Links

Just For Fun

These are recently discovered web sites which serve no real purpose other than for their comedy / interest value.

http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/    Cheesy song & dance about Old Skool computing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-y3ZNaCqs    Not funny but just marvel at what can be done with multi-touch touch-screen displays.


Penguins!  (Linux stuff)

www.usinglinux.org   Great site for finding a particular app. for that certain job.


Motors

My favourite cars. (If only I could afford one!)
www.tvr.co.uk
www.tvrcc.com

www.thegriffithpages.com    The prettiest TVR (?)

www.pistonheads.com    UK motoring news & views.

www.itv-f1.com    Formula one racing.

www.silverstone-circuit.co.uk    TVR, F3, GT, etc. racing at Silverstone.

www.rockingham.co.uk    Home of Britain's version of NASCAR, known as er... ASCAR!


www.mirez.co.uk    Handy little site for Ford Mondeo owners.


Reading

www.linuxformat.co.uk     The best Linux magazine around (true) !

www.micromart.co.uk    A Linux friendly / M$ bashing, weekly computer mag.

www.metalhammer.co.uk    Into the Heavy Metal / Hard Rock culture thing?


Shopping

www.cd-wow.com    Cheap legitimate music CDs (I've bought quite a few off these guys now)!  7 to 9 quid is much more sensible than 15 to 20 quid init?  No wonder piracy is rife!

www.mymemory.uk.com    Cheap memory for digital cameras etc.
www.emartbuy.co.uk    More cheap memory.

www.bullnet.co.uk    Surplus electronic stuff, motors, solar panels, projects and other things gadgety!  Marvellous!


Technical Geeky Stuff

www.programmershelp.co.uk    Programing help, including C & assembly language.

www.discovercircuits.com    Example electronic circuits for reference or building.

Build your own helicopter or Gyroplane!  Really!
www.prismz.com
www.windspire.com

www.instructables.com    Interesting site with some affordable project ideas.



Telly & Flicks

As seen on TV and Cinema...

www.reddwarf.co.uk    Forget Starwars and Startrek and Stargate...!  This is the greatest Sci-Fi of them all!  Anyone who disagrees, is a smeg-head!

The second greatest Sci-Fi of them all...
www.fireflyfans.net
www.fireflywiki.org

www.channel4.com/itcrowd    One of funniest comedies on the box (after Red Dwarf) about an average IT department.  It's real I swear!


Web stuff

www.mozilla.org    Firefox rocks!  IE sucks!

www.easily.co.uk    Used these guys for my domain name hosting for years now.  Good service.

www.freedomain.co.nr    Free domain names.  Currently hosting my  www.chris-white.co.nr  domain.

www.1001freefonts.com    Free fonts.
www.fontfreak.com    More fonts!
www.acidfonts.com    Guess what?  Listed by category.

www.cotesy.com    My brother's web site.


Miscellaneous


uk.multimap.com    UK maps.

www.old-maps.co.uk    Old maps!

www.bigmouth.co.uk    Which bands are touring and where.

www.manchesteracademy.net    Great Manchester gig venue.
www.men-arena.com/    Manchester's biggest gig venue (ie. expensive).
www.carling.com/music/venue/manchester_apollo.html    The Apollo.

www.mota.ru    Need some wallpaper pics to brighten up your windoze or linux desktop?
www.babene.ru   More wallpapers.


More coming soon...


Requests

I'm always interested to know of any good web sites selling surplus electronic bits and pieces, or just cheap electronic components in general?  Robotic stuff also.  If so, please do email me the address.  (UK sites prefered.)
 
 


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