♦ tools

Handy reference tools:

Abbreviations — Free online directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.

Aerial Filmworks GPS — Aerial imaging technology site offers free GPS and elevation search service.

Debt Clock — A graphic illustration of how the Democrat Congress is bankrupting the United States.

Dictionary.com — Free multi-source dictionary search service produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

Google — Comprehensive, do-everything Web giant.

Indispensable Links — Refdesk.com’s handy links to information sites you can’t do without.

National Hurricane Center — Issues hazardous tropical weather watches, warnings, forecasts and analyses.

NOAA’s Most Popular Weather Sites — Government agency’s most requested, most visited weather sites.

OneLook Dictionary Search — Free site offers nice word and phrase definition search, includes reverse look-up.

Quotations Page — Features the oldest free quotation search site on the Web, established 1994.

Refdesk.com — All-inclusive reference site … the Google of the reference world.

Reference.com — Free multi-source reference search service produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

Search Engine Colossus — Search engines from around the world.

Snopes.com — Site attempts to verify or expose rumors, courtesy of Barbara and David Mikkelson.

State and Local Government on the Net — One-stop access to state and local governments and agencies.

Thesaurus.com — Free multi-source thesaurus search service produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

Translate.com — Free multi-source language translation service produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

Weather Underground — One of the most reliable, accurate weather sites on the Web.

USA.gov — U.S. government official Web portal accesses a vast compendium of resources.

Yahoo! — Second-largest all-inclusive search and information site on the Web.

ZabaSearch — Free search finds people, addresses, phone numbers, residence locations, more.

ZIPskinny — Free search provides all U.S. Census data for ZIP Code entered.