Alex's Favourite Useful Sites

URL

Description/Comments

www.yourdictionary.com

This site contains a lot of dictionaries as well as other langauge based resources.

www.unmisabletv.co.uk

A good online TV guide. Unfortantly it doesn't contain TV plus numbers.

www.radiotimes.co.uk

This is an online version of the popular TV and Radio magazine. Unfortantly it doesn't contain TV plus numbers.

www.pricerunner.com

An online price search, covering a number of countries.

www.buy.co.uk

A good site for comparing differnt utility services, and working out which will be best for you. The site also contains a price search for things like books and videos etc.

www.kelko.com

A good price search.

www.helsinki.fi/~hkantola/dict.html

Assorted dictionaries.

www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/beurla/

This site has lots of information on Gaelic, includng a good beginers guide.

www.mobileshop.com

This site does mobile phones on all UK networks, on contrcat, pay as you go, and pay in advance. They also sell 12 month contracts without the phones.

www.dialaphone.co.uk

A good site for buying mobile phones in the UK. This is where I got mine from.

www.dvdupdate.com

A price search for Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs.

www.rewind.org.uk

This site provides a comparsion of the American(R1), European(R2) and Australain releases of DVDs.
They also compare different relaeses within regions.

www.dictionary.com

An online dictionary, the site also includes a thesaurus and translator.

www.gaelic.net

Lots of information about Celtic language and history.

www.radiotimes.co.uk

Good TV and radio guide for the UK.

www.multimap.co.uk

Contains London streetmaps, and road maps for the rest of the UK. There is also an option to see an overhead view of your chosen location, and to get directions there.

A very large collection of useful links.

www.national-lottery.co.uk/results.html

Results of the UK national lottery.

www.lonelyplanet.com.au

Lonely Planet guide books. Lots of information about different countries.

www.bbc.co.uk/bluepeter

Recipes things to make etc.

www.ucas.ac.uk

UCAS; Universities and Colleges Admissions Service for the UK. I used the university search a fair bit.

www.amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.com

Great on-line book store, up to 40%, although postage is around £2.50. You can even use their gi50. You can even use their gift service where they take the price off and put your personal message on the packing, for an extra £2.00 they will wrap it for you. Non UK uses use the second address.
If you have never used amazon.co.uk before then I can get you £5 off your first order (ok, I get a £5 gift voucher as well). Just email me and tell me the email address you intend to sign up to amazon with, and I'll reffer you and thety send you an email. That simple.

www.bbc.co.uk

The BBC's website they have some good stuff.

go.to/justthoughts

This is where Harold puts his thoughts, they're worth reading.

www.my-meals.com

Great place for recipes.

This site has loads of free stuff, covering both the UK and US, including others.

www.hungersite.com

This site has a button that when clicked will take you to their sponsors page, these sponsors will then donate food the hungry.

looksmart.com/live

Looksmart Live is a search engine was a difference. With looksmart live you enter a question, choose a category and then wait 24 hours for a reply by email from one of their editors, who personally answers your query. Maybe this 'search engine' actually finds stuff:-)

www.thelinkzone.com

This is a good, easy to use links directory.