Nerd Stuff

There comes a time in every Grail Quest that you will need some geeky help. Here’s a listing of some useful gadgets and programs that might help you on your way to doing research, or delving deeper into your investigations. Remember, use Freeware at your own risk.

Freeware and Utilities

Email Tracer - This free trial download will trace IP addresses and approximate locations of emails. Handy, but that info can always be faked somehow.

Google News Alerts - Will send you emails when your key word search shows up in a news story. Handy when you're trying to track a group, name, or place of interest.

PDF to Microsoft Word converter - It works, but converters of this type will always leave a few artifacts behind.

Stego Magic - Want to find out if a JPG or GIF file has a message embedded in it?

Articles and Blogs

How to Detect Fake Photos - EHow.com