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Links
Web Apps / Sites
del.icio.us
:
Social bookmarking site
Hotmail
:
Hotmail, home of Instant Messenger.
Seti@Home
:
Lets all help find ET.
TrippleFive
:
Progressive-House music label,
forum
.
Alexa
:
Where's hot on the net?
Linked In
:
Social networking site.
Friends Reunited
:
School mate tracking.
Blogosphere
Syndic8
:
RSS Info resource,
NonHostile's feed
Bloglines
:
Feed Reading,
mobile
.
Technorati
:
What's topical in the blogosphere,
my profile
Inbound Links
:
Yahoo's inbound links to NonHostile.
Information and Search Tools
WikiPedia
:
Public Encyclopedia
Google
:
Web search, and
image
search.
Railtrack
:
Train timetables.
Royal Mail
:
Lookup postcodes and addresses.
JobServe
:
UK Job Serve
Rent-a-Coder
:
Fixed-price software jobs.
Net-Temps
:
USA Job Service
Convert It
:
Covert time/distance/weight measurements etc.
Your Dictionary
:
Online dictionary.
News from Around the World
BBC
:
For
news
,
weather
and
sport
amongst other stuff.
Games and Bettings
Celebdaq
:
How's the
portfolio
going?
Bet Fair
:
a bet broker, get the best odds.
National Lottery
:
Get the latest results.
Littlewood's Bet247
:
Online bookies.
Blue Square
:
More betting, better odds than 247.
Regular Reads
The All New Maison De Stuff
:
John Hawkins' site. Jump to:
message board
, goto
Add Message
,
DSP's section
.
MicroISV
:
Site for small indy software companies.
Luke Wroblewski
:
Great interface designer, author of
Functioning Form
.
Joel on Software
:
Articles/rants about good working practices and Joel's shameless book plugging, good forums:
jos
,
business
Eric Sink
:
Software company owner with Business Startup and Software Development advice.
Peter Cooper
:
Author of
FeedDigest
.
Pictures
PBase
:
People's galleries,
Dad's
John's Pictures
:
Pictures from Mr Hawkins.
IStockPhoto
:
Credit-based royalty free content
Corbis
:
High-quality, high-cost content
OurPhotos
:
Picture hosting website.
Shops
Amazon
:
Books, CDs etc.
Play.com
:
Region 1 and 2 DVDs with free shipping, yay!
eBuyer
:
More choice than Scan!
eBay
:
Internet auctions.
Scan Computers Ltd
:
Today Only
.
Royal Mint
:
The Royal Mint website,
Order Tracking
.
Money
HSBC
:
Internet banking
.
Egg.com
:
Credit cards and savings.
Fidelity
:
ISAs, etc.
Share Center
:
Great research.
Clerical Medical
:
Pensions.
Zopa
:
Peer-to-peer money lending.
PayPal
:
Online money account.
National Savings
:
Premium bonds.
Virgin Money
:
Credit cards and loans.
Yahoo Finance
:
City data and news from
Yahoo
.
ImiWeb
:
Share-dealing.
Equifax
:
Your credit record is always in interesting read!
Share Forum
:
Shares community.
Merchant Account forum
:
For info about merchant accounts
Networking and Web Tools
GeoIP
:
MaxMind's GeoIP service
Network Tools
:
Ping, DNS, trace route etc.
DNS Report
:
How good is your DNS?
Dynamic DNS
:
Static and Dynamic DNS.
Gibson Research
:
Computer security testing services.
Doctor HTML
:
Web validation tools.
Feed Validator
:
RSS News Feed validator
Open Source Stuff
PostgreSQL
:
Open source database.
SQLite
:
Embeddable inprocess database engine, with
.Net provider
MySQL
:
GNU Database.
NSIS
:
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
InnoSetup
:
Freeware software installer.
Firefox
:
Better than IE browser from
Mozilla
Mono
:
C# compiler and CLR for Linux et al.
Programmer Stuff
NUnit
:
An automated testing framework for Test Driven Development as recommended by
highly competant software consultancies
TestDriven.net
:
Visual Studio add-in for one-click execution of automated tests.
NCover
:
Code coverage tools
NCoverExplorer
:
Interact with your coverage results
CruiseControl.net
:
Continuous Integration Server brought to you by
ThoughtWorks
SubSonic
:
RoR inspired DAL generation, with the mantra 'convention over configuration'
CSharpFormat
:
Online HTML code formatting for VB.Net and C#
Microsoft DLL Help
:
Searchable dll version database
MSDN Subscriptions
:
Microsoft Subscriber Downloads
Open Source Web Design
:
Great templates
Jargon Central
:
Start-point of all JargonFile stems.
UMEC's Jargon site
.
Stuffware
:
Home of Photo Studio.
Tab Page, Monday, May 23, 2005 14:30