Martin's Favourite Links

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Well here's my favourite links page, because:
1) Everyone seems to have one.
2) It saves me typing when I want to go to them.
3) There is no rule 3.
4) I've run out of bookmarks.

Quick

• Back to Martin's Homepage (S)
• The Watford Pages
• Altavista (Adv)
• Google Advanced
• The Dilbert Zone
• Garfield

Archives

• Cool Archive (Icons)
• Jumbo
• CD-ROM
• Shareware search
• Babylon 5
• Sunsite ic.ac.uk
• Download Netscape
• Download Netscape (OS/2 Warp)
• NoNags - Freeware

Arguments

• Britain in Europe
• Business for Sterling
• UK Government Euro Site
• Euro 2002
• Introducing the euro
• Where the euro is used
• Euromyths
• UK Metrication (Mirror)
• Definitions of the SI units The binary prefixes
• UKIP Metric Martyrs
• U.S. Metric Association (USMA)
• British Weights and Measures Association
• Final Report of the Metrication Board (1980)
• A Concise Reference to the Metric System (SI)
• Metric 4 US Calculator
• Campaign Against Stevenage Expansion
• West Stevenage Expansion
• Campaign to Abolish the TV Licence

Astronomy

• Nasa
• Hale-Bopp Commet
• SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) (@HOME)
• Comets
• S.W.Herts Atsronomical Society
• Nine Planets Tour
• Mars Pathfinder Homepage
• Mars Pathfinder Mirror (Compuserve)
• Mars Pathfinder Mirror (SGI)
• Mars Pathfinder Mirror (Sun)
• Tom Geletka's Eclipse page
• NASA Photo of the Day
• Heavens Above - Satellite Info (Stevenage)
• JTrack3D

Cameras

• Cambridge camera
• Cambridge Coffee
• Hollywood
• Mobile
• Netscape Fish
• Curryco
• CAC
• Stanford
• Entcweb
• Hawaii
• Hawaii - Mangoa
• Hawaiian Eye
• Hollywood
• RL
• SF Bay
• Faircam
• Sydney
• NYU Labcam
• Other Camera Sites
• Other Camera Sites
• Tuebingen Market Square
• WebCam.hu - 29 cameras
• Irisz - Budapest
• SZON Camera Index (Alternative)
• Nyíregyháza - Kossuth Tér (Alternative)
• Debrecen - Piac Utca
• Hungarian Cameras

Children's

• BBC Reading
• BBC Phonics Reading

Comedy

• Fitness To Practice
• Need To Know
• Python humour
• British Comedy
• Terry Pratchet
• The Dilbert Zone (Quick grab)
• Garfield
• The Usernet Oracle
• Gregoire
• Hitchhikers Guide
• Humourous stories
• Laughweb Jokes
• Big red button
• Pentium jokes + others
• Douglas Adams
• Nerd Test
• Larson Cartoons
• Monty Python
• Famous Testicles
• English guide for tourists
• Millennium bug
• Welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com
• Man and Woman Machines
• New Highway Code
• Gizoogle

Dictionaries

• Freedict Foreign dictionaries
• English-Hungarian Dictionary (Savergen)
• MoBi Hungarian-English-German Dictionary
• Your Dictionary - Hungarian
• Your Dictionary Hungarian Grammar
• A Hungarian Language Course
• Travlang's Hungarian Translating Dictionaries
• Foreign Languages for Travelers
• Dictionary.com
• Foreign Dictionaries Search
• Dictionaries
• On-line Foreign Dictionaries
• Dictionaries Webiography
• Dictionaries and Reference Works
• English and Foreign Dictionaries
• Slang Dictionary
• Australian Slang
• English-French Dictionary (Savergen)
• Websters English Dictionary
• The Dialectizer
• Oxford English Dictionary
• The Alternative Dictionary
• FactMonster
• WordSpy - New usage for words
• Wiki Dictionary (Wiktionary)
• Language Family Trees

Downloads and Utilities

• Major Geeks
• Foreign Fonts
• Keyboard Drivers
• SysInternals - TCPView

Email

• Hotmail
• NTL
• Spam Filters

EU

• Europa - The European Union On-Line
• Press Room - The European Commission's on line Press Room
• European Parliament Web Server
• Curia
• European Council
• European Central Bank
• Euro Barometer (Special Surveys)

Finance

• Trustnet (Unit Trusts)
• Standard and Poor's
• Comdirect Currency Graphs
• Money Extra (Account comparisons)
• MoneyWorld UK Personal Finance (Savings)
• 10 Steps to Investing Foolishly
• OANDA - Currencies
• Tax Calculator
• Payfinder
• Currency Convertor

