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| WaySIGNS point to selected sites, sources, and software of special interest to students and scholars. Please email comments to WaySIGNS at LearnWorld. [Last revised 99.03.04.] |
| SEARCHING &c. | Click to Go to Top -> | Directory |
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| SEARCH ENGINES | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| A very helpful review of search engines appears in the December 1996 issue of MacWorld: Charles Seiter, "Better, Faster Web Searching," pp. 159-162. It is a comparison of AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek Ultra, Lyco, Magellan, Open Text, WebCrawler, and Yahoo. [And, as you see, MacWorld places its articles online, offering search of issues published since September 1994.] |
| AnySearch, a free download from PGP Inc., puts a convenient button to several prime search pages on your Netscape® browser. |
| AltaVista | Advanced search with AND OR NOT NEAR "" ( ). Categories: Web, usenet. Digital Equipment (DEC). |
| Northern Light | Searches web and a 'Special Collection' of articles from more than 1800 sources, grouping returns in useful folders. Web links and article synopses are free, but a fee [typically $1 to $4] charged for full-text download of 'Special Collection' articles. |
| Infoseek Ultra | Categories: + 1 "". Go to Infoseek Japan to search Japanese-language pages, if you have Japanese-capable software. |
| Excite | Enter search terms. |
| Lycos | Advanced search with - . $ for NOT, EXACT, and SUFFIX WILDCARD. Categories: web, sounds, pictures, by subject. |
| HotBot | Search engine. WIRED and HotWired. |
| reference.com | Newsgroup search. Do "active" right-now query, for results on your browser, or set "passive" query with results emailed to you. |
| LINKS [Grouped] & Search | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| Yahoo | The venerable lister and grouper, striving to compete with HotBot, Lycos, and Excite. |
| LIBRARY CATALOGS | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| Library Catalogs | Library of Congress list of "Z39.50 compliant" searchable library catalogs. |
| University of California | Want a big one? Try the University of California catalog. [UC faculty & students can also access several subject databases.] Fully searchable. |
| British Library | 'Network OPAC,' a searchable catalog of selected British Library holdings. Beware limited hours: offline 0000-0400 GMT Monday-Saturday, and Sundays and 'English holidays.' [0000-0400 GMT is 4 pm to 8 pm PDT] |
| Library of Congress | Library of Congress catalog. |
| NEWSPAPERS | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| newspapers.com | Links to many many newspapers around the world, and other sites of published media. For example, there is a page of links to college and university newspaper web pages. |
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University of Pennsylvania Library | Newspapers and electronic journals. Links to electronic journals, organized by discipline. Extensive. Links to newspapers. |
| BOOKS & LIBRARY REFRERENCES | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| BookSpot | Links to book sites. [Companion site of LibrarySpot.] They say it is "designed to break through the information overload to bring top book-related sites together with insightful editorial in one convenient, user-friendly spot." |
| LibrarySpot | Links to library and reference sites. [Companion site of BookSpot.] |
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COURSE SYLLABI | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| World Lecture Hall | Professor-submitted links to courses [reading lists, links, other course materials] organized by academic discipline. |
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LOCATORS | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| Switchboard | Telephone book search. Categories: people, businesses. |
| WhoWhere? | Record your own name, address, telephone, email &c. so others can find you. |
| Four11 | Locator. You can record your own name &c. |
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Directory Links | 'Gopher' links to "All the directory servers in the world." Most in universities, some faculty, some student. A creaky system, but it may be the only way to find someone's address. |
| MAIL ORDER | Click to Go to Top -> | Directory |
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| BOOKS | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| Amazon | Fast search on claimed > 1,000,000 titles. |
| American Booksellers' Association | Links to ABA members who are on line. |
| CDs | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| CD Connection | Selling by mail. Order on web. Claim > 135,000 CDs. |
| Mac & PC STUFF | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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MacConnection PC Connection | Among the foremost computer by-mail outlets. 1-800-800-3333. Check MacWorld or PC World for ads by this and other mail order houses. |
| LANGUAGES | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| Transparent Language | German, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Latin. English for Spanish-speakers. Mac or PC. With CDs hear lesson sentences; repeat, record, compare. |
| COMPUTING | Click to Go to Top -> | Directory |
