| | Handy tools to get you through life: Probably the best search engine in the world.
Travel- Streetmap
- Put in a postcode or street name and get a clear map of the area
- Multimap.com
- As above - Europe-wide.
- TrafficMaster-Online
- Not quite the same as having one of the gadgets in you car, but handy before setting out on a journey (requires registration).
- RAC Travel
- Tells you about jams.
- National Rail
- Find out in advance that your train will be delayed.
- European timetable from Deutsche Bahn
- Typically, the Germans do it better than us (and manage it in English).
- The Trainline
- Book tickets online.
People and Places- 192.com
- Search the electoral roll for free - scarily big-brotheresque (requires registration).
- BT Directory Enquiries
- BT's UK phone directory.
- Yell
- Yellow pages online.
- Scoot
- Business directory - also has cinema times.
- Telephone Directories on the Web
- Index of telephone directories from around the world
- TextMeFree
- Handy SMS stuff.
Reference sites- Britannica.com
- Stunning resource - never be short of something to write for your homework again (unfortunately, it looks like you have to pay for most of it now).
- OneLookŪ Dictionaries
- Search loads of dictionaries from one site.
- yourDictionary.com
- Another site where you can search multiple dictionaries.
- LEO English-German Dictionary
- Handy online German dictionary.
- Babelfish
- Serviceable machine translations from AltaVista.
- Royal Mail
- Select "postcodes online" from the dropdown menu to get get a postcode for an address and vice-versa.
- The World Clock - Time Zones
- Need to know what time it is in Ulan Bator? - this site will tell you.
- How Stuff Works
- Does what it says on the tin.
- National Statistics - the official UK statistics site
- Need to know how many nasal hairs owned by the average Liverpudlian? - This site will tell you (probably).
- Computerhope
- Handy reference/troubleshooting site for all your computer probs.
- Convert-me.Com
- Interactive conversions of measurements.
- XE.com
- Currency conversions based on real-time data.
- iTools
- Loads of handy reference tools
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SearchingArticle on locating info that search engines won't find from Guardian Online. Sites that help you find said info: - Direct search
- Compilation of links
- InvisibleWeb.com
- Yahoo-style hierarchy
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- As above
- ProFusion
- Meta search engine
- BUBL
- Links to sites by academic discipline
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