Tech

IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID? A documentary about technology that I was in talks about the pro & cons of Google & the Internet I appear at these minute marks, 2:10, 3:46, 4:47, 15:00, 16:33   Link 


search engine & Alternate search methods 

DuckDuckGo.com is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the "filter bubble" of personalized search results. 

Lifehacker offers some good Alt like reddit & Yahoo Answers

 link to this article. 

917-ASK-NYPL,Every day, except Sundays and holidays, between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm EST, anyone, of any age, from anywhere in the world can telephone 917-275-6975 and ask a question. The library staff will not answer crossword or contest questions, do children's homework, or answer philosophical speculations. Website 


Full Disclosure: I Love Google & use Gmail & many of its services but I do like competition. I have this & a few other websites hosted via Google Apps for $10/yr. I wonder how me writing this will effect my SEO for this website? 

http://www.cellreception.com/

 

http://opensignal.com/

 

http://frugaling.org/google-is-the-internet/


Get tools and domains

https://www.whois.com/whois/

Who owns the site or at least where is it registered 

https://www.whatsmydns.net/ 

Is the site up A record, Cname etc...

https://www.wappalyzer.com/

what is the site made up of 

https://securitytrails.com/ 

History of a website and lots of info on what's going on with the site. 


Hosting Domains etc... 

namecheap.com 

Domain with Free Whois Privacy and affordable rates easy to use.

cloudflare.com

lots of cool tools at cost Domain names

Wix.com

full service websites ecom payments support  etc

Carrd.co 

simple 1 page site

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ 

website with screen shots to help teach and understand tech http://www.chasms.com/



Personal Tech Help

the main website you can use to make sure that you have internet :) http://www.ismyinternetworking.com/ 

to make sure your ports are open for networking

http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

Receive only No data cost or tracking Internet 

Not https://outernet.is/ Now https://othernet.is/ 


Educational tech website lifehacker.com interesting tech stuff

Encyclopedia's 

I owned (gave this to my cousin they are in a real rural area with no internet so I felt there family could use it more than me.) a complete collection of 

Encyclopedia Britannica's 1994  (15th edition)  . I was reading how  autodidacts should own a set encyclopedias and now I do I got it from a library book sale room its about 35 books overall I paid a grand total of... $20!!!

I do value Wikipedia but find it interesting to own a printed set of encyclopedias that new would have cost over 1k. was printed for almost 250 years it is older than the USA it was a tool of the Age of Enlightenment.   

What We’ve Lost With the Demise of Print Encyclopedias Link 

the sum of human knowledge' – had a different shape in the era of the printed encyclopedia Link

Encyclopedia Britannica in the age of Wikipedia Link

Encyclopedia Britannica stops printing after more than 200 years Link

Setup Google Sites via CNAME publish it 1st then enter the info in and it should work.