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My Recommended Sites.
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ProfessionalSLEEPING
The website of the new book " SleepingforPilots & Cabin Crew (and other insomniacs) ". Sign-up for the free BONUS CHAPTER

Victor Pody, superlative aviation photographer from Melbourne Australia.

Navjot Singh
Eclectic British photo-journalist who spent many years living and working in China; contributed to the above book by describing how to deal with Chinese toilets. He also proof-read an early draft.

Airports & Special Needs Travellers -- a complete guide for travelling with a Special Needs passenger

Travelling with Diabetes —Recommended by reader Dale Carter, this site details Diabetes travel supplies, medication tips, shots and more from WebMD.

Travelling With A Medical Condition -- The Essential Guide to Travelling with a Medical Condition.

Hostgater -- the new home of this website. After paying excessive fees for Australian web-hosting since this site’s commencement in 1997 with Commander and their new owners WebCentral, we have decided to take the site offshore. It’s one thing to pay a premium to support Australian businesses, but it has become ridiculous. Hostgator costs less than a third of our previous Australian web hosts and has delivered faster-response 24 hour personal service since day one.

Tune In Radio the best app for Iphone or Ipad ... get your local radio from anywhere in the world. Record shows when you are sleeping for playback when it suits.

World Time. Don’t wake up your friends on the other side of the world! Check the time first.

Moorabbin Airport - One of the great general aviation airports, on the coast near Melbourne. Learn to fly in one of the least expensive places in the world, close to all types of airspace for training exposure.


Michelle Matthews' Latest Luckie Business


The Gadget Guy - Peter Blasina’s website is the online portal for Australia's leading technology 'demystifyer' for consumers.

Paul Wallbank computer and technology advice.

Michael Blamey is an interesting Melbourne photographer providing daily images for Melbourne Today and St.Kilda Today. His work is available in book form -- as your holiday memento.

Henry Thornton, ancient economist, who lives in a virtual world

Alistair Cooke, although now deceased, still parts with gems of wisdom.

Audible Books, where you can download books into your IPOD. I buy them in packages of 12.

Skype, surely the way of the future for internet telephone. Multiplex, so you can talk over each other, cheap to call people on phones ... and FREE to talk to other Skype users, anywhere in the world. Incredible!

Firefly is the same thing, but Australian. Sometimes Skype gets too busy during European daytime, and Firefly is better.


Yahoo Chat, does the same thing, get it HERE

The US NAVY tropical cyclone tracking page, which has saved my bacon more than once.

Press Display, deliver just about every newspaper in the world in to your computer AND IPAD, similar to Newsstand, but Mac and Ipad friendly. Costs about $35 a month, the cost of one paper a day, to read almost EVERY newspaper in the world. Not some stupid ‘app’ ... real papers, complete with all the pics, layouts and ads. Makes life as an expat possible.

AustraliaPlus TV TV's schedule. The best of aussie TV delivered by satellite, free to air anywhere in Asia. sadly, it will NEVER be broadcast to the Middle East, cos the satellite footprint takes in Europe and they can’t afford to pay royalties. For that you should go to ...

ABC TV’s Download page, and watch Media Watch, Four Corners and Talking Heads each week, (as well as other programs). Couldn’t live overseas without it.

Brighton, U.K. house removals If you are managing your home or industrial relocating to, from or within Brighton, England - this is the site you need.

Oak Furniture Shop -- shop online for a wide selection of solid oak dressing table and bedroom furniture - at low internet prices and fast home delivery service - oakfurnitureshop.eu




Peter Faris has compiled a list of his most used sites :



WORLD NEWS
Fox
CNN
BBC
GoogleNews
NatReview

AUSTRALIAN NEWS
news.com.au (Home page of News, inc The Australian etc)
news.com Breaking news
ABC (home page of ABC news - Australia)
ABC Breaking News - wire service, called JUST IN, (good to test if your internet connection).
Herald-Sun Breaking News - wire service
The Age
The Australian
Australian Financial Review
Sydney Morning Herald

Crikey

Whirlpool Australia’s broadband news & information

BOOKS
Blurb Quirky books from America
Amazon Books from America
Doubleday Books DVDs Music from Australia
BuyAustralianBooks Books from Australia
Angus & Robertson Books DVDs Music from Australia
ABC Bookshop Books DVDs Music from Australia
Dymocks Books DVDs Music from Australia
Bartleby
OnLine Books
Project Gutenberg

BOOKS - Secondhand
Alibris
BookFinder
ABEBooks

DICTIONARY
Dictionary.com (US & British spelling)
Cambridge Dictionary & Thesaurus (preferred)

WRITER’S REFERENCE BOOKS
Bartleby Online
100s of Verse, Fiction, Reference & Non-Fiction
Roget's Thesaurus
World Factbook


The rest are not links, just enter these words into google search to find the correct page
CNet
eBay
eBay AU
eBay UK
Ebay US

128km Melbourne Radar
256km Melbourne Radar

Austlii (law)
CNet (computers & gadgets)
Theodore Dalrymple


WEATHER
World wide Weather Underground search any city.
128km Melbourne Radar
All Australian Radar sites

Telephone Directories AU
WhitePages
YellowPages

Perpetual Calendar
Calendar

TRAVEL
Emirates
Qantas
Jetstar
Tiger
Virgin Blue
Flight Centre
Octopus Travel recommended
Expedia Travel
Travelocity
National Geographic
Paris
Fodors
Lonely Planet
World Time
Currency Converter
LoC Maps
CIA World Factbook 2004


Paris - Best Hotel
Hotel Saint-Thomas d' Aquin recommended

Paris - Best Apartments



Auction
eBay
eBay Australia
SnipeSwipe
How to eBay
PayPal AU

Reference
RefDesk
List of Lists
Library of Congress


ENCYCLOPEDIA
Wikipedia
Columbia 6th
Encarta
Encyclopedia.com
Encyclopaedia Britannica



MUSIC
CDNow
All Music Guide
Classical Music Archives
CNet Music Center (mp3)

DVDs & FILMS
Ebay Australia
Amazon.com
DVDPlanet
DDDHouse
Video Dogs
DVD Price Search
Internet Movie DataBase
Greatest Films




QUOTATIONS
Bartlett's
Columbia

LITERATURE
Shakespeare
Bible KJV
Brewer Phrase & Fable
Strunk Elements of Style
Fowler The King's English 1908

MANNERS
Emily Post
Robert’s Rules of Order
Chatham House Rules

HISTORY
HistoryWired
HistoryWorld
TheHistoryNet

MUSEUMS & ART
GMN Arts Network
MoMA
Guggenheim
Getty Museum
WebMuseum
Louvre 1
Louvre 2
Musee d'Orsay 1
Musée d'Orsay 2
William Blake

SCIENCE
SkyMap
HubbleSite
Exploratorium
Glacier Antartica
Gray's Anatomy 1918
San Diego Zoo
Audubon Birds of America

STUDENTS
Study Guides & Strategies
DiscoverySchool
Effective Studying and Learning Tips (Erica's suggestion)



WORLD
Google Map
Google Earth



SPORT
ESPN.com
CBS SportsLine
CrickInfo



USA WEB NEWS
Fox
Drudge Report
CNN

USA Newspapers
IHT
Washington Post
USAToday

UK
The Times
BBC




Peter Faris' Best Conservative Commentators
Australia
Andrew Bolt
Tim Blair
Miranda Devine
Gerard Henderson


USA
National Review
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter - Patriot Links
Drudge Report
TownHall
Daniel Pipes
William F Buckley Jr