http://www.snlcsj.org/ - SJ SeniorNet Learning Center

http://www.seniornet.org/ - the SeniorNet home page

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http://www.libraryspot.com - library links worldwide plus many otherr fascinating links

http://www.calcat.org - search California library catalogs for what you need

http://www-lib.co.santa-clara.ca.us - SC County Public Libraries & e-librrary source

http://www.sjlibrary.org - San Jose Public Library

http://www.ipl.org - the Internet Public Library where thousands of books can be read online

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ - University of Penn-s entry site to theiir online digital library

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/cynavi.html - Cyber (NY) Times Navigator

http://lii.org - Librarians’ Internet Index - a guide too the internet from the professionals

http://www.refdesk.com - reference desk search>

http://www.hotsheet.com - classified list of web sites>

http://www.ceoexpress.com. - excellent reference site

http://www.radio-locator.com/ - listen to radio stations around the worrld

http://www.blindradio.com - radio stations selected by location or type

http://charityreports.bbb.org/public/All.aspx?bureauID=9999 - Better Bus Bureau charity reports

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.alpha - information for evaluating charities

http://en.wikipedia.org/ - Wikipedia, an encyclopedia people like you create.

http://www.whitepages.com - telephone, yellow page

http://www.yellowpages.com - AT&T yellow page directory

http://www.anywho.com - AT&T telephone directory informatioon

BAY AREA INFO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://transit.511.org - Bay Area transit schedules and info

http://www.ktvu.com - Oakland Channel 2 - ktvu - see also thee Bayinsider tab

http://www.kron.com - Channel 4 - kron

http://cbs5.com - San Francisco Channel 5 - kpix

http://www.kqed.com - Channel 9 PBS – see ondemand for downlooads

http://www.mercurynews.com - San Jose Mercury-s Bay Area info

http://www.sfgate.com - San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sjdowntown.com - San Jose-s Downtown Association

http://www.sanjose.org/ - >San Jose Info from Convention and Visitor’s Bureau

http://www.artsopolis.com - arts events in Silicon Valley + discounnt tickets

http://www.goldstarevents.com - discount tickets for many locations

COMPUTER -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.apple.com/downloads – download Quicktime & iTunes for audio, video, & movies

http://www.winamp.com - navigator-Winamp listening-viewing sourrce

http://www.real.com - download Real Player software for interrnet audio and video

http://www.adobe.com - download Adobe Acrobat Reader

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox - download the Firefox browser>

http://www.irfanview.com - download a freeware graphics viewer + mmuch more

http://www.cnet.com - measure your bandwidth; find ISP-s, brooadband servers, etc.

http://speedtest.surewest.net - a quick, easy to use computer connectioon speed test

http://vlaurie.com/index.html - an education site about home computers<

http://www.htmlgoodies.com - how to write HTML and develop your own web page

http://www.webmonkey.com - html and site building tutorials

http://www.smartwebprinting.com - download Hew Pac-s very useful html priinter software

http://www.activevirusshield.com - test your computer for security risks

http://safety.live.com – Microsoft-s free PC safety scan, click on - Full Service Scan

http://www.mcafee.com - virus scan software and download free uupdates

http://www.snopes.com - computer/internet rumors, stories, legeends, frauds, etc.

http://surfthenetsafely.com - info about viruses, worms, spyware, etc.

http://www.aumha.org - help with fixing virus, worm, spyware, etc. problems

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EDUCATION-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.ted.com/index.php - listen to podcast recordings of educatiional and inspiring speakers

http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html - take UC-Berkeley courses on-line free -- but no credit

http://cnx.org - “Connexions” a free on-line website with university level (and other) courses

