LINKS
Last updated December 2008
Links:
UN Declaration of Human Rights
- http://www.un.org/rights/50/decla.htm
http://allafrica.com/zimbabwe - A
high quality online news service covering Zimbabwe and indeed all African
Countries
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk -
The Zimbabwean weekly newspaper, which is independent and can be classified as
an Opposition newspaper - electronic and paper - has or had connections to the
very popular (and closed-down) newspaper - the Daily News
http://www.zimonline.co.za - Zim
Online Daily Newspaper, which is independent and can be classified as an
Opposition newspaper - electronic only
http://www.theindependent.co.zw -
Zimbabwe Weekly Newspaper (Fridays), which is independent and can be classified
as an Opposition newspaper - paper and electronic
http://www.thestandard.co.zw -
Zimbabwe Weekly Newspaper (Sundays), which is independent and can be classified
as an Opposition newspaper - paper and electronic
http://www.zwnews.com - Zimbabwe Daily Online
only news service, which is independent and can be classified as an Opposition
newspaper - electronic only, with a free email delivery service
www.brothersoft.com - Brothersoft -
Free software download, Over 60000 software free downloads
www.download.com - Download.com - free
and chargeable software downloads
http://www.brinkster.com - The free web
hosting service which gives you 30 Meg web database capability - commercial
hosting plans also available....
http://dmoz.org - A very high quality internet
classification and search system
http://www.humanitylibraries.net
- and http://www.humaninfo.org - HDL
Library - probably the 2nd-best technical info CD Roms in the world
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebertser.html
- Roger Ebert of Siskel and Ebert Fame - probably the best Movie database in
the world
http://www.infobel.com/teldir -
Teldir - Global Telephone Directories - white and yellow pages
http://www.newsisfree.com - A good link
site to international news from IHT, AP, AFP, New York Times, BBC etc etc..
http://www.paypal.com - Making
international payments over the internet easy - and now part of Ebay....
http://www.suzannewhite.com - An
amazingly accurate way to determine personality profile based on birthdate -
useful in business and career as well as in your private life
http://www.wand.com - WAND - probably the
best Companies database for products and services in the world
http://www.worldspace.com - and - http://www.worldspace.org - Worldspace -
probably the best radio system in the world - partially free digital satellite
radio with almost global coverage (including Europe, Middle East, Africa, India
and China but not USA or Australia) and with 40 channels including BBC, CNN,
RFI, WRN, NPR, Bloomberg, Fox News plus specialised music channels (including
Virgin Radio UK and Jacaranda South Africa) - high quality digital stereo
sound; in English, French, German, Arabic, Swahili, Spanish, Portuguese and
other languages. Note that as of 2004/06 some 30 channels are now
coded/chargeable, and only about 10 remain free - yet another triumph for our
global commercialised society....
http://www.alternativeenergyclassifieds.com/
These are sites which link into cd3wd.com or
have discussed cd3wd in their blogs……
Some or most of them may be of interest to cd3wd website visitors…. But by listing them here I do not endorse
these websites…
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www.crystal-netbook.info - TVET – vocational
training and training the trainers…
http://www.sadl.uleth.ca/nz/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=hdl
- Human Development Library
http://www.vita.org/publications/refpub/cdrom.htm
- VITA's CD
links provided by Robert Fairchild -
bobkatfarm@yahoo.com
Local Transport Solutions for Rural Development" by Paul Starkey,
2002.
Department for International Development (DFID), London, UK.
48p. ISBN 1
86192 427 5. (Screen resolution) ** 9 Mb
http://www.animaltraction.com/StarkeyPapers/LocalTransportSolutionsA4booklet-screen.pdf
- Local Transport Solutions for Rural Development
Harnessing and Implements for Animal Traction
P. Starkey, GTZ-GATE, Eschborn, Germany, 1994 (245
pages)
Harnessing and
Implements for Animal Traction - http://www5.gtz.de/gate/publications/G25hae.pdf
Permanent Farming Systems Based on Animal Traction: Farmers Handbook
R. Fischer, GTZ-GATE, Eschborn, Germany, 1995 (183
pages)
Permanent Farming
Systems Based on Animal Traction: Farmers Handbook -
http://www5.gtz.de/gate/publications/G23pee.pdf
Village Earth AT Library on CD's. Now on 27 CD's
(originally 23, now separated better by topic) from Village Earth.
