This website is proudly Australian. There are no pop-ups, no viruses, no webpage redirection and I won't be begging for any of your money! Everything here is completely free for the taking. All I ask is that before leaving you post a short message in my guestbook, just to say hello.
I maintain this website just for the fun of it and with the thought that what I have available here may make someone's day just a little happier.
I'm also a firm believer in the original concept of the Internet - that it is a means for the free exchange and sharing of information, ideas and technology. Unfortunately, far too many people through greed, hate and selfishness have turned most of it into a place of "get rich quick" schemes, scams, racism, pornography, and downright stupidity.
I would ask that if you find anything on this site to be useful, that in return you do something to help someone less fortunate than yourself. It doesn't have to be much - help someone who looks lost - if someone looks hungry, then give them a little food - if someone is in trouble, then try and help - because one day, that person could be you.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop: Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)
Well, the site's staying online for a while longer.
I am extremely grateful for the guestbook entries and emails from everyone offering support and asking for me to keep this site online. It's comforting to know that there are so many nice people in the world.You can read more about this site staying online by clicking HERE.
- Greentreefrog.net.au
- I don't like the idea of putting unpleasant stuff on this site, but I decided that an ISP by the name of Mark Russell who runs greentreefrog.net.au in Australia deserves a mention right at the top of my main page. He's someone who I unfortunately had my internet access with and seemed to take a great deal of delight in being as nasty and as arrogant as is humanly possible. So I decided to put all the info on the net about what happened and everyone around the world can read it and decide for themselves.
What happened to me, could easily happen to you! - About Me
- Curious about what sort of person set up this website?
Guess what?
You can find out here. - Free Links Page
- I've setup a links page where anyone who has a website that may be of interest to others (or if you know of a useful site) can add a link to it from my website. Google spiders this site on a weekly basis and I seem to draw my fair share of visitors, so please feel free to share what you have with others. The only stipulations are that web links can only be for free sites, suitable for all ages and legal.
- My Blog
- I've been debating with myself for a few years now about putting a personal blog on this site and have always felt that it's just a little too personal (and boring). Well, I've finally decided to do it. I hope it doesn't turn out too depressing and I'll try to keep it as amusing and thought provoking as possible. Please feel free to leave any polite comments, (it is anonymous) and I sincerely hope that it provides some enlightenment for others as well as a means for me to express some of my thoughts.
- Guestbook
- Please feel free to leave any comments you may have or just leave a note to say that you passed by this way.
- Tour of Duty '71
- I did 6 years in the Australian Army as an infantry soldier, including part of my time as a combat soldier in Vietnam during 1971. Come with me back to '71 in the jungles of South Vietnam, look through my eyes and know my thoughts and know what it was like. The pictures here are the ones I took while on active operations, this is not a Hollywood movie - this is the real thing.
- Vietnam Video
- This is a 33 minute slideshow of my Vietnam pictures put to music. I'm not sure who put this together, but it turned out very well. It's DVD quality and compressed to an avi file that's 339 meg in size. Please feel free to download it and spread it near and far.
- The Price of Freedom
- This is a copy taken from my Father's diaries, he was in the British Royal Artillery and was captured by the Japanese during the fall of Singapore in 1942. He then spent three and a half years as a P.O.W. in Changi and building the "Railway of death" in Burma. I decided to transcribe his diaries and put them on the net so at least in my lifetime what he endured won't be forgotten.
- My Freeware
- A plethora of programs I've knocked together in my many moments of insanity. These are completely free with no restrictions on their use, (actually there is one restriction, "if you find any of this stuff useful then you have to give it to someone else!")
- FreeWAP
- Got a mobile phone? Wanna impress your friends with a new custom wallpaper, screensaver etc every day? Well .. now you can! I've set up a few thousand assorted graphics into zipped files that you can download from my freeware page and a WAP site where you can upload and download your own files to your phone as often as you like and it's all absolutely free. So don't be a dummy and waste your money on those ripoff ringtone websites when you can get it here for free!
- Free Web Content
- Now that you've knocked up that perfect website, maybe you'll want some absolutely free, random trivia-riddles-quiz web feeds. I don't think any sane person would do this, but I've set up 30 assorted feeds that you can freely put on your website that will provide random bits of trivia from my database of over 25,000 bits of stuff! There's phobias, superstitions, riddles, manias, geography, history and lots more, the easiest way to find out is to try it. (This page may take a while to load, so be patient).
