Community Education Courses,
Dr. Jan Hogle
Course Exercises and Powerpoint Slides
- Basic Computing
- Introduction to Email and the Internet
- Ebay course (Forest Lake Comm. Ed.)
Free software
- Free Office program: OpenOffice.org (public license)
- Google Pack of useful tools and utilities (Windows XP only)
- Open Source Software: Sourceforge.net
Protecting Yourself Online
Internet spoof, scam, fraud, phishing, and hoax info:
- Snopes.com
- Hoaxbusters at ciac.org
- About.com's Viruses and Hoaxes
- Malware help and Internet Security Info for beginners: GeeksToGo, Security Essentials
- Safer Browsers and Email: Firefox and Thunderbird, Opera
- Personal Security on the Internet (Older, archived site, but still useful info!)
Searching
- Finding People on the Internet: Zabasearch, Google, Excite, Switchboard
- Finding Stuff on the Internet: Google, Ask.com, Metacrawler, Dogpile, AltaVista, Lycos
- Finding out about Internet and Computer Terms: Webopedia.com, About.com
Useful and just plain cool sites to visit:
- 100bestwebsites.org
- About.com
- Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader
- Archive.org (WaybackMachine)
- Bartleby.com (books)
- Epinions (reviews)
- Google Labs
- How Stuff Works
- ifilm (videos)
- IMDB (film/tv database)
- Online Typing Course
- Project Gutenberg (books)
- Quicktime movie player
- TutorialFind.com