Useful Bookmarks

[cdd]

I think Metropol is long due a thread where members can submit their most useful sites for other members. Here are a few of those I find most useful:

http://www.bugmenot.com
Logons for various pages to bypass registration

http://www.saynoto0870.com
Alternate phone numbers for well-known companies

http://www.yousendit.com
A temporary file storage solution to facilitate the sending of large files by email

http://analytics.google.com
A great website for researching websites' traffic but is currently closed for registrations

http://www.imdb.co.uk
Database of films and their actors

http://www.blinkx.com
News broadcast archive

http://www.archive.org
Home of the Wayback Machine internet archive and other intersting tidbits

http://www.papercdcase.com
A template to print out your own paper CD cases

http://www.sxc.hu
http://www.morguefile.com
Both are free websites to facilitate the sharing of "stock" photography

http://www.brandsoftheworld.com
Famous logos available for download in vector format

http://www.tinyurl.com
Shorten long URLs by making a quick redirect

http://www.wikipedia.com
An encyclopaedia editable by everyone

http://www.nationmaster.com
A website simply full of stastics

http://www.factbites.com
A website which helps research answers to questions

http://www.zefrank.com/dtoy_vs_byokal/index.html
For its sheer beauty value


And I'm sure there are many more but that's it from me! Please add your own to this thread

[Chris]

http://www.songfacts.com

Some interesting facts about songs. Useful for pub quizzes or "why did they call it that" type moments. Amaze your friends with music trivia!

[Si-Co]

A useful telephone area code decoder:
http://www.wiredwales.com/info/a_codes/phone_11.htm#11

And one for the railway anoraks amongst us - many of the UK three-letter station codes:
http://harmsy.freeuk.com/ukrailwayfaq/s ... odes2.html

[Chris]

And one for the railway anoraks amongst us - many of the UK three-letter station codes:
http://harmsy.freeuk.com/ukrailwayfaq/s ... odes2.html

Which comes in handy for use in conjunction with this: -

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ldb/livedepartures.asp
The live departure boards. Check the next trains to come to your station before you leave the house so you can see if you will make it in time.

[James H]

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/
A great TV Pres discussion site. Moderation tends to be crap with 1/4 exception.

[Jamez]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com
I was once on this site in a video called "slipping and sliding". Thank god Sideshow Ed never saw it!

[Neil Jones]

A useful telephone area code decoder:
http://www.wiredwales.com/info/a_codes/phone_11.htm#11

On a simliar note:

http://www.find1471.com/
Same idea, just a little easier.

[marksi]

A useful telephone area code decoder:
http://www.wiredwales.com/info/a_codes/phone_11.htm#11

It's four years out of date!

[Nick Harvey]

The best telephone code decoder is here.

As for the most useful link on the entire web, it's always down there in my signature!

[rts]

Just gone through my bookmarks and picked out the ones which may be of interest.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/realtime/
Good one for all those living in London

http://www.myspace.com
Good online community. Far better than Faceparty etc

http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/
For all you hypochondriacs


Nice to see Ebaumsworld make an appearance. Seen the stoned Santa on Ebaums, Jamez? And excellent telephone thingy, Nick. Been looking for a decent one for a long time.