Last updated by The POOG on April 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.
- 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.
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Media File Converters and Downloaders
- Online audio file converters.
- Savetweetvid. Online Twitter video downloader.
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.