Featured link is http://iqagb.com/ 123 quiz message board - needs filling up!
These sites listed are usually a) free, b) pretty comprehensive and c) information based - i.e. I would imagine I would get value out of them without paying a cent. I also find myself weeding out sites which want your email, name or whatever (I do believe that message boards should ask for this, but I don't want to answer twenty questions then be asked to divulge my personal details). If you want to pay for a quiz pay me. If you have any links to add please email me, but purleeeze, don't ask me to link up pages which don't get me anywhere quickly. Regarding question sites, there are any amount of places that have a few dozen 'free' questions, but unless there are at least 300 or have a particular novelty, I have not listed them. In several of the quiz sections, I may have placed an asterisk (*) by my favourite from a section. As of 3 June 2008 I have had a look at all sites.
I would say the following three applcations are "must haves" - i.e. if you haven't got them on your PC, click on the links and get them now.
| Firefox or Google Chrome
To look at pages on the internet you need a 'browser' Usually you buy a PC ready loaded with Microsoft Internet Explorer. As with all Microsoft products, I have no particular beef, but as they are commercial products, they tend to be less dynamic and adaptable. Firefox and Chrome are a browsers that do most of the stuff that IE does, and some things a little better. You can use all browsers on your computer, so why not? | OpenOffice As with the browser, many computers come installed with Microsoft software such as Word and Excel. OpenOffice provide products which replicate these applications, the big difference being that they are free (but you can contribute with work or donations.). Added benefits are that glitches are fixed pretty quickly and that innovation is evolutionary and continous. Again, you can have Microsoft and OpenOffice utilities side by side so just go ahead and try them out. | Skype Skype is a wonderful tool for messaging and especially talking via microphone and headphones or speakers or even cooler with a video camera (I thoroughly recommend you invest about £20 apiece on a half decent headset and camera). If you have a friend in Pontefract or Plymouth who has Skype - hey Presto, it's free! You can buy 'Skypein' which enables you to phone telephones at a very very cheap rate. |
OK, now you have the essentials, allow me to indulge you with the "should use" - sites that just provide wonderful tools for a person like me.
And the preachy stuff:
| Amnesty
If you wish to donate to a charity, I believe that gifts to Amnesty will yield the greatest 'bangs for bucks'. We are nowhere without freedom. | The Brights
If you find this link contentious, then good. Brights are people who seek to bring some logic into this crazy stupid misled world that we live in. PS some of the nicest people I know are religious; thanks Mum. | Steve Kidd
This is so self-indulgent I know it will cheese off precisely those people who I would love to chese off. Nah - it just takes you back to my home page and I couldn't think of a third link for this trio. |
