Whois.net 

- One of the first places most people look, Whois will give you some basic information about the owner of the domain and where it is hosted. If the domain name isn’t currently registered you’ll simplify have the option to purchase it. 
URL Trends - If the domain is existing, URL Trends will show some valuable information such as the PageRank, Alexa rank, and the number of incoming links recognized by search engines. The current data does not appear to be completely up-to-date. Read more…

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Pingdom

Pingdom provides their basic service for $9.95 per month. They monitor your site from every continent, and of course you’ll receive notifications of any problems. Pingdom also provides some nice, easy to understand reports to look at the data they gather. They also offer a 30 day free trial.

AlertSite

AlertSite offers a variety of products, including website performance monitoring. With their service you’ll not only be able to track downtime, but you’ll also get a variety of reports on the performance of your site from different spots around the world. There is a 30 day free trial for this service, but the price after the free trial is not listed.

Alertra

Alertra claims to detect outages quicker and more effectively than any other monitoring service. They have monitoring stations set up throughout the world and you can set the time interval that you want your website to be checked. Their prices vary greatly depending on exactly what you want, but there is a minimum monthly charge of $7.50. They also offer a 30 day free trial. Read more…

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Orkut today brought out a light and zippier version of the site targeted at users who are accessing it on a dial up or a low bandwidth connection.

Dial up users - in order to activate and use the Orkut site in its stripped down, low bandwidth version, you need to do the following:

• Go to Orkut ‘General Settings’
• In the page, under ‘Low Bandwidth’ select ‘Show the low bandwidth version of Orkut’

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Flash Based

AlbinoBlackSheep.com - Hosts lots of games and videos, features tutorials on working with Flash.

FlashKit.com - Numerous tutorials for working with Flash including step-by-step guides for certain types of games.

Kirupa.com - Extensive collection of tutorials for Flash including guides for specific types of games such as shooters.

Lassie Adventure Studio - A 2d creation image with the feel of the old style Lucasarts games.

Sploder.com - Create a Flash game from a wide range of objects and then embed it into your MySpace, Blogger, and more sites.

General Sites & Resources

Anim8or.com - A 3d modeling animation system.

byond.com - Create your own games with their tools, host them on the site, let thousands of people play.

GameDiscovery.com - Everything you need to create a game including a pool of ideas submitted by users.

Martin Piecyk’s Website - A guide to learning how to make games with links to numerous resources.

VGMusic.com - A gigantic archive of video game midi files that, after asking permission from the people who made the files, you could possibly use in your own freeware games. Read more…

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Search

Mowser.com - A search and start page for mobile browsing.

Tappity.com - Discover, submit, and rate mobile sites to share with others.

WamPad.com - A mobile search engine for all sorts of information including MySpace

Bookmarking

Mobiseer.com - Find mobile websites, mark them for later use, and even build a mobile web page with your favorite links for quick access.

Treemo.com - A site that allows you to publish videos, photos, and more to both the normal web and mobile devices.

Miscellaneous

BareSite.com - Strip a site or RSS feed down to the bare bones to make it easier on your phone, also use the site as search engine on the go.

Flurry.com - Access to email, feeds, update your friends and more.

Goosync.com - Sync your Google Calendar with your mobile phone or PDA.

MoMail.co.uk - Access any and all of your email accounts from one centralized mobile mailbox.

PlusMo.com - A widget service for mobile devices that has over 20,000 widgets at your disposal. Read more…

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