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Apple Macintosh & Internet Links After well 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 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. 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 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. 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 Two
great
UK
newspapers: The
Guardian and The
Independent 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...
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