This page is meant for expressing gratitude to the makers of several websites from which people like this author could be benefited, either through the useful information found therein, or through the various freebies that could be downloaded therefrom. (Updated on Oct, 2005)

Google

Search Engines, Web-mail and Website Services:

rediff.com -- Needs no introduction to Indian netizens. A fast and appropriately indianised search engine, news, chat, voice-chat & hobbies site, along with a fast email service rediffmail.com. People can also request his/her website to be listed here by e-mailing to submiturl@rediff.co.in
yahoo.com -- Needs no introduction. A good search engine, news, chat, voice-chat and hobbies site, along with a very popular email service mail.yahoo.com (The indianised search version with even preview of Indian movies is yahoo.co.in) 
google.com , altavista.com and lycos.com -- Three very good search engines (the first one is exceptionally faster). One's website also can be submitted therein for getting listed.
geocities.com lets one make a upto 11-MB website for free, such as this one (angelfire.com offers similar facilities).

 

General Software Utilities -- downloading, splitting, zipping, anti-virus, word-processing, graphics etc.:

gozilla.com and speedbit.com -- Each of them gives for free an excellent download-facilitating software (Gozilla or DAP) that speeds up download by choosing among mirror sites, and can resume broken downloads from where it was left.
geocities.com/riturajkalita/vy_splitter.zip now hosts (with due permission from the developer) VY-Splitter, a free software (developed by M V Vyjesh) of only around 180 KB size that allows splitting and rejoining of big files in a very user-friendly way, so that they become portable with floppy disks! geocities.com/riturajkalita offers several more freeware packages
download.com and zdnet.com offers many important freebies for people to download. To download from zdnet.com etc., you need to become a member by filling in a form.
winzip.com is the site for the fantastic WinZip software for compressing and clubbing up files and folders, quite frequently to a size less than half of the original!
adobe.com offers the free "Adobe Acrobat Reader" for PDF files.
freeav.com and grisoft.com offers very good, frequently updated free antivirus software.
mslit.com offer's classic e-books to be read using the well-known (free) Microsoft Reader, many hundreds of them being free. Microsoft Reader, with the allied free text-to-speech facility installed, allows e-books to be read aloud automatically. 
software602.com offers the free 602 PC Suite, which is almost comparable with Microsoft Office, in terms of its word-processing and spreadsheet-management facilities. 
netscape.com & mozilla.org offers the renowned free internet browsers Netscape or Mozilla Suite/ Mozilla FireFox (they are comparable to Internet Explorer). Netscape installation includes that of the free Real Player, (fine audio/ video player) 
trellian.com & netscape.com offers Trellian WebPage or Netscape inclusive of HTML composers comparable to FrontPage.
rsalsbury.co.uk/rd.htm offers a free word-processor for writers designed by Richard Salsbury, UK. It offers some shorthand-type facility.
irfanview.com offers a fantastic picture-manipulating software designed by Irfan Skiljan, Austria.
windowsupdate.microsoft.com provides updates for Windows. The "Critical Updates" help in making the system secure, while other updates help to get access to improved accessories. 
microsoft.com offers many freeware offered by Microsoft. office.microsoft.com provides updates for MS-office accessories.
babylon.com -- Provides free, off-line, very-easy-to-use dictionaries {English-English and English-(Other Language)}; an word- speaking software; currency, local time and other conversion tables. Also accesses an encyclopedia when online.

 

Assam, North-East India, India, Their Newspapers etc.:

assam.org is one of the leading Assam-specific site, and includes e-mail & chat facility.
assampolice.org An Assam-resident might have something to inform to it.
northeastvigil.com is a particularly informative site on social socio-economic aspects of North-East India.
pratidinassam.com & assamtribune.com/ offers access to Assam newspapers Asomiya Pratidin & The Assam Tribune.
assam.faithweb.com offers for free the Aadarsha Ratne class of True Type Fonts designed by Rabin Deka, USA. These are free treasures for anyone willing to type or e-mail in Assamese.
kiranfont.com offers for free the Kiran true-type font, which I find to be the most user-friendly Hindi font developed till now.
guwahati4u.com is website named after the city of Guwahati, concerning and the state of Assam.
sangaiexpress.com offers free access to the newspaper The Sangai Express from Imphal, Manipur. 
telegraphindia.com offers free access to The Telegraph newspaper from Kolkata and several other Eastern-Indian cities.
freespeech.org/manushi gives access to the humanist monthly "Manushi" from N Delhi.
countercurrents.org is a site offering many scores of thought-provoking exhaustive essays on contemporary sub-continental and global socio-political concerns.

