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Best Sites
A list of web-essentials for everyone / anyone, broken down into categories:
Applications | Auctions | Blogs | Images | Maps | News | Oddball | Payments | Reference | Search | Shopping | Social | Video
- AdawareSE - Adware remover
- Audacity - Audio recording / editing
- AVGFree - Brilliant antivirus
- Blender - 3D modelling & animation
- Gimp - Imaging almost like Photoshop Pro
- Picassa - Simple image editing
- NVU - Website creation almost like Dreamweaver
- OpenOffice - Office suite almost like MS Office
- Serif Tools - Imaging / web-build / desktop publisher
- Spybot S&D - Spybot detector / remover
- ZoneAlarm - World beating firewall
- Amazon Auctions - Number 2
- eBay UK | eBay US - Number 1
- Yahoo Auctions - Number 3
- StockXchange - Free / premium images
- EOSDev - Website backgrounds
- Bravenet - Clipart, Icons & more...
- The AA - Maps with easy route-planning
- Google Maps - Switch between Maps & Satellite images
- Multimap - Great Postcode searching
Payments (ensure the address begins https not http!)
- Paypal - The No.1 payment portal
- Google Checkout - Gaining ground
Others (inc. Worldpay & Bidpay) exist, but I do not use them.
- GeekHumor - For geek related humourous images (18+)
- Snopes - An Urban Legend for every occassion
- InternetBumperStickers - Philosophy & fun on your bumper
- Dictionary.com - Incorporates Thesaurus.com
- Encyclopedia.com - It's got the lot
- MartinDale's - Reference directory
- Wikipedia - Built by users (not always 100% reliable)
- Google.com | Google.co.uk - also see my Googles page
- MSN - Search from Microsoft
- Yahoo - Search from Yahoo
- SearchEngineWatch - Lists the other major players
- Amazon - Books, music, DVDs, gadgets (Free post over £15)
- Froogle - Shopping comparison from Google
- Guardian - Shopping advice & Offers
- Play - Cheap music, DVDs & electronics
- Tesco - Food, clothing and a whole lot more...
- IKEA - Lifestyle shopping to go 'live' in 2007
- Bebo - A newer player receiving great reviews
- MySpace - The biggest, but has it's critics
- Orkut - From Google - My favourite for 'grownups'