free hosting

angelfire : annoying pop up ads is my only complaint
boomspeed : just found these guys
bravenet.com : just found. playing now.
esmartstart : these folks give ya 20mb and the ads are only a tad annoying ~ update - getting alot of clickedby and adservedby cookie types on this account. which is a drag as it's my main jumping off ramp. time to look around again.
strike9 : make a photo page with these guys

fun stuff

andy foulds : very cool site to explore, check out his "leader of the free world"
avoidinglife.com : very amusing
binary play : decode and encode binary
enneagram institute : who do you think you are !
exploding dog : send a saying - get a pic - fun stuff
flooble : puzzle yourself
freegraymatter.com : fun site to browse
free text translation : text translation
jemima's chevron : look, learn, laugh
masamania : lmao !
pipe scrubber : keep your connection streamlined.
scorpio - and proud of it!
stepping aside for reality : reads
ze's page : could get lost here. fun site !

management/security

: take a spin.
belarc advisor : know what's on your machine
cookie wall : cookie wall. have been using this over a year and love it.
hackyourself : after you think you have your computer secure, run this nifty little nmaper and check your setup.
kerio firewall : more information given than with za. nifty one and home use is free.
lavasoft : detect and remove adware
mischel internet security : trojan hunter
my net watchman : send in your firewall logs. they parse, post and follow up. now this is nifty.
spybot : use this often.
zone alarm : nice firewall and it's free

text/color play

coolarchive.com : portal archives
cooltext.com : button / logo generator
flamingtext : free online tool for generating custom webpage graphics and animations

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color wheels

botics.com : neat little roll-over color wheel
html goodies.com color wheel
visibone.com color codes: visibone has a nifty desktop popup set - check 'em out
webmonkey : color codes
webwhirlers.com : to cool