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Apple Macintosh & Internet Links
(updated December 2008)
After over ten years, we're
still 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 Bravenet
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
All manner of Mac-specific help and advice is available at the MacWorld UK Forums
The one and only, world-famous forum of bad online design: Web Pages That Suck (please let us never be featured here!)
All the wonders of YouTube in a brilliantly organised and acessible form- hours of entertainment are guaranteed at StumbleVideo
How did the internet look and work when it was new? Tons of fascinating information at The Internet Archive
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!
Easy, browser-based access to thousands of newsgroups at Google Groups.
Watch movies online! A bewildering array of entertainment in a wide range of categories- free and legal- Free Movies Cinema
If you're a fan of old music on 78s, this site is a must for you- thousands of classic tracks for free download- My Collection Of 78 rpm Records.
Watch UK TV online! Free and legal- TV Catchup
Looking
for
a
computer
with
class?
One
that's
great
to
look
at,
easy
to
set
up
and
operate,
immune from viruses and
rarely
goes
wrong? One
that
doesn't
run
Windows???
(although it will if 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 the world of
Windows
too!-
visit
Mac Daily News.
Our
favourite
Mac
software
download
sites, updated every day-
MacUpdate and VersionTracker.
A comprehensive source of Freeware and Shareware for Mac and PC: Download.com
Apple's own page of recommended freeware and shareware- OS X Downloads.
Whether expert or novice, there's always something to learn at Mac Tips and Tricks
Don't take our word for it- go and see for yourself! Apple
UK'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.
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
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 (updated December 2008) Top of page
Simply one of the most beautiful and entertaining websites we've seen: Orisinal. Comprising a collection of simply perfect little games accompanied by charming music, Orisinal is much more- don't miss this one!
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: "Honoring those who improve the species...by accidentally removing themselves from it!"- the Darwin Awards
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
In-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics- a brilliant daily read- Wired
More
publications
we
read
often:
Private
Eye,
Viz, National Geographic and,
of
course,
The
Beano!
Two
great
UK
newspapers:
The
Guardian
and
The
Independent
Comprehensive
reference
sources:
Martindale's
'The
Reference
Desk' and, of course, the magnificent Wikipedia
Don't
forget
Auntie!
Tune
in
to
the
vast
and
excellent
website
of
the
BBC (Includes access to their excellent iPlayer...)
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 is the comprehensive
Encyclopedia
Titanica and
(on our own site)
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
for free
at
the
Urantia
Book
Homepage and
the
Urantia
Foundation's
website.
Read it as revelation, as fact, as sci-fi... but read it.
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