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| SHAREWARE | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| shareware.com | Access to software, often the best available. For example, Netscape browsers can be downloaded through this site. If you download "shareware" for which the author asks a fee if you use it, please pay if you do decide it is useful. |
| WEB BROWSER | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| Netscape Navigator 4.5 | You can [must!] download this from Netscape if you don't have it--or some competitive equivalent. Includes Java support, font control, table cell background colors [as in this site], cascading style sheets. [Navigator 4.04 is the most recent for 680x0 machines, and requires Sys 7.6.1.] |
| WEB & NET FREEDOM | Link | "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." | Directory |
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| EFF is a "non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media." |  Electronic Frontier Foundation
| Consider that Deutsche Telecom blocked all WebCom sites, including this one, to keep one site--certainly an obnoxious site--out of Germany. And in September 1996 China blocked some hundred sites, including CNN and The New York Times. |
| Pretty Good Privacy: a cryptography program, originally distributed as shareware, and now a commercial product of Network Associates. A freeware version for non-commercial use is available from an MIT server. With PGP you can encrypt files to ensure confidentiality. [PGP is also incorported into the commercial Eudora email program from Qualcomm.] You can read about PGP developer Philip Zimmermann. |
| WEB SITE PROVIDER | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| WebCom | Web Communications [WebCom] is our web services provider. For a reasonable price they provide sites, email handling, domain-name services, &c. You must already have Internet access. |
| Mac SOFTWARE | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| The authors of this site rely on this software. Other users will have other needs. But these are powerful, general applications which Mac-using students and scholars will find helpful. |
| Word 5.1a | This is an earlier version of Microsoft Word. It has proven stable and reliable. Excellent tabling capability. [Avoid 6.0, said to be plagued by bugs, and rather than 6.0.1 look at Mac Word 98, below.] |
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| Mac Word 98 | Latest version of Microsoft Word. Especially good for academics: markup capabilities [e.g. inserted comments, color highlighting]. Bulky. |
| RAM Doubler 2 | If you need more "random access memory" and don't want to buy chips, this will do the job--at a small price in speed. This new version permits expansion up to three times installed RAM. |
| Web Arranger | Presents itself as a way to organize work on the Web. It does that. But it is very flexible. Use it to schedule your life [calendar]; to list bibliography; to organize Netscape bookmarks more easily than in Netscape Navigator itself. Plug-in features. |
| StuffIt Deluxe 5.0 | The front-ranked utility for archiving, compression, and translation of Mac files. |
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| TRAVEL | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| Council Travel | Governed by member colleges, universities, and student study/travel organizations [Council on International Educational Exchange], Council Travel is a non-profit service for students and faculty. Specialises in air travel to Europe and Asia. Web site is thin; phone them for current fares. |
| MAPS | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| University of Texas Map Collection | Many maps. Consult or download. |
| PERSONAL PAGES | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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| Excite Live | A comfortable starting-point, with a strong Web search engine and a trainable news search. Notepad. Reminder. Links to news sources. Categories. |
| My Yahoo | News search. Categories. Other personal page features. And fast! |
| LANGUAGE SOURCES | Link | What Does This Site Do? | Directory |
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Center for the Advancement of Language Learning | CALL is the 'action arm' of the US CIA Director's Foreign Language Committee. Its includes links to language learning resource sites. |
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RTHK: Radio Television Hong Kong | Live Chinese [Putonghua and Cantonese] and English programs. |
| Timecast | Links to live audio and video, accessed using RealAudio and RealPlayer, including index of radio stations in many languages. |
WaySIGNS was created by Bruce D. Larkin. My email address is bruce.larkin@learnworld.com.
The content of this site is © 1996-1999 Bruce D. Larkin and Helen Kruse Larkin, except as vendors reviewed have trademark or copyright rights. These choices and reviews are offered in good faith, but we accept no obligation arising from your use of the information on this page. We are WebCom clients and one of us is employed by the University of California. Otherwise, we have no relationship to the firms, sites, or products cited here. Links to this site may be incorporated in any other site.
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