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del.icio.us: Social bookmarking site
Hotmail: Hotmail, home of Instant Messenger.
Seti@Home: Lets all help find ET.
Alexa: Where's hot on the net?
Linked In: Social networking site.
Friends Reunited: School mate tracking.

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.

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.

BBC: For news, weather and sport amongst other stuff.
Hacker News: From YCombinator.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
TrustNet: Fund research.
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

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

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.

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