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Net Gains (Mar 24, 98) |
Now for the awards : the best of the best in the following categories
are - ta-dum :
- Print/Zine : Salon (http://www.salonmag.com/) - now there's a lot of interesting reading on this site, so you may want to browse through the archives too on this site.
- Legal & Political : CNN/TIME AllPolitics (http://www.allpolitics.com/1998/index.html) - not much more to say to that, is there ?
- Arts : ENTROPY8 (http://www.entropy8.com/) - after spending an hour at this site, it's still hard to figure out what the site is all about. Apparently these guys do some kind of designing, CDROM authoring and web site creation.
- Music : Experience Music Project (http://www.experience.org/hilow.asp) - you need a TCP/IP account, but it has options for hi bandwidth and low bandwidth access. You'll also need RealPlayer to hear the RealAudio sound clips.
- Science : Exploratorium: ExploraNet (http://www.exploratorium.edu/) - The virtual version of a real life science museum, for those who can't go all the way to the US to visit it. On this web site, you will find pictures, news items in science, electronic versions of famous hands-on exhibits, even how to dissect a cow's eye!
- Living : gURL (http://www.gurl.com/) - loud jhinchak colours, very graphic intensive site. Wonder if Govinda's clothes designer designed this site too ?
- News : News.com (http://www.news.com/) - a very good source of technology news. Excellent choice.
- Games : Bezerk (http://www.bezerk.com/) - play two interactive games online, as long as you have a 28.8 Kbps connection and TCP/IP access. What you get free is an opportunity to watch your telephone bill soar.
My 10 years of schooling (yeah - I did receive some kind of
formal education) firmly imprinted a certain image of the map
of India from all those geography books and atlases. However,
occasionally while surfing the Internet, I get the feeling that
even some reputed websites have not got a chance to go through
our geography text books. Some of them mutilate India, most of
the time, just beheading our beloved country. Take the ABC News website
(http://www.abcnews.com/sections/world/india/india_election.html)
- it's ironical that a site that knows it's ABC has trouble with
drawing correct borders for our country. And since they ask for
feedback, give it to them !
With business email, personal email, jokes,
chain letters, and junk email being sent all around the world
at the click of a mouse, email is the most used application on
the Net today. And for those of us who'd rather have something
more user friendly than Pine to read our email, help is at hand.
Download.com has taken time out to sit and compare six totally
FREE software programs to take care of all your email needs. No
nagging reminders to register, not 30-day trials - these six
are free all the way. Go through their reviews of Pegasus Mail,
Eudora Light (with PGP), Graphic E-mail, Mail Explorer, Pronto
Mail Professional, and ClickMail 32 to help you decide which one's
the best for your needs. If you're still having difficulty deciding,
go to their Feature comparison chart, and make up your mind.
http://www.download.com/PC/EdFeature/CurrentFeature/0,15,0-1104-1,00.html