 

Educational Institutions, Science & Technology Education, Jobs:

e-learningcenter.com/free.htm offers several free online courses in computer operations.
ignou.org is the official site of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (India), a distance-education institution known offering recognized quality education at a cheap price.
ets.org is the website for Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA.
ugc.ac.in is the official site of the University Grants Commission, the university regulating body in India.
csir.res.in is the official site of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. (For syllabus of CSIR-UGC JRF/LS NET exam may try the page csirhrdg.res.in/syllabi_NET_05.pdf )
iitk.ac.in, iitkgp.ernet.in, iitb.ernet.in etc. are the official sites of Indian Institutes of Technology at Kanpur, Kharagpur, Bombay (Mumbai) etc. (iisc.ernet.in is the site of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore).
naukri.com is an excellent, India-specific, job site in cyberspace.

 

Daily life: Health, Railways, Airways, Phone, Weather, Taxation, Dictionaries, Instant Knowledge:

familydoctor.org, healthfinder.gov and health.uab.edu are very good sites for free but authentic disease & treatment info. 
bsnl.co.in is the website of the public sector Indian telecom service corporation BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited), allowing access to the BSNL landline (e.g., kamrup district landline) & cell phone bills, Dataone Internet Usage etc.
sancharnet.in & sify.com are the sites of the two major internet service providers in India.
timeanddate.com/worldclock gives the current date and time in cities around the world.
indianrail.gov.in is the official site of the Indian Railways: it allows to search the full schedule (timetable) and also permits enquiries about individual reservation status.
indian-airlines.nic.in, jetairways.com, airdeccan.net & flykingfisher.com are the official sites of Indian Airlines, Jet Airways, Deccan Airlines and Kingfisher Airlines operating in India. 
wunderground.com  gives information about the current weather in cities and towns all over the world, including those in India and even in N-E India. Babylon Pro software from babylon.com offers similar facilities by contacting the web.
caclubindia.com is an India-specific website on taxation & accountancy etc.
dictionary.reference.com offers a very good online dictionary in English language (may download also).
freelang.com offers free downloadable dictionaries in Hindi, Urdu, German etc. (hint: install both the program & word-list).
encyclopedia.com & britannica.com are very good encyclopedia in cyberspace introducing almost any topic you may think of, in a simple informative way, for free in an introductory level.
wikipedia.org offers a totally free encyclopedia: you can even edit and add any entries therein without any authorization!
thesaurus.reference.com offers a very good online thesarus (synonyms database) in English language

 

Chemistry -- Chemical-Information Searching, Journals and Software etc.:

scirus.com is a fine search engine specific for science information only, where you can opt for journal/ web-source or both.
scholar.google.com is a similar-purpose search engine specific for academic (scholarly) information only. 
chemweb.com is a huge collection-system of information (including abstracts from most journals) lying free on the web relevant to chemists, from which the desired chemical information is better searched using chemweb.com/search  
scienceworld.wolfram.com/chemistry is a quite good (though elementary) chemistry encyclopedia lying free on the web.
pubs.acs.org/about.html gives access to scores of American Chemical Society journals (may search for author/title/abstract).
rsc.org/Publishing/Journals gives access to scores of Royal Society of Chemistry (Europe) journals (may search therein). 
mdl.com offers ISIS/ Draw, the renowned software (with help!) for drawing molecular structures and chemical equations etc.
gaussian.com/techinfo.htm is the know-how providing official site of the theoretical-chemistry computation software Gaussian planaria-software.com and msg.ameslab.gov/GAMESS/pcgamess.shtml respectively offers ArgusLab for creating (from scratch!) & modifying molecular models, and PC-GAMESS for performing state of the art theo. chemistry computations.  
chem.gla.ac.uk/~louis/software offers ORTEP, the well-known crystallography visualisation software, with some other ones.

 

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