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BBC Most Popular          BBC Video & Audio

Newspapers (These are local Scottish newspapers)

Exeter 'Express&Echo'

Dundee Courier

Wrexham Leader

Postcode local paper search          All UK papers

Worldwide Front Pages

Fast Flip Google Labs' cool news site - works best with a sign in account

Sport

Scottish Premier Football League       Dundee Utd News Official Site (Thanks Grant!)   Live Scores for Scottish Premier League

Cricket Check out latest matches

Internet

Dial-up Internet Access   ISP Review  A useful site if you're fed up with your current ISP

Broadband Internet Access   Samknows with up to date technical news on broadband

Broadband Expert Find the best package Top10Broadband Enter postcode/telephone and find best broadband deals  Speed checker SpeedTest

uk.telecom.broadband Newsgroup with users Q&A's.  and for FAQ's to ADSL questions. Also see O2 an ISP with a great ADSLproduct 'up to 8Mb/s' broadband from £7.34 and best of all unlimited downloads. Buy micro filters (less than £2 - before P&P) at CableUniverse High speed internet access via Fibre to the Cabinet/Home (FTTC/H)  See latest news from BT on FTTC/FTTH BT is starting to get a move on with FTTP by offering 100 Mb/s - but it's expensive which is not surprising! In fact FTTP has potential to reach a maximum line rate of 2.5Gb/s BT Infinity 40Mb/s from £19.99 (+£50 activation fee!) 18 month contract and requires a BT line

Virgin Media currently supply the fastest broadband at up to 50Mb/s for £38/month (includes phone line) Read here about Virgin's 400MB/s service!!

 BBC Future of broadband        BT iPlate - Definitely buy this as it WILL speed up your broadband OR do for free by disconnecting the 'defunct' bell wire - see WebUser

UK Telephone Tariffs Residential tariffs. Check out BT's (Big Thief's) sky high charges!! Looking at the tariffs Call1899 is still (just about) one of the cheapest (Jun 2010) at 5p total cost for most calls. Also a number of international calls are 1p/min. Registration required with payment by direct debit. Primus can offer phone line rental for £9.99/month which is cheaper than BT

VOIP has had lots of publicity with 'free' phone calls using broadband internet access Skype provides computer software for completely free calls  HSPDA for mobile Phones Read Wikipedia and learn about high speed data services (14Mb/s)

Cheapest International/UK Calls searches all UK providers. Also check out Peak-Rate for more cheap international calls. When on holiday, it's best to use a local sim card abroad 0044  Send free SMS messages (137 Chars) using CBFSMS.  Also see TextMeFree (scroll down a little) to find sites to send free SMS worldwide. The Newsgroup uk.telecom has up to date info

Thinking of buying a mobile phone? Click here for a great site for researching

GoogleVoice Coming soon but currently only by invite in the US Google Caffeine Googles newer and better search engine?

TPS/FPS/MPS/e-mps  Register and stop unwanted 'Cold Callers'/JunkMail/Spam

Yellow Pages  Find the address and telephone number of any business

BT Directory Enquiries (118 500) 10 Free searches a day. Also try  UKPhoneBook (118 365) Find telephone numbers and address from name and town (requires registration - Also click through the advert that appears at start).

192.com Find people - Limited searches from Electoral Roll data

BT Paper Free Billing Manage your telephone account(s) online - Requires registration

Technology

BBC World programme for netheads >Click

BBC Technology Good source of up to date techy info.

Guardian Tech Weekly Another good source

Kinect (was Project Natal)  Next generation gaming for Microsoft Xbox gaming platform, that could develop for use in home/work PCs

Windows 7 Radical successor to PC operating system 'Windows Vista' and due 22 October          Microsoft Office 2010 Microsoft's newest version of Office, in beta and can be downloaded for free after registration

Chromium (Was Google Chrome) - New operating system due soon and not to be confused with Google's Chrome browser available here

 Engadget Website with news about all the very latest gadgets, also try Official Windows Magazine for news, hits and tips on running MS Windows, lastly a UK gadget magazine to have a look at is T3

Miscellaneous

Pensions Theft 125,000 people from over 400 companies have lost their pension. Could it affect you?

The Angry Corrie  Magazine for hill walking anoraks with a sense of humour but they've retired it as of June 2008

Community News Scottish website

Jobseekers Find jobs online

Met Office Vacancies See what jobs you can do at the Met Office! Met Office Press Releases Weather news

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