moshimonsters 2007-12-26 14:55:00 Moshi Monsters is a free online game for kids, in which they adopt a monster and look after it. Kids whose parents give us their approval can become members on our site, and can adopt a Moshi Monster. Kids care for their monster by solving puzzle games, which earn their monster virtual rewards called Rox. Kids can spend Rox on virtual items like food, furniture and other treats and toys for their monster. Over time their monster will increase in level, be able to visit new locations in Monstro City, and earn all kinds of in-game rewards for playing. Monster owners will also be able to make friends with other owners and leave messages on their pages.www.moshimonsters.com
instructables - "the world's biggest show and tell" 2007-12-03 15:18:00 instructables - "the world's biggest show and tell" is one of the most fascinating websites i have visited. It is packed full of original, interesting, useful and weird discoveries and contraptions which it's members have come up with. From repairing scratched CDs with toothpaste to creating electricity creating wind turbines you could spend hours looking through all the posts. Each project or instructable comes with a how to guide so you can replicate it yourself.www.instructables.com
GuerrillaMail 2007-12-01 11:02:00 This is a useful tool for reducing the amount of spam you receive in your inbox. The site creates disposable email addresses which last for just 15 minutes.The created address allows you to send as well as receive messages during it's 15 minute lifespan. Extremely useful for websites which require you to confirm an email address to register, but you never want to receive mail from.www.guerrillamail.com
Gnutrade 2007-11-18 19:26:00 GnuTrade is an online service that provides new, simple ways to trade the world financial markets and striking game-like graphics that make it easy to follow the moving prices. Designed for people with any level of financial experience, gnuTrade offers trading on price movements. This is a modern way to trade if you are interested in making profits from market fluctuations. When you sign up for a free account you can start trading immediately using your unlimited play money account, or by depositing money in to your real money account.www.gnutrade.com
Zamzar 2007-11-12 18:07:00 Zamzar is a website which can convert practically any file format into another file format without any need to download software. It can convert between five image formats, 14 document formats, 11 audio formats, and nine video formats.After you've selected a file or files to convert, Zamzar will tell you which formats are available to convert to. Then you supply your e-mail address and click "convert" and Zamzar will e-mail you a link to the converted file.www.zamzar.com
Readymech 2007-11-09 10:27:00 Readymechs are a free foldable, downloadable way to waste 15 minutes. The site contains designs that can be printed off onto one sheet of paper and folded / taped to create some funky looking models.www.readymech.com
midomi 2007-11-07 16:33:00 midomi is a music search engine with a difference - it is powered by your voice. You can sing, whistle or hum a tune and midomi should be able to recognise the track and artist. Once the track has been recognised you then have the opportunity to buy the track or album online.You can have your songs stored and heard and rated by other users, find members who sound most similar to you and chat with people who have searched for the same music.www.midomi.com
InterviewUp 2007-11-02 06:45:00 InterviewUp is a website where you can ask job interview questions, read interview questions others have been asked and view or submit answer guides.The site gives an indication of the most popularly used questions through its "Up it" rankings.You can also sign up for an account which will enable you to monitor questions you have submitted and get email notification when your question has been answered or updated.www.interviewup.com
No title 2007-10-31 02:49:00 Zopa is a site which enables members to lend and borrow money off each other (Social Lending) instead of using banks or building societies. The rates offered are very competitive for both lenders and borrowers as the business operates without the large overheads of traditional banks and also claims to make less of a profit margin.Borrowers are credit checked with only the top 40% of applicants getting approval to proceed further. There are two types of borrowers and the lenders can decide which bracket they want to lend money to. The lender sets the amount of money they are willing to lend, the rate and the length of time the loan will be paid back.Members are allowed to borrow up to £15000 and can lend up to £25000. Lenders have their risks spread over a portfolio of loans. Borrowers p
Find A Grave 2007-10-24 04:16:00 This site may sound a bit morbid, but it is also quite impressive. You can search through thousands of famous peoples gravestones and even leave some virtual flowers and notes.To search for a famous grave, you can search by name, location, claim to fame, birth and death dates. There are also the most popular searches, new listings, new photo's, recent obituaries, the top contributers and posthumous reunions.www.findagrave.com Read more:Grave
Betfair 2007-10-19 23:47:00 Betfair is the world's leading betting exchange, a concept it pioneered. All bets on Betfair are placed there by users who either want to bet for a selection or outcome in the normal way (back), or bet against a selection or outcome (lay). Bets are matched between people with opposing views. When you "back" a selection (be it an individual, a team, horse, dog or other), you are betting that it will win. This is just like betting with a conventional bookie.When you "lay" it, you are betting against it winning. For example, if you're betting in a market on which team is going to win the Premiership and you lay Man Utd, you offer odds to other punters who wish to back Man Utd. If Man Utd don't win, then you pick up the backer's stake. If Man Utd wins, then you pay out. This is what bookmakers Read more:Betfair
Lulu.com 2007-10-18 17:59:00 Have you ever wanted to publish your own book? Lulu.com removes the major barriers associated with the process. Books can be printed or just made available online for a fee. When made available online people can read a sample of the work and if they like it they need to pay to download the full version.The site isn't limited to books, music, images, videos and magazines can all be produced. The site claims to have 15,000 new members every week and get 100,000 hits per day which has led to millions of pounds being paid out to it's members.
