The following are a selection of some of our favourite websites, which we hope you might find useful.
Business Travel
www.networkrail.co.uk
Find your train times, the best fares, and book tickets on-line.
www.skyscanner.net
Fantastic resource to find the best flight deals from anywhere to anywhere. Doesn't sell anything, just informs.
www.laterooms.com
One of the simplest and best sites to find a good deal on hotels. Much quicker to use, and just as good a range, as certain other higher profile sites we could mention.
www.streetmap.co.uk
Great resource for maps and directions, and better value corporate services than their competition.
Software
www.download.com
Really useful for free software and spyware downloads.
www.gotomypc.com
The easy way to control your PC remotely without any hassle, even if it's on a corporate network behind one of those firewall thingies.
Useful Tools
www.taxcentral.co.uk/taxcentral/home/vat/vatcalculator/default.asp
Vat Calculator, for anyone who has trouble with sums.
www.xe.com/ucc/
Best currency conversion tool we've found.
www.moneysavingexpert.com
Does exactly what it says on the tin. Great resources for small businesses and consumers alike.
world.altavista.com/tr
Great for basic translating.
www.TheRegister.co.uk
Keep up to date with some technology news in a much less patronising manner than many other sites that do the same job.
www.mail2web.com
Get your e-mail from anywhere.
Shopping/Miscellaneous
www.ebay.co.uk
The world's on-line marketplace. We know you've probably seen this one before, but we couldn't leave it out. If you haven't tried it yet, you are missing out. Classifieds are dead, long live EBay.
www.poems.com
Poetry Daily site - a new poem from the world's best poets daily, plus a round up of latest poetry news - a poem a day keeps lassitude at bay.
www.gramophone.co.uk
The best classical music site in the world, probably.
www.cd-wow.com
Great service and great prices for chart CDs.
www.wikipedia.org
Everything you never wanted to know about everything.
www.allmusic.com
A trainspotters' guide to music, wonderful taxonomy.
www.Fark.com
Up to the minute bizarre-but-true news stories from around the globe. Also includes the famous Fark Photoshop competition.
E-commerce & Technology
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/e-commerce/default.stm
BBC's e-commerce page.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm
BBC's hi-tech page
If there's something you are finding hard to find on-line, please let us know, or feel free to suggest a site (but please, not your own) for inclusion on this list. We plan to keep it short though, so we will have to really like a site before we add it on to this page.