Games

• Miniclips
• Yetisport
• Jonn Sandon's Games
• JigZone
• Flying Penguins
• Geography Quizes
• Sudoku

Genealogy

• 1901 Census
• Cousins Chart
• Hertfordshire-Genealogy
• 1837 Census
• BBC Family History (1937 BBC article)
• National Archives
• Government Family Records Office
• Family Tree
• Spacial Literacy Surname Profiler

Hungarian

• StartLap
• Prime Minister's Office, Hungary
• Szabolcs County
• Nyíregyháza
• Hungarian Symbols and Images
• Hungary.com
• Hungary.com Corvinus Library (net.hu mirror)
• Hungarian History
• MTI News in English
• Budapest Sun
• HTMH (Maps) (Docs) (Images)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary
• Hungarian Home Page
• Hungarian Images and Historical Background
• Hungary's EU Integration website
• Ministry of Economic Affairs
• The British Council Hungary
• Hungarian Embasy - London
• HungaroTips (Language learning)
• Nyíregyháza Online
• Nyíregyháza Town

Indexes

• Scoot
• Yahoo UK
• Yahoo US
• UK Directory
• UK Index
• British sites
• A UK Index site
• UK Free Pages Directory

Job Hunting

• JobServe IT Jobs
• PlanetRecruit
• GoJobSite
• CWjobs
• Vision IT
• Jobsite
• Kudos Jobsearch
• Work In Stevenage
• The Comet - Careers
• Herts IT Companies
• Yahoo - Hertfordshire Companies
• ACAS
• Employment Legislation - Redundancy Payments

  Agencies

• Oscar Associates
• Pathway
• Miracle Comms
• Glotel
• Monarch Recruitment
• Pro-Quest
• DAWood
• Your Coal
• Computer Futures
• Elan IT
• Haymarket
• IT Executive
• Logistix
• Hewitts IT
• Probe IT
• Advantage
• Progressive
• Rex
• Informatiq
• Real IT
• Amit UK
• Reed
• Emtek
• Secrecruitment
• Review
• Intelect
• Centric
• Mercer Gray
• Veritas
• BryteOne
• 2000 Group
• Huxley
• Chiltern
• IGC
• Catalyst
• Phoenix
• Computer People
• Universal Personnel
• Connections
• Towers
• Diamond Resourcing
• Plexian
• Hays IT
• DP Connect
• RDA
• Ideal People
• HHPL
• Vision IT
• Cartezia
• Bartrams
• IT Connections
• Crescere
• JMMS
• Specialist Recruitment
• Hays Works

Martin's Homepages

• Front Page (L)
• Favourite Links
• Linda (Magyarul)
• Humour
• 101 Things...
• 101 Things To Do When You're Bored
• 101 Uses For A Coffee Filter
• 101 Ways To Avoid Getting A Girlfriend
• 101 Ways To Get Out of a Job
• 101 Ways To Know You're Getting Old
• 101 Ways To Avoid Going Out
• 101 Uses for A Rubber Johny (Condom)
• 101 Verb Tenses
• Backwards Conversation
• Sign of Capricorn
• The Green Dot Zone
• Mailing Me...
• Pictures
• French for Programmers
• Personal Track Safety - Kama Sutra Edition
• Wierd Signature
• Alex's Family Tree

Maps

• UK Multimap
• UK Street Map
• Mapquest
• The Automobile Association UK - AA Route Planning - Britain
• Microsoft Expedia Maps
• TerraServer - Satellite pictures Mirror
• Millennium Map
• Historical Paris Maps
• Special Purpose and Historical maps
• The Times' Atlas of World History ethnic map of Yugoslavia
• Nazi's ethnic map of Yugoslavia from 1940
• Kosovo Maps
• East Prussia in 1920
• FEEFHS East European Map Room (German, Austrian Empires + others)
• WWII Maps
• Get Mapping - UK Millennium Map
• Space Imaging
• Atlapedia
• USMA Historical Maps
• Térkép Centrum
• Maps on the Hungarian part of the Web
• Hungarian map servers
• Description of the world's road numbering systems
• Environment Agency - Flood Map
• Falling Rain (World Settlements) (HU) (Example)
• Land Registry on-line
• Microsoft Virtual Earth
• Google Maps
• Google Moon
• Google Earth (Keyhole BBS)
• Old-Maps.co.uk

