Other Websites

AA Travel News

Use the AA site for finding out about roadworks and accidents on roads you will be travelling on:

http://www.theaa.com/travelwatch/travel_news.jsp

Amazon.co.uk

Use for buying books, DVDs and other items.  Amazon Marketplace offers a fixed price version of e-Bay.  Other bonuses are that you are able to listen to CD tracks before buying, and that there are very useful reviews from previous buyers. Also look out for peoples top 10 (and more) lists...

www.amazon.co.uk

http://www.filleritem.com/uk.html - means you can find something small and cheap to get you to the free postage limit

also

http://www.fetchbook.info/

BBC Website

Use the BBC site for latest news, sport and TV, Radio times.  Use the musicmatch software to record streaming radio.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

Books and Reading

York libraries online

http://library.york.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/1QHKTQ0LMV/0/57/49

Read and then swap books

www.readitswapit.co.uk

Free Audiobooks for kids

http://www.storynory.com/

Free Audiobooks

http://www.mslit.com/default.asp?mjr=FRE

www.manybooks.net 

Story Site

http://www.storycenter.org/canada/

e-Bay.com

The biggest car boot sale online.

www.ebay.co.uk

Link with PayPal, which means you can pay small amounts online.

https://www.paypal.com/uk/

spelling mistakes

http://www.fatfingers.co.uk/

http://www.auctionintelligence.com/

http://www.powersnipe.com/

Entertainment - Theatres, Cinemas etc

www.ticketmaster.com

Finance and Saving Money

Financial Awareness for Young People

http://www.pfeg.org/

Money saving Expert:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Avoid answer messages:

http://gethuman.com/uk/

Food and Drink

Free Recipes -

www.bbc.co.uk/food

Various whisky sites with tasting notes

http://www.malts.com/

http://www.scotchwhisky.com

Various miscellaneous whisky sites

A Classification of Pure Malt Scotch Whiskies and Links

Edinburgh Malt Whisky tour

Oddbins - Malt Search

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society

Whisky World Whisky Magazine - Web Site Whisky Links

http://www.uisge.com/index.html

Fun and Games

 

http://www.bestofgooglevideo.com/video.php?video=610

Albino blacksheep collection of flash videos - check out the llama song and ultra lego death

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com    http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/lego

Anagram Engine

http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html

Fun Links

http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/

Funny Video clips -

http://www.holylemon.com/

Jokes

http://wilk4.com/humor/humor.htm

Sudoku

http://www.sudoku.com.au/help.aspx

Sudoku creator

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/mark/sudoku/workpad.html

Gaming

Gaming statistics - latest stats...

www.elspa.com -

Google and other Search engines

Google - general, images and advanced search

www.google.co.uk

Very useful directory of all Google sites

http://www.google.co.uk/dirhp?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Dogpile to search deeply into the Net

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/

Ask Jeeves

http://www.ask.com/

Good Ideas for using Computers

BBC technology

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm

Daily Telegraph Bootcamp Archive - Fantastic set of articles on everything to do with looking after your PC:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?menuId=1503&menuItemId=3194&view=DISPLAYCONTENT&grid=P8&targetRule=0

Guardian Online -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/

PC Magazines - Excellent links to lots of useful information

www.pcmag.com

http://www.pcworld.com/

Technofile - excellent reviews and articles on what makes your PC tick from Al Fasoldt.

http://aroundcny.com/technofile/topics.html

How to choose which programs run when your computer starts...

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php

http://www.techsupportalert.com/more/extended.htm

Hardware

Audio equipment for schools

http://www.edujam.org

Computer hardware and other bargains

http://www.aria.co.uk

Computer hardware bargains

www.ebuyer.com

DNS lookups

http://www.dnsstuff.com/

DVDs and peripherals

http://www.rivierapublishing.co.uk/

Languages software

http://www.lingvosoft.com/

Microphones suitable for recording via USB

http://www.playrecord.net - recommend Samson CO1U USB Studio Condenser Microphone and the new Q1U - the first professional dynamic USB mic!

