Hot List
Best Site - 
Probably the best in the entertainment category and all other
categories as well. Here you can read jokes, see funny reviews of
films, check out the hate list, beat politicians like Laloo Yadav
and Jayalalita black and blue and a host of other things. A must
see for Indians at least.
General sites
- Winamp
- This is the site that contains probably the best software
on music. The mp3 files take up the least disk
space yet produce high quality sounds. A single CD-ROM
can contain about 150 complete songs in the mp3 format
while the other audio CD's contain only about 15 songs.
- CD-Now
- And that's the place to buy audio CDs. The range
available here cannot be found in any other place, not
even your favourite music shop.
- Amazon
Books
- This is the best organized electronic bookshop and you
can get all books from Enid Blyton's The Secret
Seven to Stephen Hawking's A Brief History
of time.
- Quoteland
- This site is a store house of quotes. Recently, I wanted
a quote on democracy and after a lot of searching I got
it here. It also has a search option.
- Cricinfo
- In this site every bit of info on cricket is at your
discretion. Just by a click off a mouse you can get a
picture of the delivery of Shoaib Akhtar which for Sachin
out or the whole list of Kenyan players.
- The Nobel Prize
Internet Archive
- It lists all nobel laureates right from the beginning in
all the subjects. It also has a write-up on all of them
along with hundreds of links on each.
Indian sites
- India world
- The ultimate place to find India specific information. It
includes Samachar, Khoj, Bawarchi, Manpasand and a host
of other things.
- Rediff-on-the-net
- This is the best Indian site (PCWorld). Model ICSE test
papers to cinema tickets of the latest movie which you-always-wanted-to-see,
this site has 'em all.
- Calcutta online
- Being a Calcuttan I should do some justice to my home
town. This site lets you do a whole lot of things in
Calcutta.
- Bengalonthenet
- With quiz, prizes, news, culture events, this site has
all that a Calcuttan might ask for
Internet
- VSNL
Guide
- This site boasts of loads and loads of information about
computers esp. the internet. A good program provided is
Guide Autodialler, which makes it extremely easy to
connect to the net 'coz it has a telephone index which
has VSNL numbers for all cities already fed in and you
just have to press the connect button. The entire VSNL's
Guide(the one you got when you subscribed to VSNL) is
also available for download.
- Yahoo!
It got the PCWorld award for being the
best search engine. Need I say more. And the host of
other services present here only help to enhance its
popularity among the internet users.
- Ask Jeeves
- But my favourite search engine is Ask Jeeves( or aj) You
enter your questions and the search engine will search
all good search engines and finally return you the result
of search in all those.
- Bigfoot
- This site is a paradise for people like me who keep
changing their email addresses. It even contains spam-mail
protection, web page forwarding and mail filtering.
- emailaddresses.com
- This is a complete guide to email address providers.
Apart from giving the huge in an extremely easy to use
format, it gives a lot of other information e.g. what
would be the ideal email service provider be like etc.
- PCWorld
- Is the download of the latest version of IE making your
wallet lighter due to the overcrowding at the Microsoft
site? - Don't worry, be Happy. This site comes to your
rescue. It also gives you the latest content in the
popular magazine.
- Download.com
- This site needs no introduction. Just go there and
download the stuff off your choice.
- Electric
Library Personal Edition
- This is the largest collection of information on the
internet. You can try it free for 30 days. However, after
that you have to pay to use.
- Encyclopaedia
Britannica
- The world famous encyclopedia is now available on the
internet. All the information contained in those 24
volumes is now on your fingertips.
- Encyclopedia.com
- An encyclopedia brought to you by Ask Jeeves, the famous
search engine. It also provides search benefits of Ask
Jeeves as well as links to entries in Electrric library.
- Information
Please On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, &
Almanac Reference
- A Dictionary, encyclopedia and an almanac in one place. A
great site for reference work.
- Merriam-Websters
Dictionary
- Yeah! The most famous dictionary is now on the net. Also
available is a thesaurus for reference. Words can be
searched or you can simply browse the contents(???).
- Compton's Encyclopedia
Online
- Another in the same category. However, as I found the
search engine doesnot actually work - you have to look
for your requirements yourself, which can prove to be
quite tedious.
Wanna send greetings - first have a look at them:
- Blue Mountain
- The best of them all. It lets you send greetings on any
and every subject.
- 123
Greetings
- Similar to Blue Mountain though less popular.
- Virtual Insults
- The ideal site for playing pranks on anyone - you can
pick up from hundreds of funny cards.
- Masalatime
- One of the very best - there are humourous writeups on
Indian politicians, reviews of films( with a difference),
Indian jokes and lots and lots of other things to make
you laugh. There is also a set of cursors based on the
popular( or unpopular) Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav.
- Jokester
- A well organised site divided into two sections - Family
humour and adult Jokes.
- Humor.com
- This well maintained site has a random Joke selector
called 'Joke-o-matic'. While reading a joke you can also
send it to a friend by entering his email address in a
form.
- Jokes2000
- This is also a good site which provides you with a vast
collection of Jokes and Cartoons. You will be taken
around this Joke nagri by Argyle, the dragon.
There is also a mailing list which provides you with a
funny joke everyday.
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