What we like

(Yes sorry, it's another one of those "our favourite sites" lists)

Interesting Internet-based information

• Newspapers: For me The Times just pips the others due to its content like The Interface section.

• IT Journals: There are many to choose here but for general reading I like Computer Weekly and Byte.

• Search engine: I'm getting better search results at present using the HotBot search engine than with Lycos, Alta-Vista or Webcrawler. But who knows what's in development for next week....

• News in audio: On-the-hour news headlines from IRN (requires Real Audio player - see Interesting software below).

• Local Radio: Capital Radio in London provides a good example of how to broaden it's radio coverage in a global sense.

• Secondhand Cars: It's car replacement time again, so I'm window shopping in Autotrader for a used car.

• Traffic congestion: I'm impressed with this initiative provided by Vauxhall and TrafficMaster

• Recent life savers: The quick response from Sainbury's chocogram service and Yellow pages for being nearer to hand than its paper version when I needed it.

• Just plain interesting: This is a good site for links off to the many cameras on the web.

Interesting Internet-based software

• Real audio and Streamworks providing audio and video without having to wait for ages to have the files downloaded.

• CU-SeeMe audio, video & whiteboard software over Internet.

• Worlds Chat providing interesting virtual meeting places for ones avatar.

• Web Whacker enabling downloads of pages for viewing later off-line.

• Internet Assistants for Office95 (sorry about this one, this list is really getting boring now).

Andrew Mewes
amewes@work.co.uk