Resources Available Through The Web

To Enhance Your Life

A Rio Verde Web Utilization Class

by Clarke Isackson



1.  Share your pictures on free sites set up just to let you post and share your digital images. These sites make it easy for you to upload your pictures and let others know where they are, and let the family add, too.
 
2.  Create a Website from these and other free Website hosts. If you have a purpose, a desire to learn more technology, and possibly something to sell, tell or just inform, these are waiting for you to start using.
 
3.  Web Radio - Beautiful music by genre and locale. All you need are speakers. The music player software can be downloaded from the site at no cost. The radios are playing all over the world and piping music and conversations into the Web. Check out a few examples.
 
4.  Web Calendar, private for you and any other selected individuals in your family to enter dates. Full of all the notification and date-timer displays you would expect. Even email notification of up-coming events you entered. You select the icons, number of days in advance for email reminder, list facilities, view by day, week, or month. A host of great features.
 
5.  Web Weather - Watch the weather patterns from a host of services. View visual charts from satellites as well as radar and infrared enhanced images.
 
6.  Topology - Satelite Digitized Globe - Find anyplace in the world by satellite. Fly over and zoom in to your favorite dream sites. Try looking a Honolulu, Hawaii, Santa Barbara, or Rio Verde.
 
7.  Web Search Engines. Not just Yahoo. Lots more features and power in these. Most powerful is Google.
 
8.  Dictionary for translating from one language to another - German, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, etc..
 
9.  Plant Seeds. Very rare, very common. Dioons, cyclids, palms, pansies, lettuce. Whatcom Seed company in Oregon.
 
10.  Waterfalls in the Pacific N.W. and around the world. Everyone enjoys looking a waterfalls. Here is a cult if I ever found one. Nearly every waterfall in the world has been documented and photographed. Especially those in my old stomping grounds, the Pacific Northwest. Enjoy the secenery.
 
11.  NASA′s Astronomical Pictures of the Day.
 
12.  Maps.