| Guides & Searching | Infoseek , my default search
site.
DejaNews . The news group search engine Also, there's ... Yahoo, Lycos, HotBot, |
| News |
BBC news
The New York Times CNN If I can't see what I want from the BBC Ananova. The cyber newsreader. ENN. The Environmental News Network. c|net For computer industry news. |
| Directories | Four 11 Directory of people &
companies (411 is the number for directory enquiries in the US).
The Directory covers a few things. The "Prefix Location Directory" is useful. Time - here are the current times around the world Currency Exchange Rates covers the major currencies It seems that the CIA have a word or two for every country on the planet! |
| Maps and Guides | The USGS mapping service
TopoZone - maps from the USGS Zip2 Yellow Pages MapOnUs MapQuest MapBlast Earthquake Hazard Maps (by USGS geophysicist John Boatwright) Geo Data maps from the "BADGER" project. (as far as I know, the name's a coincidence!) Earth edition of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy |
| Publishing | Object Magazine
Macmillan Computer Publishing |
| Entertainment | The San Francisco Symphony
Atom Films - Films on the Internet. |
| Travel |
Preview Travel.
A San Francisco based travel agent.
travelscape.com A discount travel agent. Trip.com |
| My Admin stuff | Hooked (who have changed their
name to WeNet)
CitiBank. My US Bank. National Westminster. My bank in the UK. |
| Interesting |
New Scientist This
is the web branch of the UK magazine.
Working for Change Part of Working Assets. 3D Tracking of all the satelites in orbit around earth Have a look - it's really amazing. Live photographs from Africa. Here, you can watch a waterhole from home. Aaron Van de Kerckhove sculpture art-furniture Matrix spoof. Bandwidth Meter. Astronomy - Picture of the day. |
| Shopping | Priceline.com let you set a price
for something, then they try to get it at that price!
For books, try Amazon.com, Borders, Barnes & Noble or Blackwells (in the UK). To check the prices of any computer related product, try PriceWatch. If you're looking for PC motherboards, chips, heat sinks or cases try SDS Mark II. For other computer stuff, NECX can be good. |
| Support | ASUS makes the motherboards we use.
Diamond MultiMedia make the SCSI card used in our home PCs. |
| Comics | Dilbert.
Doonesbury. |
| Software Tools | VNC is a CORBA based remote display system. |