Convert home equity into cash
some companies do a fixed percentage of the house. Other do
a standard mortgage with the guarantee that the house sale will
cover the amount owing whatever.
Rubistar online,
rubric-creating tool designed to help educators who want to use
rubrics in the classroom but don't have the time to develop them from
scratch
Test Search Engine
provides a directory of tests of the Web, including IQ
tests, personality tests, career tests, etc.
Internet
Scout Weblog We come across numerous interesting items
that for some reason or another don't quite fit their
normal selection criteria
Post2Post {Have
items shipped from overseas} Buyers can register for a
postbox in the country they choose, and Post2POst will
forward the package to them
Diary Defender v1.0
[1.4M] W9x/NT/2k FREE {Keep your thoughts safe}
keeping a written record of your life is a good idea. If
you ever become famous, your friends can steal it, sell
it, and make a lot of money. Use this digital diary to
keep your musings safe and secure
A
Simple Book Repair Manual discusses guiding principles
to book repair, tools, practical guidelines and nine
common repairs
Two for Travelers Cities
Guide -- The Economist ffers practical
information ranging from accommodations to insider tips on
getting around various US and world cities
Time
Out: The Worlds Living Guide cultural events as well
as practical considerations such as where to stay, what to
eat, and where to buy tickets
About.com
Travel site is a great place to look
forinformation on travel to almost any
place on the globe
Travelocity,
one-stop shopping for airline tickets,
vacation packages, car rentals and hotel
accommodations
Lonely Planet
{Worldwide travel resource} Provides facts, recommendations on when to go, events, costs, attractions, out of
the way places, and much more
MIDI and MP3 on the WEB, sheet music
and Composers
Ludwig Van Beethoven
a biographical section, a picture gallery, an area dedicated to
offering musician's comments on Beethoven's legacy and the stories behind many of his
works
Mutopia
Modeled after Project Gutenberg, to make copyright-free
musical scores available to everyone also MIDI files
Aria Database
[.zip] information on over 1,200 arias from 170
operas,offering some 380 translations, 1,000 aria texts,
and 223 MIDI files
Mojo Nation
[Linux, Windows 98/ME/NT/2000] Napster and Gnutella
have no provision to help insure some balance between
those who are providing resources (i.e., offering files
for download) and those who are consuming resources.
Mojo addresses this problem.
Oblivion
is a MIDI fractal music generator (v1.27a
[800k] W9x/NT FREE )
The Internet Movie
Database (IMDb) tells you everything you could ever
want to know about that movie and its actors
Metacritic, a
movie review Web site, combines the breadth of IMDb's
reviews with the ease-of-use of Entertainment Weekly's
"Critical Mass" chart - you might want to check
out a related site called "Rotten
Tomatoes"
Movies.com
-- Fact City, his easy-to-use "facts on demand
service" from Movies.com offers quick answers to your
movie questions