from 1914 to the present to show changes in the cost of a fixed "basket" of consumer purchases. These include food, shelter, furniture, clothing, transportation, and recreation. An increase in this cost is known as inflation. The calculator's results are based on the most current month for which the CPI data are available. This will normally be two months prior to the present month.
Cost of Living Calculator <http://www.NewsEngin.com/neFreeTools.nsf/> : This calculator computes cost of living changes from 1913 to the present based on the US CPI. It uses the historical Consumer Price Index for urban consumers (CPI-U) to convert dollar values between different years. This allows a comparison of the real buying power of historical dollar amounts, adjusted for inflation
Inflation Calculators <http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/inflate.html> : Calculators include: Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation Calculator | Employment Cost Index (ECI) Inflation Calculator | GDP Deflator Inflation Calculator | International Price Index (IPI) Inflation Calculator | Producer Price Index (PPI) Inflation Calculator
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations <http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html> : The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, and FREE multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources. Includes: Calculators, Plotters, Function Integrators, Probability Distribution Functions: Tables, Graphs, Random Number Generators, Descriptive Statistics, Histograms, Charts, Contingency Tables, Cross-tabs, Chi-Square Tests, Regression, Correlation, Least Squares Curve-fitting, Non-parametric Correlation, Bayesian Methods, etc.
| STOCK MARKETS |
Global Financial Data <http://www.globalfindata.com/> : Fee based service for long-term historical indices on stock markets, interest rates, exchange rates, inflation rates and historical data on over 100 countries. Some information is free such as Current Indices: providing closing values for the previous month for 40 countries, Composite Indices, 1919-1999: providing annual data for the United States, the World Index, EAFE (Europe, Australia and Far East), Europe, Latin America and Emerging Asian Markets, National Indices, 1800-1999: providing annual data for the United States Standard and Poor's 500 Index, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. Data are calculated in dollars so that direct comparisons can be made, Stock Markets since 1693, Interest Rates since 1700, and Inflation Rates since 1264.
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