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Internet Services

Internet Directories

Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://lii.org
Links to over 6,000 subject areas, maintained by over 100 librarians indexers.

Illinois CLICKS!
http://www.illinoisclicks.org
This is the Citizens' Library of Illinois Comprehensive Knowledge Service -- an anywhere, anytime information portal created and maintained by librarians statewide.

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org
Quality links gathered and annotated.

About: the Human Internet
http://www.about.com
Comprehensive pages that cover more than 700 subjects. They include links and original articles. Real subject portals.

Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collection
http://infomine.ucr.edu
Academic and valuable resource compiled at the University of California, Riverside.

Major Search Engines

Google
http://www.google.com
Top choice for those searching the web.

AlltheWeb
http://www.alltheweb.com
In addition to web page results, it provides the ability to search for news stories, pictures, video clips, MP3s and FTP files.

Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com
Web's "oldest" directory, works great when you need a list of human-reviewed websites.

MSN Search
http://search.msn.com
Provides guidance to a more refined search with your search results.

Ask Jeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com
Another popular search engine.

HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com
Provides easy access to search results from Google, Lycos, and AskJeeves.

Lycos
http://www.lycos.com
Its "Fast Forward" feature lets you see site listing on the left and the page on the right.

Free Email Service Providers

English

Yahoo!Mail

HotMail

MetaCrawlerMail

Español

Yahoo! Correo

Hotmail

LatinMail

 

Tutorials

AARP
http://www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/
Computers and technology. Very good how to guides and message boards.

ASPIRA – Community Technology Center
http://ctc.aspira.org/ed_tools.htm
Help to teach and learn computer programs, both in English and Spanish

Beginners
http://tutorials.beginners.co.uk/
Provides tutorials for a huge number of programs, including Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Cisco, Unix, etc.

Computer Center Tutorials, from the Central Kansas Library System
http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/
Anything from hardware, using the mouse, troubleshooting, etc.

The Internet Education Clearinghouse Web Site, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
http://www.unl.edu/websat/
Easily identify and obtain Web resources for Internet and electronic information training.

Internet 101, from the Columbus Metropolitan Library
http://www.cml.lib.oh.us/inet/inet101.cfm
Learn how to use the internet, from using the mouse to internet basics to advanced searching methods.

Learn-How-To
http://www.learn-how-to.com/
Learn-how-to compiles links to a variety of tutorials. Select Touch Type to see a list of helpful sites to learn to type.

Learn That
http://www.learnthat.com/courses/computer/
Free Online Computer Tutorials.

Microsoft Office tutorials from the Florida Gulf Coast University
http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/
Office 2000 tutorials.

Web Teacher
http://www.webteacher.org/home-windows/index.html
Web tutorials from Tech Corps.

Tech Tutorial
http://www.techtutorials.com
Over 2000 free tutorials on all sorts of computer subjects.

Tutorial Find
http://www.tutorialfind.com
This link is for basic tutorials. Part of a much larger site.

Geekgirl Talks
http://www.geekgirls.com
The Geekgirls have their tutorials written in plain English!

Google Directory - Computer Tutorials
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Education
Collected links from the search engine Google.



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