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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 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 £6) at CableUniverse Faster broadband in the near future?   21CN BT's masterplan for fibre optic broadband network to replace the current copper network Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) Fibre optic cable offering high speed broadband 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

Virgin Media currently supply the fastest broadband at up to 50Mb/s for £39/month (includes phone line) Also see DOCSIS 3.0Fibre to the Cabinet (green street cabinet) (FTTC) Fibre optic cable offering broadband of up to 40Mb/s and available by 2012 ADSL2+ Now available if your local telephone exchange has been enabled by Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) - service offers broadband of up to 20-24Mb/s. Scottish Southern Energy Power Line Blink Service for Broadband access. 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 (Feb. 2008) at 5p total cost for most calls with a BT rented line. Also a number of international calls are 1p/min. Registration required with payment by direct debit. VOIP has had lots of publicity with 'free' phone calls using broadband internet access and Apple uses this to great effect with iPhone also Skype provide PC software for completely free calls but you are tied to your PC. HSPDA for mobile Phones Read Wikipedia and learn about high speed data services (28.8Mb/s) along with 3.75G and all the other G's !!

Cheapest International/UK Calls searches all UK providers. Also check out Peak-Rate (scroll down page) for more cheap international calls. When on holiday and calling from abroad to the UK, it's best to use pre-paid phone cards  Send free SMS messages (137 Chars) using CBFSMS.  Also see TextMeFree to find sites to send free SMS worldwide. The Newsgroup uk.telecom has up to date info.

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

Project Natal  Next generation gaming but could develop for use in home/work PCs

Microsoft Courier New tablet on the way?

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

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 for now

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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