Beginner's Guides to Computers & the Internet

Computer Hope.com: collection of free services including technical support
Goodtyping.com: free online typing course, requires registration
Learn The Net
New User Tutorial: basic computer skills, such as using a mouse
Practice your mouse skills: single and double clicking, dragging and dropping
Tech Tutorials: free technical reference and training materials for the beginner and expert
Touch Typing: free typing lessons, can paste in your own text to practice typing
Typing Test: free typing lessons


Computer & Internet Security

Anti-phishing Working Group: committed to wiping out email and Internet scams and fraud
Direct Marketing Association Email Preference Service: from the Direct Marketing Association in the US, allows you to opt out of unsolicited member email.
A Home User's Security Checklist for Windows: easy to follow checklist for home computers
purportal.com: learn about computer hoaxes and scams
Vmyths: learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes and more
Wiredsafety: find information, education and self-help advice on cyber stalking and harassment, identity theft and more

Blogs and RSS

Feed 101: introduction to RSS
Blogarama: a blog directory
Blogger: create blogs for free
The Blog Herald: news of the blogosphere
BlogsCanada: Canadian resource site for blogs and a directory
DMOZ Weblogs: a blog directory from the Open Directory Project
Live Journal: create blogs for free
Technorati: search engine for blogs

Discussion Groups

YahooGroups: free groups from Yahoo Groups with diverse subjects
GoogleGroups: browse by category. 3 step account set-up
Topica: more than 40,000 mailing lists/discussion groups

Email

Free Email Providers Guide: searchable database of free email providers; listings by country
Free Web-Based Email: a directory site that links to and collects comments on free web-based email providers

The Internet & Internet Searching

Bandwidth Speed Test: tests the speed of your Internet connection
Better-Whois.com: search for domain names
Cookie Central: learn more about computer cookies
Emoticons: common emoticons and an alphabetical (by emoticon) list
Hyperdictionary: English, computer, dream and medical dictionaries and a thesaurus
Internet Archive: includes the Wayback Machine
Living Internet: a good site on the history and technology of the Internet
Name Droppers: search for keywords in domain names
PeanutButter Wiki: free wiki
Searchy: search directly from the address bar
Webopedia: a dictionary of online and computing terminology
Writeboard: create sharable, web-based text documents
Google Documents & Speadsheets: simple and secure web document sharing

Internet Service Providers

Charlie Massel's Canadian ISP Listing
ISPList for BC: includes information about ISPs and their service packages

Software Downloads

Download.com : from CNet
Shareware.com: more than 250,000 computer files for downloading