Internet-based Tools
Keyboarding & Typing Skills
Bruce's Typing Tutor
A programme to teach you typing and keyboarding skills through a series of lessons and a game. You may practice typing through a text you may have on your computer. It also includes a pattern detection which always points to the sentence you type
Useful Software
Real Player
Free download to listen to live radio, prerecorded programmes or language activities. If you have a fast network connection you can watch video clips too. You will need a sound card in your computer.
Windows Media Player
Free media player from Windows to listen to live radio, to prerecorded programmes or language activities. If you have a fast network connection you can watch video clips too. You will need a sound card in your computer. You may not need to download this - it may already be on your computer.
Acrobat Reader
Free software that lets you view and print .pdf files
Macromedia Flash
A useful tool if you need to see some interactive web programs. Very quick to download, it takes about 2 minutes. While viewing a web page, if the browser asks you to Activate Active-X, you must do so. Some impressive programs created in Macromedia Flash e.g. ESL Radio from Monash University.
Winzip
Zip files are single files, sometimes called "archives", that contain one or more compressed files. Zip files make it easy to keep related files together and make transporting, e-mailing, downloading and storing data and software faster and more efficient. The Zip format is the most popular compression format used in the Windows environment, and WinZip is the most popular compression utility.
Winrar
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. A trial version is available.
Translators
Systran
Systran Plus gives the Internet users the opportunity to read and understand easily and quickly texts and webpages from many languages. Translations to and from Greek.
Dictionary.com Translator
Translation to and from twelve languages.
Worldlingo
Website translator which covers twelve languages.
Search Engines
Google
Browse by category. Excellent for image search.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research Search for articles, books and abstracts from academic publishers, professional societies, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Google Scholar Advanced Search
Search for articles by author, publication and date
Yahoo
Widely used search engine and directory.
Kartoo
Kartoo is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, Kartoo launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm.
Alta Vista
Comprehensive search experience on the web.
Ask Jeeves
Offers search for websites, images, news, blogs, video, maps and directions.
Lykos
Free email, blogs and websites, videos and movies, news, weather, online games.
MSN
Internet portal, Hotmail, MSN Messenger, news.
Mirago
A comprehensive search engine and portal for the UK and Ireland.
Excite
Check the section with streaming news videos.
Greek Search Machines
In.gr
News, email services, entertainment, weather, stockmarket.
Phantis
Specifically designed to search Greek cyberspace. Directory and news services.
Find.gr
Greek search machine in cooperation with Google.
Robby
Search machine and portal. Includes Greek and international links.
Gogreece
Information about Greece: nature, culture, people, education, entertainment, business, news, history and travel information.
Mirago
A comprehensive search engine and portal for the UK and Ireland.
Excite
Check the section with streaming news videos.