http://www.villageearth.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv
Contains 1050 development books
BOOKLIST -
http://www.villageearth.org/ATLibrary/booklist.htm
reviewed in "The Appropriate Technology Sourcebook"
sourcebook
- http://www.villageearth.org/atnetwork/atsourcebook/index.htm
Disks available individually or the whole set from Village Earth:
merchant
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http://www.villageearth.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PLST&Store_Code=ATL
links provided by Robert Fairchild - bobkatfarm@yahoo.com
Ran across
some online AT related libraries:
Peace Corps Books:
Peace
Corps Books - http://mng-unix1.marasconewton.com/peacecorps/%20ICE%20CD-ROM.htm
old farming classics -
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html
biofuels -
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library.html
links provided by Robert Fairchild -
bobkatfarm@yahoo.com
http://www.olpcnews.com
one laptop per child project – news
http://www.appropedia.org
- a wiki for appropriate technology
Humaninfo Technical Encyclopedia: -
5 CD's covering all aspects of Development.....
OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu
http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/wat-ro.htm
http://www.lurkertech.com/chris/eco/pump/morgan/tripod/
http://www.tececo.com/technologies.newcomen_engine.php
Thanks to Ken Hargesheimer
( minifarms@gmail.com
) for these:
SRI: [system of rice intensification] http://ciifad.cornell.edu/sri/listservs/index.html;
tefysaina.org [French]; echonet.org
Solar
cookers: Cook food with the sun,
free. Do not buy them; make them.
Solar
electricity panels: Light homes,
classrooms, etc. Can
power radios, TVs, computers, etc. Use to recharge batteries.
Solar
water purifiers: solarcookers.org; jalmandir.com
[English,
Español, French]; echonet.org
Bicycles: Should be used by everybody. Used bicycles and mechanic
training for developing countries.
www.bikesnotbombs.org
Pedal-powered
tools/machines: www.mayapedal.org; bikesnotbombs.org/at-list.html
Soil-cement
bricks: These bricks are made by mixing
soil and cement and adding water. The
mix is put into a brick press. The press
cost US$150 in most countries. They are
then cured and are equal to a fired brick.
Contact the AT NGO in your country.
http://www2.unam.na/pdf/RevSTFocus/Part-3of3.PDF
Periodicals:
www.tearfund.org/tilz [English, French,
Portuguese, Spanish, KiSwahili]; www.LEISA.info [English, Bahasa
Indonesia, French, Portuguese, English/India]; Free by email or post.
links
for music editing, painting softwares :
http://www.freebyte.com/music/
Free Music Notation
Software
Non-free Music Notation Software
Free online Music lessons
Free educational Music software
Free Software Synthesizers
Non-free Software Synthesizers
Free Sequencers
Free Sound Recorders and Editors
Non-free Music and Sound editors
Free Music Players
MP3 Files online
Free Sound Effects
Free Midi files
Free Sheet Music
Music systems, languages, formats
Music and Audio Search Engines
Other Music-related Sites
http://www.treepad.com/download/#tpbiz
Page contents
Download TreePad Professional for Linux 3.3
Request TreePad X Enterprise Server
(multi-user)
Download TreePad Viewer (freeware)
Download exe-eBook Creator (freeware)
Download TreePad Lite for
Windows (freeware)
Download TreePad Lite for
Linux (freeware)
Download TreePad Asia (freeware)
Download TreePad 2.6.9 (freeware)
http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/index.html
Here a full dictionary with windows and pocket pc for download.
other links for dictionaries:
http://paginas.terra.com.br/arte/alls -
Brazilian Portuguese version.
http://www.sweb.cz/ls78/freedict.htm - Czech
version (Freewarové Slovníky).
http://home.worldonline.dk/gustaf - Danish
version (Ordbog).
http://nl.freelang.net
- Dutch version (Woordenboek).
http://www.la-vortaro.net - Esperanto version (La Vortaro).
http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/finnish.html
- Finnish version (Sanakirja).
http://fr.freelang.net
- French version (Freelang).
http://www.vortaro.hu
- Hungarian version (Szótár).
http://www.dejudicibus.it/dizionario - Italian
version (Dizionario).