Microsoft Support - support database

http://support.microsoft.com/

Printer Ink Cartridges - as good as Canon / Epsom / HP etc but a third of the price.

www.bigink.co.uk

Reviews - or just use Google

http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/

Research Machines Knowledge Base

http://www.rm.com/support/knowledgelibrary.asp

Holidays

Use Google.

Learning

http://www.videojug.com - video tutorials on all sorts of subjects

http://www.pixel2life.com/

Adult Learning - How adults learn:

http://www.learnativity.com/

Alan November's Site:

http://www.novemberlearning.com

All sorts of stuff
www.businessballs.com

Creativity Techniques 1

http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/techniques/index.php

Creative Techniques 2

http://gocreate.com/index.htm

http://www.f2be.com/

National data-sets

http://www.ndad.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Good Links Site

http://www.discian.com/resources/compass/groups.asp?group=Training

General Learning Page - nicely done

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd.html

Happy Puzzle Website

http://www.happypuzzle.com

Lego equipment

http://www.active-robots.com/products/lego/lego-index.shtml

Maps Online

Map24 - Find where you want to go...

http://www.map24.co.uk/

MultiMap

http://uk2.multimap.com/

Met Office Weather

Meteorological Office - 3 day and 5 day forecast:

http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/yorkslincs.html

Meteorological Office - rainfall animation:

http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/radar/index.html#top

Miscellaneous

Anagram Engine

http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html

Brilliant Cartoon Site

http://www.glasbergen.com/

Christmas funny

http://web.icq.com/shockwave/0,,4845,00.swf

Gadgets and Gizmo’s

http://www.thetrainingshop.co.uk/

Junk Mail Prevention - Mailing Preference Service - simply register and no longer receive a lot of your junk mail

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk

Juggling

http://www.jugglingdb.com/

Rather Good

http://rathergood.com/

Music

Buying Music:

http://www.cdbaby.com - Choose CDs by genre AND get 2 minutes sample time

Cheap Music CDs

http://stores.ebay.com/JayAndMarie

Jazz

Jazz Radio

http://www.accuradio.com/jazz/

Introduction to Jazz

http://www.newtojazz.com/

Jazz gigs - both by region and date

http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/

North Yorks Jazz

http://www.huddersfield-jazz.co.uk/

http://www.wakefieldjazz.org.uk/

http://www.scarboroughjazzfestival.com/

York Grand Opera House

National Centre for Early Music

University of York

Newspapers, Film, TV and Radio

Newspapers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/

www.telegraph.co.uk

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

TV

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

http://www.itv.com/

http://www.channel4.com/

http://www.five.tv/

Films - databases

http://www.iofilm.co.uk/

http://www.radiotimes.com/film/

Films - mistakes

http://movies.ginca.com/

http://www.moviemistakes.com

Radio

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio

Personal Organisation

Get Things Done (GTD): Manage what you do, not time, information, or priorities...

    http://www.davidco.com/index.php and buy the book(s) on amazon.

My Notes here and a summary chart here

http://www.davidco.com/blogs/kelly/archives/2005/12/great_outlook_r.html

Other peoples' views and tips:

    http://merlin.blogs.com/43folders/2004/09/introducing_the.html

    http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda/

    http://www.thinkingrock.com.au/

Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management - DIT, Mark Forster's sensible alternative to GTD

The Now Habit by Dr Neil Fiore

"7 Habits of Effective People" - Stephen Covey 0-684-85839-8 Outlines the seven habits - particularly good for time management - Notes

Your own personal wiki:

    http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

..and a tutorial to help:

    http://www.blogjones.com/TiddlyWikiTutorial.html

How to run Firefox on your USB Stick:

    http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_usb

Your own personal wiki configured for GTD (includes good hints and tips on TiddlyWikis):

    http://shared.snapgrid.com/index.html

    http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/

Groups to support its development

    http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki

    http://groups.google.com/group/GTD-TiddlyWiki

Plugin to open other files

    http://bradleymeck.tiddlyspot.com/#LaunchApplicationPlugin

   

    http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/TiddlyWiki

   

How to organise information from your research

Use a tiddlywiki as above

   http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

Use Google notebook

    www.google.com/notebook and use the google notebook plugin to be able to Right Click and add notes whenever your are browsing.

