Metropol

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

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!

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

Si-Co wrote: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.

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

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

Si-Co wrote: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.

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

It's four years out of date!

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!

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.