The Area Decoder provides you with current information related to area, city, and country codes.  Simply type in the name of a city, state, and/or country, or a city, area, or country phone code.  We do not presently provide white pages information, postal information, or reverse phone number lookup.

As the number of fax machines, cellular phones, pagers and ISP accounts increase year after year, the need for more telephone numbers for metropolitan areas increases also. This year there will be a record 45 new area codes added in the United States alone, and one area code change can wipe out several numbers in your address and telephone directories at home or in the office. Stay on top of area code changes across the U.S. with AreaCodeUpdate.com.

Find the area code for a location or the location of an area code.

We've all heard many stories about the 200 MPH carburetors that are kept under lock and key by the Oil Companies

Kelly Blue Book, Dynamic Loaner Calculator, Price Guide.  Great all around auto buyers information site.

An online TV Guide (not the trademarked TVGuide).  Great for local stations, Cable and Satelite listings.  Program descriptions, searches and upcoming special program alerts.  Can be customized to your preferences.

Talk about a Genius!

Great information site on the latest health issues and medical break throughs!

A host of exciting inventions now simmering in America's computer laboratories. A peek inside these research facilities provides a glimpse of the possible future. Herewith, five of my favorite not-quite-ready-for-public-consumption inventions.  See also...

ABCNEWS' John Stossel conducts a "consumer report" on government and exposes programs that swindle and rules that make no sense.

Used Car Bluebook and Retail Values and New Car Pricing

Yes, I know another search engine!  This one does a great job of almost eliminating all the duplicate search result listings.  A few people in the office used this for a while, switched to another like Yahoo, but then came running back to Metacrawler.

Great information site on the latest health issues and medical break throughs!

Are you tired of the proliferation of phone numbers, e-mail addresses and so forth that you now have to memorize for today's technological world? Why not take some of the stress out of all this by using mnemonic devices to remember this growing list. PhoneSpell can help by allowing you to enter a six to ten-digit number and then showing all the possible words and phrases it can make. Use it to associate words with important numbers, create an easy to remember phone number for your home or business, or to quickly translate a spelled out 1-800 number into the proper digits for dialing.

You COULD look for books or magazines to find out about presidents, but why not use the power of the Internet instead? These links w will get you started.

Come to the place where all of your made up words, slang, Web lingo and colloquialisms become part of the dictionary. Browse the humorous and slang entries, or add your own.

Your One-Stop reference Desk!  brings you several language tools like dictionaries and translation tools, biographical and quotation resources, maps, stock quotes, email discussion groups ... the list is long, go have a look for yourself.

Did you know that Led Zeppelin's seminal rock classic "Stairway to Heaven" was never released as a single? Or that the title of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came from a brand of deodorant? These are just two examples of the tidbits you'll find at Songfacts, a storehouse of music trivia organized both by artist and by song title.

Shows the time in hundreds of cities ticking live on your desktop

"Sally sells seashells by the sea shore"-- With 1846 tongue twisting entries in 77 languages you are sure to find something here to twist your tongue.

An automated tool that enables you to determine easily the price of state-to-state residential long distance telephone calls. The WebPricer database contains data from the long distance plans provided to TRAC and CCMI by the long distance service providers listed below. The tool permits you to compare the price you will be charged for those calls by the participating long distance carriers in partnership with the Telecommunications Research & Action Center (TRAC), CCMI provides this service free of charge to the general public.

Displays current world time for cities throughout the world...TICKING IN REAL TIME AS YOU WATCH!

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LangaList

You may know Fred Langa from his previous work as VP/Editorial Director at WINDOWS Magazine, as Editor in Chief of Byte Magazine, or from his work with NetGuide and HomePC magazines, or from various appearances at trade shows and on TV and radio.
Is the newsletter any good? Well, it was named one of the world's top 5 ezines by the eZines database; it's one of the top 10 most-frequently-recommended computer ezines tracked by the Recommend-It service; and the subscriber base grew by almost 500% last year!

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MS Office Beat, Power Windows, Broadband report, Windows Insider, WinLetter, Power Tools, Winmag Preview, Techweb Newsletters.

Here you'll find Microsoft product newsletters for MS-Office, Windows, Access, and Palm all  created by an independent source.
This is THE place to get the inside, true, and unbiased scoop on new releases, patches, upgrades, and usability tips.

It's about time somebody told the truth about Microsoft Windows, Office, Access, Project and Windows XP doncha think? If you want the latest up-to-the-nanosecond news -- or if you're going crazy trying to figure out how to use Office or Windows -- you're in the right place. Join our 510,000 subscribers for a FREE, unbiased, jolt of cold, hard reality, tailor-made to help you get the most out of Microsoft's products, delivered straight to your email inbox. If you want old, warmed-over tips, or the Microsoft Party Line, look somewhere else. These newsletters feature original articles from internationally known, award-winning experts who have descended into the belly of the beast, and survived to tell the tale. No Microsoft marketing drivel. No bull.

Everything you always wanted to know about hardware...and more.  Including recommendations!

This program will connect to one of the time servers operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States, and will compare the time of your computer with the time on the servers operated by the NIST. This program will then display the difference between your system and the servers and if greater than 15 seconds, it will offer you the option of adjusting your PC by the displayed amount.  The overall uncertainty in this comparison should be no worse than +/- 5 seconds under all circumstances and will be substantially less than this value in most cases.

Your source for hardware analysis and news.