Banksy 2007-10-17 02:23:00 Banksy is a well-known yet pseudo-anonymous English graffiti artist. It is believed that Banksy is a native of Yate (near Bristol[ and was born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and basic personal and biographical details/ However, according to Tristan Manco, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier engineer, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s." His artworks are often satirical pieces of art which encompass topics from politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti with a distinctive stencilling technique, has appeared in London and in cities around the world.Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images
uglyfootballers.com 2007-10-15 00:12:00 Uglyfootballers.com is an amusing look at football players blessed with slighly more footballing ablility than good looks.Ugly football teams have been compiled including an all time world cup 11, an all time England 11 and premeirship teams for each of the last few seasons. The players are not the only ones to be targeted, there are sections for referees, streakers and ugly fans.As well as this there is a lookalike section (Alan Hansen is the spitting image of Captain Scarlet), and a beauty and the beast area for ugly footballers wags. Finally you can play "uglyfootballer trumps" against the computer and try to make the high score table.
Top Secret Recipes 2007-10-13 15:27:00 This site is made up of recipies which closely resemble the taste of your favourite brand products such as those produced by McDonalds, Pizza Hut and Planet Hollywood.Although not all of the receipies are free, those which you do need to pay for are extremely cheap and are backed up with reviews and ratings of other people who have purchased them.The site has been around for over 10 years now and has a vast array of receipies and regularly gets over 9 million hits per month.
No title 2007-09-30 10:05:00 Everybody knows about ebay, but the second largest online auctioneer in the UK is eBid. Like ebay you can sell items not only in the UK but to all over the world, it has sites in places such as the US, Europe and Canada to name a few. The major advantage eBid has over it's rival is that it has lower rates, items can be listed for free and the comission can be as low as 3% for sellers. This of course enables sellers to offer their items for less giving buyers an advantage too.Goto eBid
second life 2007-06-01 06:27:00 Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 6,864,295 people from around the globe. From the moment you enter the World you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you've explored a bit, perhaps you'll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business. You'll also be surrounded by the Creations of your fellow residents. Because residents retain the rights to their digital creations, they can buy, sell and trade with other residents. The Marketplace currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the in-world unit-of-trade, the Linde
mc spotlight 2007-05-28 08:17:00 Mc Spotlight is a massive site containing everything you could possibly wish to know about why you shoudn't choose to put money through the tills at McDonalds. The website is run by a group calling themselves the "McInformation Network" which is made up of volunteers from 16 countries. They claim to have chosen the fast food giant as the focus of efforts because although like most large multi-national organisations they are completely focused on profits and will do anything to increase them, McDonalds ...Everyone's heard of themThey are bullies which threaten legal action to anyone who criticises themThere is lots of in depth information available about themThe nature of their businessThey pioneered various unwelcome practices that have been adopted by other businessesThey take themselves
money saving expert 2007-05-25 17:40:00 “We spend our lives being screwed by companies for profit . This site is about stopping them and if we can (legally) screwing them back”The aim is to help you save money on anything and everything by finding the best deals and beating the system. The site’s honours include Radio 2’s Most Useful Website of the Year, a Parliamentary Motion commending the site and the B&B Personal Finance Awards New Media winner. More importantly, in the four years since it was founded this site has become the UK’s most popular independent money site with nearly six million visits per month. The average person in the UK can give themselves the equivalent of a 25% payrise, by being an active, savvy consumer and shifting to the very best deals. This takes cash from companies’ pockets and puts it
celebdaq 2007-05-18 06:13:00 Celebdaq is a celebrity stock exchange game. Instead of investing in companies you buy shares in celebrities, The share value fluctuates depending on demand for the person and dividend is paid in relation to the amount of media coverage they have received in the week. Each week the member whos share portfolio rises by the highest amount is awarded the title of Top Trader.
Gorillaz 2007-05-09 08:52:00 The beefed-up official website for Gorillaz
– Damon Albarn from Blur’s animated band – is well worth a visit. While many bands are happy to chuck up a site with a few downloads, a gallery and a poorly written blog, this offering from the Gorillaz is a killer. Images are buried in a mock-up of an old Macintosh desktop, there is plenty of Flash animation, loads of games, a new store, music downloads, a message board, news and a fan site.Collect icons around the site and you can get money off in the fantastic-looking store, which features Gary the Scouse shopkeeper.www.gorillaz.com
No title 2007-05-07 20:16:00 B3ta's main feature is a newsletter featuring the latest work of the B3ta community and other interesting things found on the Web. Also popular is a message board where members post digital images and short animations they have created, the best of which appear on the front page of the B3ta site. B3ta also includes a small weblog for announcing the newsletter and other administrivia and for important notices or links which can't wait for the newsletter. For a while, B3ta even had its own radio show.To inspire creative works, B3ta poses a weekly image challenge, such as "if cats ruled the world" and a "question of the week", for example asking "what's your most embarrassing injury?".Many popular Internet phenomena were created by B3ta members, such as the Macromedia Flash cartoons created b
funds reunited 2007-05-06 20:18:00 Despite the name, this is not a misspelt imitation of Friends Reunited, but a site dedicated to reuniting people with lost money. According to the service, there are £20bn in unclaimed assets sitting dormant in the UK –money which may have been lost or forgotten when moving house, changing jobs or when an account is set up by a relative. The site can’t look down the side of your sofa, but for £15 it will supply pre-completed forms for the Building Societies Association, British Bankers Association and National Savings and Investments. Or you could go direct to these finance sites yourself and download the forms for free. www.fundsreunited.com
england rocks 2007-05-05 21:56:00 Tourism organisation Visit England has launched England Rocks to promote UK’s rock and pop music.From Abbey Road to Penny Lane, the Isle of Wight to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, 187 locations that have played an important role in England’s rock and pop music history are highlighted at this new website from tourism organisation Visit England. Click on the location you’re interested in to mark it on the map, and then read brief information on each location. You’ll discover significant rock landmarks such as Eleanor Rigby’s gravestone, Bob Marley’s first London address and the fish market where a young Jarvis Cocker worked and. Music lovers can also test their knowledge with the entertaining ‘Pop Tramps’ and order a free England Rocks map. www.england-rocks.co.uk
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