Hewie's Views and Reviews
By Hewie Poplock

Welcome to this issue of Hewie's Views & Reviews. Be sure to visit Hewie's Favorites at http://www.hewie.net/ . Hewie's Quick Thoughts appear almost daily at http://www.hewie.net/weblog/ .

In this issue:

++++ Interesting Google Search Grid of Results
++++ See and Hear Animals
++++ Morph in Real Time
++++ New additions to Hewie's Favorites

March, 2004

++++ Interesting Google Search Grid of Results

If you use search engines, and who doesn't, you try a combination of words and use the results to hopefully find the desired info. However, it does make a difference how various combinations of search words are listed and this can change your result count. Now you can find out the differences with an interesting Google tool called SearchGrid ( http://blog.outer-court.com/search-grid/ ).

To use the grid, fill out the search words you want to check along the top and side of the grid. Then for each cell in the grid, SearchGrid will search for the terms as a phrase.

In each cell in the grid you'll get the number of search results for that particular phrase as well as information on the first result.

++++ See and Hear Animals

Have you ever wondered how animals sound or look? Hear a kookaburra's laugh, see jellyfish sting, or read wildlife news and headlines. Students, teachers and nature lovers of all kinds will find a vast collection of audio, video and print material at this virtual animal encyclopedia. It includes a large compilation of links to animal movies and animal sound clips, categorized and arranged for easy reference.

This is a site well worth a look. http://www.junglewalk.com/frames.asp You will find that you spend a quite a while roaming through the site.

++++ Morph in Real Time

Have some fun at http://www.morphases.com/ . Try a real-time software to do face manipulation. Modify and create human faces from several elements. You select Random Face to load the face that will be your canvas. Then you manipulate the eyebrows, hair, eyes, nose, mouth and chin. You can add a beard or mustache, among many other choices. However, you can not load your own photos. Take a break and try it.

++++ New additions to Hewie's Favorites

Cool Tricks and Trinkets
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com/
Weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet

Glen Millar Communications
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/
Good PowerPoint tips, tricks and tutorials

A List Apart
http://www.alistapart.com/
Web design, content, and coding. Accessibility, CSS, XHTML, scripting. Designing with web standards

BullMarketer.com
http://www.bullmarketer.com/
Webmasters Tools and Resource Center - Lots of Freebies

Daily Report
http://zeldman.com/
CSS, XHTML, front end design. Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

User Interface Engineering
http://www.uie.com/
Web and software usability articles and resources

TV Tome
http://www.tvtome.com/
Guide to the television shows you love

BNET.com
http://www.bnet.com/
Business White Papers,case studies,and webcasts

eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/
Internet, Business & Ecommerce Statistics: Email Marketing & Online Market Research

How Dieting Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/diet.htm
From How Stuff Works. Find out why most diets fail and what you can do to make yours work

Identity Theft Resource Center
http://www.idtheftcenter.org/index.shtml
Supports victims, broadening public awareness, disseminating information about this crime and decreasing the potential victim population

Legal Information Institute Copyright
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html
Overview of copyright law with links to key primary and secondary sources

Legal Information Institute Patents
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/patent.html
Overview of patent law with links to key primary and secondary sources

4096 Color Wheel
http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html
Hover over the wheel to view colors. Click to choose a web-smart or web-safe color

Happy Hour Fonts
http://members.aol.com/chichix/happyhour/
Shareware and Freeware fonts designed for Generation X

Sonia Coleman
http://www.soniacoleman.com/index.htm
Photoshop, PowerPoint, & Bryce help and tutorials

Classic Cars UK
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/
Vintage & Classic Cars, old cars, car collectibles, trucks & more

PressDisplay.com
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
Newspaper replicas from more than 160 major newspapers around the world. Read the entire contents of your favorite newspapers online in their original form

Today's Front Pages
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
Front pages from 260 newspapers from 39 countries. Thumbnail opens a slightly larger, full color image

Internet Handbook Links
http://www.extremesearcher.com/handbooklinks.html
Links for Sites Covered in The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook

Major Search Engines Comparison Chart
http://extremesearcher.com/chart1.html
Search Engines Comparison Chart

Published.com
http://www.published.com/
Directory of Independent Writers and Artists

Erez Business Softwares
http://www.erezsoft.co.il/shareware_repositories.htm
Extensive List of Shareware & Freeware download sites