The Internet

Tutorials

www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/basic_web/ - Basic web lessons

Browsers

www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx - Internet Explorer

www.mozilla.com - Firefox

www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard - Shortcut keys

Portals (your personal configuration will usually be my.xxxxx.com)

www.myway.com

www.excite.com

www.msn.com

www.yahoo.com

www.aol.com

Search Engines

www.google.com

search.msn.com

search.yahoo.com

News

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

Reference

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

Government

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

Shopping

Individual store – do search on store name (Sears, Lowes, etc)

www.amazon.com - web retailer

www.pricegrabber.com - price comparisons (on web)

Shipping – package tracking

www.ups.com - United Parcel Service

www.fedex.com - FedEx

www.usps.com - US Postal Service (only some packages)

Travel

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

Financial

Bill Paying

www.bellsouth.com

www.alabamapower.com

or through bank or credit union

Banking – check website of individual bank

Investments - check website of individual broker

Credit Report

www.annualcreditreport.com or call 1-877-322-8228 for a free annual report on your credit

Finding People

Past (genealogy)

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

Present

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

Public Databases

www.searchsystems.net - SearchSystems - about 35,000 national, state, regional, county and local databases

Realtime

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

Audio

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

Internet Phone

www.skype.com - free internet phone calls (pc to pc)

Antivirus Programs

www.avast.com - free – Avast antivirus

www.grisoft.com - free – AVG antivirus

www.symantec.com  - Norton AntiVirus

www.mcafee.com - McAfee VirusScan

Adware, Spyware Removal

www.lavasoft.com/software/adaware - free - Ad-Aware SE Personal

www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html - free - SpyBot-S&D

Firewall

www.zonealarm.com - free - ZoneAlarm

www.hackerwatch.org/probe - test your computer’s vulnerability

Parental Control

www.cybersitter.com - CYBERsitter

Urban Legends

www.snopes.com - urban legends reference page

Groups

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

Blogs

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

Open Source Software

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

Grid Computing

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

Maps

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