i read a lot of articles (most forwarded from Ashley) on helpful links for students, whether they be high school, college, or grad. These are the most helpful i have found in the past year...
Sites...
Wikipedia - An online encyclopedia. Without a doubt the best place to START your search about any topic. However, if you are writing a paper, use this only as a STARTING place and use the sources listed at the bottom as resources.
IMDb - The web's best database for info on any movie, character, actor, actress, director, score, producer, tralier, trivia and mistakes! If you can dream it, it's listed on IMDb and nearly every name is a link to an article, much like Wiki.
AddAll - Probably the best tool on the web for locating books. You can search by Author, Title, Publisher, ISBN, etc and it searches 36 of the web's biggest bookstores and lists the results by price, lowest to highest. The listed price INCLUDES shipping and handling so you don't have to do the math. It also includes a link to go directly there and purchase it.
Drop.io - tool which allows private file sharing via web, email, phone or fax up to 100 MB in size. So you can send MP3's and movies and pictures in a snap.
KickYoutube - For those of you who are not content to merely watch youtube videos, but want to download and send them to friends and/or watch them later when your connection is unavailable (like for a class, presentation or retreat). Simply look up your favorite youtube video. When you're on the page to view it, go up to html and insert the word "kick" immediately after the "www." and before the "youtube.com/" (For example, if the video is it will become <http://www.kickyoutube.com/watch?v=ZpBkc2jK-6w> and a bar will appear, letting you choose what format you wish to download it in)
Encalc - A free web based advanced scientific calculator to help you with long mathematical equations.
Applications...
Digsby - Allows you to use one program for AIM, Yahoo messenger, MSN, and more. You install it and sign in as you would with AIM or Yahoo or MSN and then you add accounts like the aforementioned, as well as FaceBook, MySpace, Gmail, etc. You can choose popup alerts that let you know when you've received mail or people wrote on your wall and so on. It's also a much better interface for Facebook chat, since it's similar to AIM or Yahoo.
Mozilla - Much more stable and much less of a memory hog than MS Explorer. If you don't have it, get it.
Also, if you're not using Gmail yet, what are you waiting for? It has the best interface of any webmail program by far, search capabilities for looking through old e-mails that are unparalleled, and a million other useful tools. Google calendar is among the best tools for staying organized and for sharing your schedule with significant others who need that information. Google reader is also one of the best tools for reading all your favorite blogs in one place. In conjunction with Mozilla Firefox, this is the best way to stay organized and efficient, especially if you're lazy or disorganized, but it's great for everyone.
Sites...
Wikipedia - An online encyclopedia. Without a doubt the best place to START your search about any topic. However, if you are writing a paper, use this only as a STARTING place and use the sources listed at the bottom as resources.
IMDb - The web's best database for info on any movie, character, actor, actress, director, score, producer, tralier, trivia and mistakes! If you can dream it, it's listed on IMDb and nearly every name is a link to an article, much like Wiki.
AddAll - Probably the best tool on the web for locating books. You can search by Author, Title, Publisher, ISBN, etc and it searches 36 of the web's biggest bookstores and lists the results by price, lowest to highest. The listed price INCLUDES shipping and handling so you don't have to do the math. It also includes a link to go directly there and purchase it.
Drop.io - tool which allows private file sharing via web, email, phone or fax up to 100 MB in size. So you can send MP3's and movies and pictures in a snap.
KickYoutube - For those of you who are not content to merely watch youtube videos, but want to download and send them to friends and/or watch them later when your connection is unavailable (like for a class, presentation or retreat). Simply look up your favorite youtube video. When you're on the page to view it, go up to html and insert the word "kick" immediately after the "www." and before the "youtube.com/" (For example, if the video is
Encalc - A free web based advanced scientific calculator to help you with long mathematical equations.
Applications...
Digsby - Allows you to use one program for AIM, Yahoo messenger, MSN, and more. You install it and sign in as you would with AIM or Yahoo or MSN and then you add accounts like the aforementioned, as well as FaceBook, MySpace, Gmail, etc. You can choose popup alerts that let you know when you've received mail or people wrote on your wall and so on. It's also a much better interface for Facebook chat, since it's similar to AIM or Yahoo.
Mozilla - Much more stable and much less of a memory hog than MS Explorer. If you don't have it, get it.
Also, if you're not using Gmail yet, what are you waiting for? It has the best interface of any webmail program by far, search capabilities for looking through old e-mails that are unparalleled, and a million other useful tools. Google calendar is among the best tools for staying organized and for sharing your schedule with significant others who need that information. Google reader is also one of the best tools for reading all your favorite blogs in one place. In conjunction with Mozilla Firefox, this is the best way to stay organized and efficient, especially if you're lazy or disorganized, but it's great for everyone.
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