LINKS - RESOURCES AND OTHER THANGS

THE ESSENTIAL ITEM:

THE BROWSER:

Without which you wouldn't
be looking at this would yer.
It boils down to a choice of 2
and ,  then to the version of
that .   Netscape Navigator
3,or4.  the Connincator suite
in my humble opinion is brill but
others swear by Mr W Gates'
IE4 so,  dear punter, wot I say
is whatever blows yer skirt up
 

NETSCAPE

 Come get yer nagivator here and sail the www
 

EXPLORER

 Microsoft browers, software galore plus helpful hints & tips
 
Right that's the bare essentials out of the way. Both companies have lots of nice things attached to their browsers if you want em, just think first if you are ever gonna use em though, maybe you want to use a different e-mail program not the
one which is supplied.. all a question of taste and below are more yummy things to
whet your appetite and give you many happy hours of entertainment on and off the WWW.
 

Software, Shareware and freebies:

 First of all lets look at the great free places :

Tucows:
HappyPuppy
Filez:

Shareware:
Jumbo
Windows95com
Gamespot
GamesDomain
 
 

 


News, Current Affairs

Read all about it, as it happens, where it happens on the net
CNN  Ted Turner's world .. slick smooth
BBC  Good ol' Auntie Beeb .. news online
Press Association: UK news agency even more news
Sky news on line news service of skytv
 

Newspapers

The Times:
Sunday Times:
Daily Telegraph:
The Guardian
New York Times
International  Herald Tribune
Washington Post
 
 

OTHER SITES INCLUDING MAGAZINES OF GENERAL INTEREST

*warning* Not all suitable for everyone
Just click on wot takes yer fancy and you'll go where you want to be a little of this and a bit of that!
 
Mad Magazine:
Vogue, GQ
Elle:
National Geographic:
.Net Magazine
Marvel Comics
Playboy: 
Hustler
Sporting Life
 Private Eye:
 
 

 

 Homepage helpers:

Quite a few places on the net offer you freespace if your isp doesn't: Geocities,  Angelfire
are two such services.  Once booked in, signed up and so forth they have excellent HTML editors, for the not so clued up or lazy to produce fairly professional looking results.  If on the other hand you feel you want to get to grips with HTML and java and all the hullabaloo that goes with it, here are a couple of links to help you decorate your homepages with nice thangs:

Ok then where to start .  To kick off even if you are going to use an editor provided by  the homepage hoster it is a good idea to get a rough idea as to the basic coding .. you never know you might just get hooked.  A good start can be found at the Beginners Guide to HTML  .

Then once you can see how to put images and sounds on your pages and tables and all sorts of rather luverly thinks you'll probably want to know where you can get some of these ready made goodies.  So here are a few links to backgrounds, ani-gifs, jpegs, borders, and all things pictorial:
Windya wealth of stuff and she doesn't mind you using it just give credit where credit is due.

Gifsfree images gifs etc.

Course you can always make yer own with a nice graphics program like Coreldraw or PaintShopPro and even get em animated with a special program...  The www is your oyster just remember that not everyone wants to wait for ages for your page to download withlots of fancy pics, gifs and stuff as impressive as it probably will look...


 MUSIC, BANDS AND THINGS KINDA AURAL

Well one supposes you have a sounds card and speakers.

You can go and get yerself REALAUDIO as lots of sites now have thier sounds in realaudio format so you'll need this to listen to em...  oh it is free btw! You can also listen to web radio, live new broadcasts and all that stuff.  On the radio I seemed to get a lot of buffering and bugger all else but maybe I was unlucky.

The Ultimate Band List .. I found this when looking for lyrics tis an excellent resource to find links to 1000's of bands.... quite awesome.
CD Zone:  choose and buy
Netradio: internet radio lots of channels
RadioTower: the place to find an international radio station on real-audio
AllStar: music e-zine
Internet Underground Music Archive
Free Midi files  if you would like to add a sound of two to your homepage ladida di dum

Ha no page on muisc would be complete without a link to that journal without equal NME and also that other wonderful mag SELECT.

I am not putting links here to specific bands pages as I would not wish to impose my choices on you... ahh talk about kind.  Hmm more kinda Bitter Sweet Symphony.. yep for sure.


Sating those Visual Senses

Movies
Well there's always links to fav movies of the moment like the seemingly unsinkable, Titanic.. but here are some rather more stable links which should be around for a bit longer than her.

Internet Movie Database: the title says it all
Home Video Guide:  this is excellent has movies galore
Mr Showbiz: interviews news and all the latest
Aint it Cool: gossip gossip and more gossip
For a meeting of Vision and Sound how about putting some bits and bobs of the movies on your page get it from
the Movie Sounds Homepage


That is all for now.  Fear not though it will be added to on a regular basis, or when I get the time to roll up my sleeves and get stuck in being the rough translation.  Thanks for visiting.  Safe journey through cyber space dear visitor....

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