BRENDA'S
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COMPUTER & INTERNET INTEREST
LINKS
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For 1 Inkjet (discount inkjet cartridges, laser toner cartridges,
copier toner, fax cartridges and fax ribbons )
About.com
(Formerly called The Mining Company, you'll find links to sites with info
on thousands of topics.)
The
American Library Association’s Great Sites for Kids & Parents (There
are links to over 700 websites about all kinds of things that are fun and
educational. It's a good place to look when you need help with homework
or projects.)
ArcaMax
(extremely low prices on software for the whole family)
CD
Post (Download this remote CD burner program to create your own CDs
if you don’t have a CD-R drive. When you click on any file on the
Net to download, the program will ask if you want CDPost to hold it for
you. Once you have the MP3s or anything else you want saved, the
service will burn them onto a disk for you for a very small fee, which
includes shipping. Under $10 the last time I checked.)
Center
For On-Line Addiction (Are you addicted?)
CNET(lots
of computer info, news, downloads, etc.)
CoolSig(Find
cool sayings or sage advice to use for signing your email-- over
700 to choose from in several categories.)
Cool
Site of the Day (With links to sites in many categories, this is also
the place to find past years’ award winners for Cool Site of the Year and
Coolest Site of the Year.)
ditto.com
(a visual search engine to use when you need pictures of
something instead of text)
dpreview
(digital camera reviews and news)
Dr.
Bombay’s Stuff (This site has a ton of computer information given
with a sarcastic, yet entertaining, sense of humor
and includes an archive
of his past newspaper columns.)
Dr.
Webster’s Web Site of the Day
EastBay
Technologies (Download some cool stuff for your computer.)
Encyberpedia
(links to many sites listed by categories)
The
Free Site (Get your freebies from the Web: things for your computer,
things for your web page and more.)
Infospace
(internet directory)
Internet
Scambusters (Don’t be taken advantage of by unethical people.
This is a very interesting, helpful site with a lot of information you
should read pertaining to internet fraud and scams, online counterfeit
items, viruses, urban legends and much more.)
Jumbo
-The Download Network (lots of downloadds and demos)
The
List (provides a rundown of more than 4,500 ISP’s)
Little
Explorer’s Easy Web Tips to Teach Children (teaching children how to
use the computer)
Lockergnome
(lots of well explained computer information, including a
newsletter and archives)
Mark’s
Web World (homepage for the t.v. show that explores websites,
software, etc.)
Message
Mates (cute animated programs to download and send through
email or to use on your desktop
*Warning*-- some of them may be a little racy!)
Mr.
Wakeup (From this site, you can schedule your computer to make your
phone ring to wake you up or to make reminder calls with messages you choose.
Or choose to receive news and other informational messages.)
The
Muddies (The opposite of the Webbies, the NetStudio Mud Brick
Awards “honors the worst of
the Web: sites only their creators could love.”)
Net
Mom (Find 100 or more websites about subjects such as art and music,
reading and writing, science, homework help, sports, games and toys, comics,
cartoons and animation, parenting, activities for preschoolers, and teacher
resources.)
Net
Talk Live (The companion to the television show has links to interesting
sites.)
NetHistory
(an informal history of BITNET and the Internet)
Newbie
Net 2 (An online training workshop that was designed to assist
people having between a few months to a few years
of Internet user
experience. Covers E-mail, Netiquette, Internet
Connections, Usenet, Search Engines, and much more. If you are new to the
net, please be sure to read as much of this as you can. A way for
newbies to help themselves become "knowbies.")
Printsville
(This site from HP has lots of easy project ideas to use by
printing things directly from their site such as photo
frames, cards,
iron-on transfers for clothing, craft ideas, kids’
projects, seasonal
projects and more. Choose a category, and on
each page don’t forget to
use the pull down menu near the top of the pages labeled
“go to
section”.)
ScamHound
(information on Internet scams and fraud)
ScamWatch
(information on Internet scams and fraud)
Seniornet
(This site helps senior citizens become comfortable with
computers and the Internet.)
Starvector
Software (over 155,000 discounted software titles, many that can be
downloaded directly)
Stiller
Research’s Internet Hoax Page (This site includes virus hoaxes
and hoax stories being spread
over the internet.)
Superkids
(unbiased reviews of educational software from a site that
accepts no advertising from
the manufacturers)
Sure
Delete (Use this FREE download to delete files and make them
irretrievable.)
Surf
Madison File Libraries (thousands of free files: clip art, graphics,
fonts, games, utilities, Windows
programs)
Techno
Travel (how to access the internet while travelling)
Top
500 (sites listed by categories)
Tourbus
(Have Internet technology explained in plain English with a dash of humor.
Get the scoop on search engines, spam, viruses, cookies, urban
legends and the most useful
sites on the Net.)
TruthOrFiction.com
(When you get emails with warnings, virus alerts,
inspirational stories, business
opportunities and pleas for help... check them out to see if they are Truth!
or Fiction!)
The
Urban Legends Combat Kit (This is a free collection of canned
responses to help you combat
Internet myths and urban legends. When
someone sends you an urban legend,
just cut and paste the appropriate
response from the list below.)
Urban
Legends References Pages (Use their search engine to verify
whether or not a story or "news" item spread through
email is true.
There are unusual legends in several catagories.)
U.S.
Dept. of Energy’s Computer Incident Advisory Capability (informs
and explains Internet hoaxes,
their history, how to identify hoaxes and
validated warnings, and what
to do if you suspect a message is a hoax)
Very
Crazy Productions (This is a fun site with links to the craziest sites
on the internet, collections of crazy guestbook entries and photos, etc.)
Waving
At You (wav files organized into different categories)
The
Webby Awards (awards given to websites in 22 different categories)
What
Is.Com (Internet info, including explanations of terminology)
World
Kids’ Net (lots of areas to explore: games, internet safety info,
clubs on the internet run by kids, animal info, art, areas specifically
for girls or boys, “make a difference” projects for kids)
Wotch
(Get cool and fun mini applications to download for free with
special effects, sound and animation. Choose
from mini-books, mini-
browsers, mini-cards and mini-mailings. Very
cute.)
Yahoo
Internet Life Online (online version of the popular magazine)
Yahooligans
(web guide for kids)
ZDNet
(lots of free downloads, plus computer and Web info)