English and Foreign Language | Online Bookstores | Health | Education | Internet Resources | Search Engines | Software Updates | Computer Support

English and Foreign Language

Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com/ Thesaurus.com http://www.thesaurus.com/ Common Errors in English http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ - A list of common grammatical errors. Hyper TextBook http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/engl_126/book126.htm - Online grammar reference. AltaVista Translations http://babelfish.altavista.com/ - Free online translation site. Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ - a large collection of classic works available online, royalty-free. -top-

Online Bookstores

Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/ - A large online store with a huge collection of books, music, and electronics. Barnes and Noble http://www.bn.com/ - General purpose online bookstore. Fatbrain http://www.fatbrain.com/ - Online bookstore, with a focus on technology. -top-

Health

MedicineNet.com http://www.medicinenet.com/ - Free, general purpose archive of health information. HealthFinder http://www.healthfinder.gov - U.S. government health and human services site. Mayo Clinic Health Oasis http://www.mayohealth.org - The Mayo Clinic's web-site, with a variety of sub-sections. Dr. C. Everett Koop http://www.drkoop.com - Health resources with drug information. HealthTouch http://www.healthtouch.com - Health resource with specials sections for men and womens' health. -top-

Education

Education World http://www.education-world.com - Search 115,000 education and teaching related sites. Common Questions about the Internet http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1578.html - Common educator questions about the internet. -top-

Internet Resources

WebMonkey Guides http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/guides/ - Guides on basic internet tasks, such as surfing the web or using e-mail, and a technical glossary. Johns Hopkins University http://www.library.jhu.edu - Milton's Web: Evaluating information found on the Internet. Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/cite/index.html - Library of Congress guide to citing electronic sources. UCLA http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm - Thinking critically about WWW resources. Cornell University http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html - Criteria and tools for evaluating Web sites. -top

Search Engines

Google http://www.google.com Excite http://www.excite.com AltaVista http://www.altavista.com HotBot http://www.hotbot.com Infoseek http://go.com Lycos http://www.lycos.com/ Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com University of South Carolina Beaufort Library http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml - A basic tutorial on searching the web. -top

Software Updates

America Online http://www.aol.com/ - AOL homepage Microsoft http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ - Microsoft's software updates portal. Apple http://www.info.apple.com/support/downloads.html - Apple's software updates page. Netscape http://www.netscape.com/ - The makers of Navigator and Communicator. Real http://www.real.com/ - The makers of the RealOne Player. -top

Computer Support

CNET http://www.cnet.com/ - All things computers. Ziff Davis http://www.zdnet.com/ - General purpose computer information and news. Virtual Dr. http://discussions.virtualdr.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro - Excellent Computer Support site MacFixIt http://www.macfixit.com/ - Macintosh specific support. AppleCare Knowledge Base http://kbase.info.apple.com/ - Apple Computer's knowledge base site. Microsoft Knowledge Base http://search.support.microsoft.com/ - Microsoft's knowledge base site. -top