The essential directory of resources, apps, and websites

Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don’t much care where. The Cat: Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go. Alice: …so long as I get somewhere. The Cat: Oh, you’re sure to do that, if only you walk long enough. Alice in Wonderland.

What is Web 2.0? “Web 2.0 describes World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites […] A Web 2.0 site may allow users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community […] Examples of Web 2.0 features include social networking sites or social media sites (e.g., Facebook), blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, Web applications, collaborative consumption platforms, and mashup applications”, Web 2.0, Wikipedia.

Essential Directory and Resources

• Leisure, Entertainment, and Social networking: Twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and Instagram.
• Communication: WhatsApp, Messenger, Viber, Line, and Skype.
• Online Music Streaming Services: deezer, Apple Music, Google Play Music, and Spotify.
• Video sharing/streaming sites/apps: TikTok, YouTube, veoh, NetFlix, Vimeo, Metacafe, imgur, odysee and Dailymotion.
• Blogging: WordPress.com, Joomla, Drupal, and edublogs.
• News: RT, CNBC, Yahoo! News, and CNN.
• Comics: Gocomics, The Collins Compendium, The Digital Comic Museum, and TopWebComics.
• Search Engines: ChatGPT, Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Wolfram|Alpha is the Computational Knowledge Engine. DuckDuckGo is focused on privacy. curlie is a comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. Ask is the #1 question answering service that delivers the best answers from the web and real people.
• Browsers: Google Chrome is fast, safe, free, and easy to use. Alternatively, you can use Mozilla Firefox or Brave, one of the safest browsers on the market today..
• Best Cloud Storage: Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, pCloud, and Box.
• Information: Wikipedia, Encyclopedia.com, eHow, and wikiHow.
• Dictionaries: The Free Dictionary is the world’s most comprehensive dictionary"). Dictionary.com, Macmillan Dictionary Online, Merriam Webster, and Oxford Dictionaries.
• Tutorials, Howtos, Guides: TED Talks, MakeUseOf, howstuffworks, wikiHow, How To Draw Cartoons, instructables, Make, Howcast, and HowToDoThings.com.

Reference.com is a free online encyclopedia & information reference. Scholarpedia is a peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia. World Digital Library

• Office suites: LibreOffice is the free power-packed open source personal productivity suite; Apache OpenOffice, Office 365, and Google Docs/Google Drive.
• Productivity, Note Taking: Obsidian, Notion.so, Simplenote, Joplin, Microsoft OneNote, and Evernote.
• Mind-mapping software: FreeMind, Freeplane, Vym, WiseMapping, and Semantik.
• Instantly sharing files: send-anywhere, Snapdrop, and ShareDrop.

  Snapdrop allows you to easily transfer and share files across devices and platforms (iOs, Windows, macOS, and Android). It is the easiest way to transfer files between devices.

• Image sharing sites: pixabay, flickr, Pixnio, Publicdomainpictures.net, and WPClipart.
• E-commerce: AliExpress, ebay, Wish, and Amazon.
• Classified advertisements websites: Google My Business, craiglist, eBay Classifieds and oodle.
• Job Search Engines: Indeed, CareerBuilder, Monster Jobs, Job.com, LinkedIn.com, and Glassdoor.
• Online Education: Khan Academy, TeacherTube, WatchKnowLearn.org, SchoolTube, Coursera, edX, udemy, and codecademy.
• Reading: JustToThePoint is an extensive collection with 450+ free bilingual e-books. Project Gutenberg. It allows you to download free ebooks for kindle, android, ipad, nook, epub or read online. LibriVox is an extensive collection of free audio books read by volunteers. Oxford Owl is a fantastic free reading resource that has numerous eBooks available on-line for children aged 3 - 11. Starfall’s Learn to Read with phonics is a free website to teach children to read with phonics. PDFGeni is a free ebook search engine. Children’s Books Online.
• English: Dictionaries: The Free Dictionary is the world’s most comprehensive dictionary; Linguee is a dictionary and search engine for 100 million translations; and Dictionary.com. Google Translator, Ello, ESLvideo is about studying English with fun, free ESL video quizzes. BBC Learning English, British Council: LearnEnglish, English as a Second Language Podcast, Using English, and Grammar Girl.
• Spanish: TVE, Televisión española, Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, WordReference.com Conjugador, Sinomia, sinonimos.org, Diccionario de rimas, Wikilengua, el castellano.org. Periódicos: El País y El Mundo.
• Maths: SpeedCrunch, Wolfram Alpha, Geogebra, Sage, Maxima, GNU Octave, R, Descartes, Yacas, gnuplot, CoolMath, Ask Dr. Math.
• Educational Software: Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. Google Art & Culture, Gcompris, KDE Edu, Childsplay, Kids National Geographic, KidsHealth.
• Software: GoldenDict is the best dictionary program on the market.
  FBReader is a free and multi-platform e-book reader. Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Arch are very popular Linux distributions. VLC Media Player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player. 7-zip is a free open-source file archiver, extractor, and manager. ImgBurn is a CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray burning tool (freeware). Notepad++ is a free and handy text editor, Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor. Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor. cdlibre is an extensive list of free software for Windows.
• Photo editing tools: Canva, Fotor, and Gimp. Gimp is a free image manipulation application.
• Security: avast! is a free antivirus software for virus protection. Antivirus AVG Gratuito is a free antivirus and anti-spyware security software for Windows. KeePassXC is a cross-platform password manager.
• Programming: Visual Studio Code is a free code editor that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. FREEFORMATTER.COM, is a free online tools for developers. regular expressions 101 is a regular expression tester with syntax highlighting, explanation, and cheat sheet. RexEgg Rex eats Regular Expressions for Breakfast. Check your website and hosting server speed: GTmetrix and PageSpeed Insights.