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages - want to learn a language? Lots of on-line courses

http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/ - some interesting books/pubs available free on-line

http://www.teach12.com - the teaching company’s courses from top professors

http://h30187.www3.hp.com - computer & photo classes offered on-line free by Hewlett Packard

http://bwcourses.com - on-line courses from Business Week

http://www.elderhostel.org/ - Elderhostel catalog on-line

http://www.roadscholar.org/prog/ - Road Scholar catalog on-line

FINANCIAL----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.investorguide.com - lots of links to research a stock

http://www.adr.com - Amer. Dep. Receipts info + foreign stocks and markets

http://www.marketwatch.com - mkt reports, financial news, quotes, broad range of functions

http://www.investhelp.com - all around stock market news and information

http://www.bigcharts.com - the place to go for stock charts

http://www.quicken.com - personal finance, quotes, analysis from IBES

http://www.vanguard.com - vanguard funds info + tax focus info

http://www.fidelity.com - mutual fund info

http://www.nightlybusiness.org - transcripts from the nightly business report

http://www.hoovers.com - some basic info including stock screening at no cost

http://www.reuters.com - financial news, excellent quote info, personal portfolio

http://www.bloomberg.com - quotes, planning tools, mutual funds, personal portfolio

http://www.sec.gov - access to on-line EDGAR data base of SEC filings

http://www.cboe.com - cboe options quotations

http://finance.yahoo.com - quotes, news, learn about Exchange Traded Funds (ETF’s)

http://www.amex.com - American stock exchange (etf)

http://ishares.com - ishares exchange traded funds (etf)

GOVERNMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.firstgov.gov - access index to federal government sites

http://www.whitehouse.gov - George W’s home page

http://www.archives.gov/ - national archives

http://www.loc.gov - Library of Congress

http://www.odci.gov/ - CIA’s publications including lots of country info in “The World Factbook”

http://www.census.gov - US demographic info - in particular, see the “statistical abstract”

http://www.irs.ustreas.gov - all you wish you didn’t have to know about the IRS

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/ - how to buy US bonds direct from Uncle

http://dmv.ca.gov - driver license info, vehicle registration, etc.

INTERNET SERVICES --------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.flickr.com - Yahoo’s new on-line photo sharing site

http://www.kodakgallery.com - upload, share and print photos online

http://photobucket.com - upload, share photos online

http://www.shutterfly.com - upload, share and print photos online

http://www.snapfish.com - upload, share photos online

http://www.skype.com - an internet phone company (VOIP)

http://www.jajah.com - Internet telephoning - see also skype, yahoo, lycos & vonage for VOIP

http://www.vonage.com - Internet telephoning (VOIP)

http://www.net2phone.com - PC phone calls

http://www.youtube.com - see all the uploaded videos – a part of Google

http://www.angelfire.lycos.com - free web publishing and hosting

http://www.tripod.lycos.com - free web publishing and hosting

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MAPS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://maps.google.com - new mapping including satellite photos<

http://www.bing.com/maps - Microsoft’s new mapping with “bird’s eye view”

http://www.mapquest.com - maps of the US and the world (www.mapquest.com/pda/maps.adp)

http://www.mapblast.com - maps including latitude and longitude

http://www.topozone.com - USGS topo maps available on-line

http://moon.google.com - close up map of the Moon

http://www.google.com/mars - close up map of Mars >

MEDICAL-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www-med.stanford.edu/healthlib - medical/health info and library

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed - Nat. Inst. of Health’s medical journalss

http://www.mayo.edu - Mayo Clinic’s links to health sites

http://www.medscape.com - medical information <

http://www.merck.com/pubs - Merck manuals on-line  >

http://my.webmd.com - rather technical medical information

http://www.planetreesanjose.org - medical library in Los Gatos>

http://www.medlineplus.org - National Library of Medicine – databasee

http://www.medicare.gov - place to go for Medicare information

http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov - comparison information of hospitals

http://santaclara.networkofcare.org - resources in Silicon Valley for senior care

http://www.labtestsonline.org - how to interpret your medical lab resullts

NEWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.newspaperlinks.com/ - read on-line newspapers around the worlld

http://newslink.org - radio/TV stations, newspaper, magaziness worldwide

http://news.yahoo.com - a nearly universal source of news<

http://www.usatoday.com - USA Today

http://www.nytimes.com - NY Times

http://www.washingtonpost.com - Washington Post

http://www.bbc.co.uk - British Broadcasting >

http://abcnews.go.com - ABC news

http://www.cbsnews.com - CBS news

http://www.msnbc.msn.com - NBC news

http://www.cnn.com - CNN

http://espn.go.com - ESPN’s home page, scores and more<

http://www.pbs.org - Public Broadcasting System

http://www.npr.org - National Public Radio>

PARKS & REC-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.nps.gov/parks.html - links to the National Parks and more