Miscellaneous

• TekZoned
• HOB Spectrum Emulator
• Atari ST Emulator
• Darwin Awards
• How Stuff Works
• Top sites
• Cool site of the day
• Caesar Geezer
• McSpotlight
• Mr. Edible Starchy Tuber Head
• On-line Literature Library
• FAQ Finder
• World Clock - London
• Calendarland
• Railtrack Timetable
• National Rail Journey Planner [Access] [Dracos]
• The Train Line Booking Service
• WWW Tube Journey Planner
• Anagram Insanity
• Anagram Generator
• On-line Encyclopedia
• Wikipedia (Wiki Foundation Home)
• Compton's Encyclopedia
• Kudos Jobsearch
• The Easter Egg Archive
• Urban Legends Reference Pages (Mirror)
• Family Name Search
• Home Office (Directorates)
• Duerrs Jam
• Real Audio
• Wargamer - Articles
• Royal Mail - Track and Trace [Access]
• Surname Distribution in the US
• The Speedtrap Bible Trap Types
• The Virtual Mummy
• Prussia
• Car Save
• PC Pinout collection
• Kura - Energy Supplier Price Comparisons
• Email with 'loopup 1 2 3 4' in message.
• AT&T Reseach Projects
• The Programmer's File Format Collection
• Homecheck.co.uk
• EAN Country Codes
• BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service)
• National Statistics - the official UK statistics site
• Political Compass
• ExactAudioCopy
• JTypes Personality Test
• Personality Types
• Team Technology
• JavaScript Clock
• Dracos Accessible Web Sites
• Kid of speed - The Chernobyl Dead Zone
• Agarics - Mushroom Identifier
• Shatner Has Been
• Lyrics Domain
• Flags
• Sunrise and sunset times (London)
• NTL Hell
• Gyurcsany Ferenc does Love Actually

People I know with Homepages

• Linda Walker (Vásárhelyi) (S)
• Martin King
• Simon Gallagher
• Bill's Big is More page
• Jase Wickham
• Dick Wall
• Guy Djemal
• Guy Robinson (or here)
• Andy Clark
• Clive Snellgrove
• Ashley Baumann (or here)
• Phill Higgs
• Roman Stec
• Darren Flindall
• Carrie Estill and Ken Mackenzie

People Search

• Whowhere people search
• Family Search.Org
• Familyrecords.gov Births, Deaths and Marriages England and Wales
• Friends Reunited

Pictures

• Digital Blasphemy - Free 3D Wallpaper
• Stereograms
• Ascii Stereograms
• Computer Art
• Art Museum.Net
• French Art Gallery
• ForAnImage.com
• Desktop Delights
• Custom Effects

Places

• Science Museum
• Glastonbury
• Canterbury Tour
• EU Addresses
• European Parliament
• Latitude and Longitude Finders (Astrodienst)
• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - World's longest place name and URL
• New Zealand Immigration Service
• Leaning Tower of Pisa
• CIA World Factbook
• Parmiter's School
• Wheathampstead
• Smoke Free Herts
• Info-England
• Check My File (area information)

Programming

• The Code Project - Subclassing
• Code Guru Visual Studio Keywords
• MSDN
• ASCIIcat Programming Reference
• Understand for C++
• MFC .NET equivalents

Press

• BBC News (Europe)
• Electronic Telegraph
• News Now
• Guardian On-line
• Daily Anorak
• Futurenet mag
• Futurenet - SFX
• Computer Weekly
• Atari Article Archive (ST Format)
• Central Europe Online - Hungary
• Kosovo Crisis
• BBC Communism Front Page - Iron Curtain Programme Times - Hungary

Radio

• MS Radio Station Guide
• The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet (European A-I) (J-Z) (Bitcasters)

  Hungarian:

• Világ Rádió
• Star [RA] (worked once)
• Budapest (1 hour/day) [FTP] [RA] (works)
• City (can't find bitcast URL)
• Danubius [RA] (doesn't seem to work - too slow?) New address?
• Juventus (doesn't seem to work)
• Kossuth (bad URL)
• Petőfi RA - [HU] (doesn't usually work) [USA] (Needs password)
• Bridge (wrong URL?)
• Roxy [RA] (sort of works - bad congestion)
• Tilos [RA] (doesn't seem to work)
• Internet Radio Stations