- Mobile Phone Vault
- Here's a whole truckload of a few thousand wallpapers and screensavers for your mobile phone (cellphone if you're a yank). Available in the most popular sizes 128x128, 128x160, 174x132, 176x220 and 240x320. You can download as much as you like, as often as you like and either transfer them to your phone via infrared, bluetooth, cable or my WAP site. There are quite a few thousand images available in heaps of categories, so stop throwing your good money away at those rip-of phone sites and get all you can eat for free right here!!
- Desktop Wallpaper Vault
- A tad over 7,000 (1024x768) wallpapers in 52 categories that you can use to spice up your computer screen background. These are also ideal for web pages, home videos, slideshows etc. No registration is required, just find the picture(s) you like and it's yours! The 1024x768 sized wallpaper is the most popular and can be expanded or reduced to suit larger or smaller screens. Some of the categories include: animals, beaches, cars and bikes, cartoon, clouds, comics, computer, famous females, forces of nature, forests, games, lakes, military, movies, national parks, oceans, rainbows, rivers and creeks, science fiction, sexy, space, sunrise and sunsets, tropical islands, underwater and winter scenes.
- Font Vault
- Over 3,650 assorted True Type fonts to help jazz up your DTP, web pages, graphics projects etc. Apart from the usual alphabet fonts, there are also several hundred assorted picture and foreign language fonts.
You can see graphic examples of each font and I've set this area up so that there are as few pages as possible to load. This may mean that if you're still using a 56k modem, you may need to wait a while for each page to load (but that's still better than loading a gazillion pages with a couple of fonts on each!). - Avatar Vault
- Over 6,700 assorted avatars that you can use for forums or anything else your heart desires. These come in all shapes and sizes including animals, anime, buttons, cartoons, funny, games, logos, movies, music, scenic, signs, smileys, sports, starwars, animations and more. So why not give yourself a personality the next time you visit a forum.
- Gif Animation Vault
- Over 15,000 absolutely free animations for your website. Use them in web pages, presentations or just for your kids to have fun with. 107 categories to choose from - 3D, @signs, Adult, Aliens, Angels, Animals, Antennas, Arrows, Astrology-Astronomy, Atomic, Babies, Books, Candles, Cartoons, Cartoon, Kids, Clocks, Clowns, Comic, Book, Warrior, Compass, Computer, Construction, Counters, Cowboys, Dancing, Dividers, Dots, Dungeons-Dragons, Email, Fairies, Famous, People, Fans, Fire, Fireworks, Flags, Flashing, Lights, Food, Games, Ghosts, Holiday, Home, Appliances, Homes, Hospital, Humanparts, Idiots, Indians, Info, Keys and Locks, Kitchen, Logos, Magic, Marriage, Medievil, Miscellaneous, Money, Monsters, Music, Nature, Numbers, Odds, Office, Orbs, People, Planets, Religious, Scales, Searchlights, Skeletons, Smileys, Snowmen, Sport, Stars, Startrek, Taps and Baths, Telephone, Tobacco, Toilets, Transport, TV, Wacky, War, Windows and Doors and a bunch more.
- Web Graphic Vault
- A tad over 29,000 absolutely free graphics for your website. Arrows, Banners, Bullets, Buttons, Buttonsets, Clipart (78 categories), Clipart_100x100, Leftbackgrounds (22 categories), Lines (dividers), Orbs, Pagesets, Webpage Templates, Seamless Tiles (38 categories), Sky (large backgrounds), Textures and Top to bottom backgrounds. (There must be a logical reason why I'm stupid enough to keep on doing this .. anyone know??)
- Voting Booth
- This is just for a bit of fun and my own interest. I thought it might be interesting to find out what others think of certain topics. The voting system is quick, simple, anonymous and painless and you may even find some of the answers both interesting and funny. So please have a go and put in your two cents worth.
- Send an ECard?
- I've spent a lot of time updating this into what I think is a respectable ECard setup.
There are 1,100 assorted images to use, music can be added, assorted backgrounds, animated frames and an assortment of snappy little smileys that can be included in your message. You can even upload and use your own image. I've made it as simple and intuitive as possible so it should only take a couple of minutes to make a card and you can view your card at any time and see the changes immediately. - On this Day!
- See what happened on this day during the last several hundred years. Find out who was born when, who died when, who did what to who and what happened when - it's all here!
- Probert Encyclopaedia
- A free online reference work for researchers, students, journalists and the curious, offering over 50,000 articles on human knowledge ranging from the common to the obscure.
- Hypnosis and Meditation
- Are you curious? Maybe you'd like to know how to do it. Well, I've written a short page explaining the ins and outs of hypnosis and meditation. This is from my own personal experience and not some mumbo jumbo from TV or someone's book that they want to make a million bucks from.
