HOUSE AND HOME
64 Noise Mapping England
www.noisemapping.org
Click on an area of the map to find out how noisy a street, or even
a section of the street, is - handy for light sleepers planning a move.
At the moment only London is mapped, but the rest of England will
follow.
65 Prime Location
www.primelocation.com
One of the best sites for finding property. It is UK-based but has a good international presence.
66 Rated People
www.ratedpeople.com
User reviews on local tradesmen. You describe the job you need done
and how quickly and suppliers contact you with quotes - with previous
customers rating them.
67 Zoopla
www.zoopla.co.uk
Possibly the most dangerous site on this list, Zoopla gives sale
prices of recently sold homes and - the tricky bit - estimates the
value of the rest. We dare you not to look.
68 Money Saving Expert
www.moneysavingexpert.com
Subtitled ‘Consumer Revenge’, this is where you find the discounts,
tricks and tips to save money. The weekly email is essential reading
for canny consumers. It caters only for Britain, but every country
should have one.
69 MetaEfficient
www.metaefficient.com
Practical guide to making your home more environmentally friendly,
from low-flow showerheads to 12V lighting. US-based, but many of the
products are available elsewhere.
70 Design My Room
www.DesignMyRoom.com
For budding Laurence Llewellyn-Bowens everywhere, it provides the
ability to redecorate your home in cyberspace. Choose colours,
furniture, accessories and finishes and then publish the results online.
71 Up My Street
www.upmystreet.com
Neighbourhood information based on postcode: schools, shopping and,
juciest of all, how much the house down the road sold for recently.
72 Home For Exchange
www.homeforexchange.com
One of many sites where you can swap homes with someone else for a
period. This is less cluttered than some of the others and has a good
geographical spread.
73 SimplySwitch
www.simplyswitch.com
The fast way to compare utility suppliers and other services, from
broadband to home insurance. Enter your postcode and the site comes
back with the best deals.
74 101 Cookbooks
www.101cookbooks.com
Enchanting recipe and foodie blog from a Californian cook who
believes in good food. Subscribe to the email alert service and
transform your cooking repertoire.
SOCIAL
75 Facebook
www.facebook.com
The most grown-up (just) of the social-networking sites that are
fast taking over the world. Excellent for staying in touch with
far-flung friends, though pretty good too for re-establishing contact
with those you hoped you had lost.
76 Wordpress
www.wordpress.com
The quickest and easiest way to create a blog of your own.
77 Ringsurf
www.ringsurf.com
Like an online Mothers’ Union meeting (though sometimes a little
more risqué), Ringsurf is a chatroom where people exchange ideas about
anything from politics to relationships. The quality is not always
high, but users have been known to discover new (real-life) friends
with interests they thought no one would share. A tribute to the
information-sharing capability of the net.
78 bubbl.us
www.bubbl.us
Organise your thoughts by creating mindmaps online and sharing them with others.
79 Technorati
www.technorati.com
An intelligent, intuitive and inspiring way to read entries from
some of the millions of blogs that dot the internet. You can browse by
subject or area of interest, read the postings that are catching the
world’s attention and bookmark blogs that catch your attention. And if
you want to join in…
80 Flickr
www.flickr.com
The website you graduate to once you’ve discovered how to put your
holiday snaps on the net. Here, everyone’s photos are linked by using
tags, such as ‘Spain’, ‘beach’ or ‘happy’, which sets you off on an
exploration of others’ uploads.
81 BabyCentre
www.babycentre.co.uk
There are plenty of great parenting forums out there - Netmums,
Mumsnet - but this is still the best source of considered,
authoritative, often soothing advice on everything from colic to tax
credits.
82 Friction TV
www.friction.tv
YouTube for debaters. Upload a short video about an issue close to your heart and others reply in kind or by text.
SHOPPING
83 GiftGen
www.giftgen.co.uk
Gift ideas for when you can’t think what to buy someone. You enter
their age, sex and interests and how much you want to pay and it scours
the net for ideas.
84 eBay
www.ebay.co.uk
Online shopping for (nearly) everything you might want to buy. The
original auction formula is still going strong, but plenty more
features have been added since it began. Take a look at non-UK sites,
such as ebay.fr and ebay.de, too, for bargains others may have missed.
The layout is the same even if you don’t speak the language.
85 Who What Wear Daily
www.whowhatweardaily.com
Fashion tips, advice and suggestions. Includes Ask a Stylist for
those tricky co-ordination problems and a What Was She Wearing? inquiry
service to help you track down your favourite celebrity’s fashion
choice.
86 Gumtree
www.gumtree.com
Unabashedly straightforward classified ads site, for everything from new homes to online romance.
87 AbeBooks
www.abebooks.co.uk
The Amazon of the second-hand book world. More than 13,500
booksellers selling 110 million books. If it’s not here, it’s not worth
looking for.
88 Kelkoo
www.kelkoo.co.uk
There are plenty of price-comparison sites on the web, but this one
seems to get it right more often than most. Type in what you want to
buy and Kelkoo will come back with the cheapest prices it can find.
89 Endgadget
www.engadget.com
A (digital) finger on the pulse of the technology world. All the
newest developments, discoveries, gadgets and toys - before they hit
the shops.
90 Cork’d
www.corkd.com
Discover more about wine by reviewing what you’ve enjoyed and receiving tips and suggestions from others.
91 I Love Jeans
www.ilovejeans.com
Find the right jeans for your fit before you even leave home. A
cheeky but revealing ‘body type’ guide takes you straight to the brand
you should be trying. Search by style, body type or brand. Women only.
TRAVEL
92 Sky Scanner
www.skyscanner.net
Monitors prices and destinations for all the low-cost airlines so
you just type in where you want to go and when to find the best deal.
93 The Man in Seat 61
www.seat61.com
Routes, tickets, tips and advice - the only guide you need to
travelling by train from Britain to Europe and the rest of the world.
94 Walk It
www.walkit.com
Online pedestrian routefinder for London, Birmingham, Newcastle and
Edinburgh that shows you the best route to walk from A to B. Includes
calorie counter, CO2 savings and points of interest on the way. Other
cities coming soon.
95 Transport for London Journey Planner
journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk
Indispensable and almost always spot-on guide to negotiating the
capital’s public transport system. You enter your starting point and
destination and it gives you the best bus, tube, cycle and even boat
routes to get you across town.
96 ViaMichelin
www.viamichelin.com
A hi-tech hark-back to the days of leisurely motoring. ViaMichelin
gives you maps, routes and directions throughout Britain and
continental Europe with added panache. The maps have a pleasant printed
quality about them and, naturally enough, your route is accompanied by
gastronomic highlights to be found along the way. There’s also
information about destinations.
97 Carbon Neutral
www.carbonneutral.com
Information on your carbon footprint and how to cut it down. Includes an online calculator to measure your effect on the world.
98 Expedia
www.expedia.com
Excellent all-round travel site. Use it for good prices on flights
and holidays, but click on ‘Destinations’ for some well-researched and
up-to-date travel guides.
99 SeatGuru
www.seatguru.com
Aircraft seating plans, showing you the prime seats, possible annoyances and seats you should avoid.
100 Airline Meals
www.airlinemeals.net
A consumer guide to what you can expect to eat on board. There are
news and features from the airline catering world, but the best part is
a gallery of photos of on-board meals sent in by passengers and listed
by airline.
101 World Hum
www.worldhum.com
Travel writing with a twist. Click on the destination you have in
mind and be prepared to be inspired. The site also offers tavelogues,
news, books reviews, blogs and slideshows.
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