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Apple Macintosh & Internet Links
We're
delighted
with
the
range
and
standard
of
services
offered
by
our
internet
service
provider!-
Plus Net
For a free hit counter, stats service and visitor's book plus free internet and site-specific search engines and much, much more, visit Braveweb
A truly invaluable site!- for free tech help with all your computer problems- no matter what platform- provided by a dedicated team of volunteers, you must visit Protonic
Great
guides
to
UK
Internet
sites:
UK
Index,
UK
Plus,
Yell!
and
Yahoo
UK
Some
indispensable
Search
Engines:
HotBot,
Excite,
AltaVista,
Lycos,
Infoseek,
Ask
Jeeves
and
(our
favourite)
Google.
And here's (apparently) a 'new approach' to searches: Gnod- the Global Network of Dreams...
Building
your
own
website? This is the site for web design know-how: Webmonkey- and here's another, extremely witty,
guide
to
building your
masterpiece
and getting it on
the
web:
Philip
and
Alex's
Guide
to
Web
Publishing.
Get
your site
noticed
by
the
search
engines
by
visiting
Submit-It
The one and only, world-famous Web Pages That Suck (please let us never be featured here!)
How did the internet look and work when it was new? Tons of fascinating information at The Internet Archive
Radio
on
the
Internet!
There's
everything
you
need
at
RadioTower,
the
World
Radio
Network
and
the
NetRadio
Network ... Not
forgetting
the
excellent
free
RealPlayer
for
accessing
internet
radio,
video
broadcasts
and
much
more!
Download
it
from
Real.Com-
and
here
is
their
guide
to
stations:
Radio
Tuner
Easy,
browser-based
access
to
thousands
of
newsgroups
at
Deja!
Looking
for
a
computer
with
class?
One
that's
great
to
look
at,
easy
to
set
up
and
operate,
and
rarely
goes
wrong?
One
that
doesn't
run
Windows???
(unless you really want it to) You
need
a
Mac!
For
unrivalled
news,
reviews
and
commentary
about
all
things
Apple-
and
more
than
a
few
insights
into
Windows
too!-
visit
the
newly-revamped
Daily
Mac
website
The
websites
of
some
Macintosh
magazines:
MacFormat
,
MacAddict,
Mac
Today
,
MacWeek
Online,
MacUser
and
an
excellent
Mac
e-zine:
AppleWizards
One
of
our
favourite
Mac
software
download
sites
-
updated
every
Sunday-
the
excellent
Mac
OS
Zone.
A
collection
of
truly
magnificent
desktop
pictures
for Mac and PC may
be
found
at
Blue
Sky
Heart-
you've
never
seen
anything
like
these!
A
comprehensive
source
of
Freeware
and
Shareware
for
Mac
and
PC:
Download.com
Even
more
Mac
goodies
at
MacShare,
Pure
Mac,
Pass
the
Shareware-
including
lots
of
Mac
links-
MacUpdate
and
the
MacToolbox
resource
site-
which
has
a
brilliant
section
for
older
Macs-
appreciated
by
Classic
owners
like
me! Another
brilliant
place
for
fans
of
the
older
Mac is Jag's
House
Much
more
comprehensive
than
it
sounds-
and
a
great
source
of
educational
software
and
games,
old
and
new,
for
both
PC
and
Mac:
Kid's
Domain
Downloads
We
love
it!
.Check
out
Version
Tracker's
comprehensive
archived
updates- one of our first stops for new software.
Apple
Europe's
homepage
and
Apple's
main
site
Photography
Links Top of page
Steve Howe's photographs of People, views of Chester, Liverpool and a collection of Miscellaneous images.
'Heroes of Hoole': In May 2000, the pupils of Hoole All Saints School in Chester voted for their favourite local personalities- sadly teachers and parents were excluded- and yours truly was commissioned to produce a series of photographic portraits of the winners. Here is the result...
A
growing
collection
of
old
photographs
and
drawings
of
Chester
and
Liverpool
A
huge
archive
of
outstanding
images
from
the
'golden
age'
of
Merseyside
photography
from
the
studios
of
Elsam,
Mann
&
Cooper,
Pagan
Smith
and
others,
run
by
Mike
Meadows
and
Carol
Sharpe:
formerly
Oxton
Studios,
but
now
renamed
the
Reflections
Photo
Archive. Brilliant
stuff
here-
one
of
our
favourite
sites.
We've occasionally been know to be critical of poorly built and maintained local websites, but not this one: you'll definitely enjoy your visit to the galleries of the Chester Photographic Society.