Use FURL

    http://www.furl.net/ - to keep entire copies of webpages catalogued as you browse.  If you use the download for firefox then www.furl.net/ must be added to list of allowed websites.

FURL login

    http://www.furl.net/user/login?logout=true&forwardTo=/resources/closer.jsp

Places to Visit

Go for a walk? - all the information you need...
http://www.go4awalk.com

Lakeland Walks - good source for routes & photos:
http://www.lakedistrictwalks.com/

Lakeland Cam - a daily fix for lovers of the outdoors:
http://www.lakelandcam.co.uk/

North York Moors Cam - ditto for North York Moors:
http://www.northyorkmoors.com/

The Yorkshire Dales:
http://www.yorkshire-dales.com/

Photography

 

The 'quillsystem' for economic printing, and high grade papers from Fotospeed

http://www.fotospeed.com/Catalogue.asp?PrGrp=22

Fantastic upload photo printing service

http://www.ryedalephotography.com/ - click on online photo service

Camera price comparison site:
http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/

Celtic Images - photos of Pembrokeshire

www.celticimages.co.uk

The Luminous Landscape - excellent photographs & articles about all aspects of photography:
http://luminous-landscape.com/

Computer Darkroom - another "must-see" site for anyone wanting to learn more about digital image processing:
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/

Ephotozine - another "must-see" site for anyone interested in photography:
http://www.ephotozine.com/

Loxley Colour - highly recommended processing - particularly for those who want good prints from digital cameras & can't stretch to a decent colour printer:
http://www.loxleycolour.com/

Monitor Profiling

http://www.dvcamera.co.uk/movies/spyder.htm
 

Photo Notes

http://photonotes.org/about/

http://photonotes.org/articles/

Photoshop Elements links:

Click Here

Photoshop Elements Courses:

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/

http://apex.vtc.com/photoshop-elements.php

http://www.adobephotoshoptraining.co.uk/photoshop-elements-5-training.html

http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01T189

 

Odd Photos

http://www.howstrange.com/frames.htm

Panoramic photos

First try

http://www.panoguide.com/howto/panoramas/first.jsp

www.panoguide.com/howto/display/gocubic.jsp (complicated)

Alternatively Try 1. Panorama autostitch - first photo needs to be the central one

     http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html (free)

     then 2. www.panoshow.com/panocubeplus.htm  (at $13) needs panotools from http://www.all-in-one.ee/~dersch/

Pictures to Exe Forum from WnSoft - all the latest up-to-date information and help for this brilliant program:
http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php

VueScan - the best scanning software - regularly updated, this software works with a huge range of scanners & films:
http://www.hamrick.com/

Quotes

Useful quotes for speeches, presentations etc

www.quotationspage.com

http://www.worldofquotes.com

Security

See Security and Efficiency Software

http://www.ip2location.com/ - geographical location of an IP address

 

Shopping

Any spares needed for electrical appliances:

http://www.espares.co.uk/page/home

Pricerunner - to find the best price:

http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/

Printer Ink Cartridges - as good as Canon / Epsom /HP etc but a third of the price

www.bigink.co.uk

Software

Browser statistics

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Free Software

http://directory.fsf.org/

Pugh.com - one of the best sites for Education Software and Pricing

http://www.pugh.co.uk/

QEditor - how to share bookmarks

http://www.pageq.com/index.htm

Timer and Countdown Timer software

http://www.harmonyhollow.net/ct.shtml freeware download

Tucows.com - one of the best sites for downloads

http://www.tucows.com

Zdnet.com - one of the best sites for downloads and reviews

http://www.zdnet.com

Sport

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/

Transport - Planes, Trains etc

Book Airline tickets online:

http://www.easyjet.com/

www.ebookers.com

Book Train tickets online:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

Advice on cheapest tickets

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?newsid1154104247,31062,

Buying tickets

http://www.thetrainline.com

Travel

Lakeland Walks - good source for routes & photos:
http://www.lakedistrictwalks.com/

Lakeland Cam - a daily fix for lovers of the outdoors:
http://www.lakelandcam.co.uk/

North York Moors Cam - ditto for North York Moors:
http://www.northyorkmoors.com/

The Yorkshire Dales:
http://www.yorkshire-dales.com/

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