Links Page
Here are a few links that I have found useful, relate to
the family (well, me at the moment) or just of general usefulness. I look
forward to being sent other interesting and useful web sites links to include
(and explore for myself).
Information Sites:
The
Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Speaks for itself
Dictionary.com - Look up any
word and find an alternative (Thesarus)
Streetmap.co.uk - Great Britain Road and Street Maps
Multimap.com - Online Maps to Everywhere
UpMyStreet.com
- Exhaustive information for your specific postcode, including the following
categories and more: Property prices; 'Find My Nearest' search tool;
Education; Classifieds; Weather; Your representatives; Contacting your
council; Council performance; People; ACORN profile; Policing and crime;
Public transport. You get the idea.
Speed Cameras UK .com - Alert
Systems for Speed Camera Locations Database
TrafficNet
- up to the minute traffic flow information from TrafficmasterTm
on the Vauxhall site
Rail Timetables
- Rail Track or whatever the track authority is called these days
The World Clock - Time Zones
- work out the time anywhere in the world
What Happened All Those
Years Ago - Items that made the news, trivia, world events, historical
landmarks, births and deaths that have occurred through the years on ANY DATE
OF THE YEAR e.g. your birthday
WWW Units Converter -
convert anything to anything else
118 Providers - An impartial guide to the new 118 directory enquiry
services within the UK (Replacing 192)
Essential,
must-visit sites:
Google - a very good
search engine with no advertising at all, searches 8,058,044,651 pages*.
-
Key Traffic Systems
- Will's company site.
Ananova - Great news
service run by the Press Association. Check out the live avatar, Ananova
herself, reading the headlines.
BBC - The good old
Auntie Beeb, for all your news, sport or television and radio listings, oh
and a whole lot else besides including an
up-to-the-hour
satellite picture of the UK. An excellent site well worth the visit.
Mr Showbiz - for
information about films and television, film and television stars, reviews
and more.
If like me you love
The
Matrix this site is one for the Favourites folder.
FT.com - a must for all your
financial information
* as of 7th April 2005, but this
is always going up
Music:
Sites created and run by my friends:
My parent's site at
BrandyMount.co.uk
which contains pictures of the national collections of two species of flower
in particular, Snowdrops and Daphnes. See some
Brandy
Mount images on this site.
Justin's
page - His extensive site speaks for itself. It includes book
reviews (and a new and second hand book store), photos of various
music events and much much more.
AJ's web site -
for Wiltshire weirdness. AJ has some of the best crop circle photographs on
the net.
Dusty's Homepage - cycle and
motorcycle trips; festivals and weddings in words and pictures. Also some
technical articles relating to modern tech.
VicomtSoft
- visit it, you'll see still under construction but interesting content.
Other useful or just curious links:
Software links:
TextPad 4 - this is
an incredibly useful and powerful text editor, and is good particularly for
programmers and web designers who still work at the HTML level. Current
version is 4.6.2 (27/06/03).
Icon
resource - hours of fun looking though icon library files for something
a bit different. You will need something like Microangelo to view and
extract icons in library files (*.ICL).
Microangelo -
various icon and shell utilities.
PocketPC.com
- Microsoft's excellent page for the handheld Personal Digital Assistant
(PDA).
Windows XP Powertoys - includes easy image resizing and rotating applets
(right-click access) which makes producing small images for a web site very
easy and quick.
Fortean Time on-line
- a monthly magazine of news, reviews and research on strange phenomena and
experiences, curiosities, prodigies and portents. See
more
about Charles Fort.