Useful Tools

Last updated by The POOG on Octobere 18, 2021.

The following tools have been found useful in building this site and in ongoing research:

• APA Format Citation Guide as a writing tool.
• Consumer Reports.
• Federal Reserve Economic Data | FRED.
• Maltego. An open source intelligence (OSINT) and graphical link analysis tool.
• Provisional weekly death counts: Interactive tool – Canada.
• The Black Vault. An archive on redacted CIA reports on UFOs and parapsychology.
• The GDELT Project. A data visualization tool.

Libraries

• arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,854,076 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

Measurement

• Length conversion
• NRC Canada web clock
• Temperature conversion
• Volume conversion

Media File Converters and Downloaders

• Online audio file converters.
• Savetweetvid. Online Twitter video downloader.

Language Translators

• Chinese-English online translator and dictionary

Language Tools

I was informed of some of these tools in unsolicited emails to ‘admin’. The sender had to be human and not a robot to have understood site structure. Use at your own risk. The sites have no ‘about’ information. The first thing I ask myself when I encounter any new site or product is “How do they make their money?” since everything has a cost including this site (I don’t make any money as I write this).

• Grammar Check
• Plagiarism Checker

Search Engines

• Archive Today. A time capsule for web pages.
• Google Scholar for academic papers and other material.
• HathiTrust Digital Library.
• Internet Archive. A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• Justice Laws Website. Search Canadian legislation.
• PubMed for searching medical research.
• The Wayback Machine. Internet archive set for The POOG.

Technical Search Tools

• 8 ways to find your IP address in Windows. This is your machine’s internal address.
• Area Code Lookup. See if a code is used by spammers.
• Bell Canada Internet Speed Test
• WhatIsMyIPAddress.com. A number of internet tools. If you’re running a VPN it gives the VPN server address.
• WhatIsMyIP.live. A number of internet tools.

Miscellaneous Trackers and Tools

• CBC Poll Tracker