My Favourite Tipples in Free Pint #252

Martin Belam
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Published 9 May, 2008
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I'm in this week's Free Pint Newsletter writing about my five favourite tipples. No, despite the 'pint' in the name, I don't mean mojito, rum'n'coke, frappé with Baileys, tequila or 'any fizzy lager will do', but my five favourite websites.

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Frankly, upon realising that I wasn't going to be able to list any websites for downloading music, video, pr0n or cracked software, I was slightly stuck as to remember what else the interweb was for ;-)

In the end I opted to list sites that had been useful for me in the last couple of months, which meant the list centred a little bit around getting my MacBook set up and running with gorgeous free goodies. You can read why in the newsletter itself, but the five sites I nominated were:

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That also meant that I didn't list loads of great and useful websites that I use all of the time, but that are like the 'background radiation' of my interwebs. So hat-tips are due to Google (and Gmail, Analytics, AdSense), Bloglines, the BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, Times Online, Chipwrapper, Fancy A Pint, Wikipedia, IMDB, UK Nova, Mininova, The Pirate Bay, Amazon, LinkedIn, Expedia, Last Minute, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Outpost Gallifrey, Bytemark, Mycroft Project, Feedburner, Typepad, StumbleUpon etc etc etc...

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Are you still on Bloglines? If so, you should switch to Google Reader. I did, and I haven't looked back since...

Yes, I've been thinking about it. In fact I downloaded my Bloglines OPML file this morning to have a re-jig of it and then import into Google Reader and see what happens. I think my big worry is that Google Reader is too much swishy AJAX-y goodness to work well over the 32k dial-up modem I have in Crete.

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About Martin Belam

I'm an internet consultant and writer, with 8 years experience in product management, information architecture, and user experience design for global brands like Sony, Vodafone and the BBC. I specialise in advising on search, widgets, online news publishing and bulk email delivery.
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