Your ten most essential websites
What are the ten websites that you find the most useful and would cause you most pain and discomfort if they suddenly vanished?
Here mine (not including powderroom.net obviously!)
http://www.bloglines.com
http://www.egg.com (its money manager is brilliant for checking all your accounts and credit cards from all your providers in one place)
http://www.bbc.co.uk (especially the news, weather, recipes and listen again radio player)
http://www.allrecipes.com
http://www.eBay.co.uk
http://www.kelkoo.com
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.xe.com (currency conversion)
http://www.paypal.co.uk
http://www.amazon.co.uk
Has to be:
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk[/url] Especially for the news
[url]http://www.play.com[/url]
[url]http://www.ebay.com[/url] Of course..
[url]http://www.pprune.org/forums[/url] Professional pilots rumour network
[url]http://www.google.com[/url] Espcially froogle and image searches
[url]http://www.travelzoo.com[/url]
[url]http://www.myspace.com[/url]
[url]http://www.flyer.co.uk[/url]
[url]http://www.skynews.co.uk[/url] For the showbiz sections - how sad am I??
[url]http://www.natwest.com[/url] How else would I watch my wages disappear so quickly
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Powderroom goes without saying so...
1. http://community.burton.com
2. http://www.bloglines.com
3. http://www.cnn.com
4. http://www.nytimes.com
5. http://www.salon.com
6. http://www.imdb.com
7. http://www.amazon.com
8. http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.php?CityName=New+York&state=NY&sit...
9. my webmail that gets around the company filter
10. http://www.livejournal.com
Next up we need a top 10 essential blogs
Tricky one. I'll not include work, as that doesn't really count. In no particular order:
1) http://www.adrenalintrip.net/
2) http://www.snowboardclub.co.uk/
3) http://www.powderroom.net/
4) http://www.amigaworld.net/
5) http://www.slashdot.org/
6) http://www.flamesofwar.com/
7) http://www.google.com/
8) http://news.bbc.co.uk/
9) http://www.amazon.co.uk/
10) http://www.play.com/
my.plymouth.edu (for e-mail)
http://www.google.com (I need to search for stuff)
http://www.powderroom.net (yay for snowboarding! )
http://www.loonmtn.com (my fave mountain)
http://www.mycokerewards.com (I need to enter my points!)
http://www.waterville.com (one of my fave mountains!)
http://www.mapquest.com (because I can't find my way anywhere)
http://www.mbs.com (for mountainboard stuff! :))
http://www.citizensbank.com (for my banking needs! )
http://www.fnxradio.com (I like this station but it doesn't really come in where I live.... yea for streaming!)
Okay, since we're not including Powderroom:
1. Adrenalin Trip
2. Google
3. & 4. Banking & credit card sites (I had no internet for a few days... I couldn't check my accounts :o )
5. Yell.com
6. AA route planner
7. XE currency converter (at the moment, while we're sorting out season costs)
8. Showcase Cinemas
9. Ebay
10. Paypal
The last two aren't essential unless I'm selling something, which is less frequent now I've sold most things :)
Mostly for planning any travel: maps, flights, finding accomodation, reviews and what to see. I've no idea how I managed to find anywhere before internet maps.
1. http://www.multimap.co.uk
2. http://www.google.co.uk
3. nationalrail timetables (a crap site that often doesn't work, but very handy when it does)
4. http://www.mkweb.co.uk (my local website with cinema times, what's on and other handy local-type stuff)
5. banking (I now find it a great inconvenience if I ever have to go to the bank)
6. http://www.IMDB.co.uk
7. http://www.amazon.co.uk (for the reviews)
8. http://www.ebookers.com
9. http://www.weather.co.uk (old snow reports as well as weather)
10. http://www.chaletfinder.co.uk
Hmmm this one has got me thinking!!!
(same as everyone else I'm excluding work and this site)
http://www.snowvalleylodge.com (and http://www.aventurehosting.co.uk)
http://www.allofmp3.com ( :oops: yes i know its quasi legal... )
http://www.theaa.com (for route planning only)
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic
Honourable mention cause its work related but still interesting:
And the one I enjoy reading the most which is not the same as useful but I'm including it anway cos it always brightens up my day!!!
[quote="Wendy"]
And the one I enjoy reading the most which is not the same as useful but I'm including it anway cos it always brightens up my day!!!
http://www.dudewheresmysnowboard.blogspot.com[/quote]
Aw! :oops:
Bless yer, Wend!
[quote="ever"]
1. http://www.multimap.co.uk [/quote]
Oh, yes, this should have been one of mine - more so than Paypal, I think.
The ones I look at every day are:
- Ebay
- Google
- Yahoo (email and groups)
- Powderroom
- Flickr
- BBC (news, weather and webcams)
- Natwest
- IF
- Bloglines
- and not quite every day but still essential, Amazon