http://www.yosemite.ca.us/ - Yosemite information page

http://cal-parks.ca.gov/ - Cal State Park info

http://www.parkhere.org - Santa Clara County Parks

http://www.sjparks.org - San Jose Parks and Recreation – don’t mmiss “Trails Information”

http://www.openspace.org - Mid Peninsula Open Space District<

http://www.ebparks.org - East Bay Park District

http://www.bahiker.com/ - organized listing of bay area parks andd trails

http://www.virtualparks.org - panoramic photos of parks

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RELIGION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.devotions.net/bible/00bible.htm - New Revised Standard Version>

http://quod.lib.umich.edu - King James and Revised Standard Bibles,, + book of Mormon & more

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible - New American Bible

http://www.sancta.org/ - Our Lady of Guadalupe>

http://www.ntcanon.org - early Christian writings

http://www.earlham.edu/~seidti/iam/interp_mss.html - interpreting ancient manuscripts

http://www.oocities.org/wallyfant/bible - an on-line bibliography of biblical refferences

SCIENCE---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.mbnms-simon.org - Monterey Bay and related info & linnks

http://www.mbayaq.org - Monterey Bay Aquarium>

http://www.livescience.com - current science news and topics

http://www.howstuffworks.com - just what it says

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http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl - award winning way to have fun learning physics

http://manufacturing.stanford.edu - educational videos showing how things aare made

http://www.hpwt.de - a readable presentation of technical science - click on the British flag

http://radio.seti.org - listen to podcasts of scientific radio shows present and past

http://www.smithsonian.org - the Smithsonian Museum’s website

http://www.nationalgeographic.com - all things national and geographic>

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu - digital recreation of 300AD Rome <

http://answers.yahoo.com - answers to lots of things you wanted to know

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov - space and technical info - don’t miss ““SITE MAP” link

http://snurl.com/earth - view of the earth from space>

http://hubblesite.org/ - see the stars with Hubble

http://earth.google.com - download Google’s satellite earth and ssky viewer

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov - download Worldwind - NASA’s satellite vviewing program

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org - download Microsoft Research’s telescope with zoom

SEARCH ENGINES --------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.internettutorials.net - University of Albany’s tutorial about tthe Internet and searching

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html - UC Berkeley‘s Internet Search Guide

http://www.googleguide.com - a free book about how to use Google

http://a9.com - Amazon’s new search engine

http://www.altavista.com - Alta Vista search engine and “Babel Fissh” translations

http://www.ask.com - ask a question (good luck)

http://www.excite.com - Excite search engine and portal

http://www.google.com - Google search engine (www.google.com/palm)

http://www.lycos.com - Lycos search engine and portal

http://www.msn.com – Microsoft-s old search engine and portal

http://www.bing.com – Microsoft-s newer search engine

http://search.live.com/cashback - get cash back with purchases made from here

http://search.yahoo.com - Yahoo search engine

http://yq.search.yahoo.com - Yahoo’s experimental new search technollogy

http://www.wolframalpha.com/ - Described as a “knowledge engine”

http://dir.yahoo.com - Yahoo’s subject tree directory

http://www.vlib.org - not a search engine but a subject tree//directory

http://dmoz.org - not a search engine but a subject tree//directory

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SHOPPING ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.kbb.com - Kelly Blue Book car pricing info

http://www.edmunds.com - Edmunds car info

http://www.intellichoice.com - car buying service

http://www.amazon.com - Amazon, the largest bookstore in the world

http://www.ebay.com - online auctions - see also http://www.express.ebay.com

http://www.craigslist.org - informal buy/sell in SF Bay area and elsewhere

http://www.mysimon.com - comparison shopping

http://www.nyinks.com - discount printer cartridges

http://www.salescircular.com - what’s on sale in your area

http://www.buy.com - more shopping

http://www.shopping.com - price comparisons

http://www.bizrate.com - price comparisons

http://www.nextag.com - price comparisons

http://www.overstock.com - bargain prices occasionally

http://www.rebateplace.com - looking for a rebate?