You never realize just how important a PC's Emergency Boot Disk is until your system crashes and you have to start all over. Lost your boot disk? Maybe you threw it away after you loaded all your software or copied a game you downloaded over it. If you need a new one, visit BootDisk.com and get the latest boot disk versions for DOS, Windows, Antivirus programs, patches, tweaks and more. PC TuneUp , SCSI CD Files , CMOS Setup, How To Make A DOS Bootdisk, I Want My Mouse In DoS, Make Your Cdrom Work In DOS, How To Install Windows

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Drivers Available For Download From Windows Update Site - InfiniSource, Inc.

A free service designed to offer help to both beginning and advanced Internet users. You'll find expert tools combined with advice on troubleshooting software and connection problems. This site is dedicated to everyone who has ever heard "I'm sorry, but we don't support that" from their friendly neighborhood help desk.

Some (actually, 85!) of the very best help, reference, and test sites!

You asked for it, and now she's giving it to you! We get hundreds of requests each week from inquisitive listeners wondering, "Where does Kim Komando learn all that stuff?" This list by no means covers even the tip of the iceberg as far as her overall knowledge of computers is concerned, but here the "Digital Goddess®" takes you on a virtual tour of some of her favorite websites, downloads and "patches" for keeping your computer running smooth and easy.

You've finally made the big move and have joined the rest of us on the Information Superhighway, surfing the Web daily. You love the variety of sites and experinces you can enjoy online, but you have some definite ideas about what a good website should have and are ready to put up a homepage of your own. While HTML is not the hardest code in the world to master (and there are plenty of programs available out there that make hard-coding totally unnecessary), where do you go to get the altest gadgets, gizmos, bells and whistles that will make your homepage stand out in the crowd? Follow the "Digital Goddess®" around the Web for a while and you'll soon have everything you could ever need...

Tools and Tricks to Help People Learn HTML and Prepare Their Own Homepages for the Web.

You've just touched down in Mark's Web World - a truly out-of-this-world website for a show that's full of the most exciting and hip information about computers that you're gonna find. MWW is a nationally syndicated, half-hour hour show seen daily on WAM!, America's Kidz Network from Encore/TCI. This program takes viewers on a cyberworld tour of computers like never before...down to Earth. No confusing techno speak here, MWW is all about making computers fun! So Welcome. Don't be shy. Dive in, hang on, and become a part of Mark's Web World!

At NONAGS we try to sift through all this, we do the work of selecting what really works, what's really free, what really is worth your time and effort. So we have put together a large collection of 32-bit Windows software that has no disabled features, nags, time limits, or any other tricks.

CMP Media Inc.'s NetGuide is your guide to doing more on the Internet. New sites, best sites, live events, Internet tips and tricks -- we provide everything you need to know to get the most out of your online experience and stay on top of this constantly changing medium.

Trace Route and Ping Tools, Anti-TeleMarketer Tools and More.

Driver-Drivers Windows95-98-2000-NT Complete Driver Hardware Search

If you've ever wanted to know just what it is other people search for, then cruise to this site for a look into the MetaCrawler search engine.

The site for IT and Technology Professionals who need breaking news, product analysis, and financial reporting about a

But just how fast is your connection? Here's a site with more than 200 links to Internet connection speed tests, listed by country and state. TestMySpeed.com, over 200 modem speed tests. Test internet connection speed. Bandwidth speed test Cable DSL

The Forum of Tom's Hardware Guide is well known as a very useful and helpful place for hardware information for many years now. It was more than overdue to have our own website forum or message board, which is controlled and run by the Tom's Hardware Guide Team rather than an external organization. Finally we have managed to create the new "Tom's Hardware Guide Community", which takes the place of the former external Forum.

The site that was created to teach you how to install, upgrade, and fix Microsoft's Windows line of operating systems. Starting from MSDOS and working up to the most recent Windows XP, this site continues to show you the user how to resolve your problems.

Product Reviews, How-to's, Special Reports, Columns and Newsletters, and the Resource Center.

This page is updated regularly, and it is without a doubt one of the most valuable PC troubleshooting resources I have found on the Internet. Windows 98 is most notable for refusing to shutdown, but the problem can also exist in Windows 95, and Microsoft has acknowledged that Windows ME is likewise afflicted.

SPEED UP AND IMPROVE YOU WINDOWS XP

On a recent show, I mentioned that there were several simple things that could be done to
improve the performance of Windows XP. Several callers had apparent identical problems, where XP slowed down substantially after about 6 months.
That is likely the "XP RESTORE" feature causing that slowdown, which is included as a problem
(and solution) on the INFORMATION WEEK link below:

SPEED UP YOUR WINDOWS XP
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011204S0009

PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION:
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle?doc_id=IWK20011204S0009

LANGA LIST ARTICLE ON IMPROVING XP PERFORMANCE (similar to link above)

Other tips for XP (and other operating systems) can be found at:
http://www.annoyances.org

MORE XP TIPS AND TWEAKS from BLACKVIPER

BLACKVIPER - MAIN WIN XP PAGE

At ZDNet, our mission is to be a premier "full service" destination for people looking to buy, use, and learn more about technology.

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Believe it or not...Unlimited columns and rows!!  Authored by Duane Hookom, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Dedicated to making it easier to learn how to control one Office application from another, with White Papers and a book list to give you the information you need, downloads of crucial files you may need,  code samples to show you how to exchange data in a number of ways, and her Access Archon columns.

If you're new to Access, we'll take you by the hand and show you how to get started. (In fact, I think WAW's initial issues have the best introduction to Access that's ever been printed.) If you're beyond the newbie stage, but need real-world advice on solving real-world problems, WAW will ring your chimes. And if (heaven forbid!) you're an Access programmer, it will keep you up-to-date on all the latest techniques, bugs, security exposures, and everything else Microsoft wouldn't dare mention in public.

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