Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) WEB Link Page

Our Club is Located in Windsor Ontario Canada

Welcome to the Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) Links Page. Listed below are sites found interesting by your Webmaster. There are more detailed Link Pages in some of the sites shown.

Some Interesting Rotary Links

• Rotary International
  

• The Rotary International - Rotary Foundation
  

• Rotary District 6400 Our own Ontario, Canada and Michigan, USA District Site
  

• Rotarians On The Internet The mission of this group is to apply modern information technology to explore the avenues of service and fellowship with Rotarians all over the world.

• ROTI-Tech's are Rotarian Webmaster's and Computer wiz's available to help Rotary Club webmasters get their Rotary club web sites online and provide advice on computer problems.
  

• International Computer Users Fellowship of Rotarians
  

• Online Learning for Rotarians

• Where Rotary Clubs meet Here is a search tool where you may enter the name of a city or town and get the names of local Rotary Clubs as well as their meeting places and times of meeting.
  

• International Exchange Program for Teachers
  

• Rotary InterCountry Teacher Exchange
  

• The Library of Graphics for Rotarians Our Pages use graphics downloaded from this site
  

• Make-Up at a Rotary eClub A listing prepared by DISTRICT 9790 - VICTORIA - AUSTRALIA

• Worldwide Links to Rotary - ROTI Links
  

• Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI)
  

• Rotary's Global History Fellowship (An Internet Project) The contents of this project have been researched, collected, compiled, and written by Rotarians to preserve the history and underlying philosophies of the Rotary movement.
  
  

Some Rotary Publications

• An Index of Rotary Regional Magazines
  
• Rotary Media and News
  
• Navigating the Rotary Global Network
  
• Rotary Press Center
  
• About Rotary
  
  

Some Other Links Found Interesting by your Webmaster

• The World's Best Science Websites
  
• A library of blue ribbon learning sites on the web
  
• The Daniel library Try the Internet Reference section or the Other Libraries section
  
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian the world's largest museum complex and research organization
  
• World Lecture Hall University of Texas listing of Worldwide Virtual Lecture Halls
  free online course materials from around the world.
  
• MIT Open Course Ware a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. Work at your own time and pace, at whatever level you desire.
  
• Computer tutorials based on pictures. from Visilearn
  
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection The University of Texas provides a great Map collection that allows you to quickly follow world events.
  
• A collection of research tools selected by reference staff at Multnomah County Library in Portland Oregon
  
• Social Aspects of Technology and Science
  
• TechCast future of science and technology Tracking the Technology Revolution
  
• Quotations
  
• The Great Thinkers of the World
  
• Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University A Great source for reference materials
  
• Open Directory Project Links to a variety of directories
  
• FIRST THINGS FIRST (Extensive Directory of Newspapers, Streaming Media and Magazines etc.)
  
• My Virtual Newspaper
  
• Canadian Newspapers Read Canadian Newspapers the moment they are placed online
  
• United States Newspapers
  
• Live Radio and TV from Around the World
  
• Roget's Internet Thesaurus
  
• On-line Dictionaries on the Internet
  
• Browse thousands of dictionary definitions
  
• Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
  
• Countries of the World Abbreviations, Facts, Flags, and Maps
• Government of Canada programs and services related to such subjects as family history, passports, health and exploring Canada.
  
• Statistics Canada
  
• The League of Canadian Poets
  
• Canada Online
  
• Information and Resources for Immigrants to Ontario, Canada
  
• Canada's Business and Consumer site Industry Canada
  
• A study guide for you or your student friends
  
• Canada 411 (Canadian Phone Directory)
  
• Surfing the Parliamentary Internet
  Parliament of Canada
  
• ABC Science and Technology News Summary
  
• NOVA Watch NOVA Programs
  
• CBC Television Technology and Science
  
• Science Friday Online - Science and Technology News
  
• National Geographic
  
• The Long Now Foundation The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
  
• The Vision The University of Windsor Odette Project for Technology, Innovation and Commercialization offers a free bi-monthly economic outlook newsletter, which discusses issues and trends that have a direct impact on the local economy.
  

My Favourite Book Links

• The New York Times Sunday Book Review
  
• the Internet Public Library IPL Collections
  
• Great Books Online
  
• Librarian Chick Quickly search for free audio books, text books and eBooks!
  Search for more free educational information, sites, games and software!
  
• Malaspina Great Books Home Page
  
• Project Gutenberg the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks).
  
  
• Windsor Public Library ... the Reading Connection
  
  
• Wikipedia Books a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit
  
  
• LibraryThing Meet the world's largest book club. Enter what you're reading or your whole library - it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things. Enter 200 books for free. Get recommendations. Tag your books and explore others' tags.
  
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My Audio/Video Favourites

• Playa Cofi Jukebox
  The best of the top 100 from the golden years of popular music
  
• Mercora Music Search
  Mercora's mission is to catalog and organize the world's music and make it universally searchable and legally listenable. Quite simply: Mercora has built the world's largest and legal music radio network composed almost entirely of music resident on people's computers
  
• Winamp
  From MP3s to streaming video, Winamp is the one place you go to feed your audio/video habit.
  
