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This is not intended to be comprehensive, just a list of sites we have found useful and possibly under-publicized. These links cause you to exit our site. Cassinelli Jackson LLC has no control over and assumes absolutely no responsibility whatever for the content of anyone else's website. |
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| http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
- helpful list of search engines grouped
by what they're best at...
http://www.allonesearch.com - every search engine there is, all on one page. http://www.searchgateway.com/finde.htm - reverse telephone lookup, links to many great people & business searchers.
--- General, Real Estate, and Governments --- http://portlandor.about.com/citiestowns/pacnwus/portlandor/ - About.com Portland links http://www.cascadelink.org/gov/region.html - County and city homepages in the Portland region. http://www.upa.pdx.edu/CPRC/publications/annualorpopulation.html - Latest population estimates from the Center for Population Research at PSU. http://www.bea.gov - US Dept of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, national and regional data. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/Unemployment/RDList2.asp?ST=OR - County-level data from the Economic Research Service, USDA. There is lots of good stuff here if you look around a little. http://www.odot.state.or.us/tdb/traffic_monitoring/tvtable.htm - Oregon state highways traffic volume tables. http://www.trans.ci.portland.or.us/trafficcounts/default.htm - Online Portland traffic counts and contact info for other jurisdictions. http://www.rtc.wa.gov/tc/explain.htm - Traffic counts from the SW Washington Regional Transportation Council. http://www.myportlandneighborhood.org/myneighborhood.html - City of Portland Office of Neighborhood Involvement - info on Portland's neighborhoods, and Neighborhood Association contacts. http://www.econ.state.or.us/ - Oregon Economic & Community Development Dept. - home of Oregon Community Profiles datasheets and many useful links. http://www.olmis.org/olmisj/OlmisZine - Oregon labor & employment publications http://bluebook.state.or.us/ - Oregon Blue Book online http://topaz.metro-region.org/metromap/metromap.cfm - METRO mapping / GIS site. http://www.topozone.com/ - USGS topographic maps and aerial photos. http://www.amcity.com/portland/index.html - The Business Journal of Portland http://www.oregonlive.com/news/ - Hosted by the Oregonian http://www.mvonline.com/ - Smaller Western Oregon Papers http://www.cpnrenet.com/ - Commercial Property News http://www.oregonaclb.org/ - Oregon Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board. http://www.officespace.com/ - Commercial Space Online Portland, source of sale / lease listings, building data and broker info. http://www.loopnet.com/ - National for sale / lease and listing broker info. http://www.springstreet.com/apartments/home.jhtml - RentNet Apartment Search Page - lots of good info on complexes that happen to be listed. http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/ - online library of supreme court decisions, maintained by the Legal Information Institute. http://www.travelportland.com - the Portland Oregon Visitors Association knows about events, facilities, and things to see and do. http://www.realtor.com/oregon/nbselor.asp?poe=realtor - National Assn of Realtors neighborhood stats http://www.portals.org/ - Local information links, from PORTALS, the PORTland Area Library System http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html - The CIA World Fact Book is too cool to leave out !
--- Other Stuff: --- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Home of SpyBot Search & Destroy - this little gem searches your system and gets rid of 'spy-ware' - little programs 'secretly' planted on your system by advertisers (and others) while you surf the net. If your kids use your computer, you need this. http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/10/17/10-17-150.shtml - CWShredder removes a couple dozen known homepage hi-jackers. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - It's Here! Firefox 1.0 - the better browser. Opens multiple windows as file tabs, the pop-up blocker works 100% of the time, resize text with hot keys, and other nice features. Cleaner and faster than MSIE, it works, you're supporting open source development, and - it's FREE. http://grc.com/default.htm - Gibson Research (at your request) will probe your internet connection to see how open to hackers you are - and it only takes a minute (click on 'shields up'). If you have a 24 / 7 internet connection (DSL etc), you need to see this. Gibson has been one of the good guys for a long time. http://webservices.cnet.com/bandwidth/ - Test your 'real' internet connection speed. http://babelfish.altavista.com/ - finally found the info you need, only it's in German? This can help. For fun, translate an English site to another language, then back again... http://www.hotsheet.com/ - whole page full of general-interest links - make it your homepage ! http://about.com/ - well-done news and info on -many- topics, presented by real people (formerly miningco.com). Keep up with net hoaxes and urban legends among other things... http://www.worldtimeserver.com - What time is it? 100% accurate atomic-clock-verified date & time, in any time zone (Earth only). http://www.dpreview.com/ - the latest on digital cameras, updated daily
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