I've included a few free professional MP3 audio files that you can download so that you can try self-hypnosis, and a link to a website where you can download a multitude of EBooks on how to meditate. If you're looking for some peace in your life maybe you'll find what you want here. - GoogleDavo
- You've all heard of GoogleEarth, well here's a cut down version without all the complicated bells and whistles. But unlike GoogleEarth - with GoogleDavo you can type in almost ANY city and country in the world and see a detailed road map or satellite photo of the city. You can zoom in and out, plus use your mouse to easily scroll around the country. Don't forget - you do need a broadband connection and at least 1024x768 resolution. This is a heap of fun on a rainy day!
- Where the hell am I?
- Forgot where you are? Ever wondered if maybe you're not really where you think you are? This will at least show you where you're connected to the internet. (Well ... most of the time, anyway!)
- Online Quizzes
- I spent quite a bit of time on this one. Over 11,000 quiz questions to try, multiple choice, true or false and anagrams on just about anything you can think of. You can use your real name and email or you can be anonymous, this will also keep an ongoing score and you can see the top scorers.
- Answering Machine Messages
- Now here's something you don't find every day - 270 voice messages that you can use on your very own answering machine. What about a message by Hannibal Lecter, Inspector Clouseau, Santa Claus, The Devil, An Alien, Garfield, Science Officer Spock and more. There's even a whole bunch of amusing text messages that you can record yourself. So why not use your answering machine to annoy the hell out of your callers, and if you don't have an answering machine then you should buy one just so that you can have a message!
- Kids Coloring Pictures
- Almost 10,000 assorted pictures of cartoon characters, kids movies and fun pictures that you can print out for your kids to color in. Just the thing to keep the kids amused for hours.
- Trivia and Jokes
- Over 12,000 assorted facts, jokes and trivia. All you have to do is keep on reloading the page to get another bunch of totally useless but fascinating stuff that will keep you amused for many seconds. Why not impress your family with a totally boring and useless piece of information!
- Wanna play a game?
- Bored with surfin'? Got time to kill? Here's 101 assorted games to play online, and they're all FREE. All you need is a Java enabled browser and some free time.
- Jigsaw Puzzles
- 700 assorted jigsaw puzzles with 3 levels of difficulty that you can waste your precious time on. Bored with the computer at work? Tired of aimlessly sufin' the net? Wanna make sure you get your money's worth with your ISP? Then you can waste 1,000's of hours here mindlessly doing online jigsaw puzzles.
- Celebrity Warp.
- One of 450 random pictures of famous celebrities, cartoon characters or animal faces will appear and using the mouse you can twist and warp the picture into whatever you want! You can even save your mutilated result to proudly show to your friends.
- Brain teasers
- A plethora of stuff to stimulate your brain. You can bang your head against the wall or pull your hair out trying to figure out paradoxes, logic puzzles, lateral thinking and more. See how long you can last before you need to go to another page where you don't have to think. Could be that you really aren't as clever as you think you are.
- Illusions
- Optical illusions are great! This simply proves that what you think you see - may not be what you really see. Try it and see!!
- Stereograms
- Know what a stereogram is? It's a picture that looks like garbage but after you stare at it for a while you can see a 3D picture, and you don't even need any funny cardboard glasses! Here's a whole bunch of stereograms that you can stare at until your eyes are bloodshot, your head throbs and you're drooling like a brain-dead guppy. I've also included some downloads and info on how to make your own stereograms if you're as mindless as I am.
- Online aquarium
- Did you know that there are teeny weeny little fishes swimming around in your monitor. This special program reveals all as agents Scully and Mulder found out.
- A Wavy Thing!!?
- What more can I say. It's a wavy thingy inside your monitor.
- Look at the pretty colors.
- If you're easily amused, are partial to staring at bright lights for hours at a time or maybe you like to stand in the street and stare up at the pretty blue sky in amazement, then this is just what you need!
- It's Psychedelic, Man!
- If you liked the previous one then this'll really freak ya out.
- Psychic Mindreader.
- Do you believe in magic? Can a computer be psychic and tell what you're thinking? HELL YEAH!!!
You get to concentrate on one of 99 symbols and the computer will show you the symbol that you're thinking of. Now we all know that everything you see and read on the Internet is true, so this must also be true. There's magic in the air and it's right here in front of your very own eyes!!
I guess there's only one way to find out - and that's to try the PSYCHIC MINDREADER!! - IP Check
- This page will show you your current IP address and whether your browser passes the REFERER value. Some sites will not allow you to download if your browser does not pass the referrer value (the web page you came from). There are many reasons for knowing your IP address, but you'll have to figure that one out for yourself.