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General Internet Search Engines
 

Google: www.google.com/

Yahoo: www.yahoo.com/

Ask: www.ask.com/

Clusty: http://clusty.com/

Intelways: http://www.intelways.com/

Ditto (Images): http://www.ditto.com/

YouTube (Videos): http://www.youtube.com/

Podscope (Podcasts): http://www.podscope.com/

Technorati (Blogs): http://technorati.com/

FindSounds (Sounds): http://www.findsounds.com/

Comparing Search Engines (Search Engine Watch): http://searchenginewatch.com/


General Internet Directories Of Websites By Subject

Digital Librarian: www.digital-librarian.com/

Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/

Librarians' Internet Index: http://lii.org/

Open Directory (dmoz): http://dmoz.org/

Yahoo Directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/


Online Tutorials For New Computer Users

Computer basics, MS Windows, MS Office, email, Internet basics and safety (GCF LearnFree): http://www.gcflearnfree.org/

MS Office, web development, etc.(Edumax): http://www.edumax.com/

New Users (The Library Network): http://tech.tln.lib.mi.us/tutor/welcome.htm

Internet (AARP): http://www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/basic_web/

Finding information on the Internet (UC Berkeley): http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Mouse Practice (Mouserobics):
www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/mouse/page1.html

Keyboard Practice (Central Kansas Library System's Chris Rippel): www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/keyboard/page1.html