Search Engines

• Altavista (Adv) (UK) (UK Adv)
• Lycos (UK)
• Dogpile - Multisearch
• Netscape
• Opentext
• WWW Worm
• Imperial College
• Demon CUSI
• Xerox
• Excite
• Webcrawler
• World Wide Web Worm
• Venus Search
• All4one (Yahoo Lycos Altavista Webcrawler - Needs frames)
• Search (.com) - Multi search
• Dejanews - Usernet News searcher
• Search for Acronyms
• Metasearch Search Engine
• Starting Point Search Engine
• Infoseek (Ultra)
• Hotbot
• Submit It!
• Demon Internet Query Tools
• UK Search Engine
• Google
• Infospace
• Hem Scott - Companies Search
• Euroseek - European Search Engine

Shops

• Acses - Shopping Price Comparison Engine
• Instant insurance quotes for Travel, Car and House insurance
• Shops On The Net
• Deal Pilot - Online shop comparisons
• Blue Danube Gifts - Hungarian Shop
• Pannonia Books Hungarian Bookstore
• The Hungarian Import Store
• XL-Recordings
• Car Imports from Europe with Broadspeed
• Baby Kiddicare Superstore
• Hungarian Book Agency
• Hungarian Book Store
• Quuti Charms
• Carina Charms
• Cybercandy
• A Quarter Of
• CarGiant
• Car Warehouse
• Carland (Enfield)
• Parkers Car Price Guide

Telecoms

• UKPhoneBook.com
• British Phone Numbers (BT)
• US Phone numbers
• British STD Code Search
• Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications
• One.Tel
• UK Electronic Yellow Pages
• UK STD Codes
• NTL (Intl. Call Rates)
• World Telephone Directories (UK)
• TelDir.com
• Hungary Phone Books, White Pages, Yellow Pages
• 192.com
• Telephone Preference Service (TPS)
• Mail Preference Service (MPS)
• Fax Preference Service (FPS)
• EMail Preference Service (eMPS)
• Country Calling Codes
• Orange - International coverage
• BudgetCom
• ADSL Guide (Broadband comparisons)
• Tiscali Broadband
• Mobile IMEI Registration (type *#06# for IMEI)

Translators

• Altavista Babelfish
• InterTran
• L&H Lernout & Hauspie
• Systran
• BT Click
• Center for Machine Translation
• Gist-In-Time
• World of Translation

Travel

• Ryanair
• Sky Europe
• Traffic Net - Congestion map
• EBookers
• GoAmsterdam
• HotelNet
• Railtrack Timetable
• Highways Agency - Closures
• Great Days Out in Beds and Herts
• Flights 4 Less
• Opodo
• Dial-A-Flight
• Goby Coach

TV / Film

• BBC News 24 - Today
• DigiGuide
• The Snipsons
• DigiGuide (TV Guide)
• BBC (Programmes)
• Fist of Fun - Lee and Herring's Page
• Fist of Fun - BBC Site
• Channel 4
• Paramount
• Grange Hill
• Space Precinct
• Babylon 5
• Films
• Movie DB
• Men behaving badly
• Blake's 7
• Star Trek
• Star Wars
• Star Wars
• Official X Files
• Scifi Channel
• Science fiction
• Star Trek links
• Red dwarf pics
• SF Resource Guide
• SF Gallery
• Events On-line
• Classic 70s and 80s UK Kids TV
• Official Star Wars Site
• Star Wars Bloopers
• The Simpsons Archive
• Big Empire - Fillthy Reviews
• PBS - Frontier House (The Project)
• The Fast Show (EDD)
• The Fast Show
• EuroNews
• Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
• Make Your Own Simpsons Character

Watford Pages

• Front Page

Weather

• Met Office - Luton
• Met Office Rain Radar
• BBC Weather (Stevenage)
• BBC Luton 24 hour
• CNN Weather (Debrecen)

Web / Authoring

• Beginner's Guide To HTML
• Web Mastery
• Web censorship
• Web Developers Reference
• CGI Source
• Geocities (free web space)
• Freenet sites
• Gif Construction set
• Gif Animation
• OS/2 Web Explorer Animation Contest
• Cutting Edge Uses of the Web
• Callnet UK
• uk2.net - Net Registration
• Freedrive
• 3D FTP
• IM Web Portal
• Cookie Central FAQ
• Sam Spade (Internet Tools)
• HTML Validator
• The Best Tree Control In The World Ever
• IFrame Tutorial

Windows

• Windows Update
• Windows XP SP2 Support Centre
• Microsoft advice on programs that seem to stop working once SP2 is installed
• Microsoft advice on programs that behave differently once SP2 is installed
• Themeworld - Windows Themes
• Microsoft Spyware Detector
• SVC Host Article
• Annoyances.org - Windows tips