http://rebateshare.com - rebates

http://www.nordstrom.com - the ladies don’t have to be told what this is

http://www.diamondcertified.com - list of certified merchants in SF Bay Area

http://sanjose.bbb.org - check out a business with the Better Business Bureau web

http://www.dca.ca.gov - Cal. Dept. of Consumer Affairs - check on all professional licenses

http://www.gethuman.com - when you want to speak to a real person

TRAVEL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi - current California hiway info

http://www.ricksteves.com - European travel advice, books, and links

http://travel.latimes.com - LA Times travel

http://www.raileurope.com/ - European rail schedules/fares

http://www.eurail.on.ca/ - a Canadian site for European rail info

http://www.reed.edu/%7Ereyn/transport.html#menu - subways/transports of the world

http://www.seatguru.com - find better airplane seats

http://www.flightview.com - airline flight tracking

http://www.southwest.com - southwest airlines info not found on other sites

http://www.itn.net - airline fares, flight info

http://www.travelocity.com - air fares and arrival info

http://www.expedia.com - try the low fare wizard

http://www.orbitz.com - air fares

http://www.cheaptickets.com - air fares

http://www.alltravel.com - check on low air fares

http://www.travelzoo.com - subscribe to weekly specials

http://www.cruisewwt.com/ - whole world of travel special deals

http://www.vacationstogo.com - subscribe to hot deal notices

http://www.cruiseline.com - cruise discounts & last minute deals

http://www.hotels.com - hotel consolidator

http://www.bestfares.com - has some fare deals

http://www.tripadvisor.com - customer reviews of hotels

http://www.hawaii-hawaii.com - Hawaiian/Mexican vacations by Pleasant Holidays

http://www.travel-library.com/europe/ - rec. travel library-Europe

WEATHER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.noaa.gov - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

http://www.intellicast.com/ - weather reports and forecasts

http://weather.yahoo.com - a quick and easy to find weather info

see also current weather radar on local TV station websites.

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UNCLASSIFIED--------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.cprr.org - photographic history of the transcontinnental railroad

http://www.trainweb.org - links to current and historical RR infoormation

http://www.ellisislandrecords.org - a place to look for European records of entry

http://www.familysearch.org - LDS’ genealogical search

http://www.camcentral.com - catalog of international web cam sites<

http://www.ustream.tv - do it yourself web cam site<

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm - web museum of Paris

http://www.artcyclopedia.com - a web guide to paintings and great art<

http://www.classiccat.net - classical music pages>

http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/Address.aspx - find your TV antenna directions<

http://www.hulu.com & http://tv.blinkx.com & http://www.sling.com - see TV & movies old & new<

http://www.imdb.com - movie reviews on the internet

http://www.metacritic.com - find reviews of movies, music, games

http://www.pixar.com/shorts - short short clever films

http://www.otrcat.com/index.html - old time radio catalog

http://www.radiolovers.com - old radio shows

http://www.cagle.com - political (and other) cartoons

http://www.oocities.org/researchtriangle/facility/4118/humor/ - a collection of “humor”

http://www.toonopedia.com - just for fun - a reference site all aboout cartoons

http://www.comics.com/categories/index.html - read current comics

http://www.puzz.com - links to puzzles

http://math.boisestate.edu/gas - Gilbert & Sullivan home page

http://secondlife.com - you can create an “avatar” and live a virtual life in a virtual world

http://www.facebook.com - One of many places to establish your owwn “web presence”

http://www.myspace.com - One more place to establish your own “wweb presence”

http://twitter.com - For those who want to “tweet”

http://www.panoramas.dk - panoramic photos thru out the world

http://www.panorama-cities.net - more panorama photos

http://www.cooking.com - lots of recipes and menus

http://www.zillow.com - what’s your house worth, how about yourr neighbor’s?

http://www4.passur.com/sjc.html - monitor flights to/from San Jose airporrt

http://www.factcheck.org - unbiased checking of politicians’ claims

http://www.annualcreditreport.com - get your free credit reports>

http://www.kiva.org - be a microlender – help someone in the developing world lift themselves

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org - your computer as part of a problem solvving network

http://www.oocities.org/wallyfant/fav-temp.html - “favorite” links of lesser interest

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