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Fall 2009

• add your suggestions along with your initials --vt

These two Web sites have lot of software, some are free, some are trial version, and lot of other technoloy related information: http://download.cnet.com/windows/, http://freewarefiles.com/ --CV

MySpace.com- a free social network which also has games and applications. DF

Yahoo.com- a website that has free mail, games, weather, directions, and many other things. DF

The infamous free office applications: http://www.openoffice.org/ --DMV

I have used Facebook to reconnect with allot of my family and friends: http://www.facebook.com/ --DMV

I would call http://lyricsearch.net/ provides lyrics to a variety of current and old songs --DS

I also like http://www.wififreespot.com/ listing of free wifi hotspots all over the US --DS

Google.com - The most popular online search engine - SD

Youtube.com - The biggest online video site - SD

Hulu.com - Online TV shows, music, variety of videos, video games, movies and so much more on this site. --AA

docs.google.com - Google Documents offers free spreadsheets, word processing, presentation, and other software. - AL

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ - Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) gives you all the guidelines for certain writing styles like MLA and APA. - AL

Someone already chose Google Docs, so I chose Mesh.com. Live Mesh is a "cloud" service provided by Microsoft, in beta, to synchronize and share your data across your digital devices. -ST

Check out some of the current popular scientific achievements at: http://www.popsci.com/ It's very cool, don't miss it! --BH

Need to ask something? Just Ask.com -CM

The place to go before Wikipedia Britannica -CM

Technology for sport: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/InTheNews/NewTechnologyWillHelpImproveAthletesPerformance.htm The site also has indexes of different scientific inventions. --BH

Free online virus scanner: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ Free online file storage / backup: http://mozy.com/ --DKW

XBOX LIVE perhaps one of the greatest sources of recreational and social technologies ever. - AT

Twitter another great social networking tool. -AT

Yelp is always to best place for restaurant and entertainment recommendations. http://www.yelp.com/ -YL

Summer 2009

Google Search Engine
cnn.com for new and old news articles
-VM

freewarehome.com download free programs and software http://www.macupdate.com/ free software if you have a MAC -J.M.

www.pandora.com - free internet radio. You pick a song or artist you like and it plays other things that are similar to your taste. The more feedback you give, the more it tailors the music to your liking. -MK

"Son of Citation Machine" at http://citationmachine.net/ - enter the information for the source you wish to reference and this will give you the proper citing format in MLA, APA, and Turabian citation. -MK

Google documents, great if you dont have ms office -JS

Firefox. a safer to use internet explorer -JS

Download. com is really helpful to download some basic software. Yahoo or gmail or any other free email accounts are really useful to have. - SA

http://sourceforge.net/ - A website where people can write and help improve program script. -KB

http://www09.wolframalpha.com/ - A project website that creates fact based answers for free. -KB

www.craigslist.org - A website where you can find anything that people are selling locally. It's local classifieds on the web from plants to furniture for sale to free dirt. It's a great way to reuse something from someone else, reduce on the shipping to and from, and recycle what you don't use. And it's local. - RJ

www.download3k.com - Download3k is a website that offers free software downloads for Windows. -AE

www.smilebox.com/ - Smilebox is a photo service that lets you quickly turn your pictures into digital creations. The site offers hundreds of ecard, scrapbooking, and slideshow designs for every occasion. - AE