| Quick Clicks - Interesting and Helpful Web Sites
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| www.kidshealth.org - created by the
pediatric medical experts at The Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, The
Nemours Children's Clinics, and other children's health facilities nationwide.
Offers up-to-date information about childhood diseases, infections, and
more. |
| www.freeinternet.com or
www.juno.com - two sites that offer free
internet access. |
| www.smartplanet.com -
Online classes offering a wide range of courses, such as:
computing and the internet, hobby and recreation, arts and science, home and
family, body and mind, career and business, and finance and investment. Some
are fee-based and many are free. |
| www.ededication.com -
you can dedicate and send a song to someone through email. It
is free and easy. They have over 850,000 songs in their database now and expect
to have over a million soon. |
| www.bh4faces.com - this site comes to us from Beverly Hills. Did you ever wonder what
you would look like with a chin tuck? Send them a picture of yourself and they
will do a before and after computer enhanced image of what you will look like
if you have surgery. It is the "#1 cosmetic surgery website" for information
about cosmetic surgery. |
| www.rebeccasgarden.com -
garden tips, garden tours, garden planning, recipes, how-to's, and a message
board to post questions and answers to. It also has recipes and many more
interesting things for the garden enthusiast. |
| www.usps.gov -
among the things you would expect to find at the United States Postal Service
site-a list of zip codes, post office locator, rate calculator, it also offers
tips on making a move to a new address, and a way to save time by using the
online form to fill a change of address |
| www.recordedbooks.com - an online store
where you can rent or buy direct from the publisher of audiobooks on cassette
and CD. Thousands of unabridged titles by your favorite authors are expertly
narrated by critically acclaimed actors to choose from. |
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www.friskypet.com - this is a resource for better pet care. Find out about
pet behavior, basics of training pets, and grooming suggestions. The site has a
small dog library resource and has a chance to win a "one-of-a-kind" cat tower.
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| www.classicar.com - "Where Car Lovers
Click". This site if a resource for information about automobiles greater than
25 years old, car clubs, where to find old car parts, and you can chat with
fellow classic car enthusiasts. |
| Online greeting cards - these are great sites for
sending online greetings, as well as paper cards. They have great selection to
choose from and many are free. Nielsen Net Ratings claims the best online
greeting sites are: www.bluemountain.com,
www.americangreetings.com, and
www.egreetings.com. |
| www.iwon.com -
go to this site for a chance to be entered in the daily ($10,000), monthly ($1
Million), and annual ($10 Million) drawings. The site has news stories, weather
information, shopping and a search engine. As you click on the different links
in this site, you accumulate more point chances to win the
drawings. |
| www.zdtv.com -
this site expands on the 24-hour cable television network that provides viewers
information to improve their knowledge about computing, technology and the
Internet. The TV show and integrated website introduces new users to ways that
computer can help them at work and home. |
| www.computer.com - a site to help make
technology easier and more fun, learn about your computer, resolve problems,
have your questions answered, and even an option to get free internet service.
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| www.learnto.com
- a provider of learning solutions using interactive technology, offering a
full spectrum of learning solutions directly to the desktop anytime, anywhere.
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| www.hgtv.com -
the Home & Garden Television web site. Get top tips from homebuilders,
re-modelers, decorators, interior designers, gardeners, craft experts, and
lifestyle hosts. |
| www.irs.gov - At
this site you can download and print forms and publications that you may need
for personal or business tax filings. It also offers a Small Business Resource
Guide, tax regulations, taxpayer help, electronic services, and much more.
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| www.souprecipe.com - Here you will be
presented a "soup du jour" and over 500 soup recipes. The site gives the
ability to enter an ingredient and then returns a list of soups with that
ingredient in it. |
| www.stamps.com
- This site offers a postage service to print postage right from your printer.
They offer a free no risk trial offer and a chance to win up to $5000 in free
postage. |
| www.worldwildlife.com -
to learn more about global warming, its effect on our planet's
wildlife, and how you can help address the problem, or Earth Day's Web site at
www.earthday.net |
