Services, Utilities and Tools
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Tools
Exam Writer - Easy to use resource which allows teachers to create multiple choice tests
on the Web.
ZDNet Software Library -
this site boasts dozens of downloadable tutorials for children (and adults) in a wide
range of areas.
Utilities
Netsuck - This valuable utility for all serious
downloaders lets you enter Web addresses of files on the net and download them without
wasting time waiting for the relevant pages to come down the line. Its free, compatible
with Win 95 and NT and is a mere 231 Kb in size.
RealPlayer 5 - This is essential for playing back the
latest RealAudio and RealVideo files. Costs about �18.80 and is compatible with Windows
3.x / 95 / NT & Mac. Size 1.3 Mb.
Gymnast
- A text to pdf converter for around �20.
Winzip - lets you reduce the
size of a large attachment by 50 to 60%.
Services
Search Engines
These are the main search engines to be found on the net. Try our
search page first for educational information. You'll
also find a repeat of these links on our search page.
HumanSearch - Rather
than using "engines" or "spiders" to search for relevent sites, this
search site uses humans. The answers to your requests are sent to you within 48 hours via
e-mail free of charge.
Hotbot - A brilliant search engine which reaches an
estimated 34% of all web pages. Other search engines can't compete.
Yahoo - Still the number 1 search engine.
Webcrawler - One of the least popular search
engines.
SearchUK - Small coverage as it focuses on UK sites.
Avoids the long lists of U.S sites.
Excite - A very popular and important search engine.
AltaVista - Offers a wide coverage.
Lycos - Very popular.
Infoseek - very useful for finding commercial sites.
Metacrawler - Good for International coverage
using most of the well known engines to ensure a good number of hits.
Yellow Pages - The Internet's
yellow pages directory.
Mirago - aimed specifically
at UK families and schools with family content filters.
Northern Light - very
good search engine.
Monkey Sweat - Another
search engine.
Music
www.peoplesound.com -
free music personalised to your taste.
Free E-mail
Hotmail - the most popular free emailer, with five
million users.
Yahoo! Mail - Offers other services such as Yahoo!
Messenger which brings the latest Net news to your mailbox and Instant Mail Alerts that
tell you when you've got new mail.
Mailcity - Reasonable selection of news services
delivered to your In-box, including Wired news and unlimited mail storage.
Mailexcite - the free mail arm of the directory
service, Excite includes the ability to send out auto-responses if you're going to be away
on holiday for a few weeks.
GoPlay - Freemail with a bit of fun on the side.
Humour, horoscopes, electronic greeting cards and more. Fast as well as fun.
Personal Electronic mail - One of the few UK-based
free email services. friendly interface plus some free web space.
Net@ddress - Wide selection of Americanised blurb
can be sent to your in-box. supports MIME attachments for both sending and recieving.
SuperNews - Refreshingly short on registration
details, this service is good for newsgroup postings.
Coollist - If you've got lots of people you need to
contact, Coollist is a useful service. It allows you to store your mailing list on its
servers - and it guarantees not to sell details of your contact list.
Free Webspace
Geocities - 6Mb of free web space which you can put
in any one of the 40 themed communities. The deal also includes the tools to create your
pages. All Geocities ask you to do is include a banner ad for their service and a link
back to the Geocities home page.
Fortunecity - Similar to Geocities this service
runs a selection of themed areas where you can put your site. You get 10Mb of free space,
use of web design tools and an email address.
Tripod - 5Mb of free web space. Using their tools you
can build a site without any knowledge of HTML, all done through templates.
Informational and Educational
Ask a Librarian - This is a free service that
works in conjunction with 34 on-line libraries in the UK. The service helps you to
find the answers to all kinds of questions.
News Digest - NewsNow supplies the latest
headlines from leading news sources. It lists all of the current news headlines and
archives those of the last few days. Articles do not, however, contain the full text.
Clicking a headline takes you to the original news site.
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