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Last checked 3/15/2024

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  • Learn25 stars has short tutorials on a variety of subjects from opening and serving wine to treating hemorrhoids.
  • Give The Gift Of Learning This 2024 CNet article reviews a handful of learning sites. All require paid subscriptions and cover actual classes in skills, pure academic topics, as wells a community based learning.
  • iFixit has instructions on fixing all kinds of electronics, appliances, computers, phones, and autos. They want to reduce the refuse pile.
  • Curious.com has a wide variety of ecourses that cost $ but not much.
  • Pixel2life.com - links to tutorials in many subjects including Paint Shop Pro, CSS, DreamWeaver, ASP, etc.
  • Best How-To Sites (2019) article from MakeUseOf has a nice review of a dozen of the best how-to sites.
  • Tangi is a Google site that aggregates creative DIY videos.
  • DreamWeaver FAQ
  • DreamWeaver Tips & Tutorials
  • To-Done - Life lessons on how to get things done while staying in balance.
  • Ken Blackburn's Paper Airplanes - he holds the record for paper airplane flying.
  • Best Paper Airplane
  • College courses online
  • Guide to Speeches and Toasts such as "May you live as long as you want to and want to as long as you live."
  • How Stuff Works has short, but satisfying, explanations for how common things work. Like tire gauges and CGI scripts.
  • Short Course in Digital Photography has information on starting out in the world of digital photography.
  • Free Online Courses is sponsored by the Mining Co. and is a list of links to free, online courses.
  • How to Signup for Free Online Courses
  • Temple Online Learning Institute Continuing education online sponsored by Temple University.
  • Free Ed has totally free tutorials on all kinds of subjects from psychology to physics to programming to writing.
  • GCFLearnFree is a site that has a bunch of free tutorials including videos. Covers a wide variety of topics inluding math and computer applications.
  • Tutor Gig is a large collection of computer related tutorials.
  • Excel Tutorial
  • Mr Excel Podcasts - some very good ones.
  • Excel Tutorials - reported by MakeUseOf - five online sources for very good, easy, generally basic, Excel tutorials.
  • Custom Forms in Microsoft Word is a brief but useful introduction to form controls.
  • Excel Graphics shows about 10 unusual, but effective, ways to use Excel graphics to present data visually.
  • Excel 2016 and 2019 Features
  • Basic Excel Formulas and Functions This 2019 article has a great cheat sheet for Excel users.
  • Find Tutorials is a search engine that will find a tutorial on a given subject.
  • Pixel Groovy - a collection of tutorials submitted by the public on scripting, CSS, Photoshop, Windows, etc. Kind of a youTube for programmers.
  • wikiHow - a how-to wiki with all kinds of stuff submitted by the users.
  • So You Wanna.com has a lot of little how-to's.
  • The Knowledge Hound has how-to information on subjects ranging from programming to cooking to billiards.
  • Instructables - Step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects from crafts to weapon building to recipes. These are submitted by the public so the quality varies widely.
  • WannaLearn.com - "education beyond schooling" - site has a great deal of links to instruction and tutorial sites categorized by subject matter.
  • ShowMeDo - is a collection of video tutorials in a whole bunch of computer programming categories. The way it works is that members ask for specific tutorials and other members create and post the videos.
  • Best Free Programming Sites from the MakeUseOf folks.
  • 195 Free Programming Books - The Tech Tool Blog has more than 200 free books on all aspects of programming.
  • Free Computer Books, Tutorials, and Lecture Notes is a very large collection of sites that have free computer books, tutorials, etc.
  • FreeTechBooks is a collection of sites with free technical books on computing, programming, math, etc.
  • Free Online Programming Books - large collection
  • Tutorialized - is a collection of tutorials on everything from Photoshop to Ruby on Rails.
  • The Learn List - collects tutorial sites mostly on Adobe products like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, etc. Also has some HTML and CSS sites.
  • ChannelStack is a collection of educational YouTube videos.
  • 5min is a collection of short Flash videos. You can zoom and stop-frame.
  • Gil's Method - is a collection of short computer how-to's in pictorial or video format. How to transfer music from your iPod, how to get rid of the annoying restart prompt after a system update, etc.
  • TutsBuzz - is a great collection of tutorials that cover 2D and 3D graphics software, programming including Java, Web languages included PHP, and audio and video editing software.
  • DonationCoder Hot-to-Program Blog - has a surprising amount of material on all kinds of programming languages.
  • WikiHow
  • WonderHowTo - aggregates how-to videos from a lot of different sites.
  • Howcast - how-to videos with ratings.
  • Tutorial Outpost includes tutorials only on Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, and some HTML and CSS
  • Videojug - how-to videos with ratings. 'Life explained. On film.'
  • WonderHowTo - how-to videos on a bunch of subjects. This site aggregates from other sites.
  • FindHow collects how-to materials from other sites that are judged as reliable sources. The site has its own search function.
  • edX is a free massive online learning site supported by Harvard, Berkley, MIT and others.
  • Reddit Tutorial Group This Reddit community is full of how-to's as presented by the general world of contributors. Wide range of topics and wider range of quality.
  • SQLCourse - interactive SQL tutorial.
  • Tizag SQL Tutorial - basic and thorough.
  • MySQL Reference Manual
  • W3Schools SQL Tutorial has working code examples and lets you try out the coding of each lesson in a special window that shows the code and the results.
  • SQL Playgrounds This article, from the MakeUseOf folks, reviews browser-based SQL tutorials that allow you to test out code.
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How-To's
  • Hints from Heloise
  • Paperfolding teaches about origami.
  • The Tip King - tips about cleaning, pets, gardening, etc. Includes a forum with tips from the public
  • How to Make Crop Circles - and you thought they were messages from an alien race.
  • Instructables - collection of projects that have been submitted by the public showing what they made and how others can make it.
  • Study Spanish has audio lessons, interactive quizzes, and a translator.
  • Scanner Tips gives you step by step instructions.
  • How To Build Your Own Computer
  • eHow - a collection of how-to's with links to associated products - how to bike over a curb, how to rappel down a cliff, how to watch olympic diving, etc. - tutorials include video
  • So You Wanna.com has a lot of little how-to's.
  • Make Stuff is a collection of formulas for making soap, glue, bubble bath, air fresheners, glass cleaner, insecticide, fertilizer, etc. There are also links to crafts and recipes.
  • The GoogleGuide is a tutorial on how to use Google.
  • How To Do Stuff Around the House This is a link to the Home and Garden section of The Big List which has additional tutorials associated with home life.

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