http://es.freelang.net
- Spanish version (Diccionario).
http://web.telia.com/~u85724740/index.html -
Swedish version (Lexikon).
http://freeware.brothersoft.com/home_education/teaching_and_
testing/
E-books
Language
Math
Reference
Science
Teaching and Testing
Hobbies
Kids
Astrology
Health & Nutrition
Writing and Reading
Sports
Translation
Food & Beverage
Calendars
Encyclopedia free
online
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
This Wikipedia is written in English. Started in 2001, it currently contains
1,306,351 articles.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page
Dictionary and thesaurus
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Free textbooks and manuals, Humanities and Arts Social Sciences Computing
Natural Sciences Miscellaneous
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
over 35 million articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and transcripts at
HighBeam Research
http://encarta.msn.com/
• Encarta newsletter
• Encarta worldwide
• Free online encyclopedia
• Free online dictionary
• Free online atlas
• Free online thesaurus
• Encarta RSS feeds
http://www.britannica.com/
Encyclopedia Britannica, and dictionary online
http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/
Questia's FREE encyclopedia includes more than 52,000
articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is
enhanced with links to Questia's premium reference
library of more than 67,000 full-text books and 1,500,000 journal, magazine,
and newspaper articles
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Dictionary / Thesaurus
Computing Dictionary
Medical Dictionary
Legal Dictionary
Financial Dictionary
Acronyms
Idioms
Misc:
http://www.englishclub.com/learn-english.htm
http://freeware.intrastar.net/education.htm
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_software
http://www.edu-soft.com/
http://moodypublishing.com/download/educational/free.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/raylec/lettersa.htm
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/freesoftware_page.htm
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/kids/
http://www.rayslearning.com/
http://www.houseplanz.com/free_educational_software.html
http://www77.pair.com/raylec/
http://www.kprobe.com/kprobe/index.htm
http://www.craigresearchlabs.com/cancer.html
Chemistry softwares
http://users.ugent.be/~tkuppens/chem.shtml
This links here, school, University software,
http://www.anachem.umu.se/cgi-bin/pointer.exe?Software
Here link is for teachers of chemistry
http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/other_info_and_links/oakinfom.html
here this links software for linux, windows
http://www.btinternet.com/~ablumsohn/chemis.htm
here in this links if for general chimestry, the beatiful periodic table, chemistry dictionary and others
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/RayLec/chemres.htm
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/lettersounds.htm
http://freeware.intrastar.net/education.htm
www.curriki.org - free school curriculum for K-12
for kids
http://disney.go.com/playhouse/today/index.html
to educate for kids play games, for all class mates, pre kinder, other....
http://games.funschool.com/
coloring
pages : http://www.primarygames.com/print_zone/coloring/abc_book/abc_color.htm
http://www.rayslearning.com/lettersa.htm
Learn Letters
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/learnletters.htm
Download learn letters free educational software.
Learn letters makes learning the letters of the alphabet fun and easy, even for
children whose fine motor coordination is not yet well developed. fun, educational hands-on learning.
English Listening quizzes:Spelling
http://esl.about.com/library/listening/bllis_beg_spelling.htm
This is educational site, you will hear words being spelled from the sentences.
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/megamaps.htm
http://www.gold-software.com/education18.html
http://www.educational-freeware.com/freeware/
http://homeschoolinformation.com/Resources/educational_freeware.htm
http://www.magickeys.com/books/
http://raspberry.forest.net/FMPro?-db=whootie.fp5&-lay=weblay&-format=/whootie/choose.htm&-view
(this one has advertising pop-ups, so but has many classics for children) http://www.classicreader.com/toc.php/sid.3/
(a learn to read site for young children) http://www.starfall.com/
(various children's activities and articles about the natural world from
National Geographic) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
educational softwares
games
S kills, puzzles, games, others
for a kids for world champions football 2006 for download:
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/e/
http://www.a2zwaresolutions.com/
http://www.senteacher.org/main/files.php
http://www.wartoft.nu/software/ software
for words
http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/_agefreeware-index.html
250 software for 2 to 5 years old
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/kids/draw.html for drawing
pls email to me/us all useful
links which may be incorporated in this webpage and in future versions of CD3WD
- thanks
Email contact: alexweir1949@gmail.com