Even if you consider yourself a bit of a web guru, there are a host of useful and interesting things you can do on the web that you might not have come across. The table below lists some of the more useful but lesser of these links and sites.
Criteria for inclusion on this list: key missed topics, pick the one best web-site, often UK-based.
| Communicate (e-mail) / (mobile) / (phone)
/ (postal) / (web)
| Computers | Domestic Services
| Finance | Health | Leisure
| Literature | Personal | Products
| Search | Travel | Miscellaneous
|
| What you want to do | Useful Web-site | Why it's useful | UK-only? | Cost/year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communicate (e-mail) | ||||
| Distribution lists | Yahoo! Groups | N | 0 | |
| E-mail a post-card | Electric Postcard | N | 0 | |
| Permanent e-mail address | Hotmail | Auto-forwards e-mails to you. | N | 0 |
| Send e-mail post-dated | Mail to the Future | E-mail someone a deferred reminder. | N | 0 |
| Communicate (mobile) | ||||
| Communicate (phone) | ||||
| Audio conference with shared PC screens | BT WebConferencing | Collaborate on documents. | Y | 0 min |
| Communicate (postal) | ||||
| Find a post code | Royal Mail | Y | 0 | |
| Communicate (web) | ||||
| Computers | ||||
| Open an unknown graphics file | Graphics File Formats FAQ | N | 0 | |
| Read a FAQ | Internet FAQ Archives | Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are a concise and authoritative source of information on an extremely wide range of subjects. | N | 0 |
| Read an unknown computer file format | Programmer's File Format Collection | N | 0 | |
| Update your software | VersionTracker.com | Notifies you when upgrades for your software are available. | N | 0 |
| Domestic Services | ||||
| Compile a check-list | Checklists.com | Ready-made checklists on a large number of activities. | N | 0 |
| Finance | ||||
| Income Tax Return | Which? TaxCalc | It's PC software, not web. | Y | ~£25 |
| Health | ||||
| Health questions | NHS Direct | Y | 0 | |
| Leisure | ||||
| Track down songs | Lycos Music | N | 0 | |
| What's on TV | Yahoo! TV Guide | N | 0 | |
| Literature | ||||
| Dictionary | OneLook Dictionaries | Searches ~750 on-line dictionaries. | N | 0 |
| Look up any book | Amazon.com | N | 0 | |
| Thesaurus | Thesaurus.com | N | 0 | |
| Personal | ||||
| Products | ||||
| Auction anything | eBay | N | 0 | |
| Obtain electrical & electronic spares & accessories | Partmaster | Y | 0 | |
| Search | ||||
| Learn anything | Learn2 | N | 0 | |
| Search web by subject | Yahoo! | A very large subject-index, carefully compiled by people not machine. | N | 0 |
| Search web by free text | Currently the biggest and most popular web search engine. | N | 0 | |
| Travel | ||||
| Maps | Multimap.com | Street plans and route maps. | Y | 0 |
| The Real UK |
Knowhere Guide | Users guide to the UK, peoples opinions of towns and their night life, shops restaurants clubs etc | Y | 0 |
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Convert between any units | Calculators On-Line Center | N | 0 |
If you have a worthwhile addition, please suggest it. This page is the master.
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