The Internet
www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/basic_web/ - Basic web lessons
www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx - Internet Explorer
www.mozilla.com - Firefox
www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard - Shortcut keys
news.google.com – news from 4500 news sources (several languages)
www.google.com/language_tools - translate web page
news.yahoo.com – news from selected sources
www.cnn.com - CNN news
www.newspaperlinks.com - US newspapers online
www.ipl.org/div/news - International newspapers online
www.refdesk.com - links to various references
www.wikipedia.org - user generated encyclopedia
www.thefreedictionary.com - multiple dictionaries
www.gutenberg.org - 16,000 free ebooks
www.ceoexpress.com - business related links
www.auburnalabama.org - Auburn
www.auburnalabama.org/library- Auburn City Library
www.leeco.us - Lee County
www.alabama.gov - The Official Website of the State of Alabama
alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLoginFire.asp – ALISON (Alabama Legislative Information System Online)
www.firstgov.gov - The US Government’s Official Web Portal
thomas.loc.gov – THOMAS – Legislative (US) Information on the Internet
Individual store – do search on store name (Sears, Lowes, etc)
www.amazon.com - web retailer
www.pricegrabber.com - price comparisons (on web)
www.ups.com - United Parcel Service
www.fedex.com - FedEx
www.usps.com - US Postal Service (only some packages)
Highway status – do search on <state name> DOT (eg: Georgia DOT)
Airline fares – do search on airline name
www.travelocity.com - general travel
www.expedia.com - general travel
www.flytecomm.com - track individual flight
Bill Paying
or through bank or credit union
Banking – check website of individual bank
Investments - check website of individual broker
www.annualcreditreport.com or call 1-877-322-8228 for a free annual report on your credit
www.familysearch.org - Family Search – 1880 census, SSDI, free genealogy database software, more
www.rootsweb.com - RootsWeb – several genealogy databases
www.ellisisland.org - Ellis Island – Immigration data
www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=ObitFinder – Recent obituaries
www.peoplefinders.com – People Finders – Very good
reunite.myfamily.com/search.aspx - MyFamily – Very good, especially if an address is known
find.intelius.com/index.php - Intelius
www.ussearch.com/consumer/index.jsp - USSearch
www.infospace.com/home/tads/index3.htm - InfoSpace
www.zabasearch.com - ZabaSearch
www.searchsystems.net - SearchSystems - about 35,000 national, state, regional, county and local databases
www.wunderground.com - Weather Underground
quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm - California earthquakes
science.nasa.gov/RealTime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3d.html - satellite tracking
www.georgia-navigator.com/maps/atlanta - Atlanta traffic
auburn.transloc-inc.com – Tiger Transit Bus Locator
www.live365.com - hundreds of internet radio stations
www.radiofreeworld.com - web radio and TV guide
www.youtube.com - video from many sources
www.liveatc.net - Air Traffic Control audio
podcasts.yahoo.com – podcast search
www.skype.com - free internet phone calls (pc to pc)
www.avast.com - free – Avast antivirus
www.grisoft.com - free – AVG antivirus
www.symantec.com - Norton AntiVirus
www.mcafee.com - McAfee VirusScan
www.lavasoft.com/software/adaware - free - Ad-Aware SE Personal
www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html - free - SpyBot-S&D
www.zonealarm.com - free - ZoneAlarm
www.hackerwatch.org/probe - test your computer’s vulnerability
www.cybersitter.com - CYBERsitter
www.snopes.com - urban legends reference page
groups.google.com - search for content within groups
groups.yahoo.com – search for content within groups
genforum.genealogy.com – genealogy – groups based on surnames, locations
www.blogpulse.com - search for blogs, content within blogs, statistics
www.technorati.com - search for blogs, content within blogs
www.daypop.com - search for news, blogs
www.mozilla.org - download free browser (Firefox), email client (Thunderbird)
www.openoffice.org - download free OpenOffice.org 2.0 office suite – same applications as Microsoft Office
www.worldcommunitygrid.org - Human Proteome Folding Project
folding.stanford.edu – protein folding projects
setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu – Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence project
boinc.berkeley.edu - Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
alabamamaps.ua.edu – excellent source of Alabama maps, aerial photographs
maps.google.com – maps, directions with overlay of satellite photographs
www.mapquest.com - maps, directions
maps.yahoo.com - maps, directions
www.leecountymaps.com - Lee County property maps, aerial photographs
gis.auburnalabama.org – Auburn Geographic Information System
earth.google.com – download Google Earth software – great images and maps
maps.live.com – great images and maps