• NET Radio A Radio Station Browser
• A MIDI Classical Piano Music collection
  
• Musicovery
  Music to suit your mood
  
• Dr. Joe's Music Page
  
• The RADIO.com Search for your favourite music and artists
  
• Radio Sites Radio Stations, TV Stations and online Newapapers from all over the world
  
• CBC Radio Stations
  
• 50s Music and a retrospective look at the things that framed our young days
  
• Locate Radio Stations
  
• 50s Music
  
• Classical Music
  

Some Technical Links for the Computer-bent Rotarian

• Internet Management "It is often said that there is no central control, administration, or management of the Internet. While this is generally true, there are several well-known organizations that work together in a relatively well structured and roughly democratic environment to collectively participate in the research, development, and management of the Internet"
  
  

Magellan Communications Top 100 Computer and Internet Periodicals

Since the software called TCP/IP was public-domain, and the basic technology was decentralized and rather anarchic by its very nature, it was difficult to stop people from barging in and linking up somewhere-or-other. In point of fact, nobody *wanted* to stop them from joining this branching complex of networks, which came to be known as the "Internet."
Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling


Did You Know? Sony played this video at their latest executive conferencer. Caution: It may leave you a little breathless ----.
The Long Now Foundation Seminars About Long-term Thinking

An alternative view of our digital future:
We are in the process of building one vast global computer, which could easily become The Legacy System from Hell that holds civilization hostage; the system doesn't really work; it can't be fixed; no one understands it; no one is in charge of it; it can't be lived without; and it gets worse every year.

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The Software we use to Manage our Website and Computer

It has been our choice to write our programs in native HTML using Tables and ignoring Frames without the aid of code writing programs. We feel that this gives us more flexibility in our approach and leads to a better, more understandable code for those who may follow us. At the moment, it has been our decision to remain with the Windows XP operating system - mainly because it is the choice of the majority of our users.
Our other programs of choice are shareware or freeware products.

• TextPad a convenient replacement for Notepad, a tool for editing your web pages, or a programming IDE with an embedded spelling checker
  
• WS_FTP LE and WS_FTP Pro A Windows-based file transfer client application that transfers files between a user’s local PC and another, remote computer system connected via a modem
  
• IrfanView A free compact, easy to use image viewer
  
• An online GIF image editor Create your own special effects with any GIF -- even animated ones! Resize it, colorize it, optimise it, and jazzercise it -- then save it
  
• Rename A file renamer which renames many files at once ... Perfect for .jpg, .mp3, digital camera files
  
• The Wayback Machine Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.
  If you have ever deleted any of your pages and thought that they were gone forever, then take a look here. For good or bad, this site retains a record by date of many of the world's web sites.
  
• Copernic An efficient tool for searching Web Pages
  
• Science and Technology Web Resource Locator
  
• HTML GOODIES An html resource site
  
• JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer This tutorial will take you step by step through the fundamentals of Javascript. You will learn how to write functions, use data from text boxes, create IF-THEN conditionals, program loops, and generally make your web page "smarter."
  
• Site Search Tools
  
• WebScale Evaluating Web Site fitness
  
• Internet Traffic Report Evaluating speed on your Internet
  The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.
  
• Start_up Content Management provides a central resource for PC users who are concerned about the poor performance of their PCs due to the number of programs running in the background at system start-up.
  
• University of Windsor Lotus Notes sign in (restricted to U of W Email password holders)

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Freeware & Shareware Spyware and Anti Virus Programs

• Avast! avast! free Home Edition, an antivirus for home, non-commercial use
  
• Spybot helps users deal with this ever growing online menace called malware.
  
• Ad-Aware SE Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components.
  
• AVG AVG free edition for your home PC virus protection
  
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Digital Camera and Editing Software

• photo.net is a place for novice and advanced photographers - how to take pictures and frame them
  
• photography.com has digital classes, latest news in the photo field, methods of using cameras etc
  
• photolane.net is described as the best photography directory on line
  
• dpreview.com is a review of the latest in Digital Photography
  
• Digital Camera Reviews the information you will need to make a camera purchase
  
• Beginners' Guide to Adobe Photoshop
  
  
  

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Searching the Web

• Finding Information on the Internet A Tutorial - Teaching Library Internet Workshops University of California, Berkeley
  
• Internet FAQ Archives An extensive search tool on any subject
  
• Think Differently A series of search tools in one place
  
• Parliamentary Publications Directorate House of CommonsThe Documentation Centre is a reference and research service. You may also search the entire listing by using the Search Engine.
  
• Search Engines
  
• WebFerret A fast way to find Web Pages
  
• Copernic Agent An easy and thorough Web Page search
  
• My Virtual Reference Desk
  
• Search the Internet University of California, Berkeley
  
• Using the Web to Find Science and Technical Information
  
• Wolfram Alpha A new direction in Search tools
  
• Search Engine Watch Want to know how to find things better using search engines.?
  
  
  

Web Search

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Seniors Links for Rotarians

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According to some recent research, seniors spend more time online than any other age group and their numbers are increasing as fast or faster than any other age bracket.

Why are seniors getting online? Studies show the major reasons are:

- Personal correspondence (e-mail) with family and friends. (72%)
- Researching a particular issue or subject. (59%)
- Accessing news. (53%)
- Adventure games and CD-ROM puzzles. (52%)
- Researching travel or vacation destinations. (47%)

Seniors Search Exclusively For The Over 50 Age Group

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The following list of sites represents groups with whom we have had some direct contact, or are of general interest.

• Windsor Roseland Rotary Club
  
  
• Rotary Club of Lions Gate North Vancouver This site is that of the club where past member Esio Marzotto moved to in British Columbia.
  
  
• Rotary Links Russian and European Rotary Clubs
  
  
• Rotary in Eastern Europe and Russia
  
  

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COMMUNICATING ON THE INTERNET

Internet communication technology is changing rapidly - microphones and cameras are common and the price for the calls is right. Listed below are some of the contacts and tools we have used.

• Microsoft Messenger is a tool for audio and visual communications
  
  
• Skype is a tool for internet communication
  
  
• If you want to just sit and listen - try Radio-Locator This radio station search engine has links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.
  

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Last Revised: October 20, 2009