Computer Tips

The Internet Time Machine

Internet Archive
 

Free Text Retieval (FTR)

Programmes and tools to index and search your local machine:

dtSearch

AskSam

Copernic

Coveo

ISYS

Omea Pro

The Sleuthhound

Archivarius

X1

Spotlight - Built into Apple systems

Apache Lucene -  Developer level tool

 

Spider Software

Teleport

Black Widow

 

Optical Character Recongnition (OCR)

Readiris

Omnipage

 

Capturing fixed or moving images (or text) on screen

Camtasia - Moving images

Snagit - Screenshots / text grabs

 

Encrypted Drives / Volumes

Bestcrypt - *recommended

Drivecrypt

 

Protecting Email

PGP (GNU OS)

PGP - for Windows

 

Mapping

Whole Earth:

Google Earth

NASA World Wind

Digital Globe

Geographical, Mapping and Aerial Pictures:

Google Maps

Multimap

GetMapping

Convert references to and from latitude and longitute:

bangor.ac.uk/is/iss025/osgbfaq.htm

 

IP Address and Location Searches

Whois

Smart Whois

Visual Route

Visual IP Trace

Internet Registry

 

Special Interest Sites

Cryptome

Namebase

 

Intelligence Charts

For the police, but journalism can use the same methods.

Analyst's Notebook

 

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