Mason
Resnick's
excellent
Black
&
White
World
The
world's
oldest
photography
magazine-
established
in
1854-
The
British
Journal
of
Photography
If
you
can't
get
to
Bradford,
Yorkshire
to
visit
the
recently-revamped
National
Museum
of
Photography,
Film
and
Television,
visit
their
superb
website
instead!
Robert
Leggat's
comprehensive
History
of
Photography
A photographic portrait of Britain as she was: the world-famous Francis Frith Collection
"Dedicated to the art of handcolouring photographs": Handcolor.com
Fantastic photographs
of
British
comics
and
comedians
by our friend Andy Hollingworth at
the
Comedy
Online
website. Brilliant.
Environmental Links
Top of page
The Centre for Alternative Technology in beautiful Machynlleth, Wales
The excellent Friends of the Earth site. Check out Factory Watch- enter your postcode to receive full details of your local polluters- prepare for a shock!
Of interest to UK cyclists and walkers: The Sustrans Home Page and the excellent website of the Chester Cycling Campaign: news of Chester's slowly improving cycling scene, a bewildering array of worldwide cycling links and much more...
Dying for a Big Mac? (not the computer, the dead cow-in-a-bun variety) The enormous and illuminating McSpotlight site may make you think again!
Confused about GM foods? Here's some sites to open your eyes: Which? Online, New Scientist, The Institute of Food Science & Technology and Genetix Food Alert
Welcome to the Country Landowners Association's website
The UK Department of the Environment and Transport: The DETR website
Miscellaneous Links
Top of page
Simply one of the most beautiful and entertaining websites we've seen: Orisinal. Comprising a collection of simply perfect little games, Orisinal is much more- don't miss this one!
"If it isn't trivia it isn't here"- a truly wonderful site: UselessKnowledge.com
Truly strange behaviour from all over the world: News of the Weird!
Talking of weird, here's a website devoted to recording the strange and wonderful ways people have contrived to meet their maker: the Darwin Awards
Personality tests of all kinds at The Spark: the Purity Test, the Greed Test, the Gay Test, the Stress Test- the Death Test- this site could change your life!
An antidote to 'Cool Site of the Day'-type sites, here's (naturally) Cruel Site of the Day..
Hoping to eventually include the text of every book ever printed! - and there's thousands here already- Project Gutenberg
Ditto this site: The World Wide Web Virtual Library Who said computers killed reading?
Great books online and much more- dictionaries, thesauri, searchable collections of quotations etc: all at Bartleby.com
Multimap
is
a
great
place
if
you
need
a
map
of
Chester,
or
anywhere
else
in
the
UK-
as
too
is
Streetmap
The
DfEE's
comprehensive
Parent's
Website
Visit
a
fascinating
community
on
the
other
side
of
the
Pennines:
Hebden
Bridge
A
fine
Northwest
England
and
UK
Internet
Guide
Hotwired
A
great
online
magazine-
updated
every
day!
More
publications
we
read
often:
the
unique
Suck,
Private
Eye,
Viz,
V-Zine
and,
of
course,
The
Beano!
Two
great
UK
newspapers:
The
Guardian
and
The
Independent
No
introduction
necessary:
National
Geographic
Some
comprehensive
reference
sources:
Martindale's
'The
Reference
Desk',
The
Argus
Clearinghouse,
Thor+,
The
Internet
Encyclopedia
and
Professor
Gigabyte's
Gateways
to
Infinity!
Don't
forget
Auntie!
Tune
in
to
the
vast
and
excellent
website
of
the
BBC
Last
resting
places
of
the
(formerly)
rich
'n'
famous:
Find-a-Grave!
Explode
the
myths
at
Phil
Plait's
engrossing
Bad
Astronomy
website
For
those
interested
in
the
tragedy
of
the
Titanic,
here
are
some
unmissable
links:
Titanic
Town,
Encyclopedia
Titanica,
the
Titanic
Band
Memorial
at
Liverpool
Philharmonic
Hall,
The
Titanic
and,
finally,
a
look
at
an
evocative
Titanic
postcard...
Finally,
here's
a
history
of
the
universe
and
of
our
planet,
descriptions
of
angels
and
other
cosmic
personalities,
life-after-death,
a
restatement
of
the
life
of
Jesus
of
Nazareth-
and
much, much
more.
We've
been
students
of
the
astonishing
Urantia
Book
for
years,
and
now
you too
can
read
the
Epochal
Revelation
online
for
yourselves
at
the
Urantia
Book
Homepage,
the
Urantia
Foundation's
website
or
study
some
transcripts
of
Bill
Sadler's
illuminating
lectures
about
this
great
work.
Read
it
and
change
your
life.
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