Applications

• www.mirc.com - mIRC. The worlds most popular Internet Relay Chat client for Microsoft Windows (all versions)
• www.winamp.com - Win Amp. Top notch MP3, internet streaming, and general audio media player.

 Fun and Games

• www.shockwave.com - A site run by Macromedia, containing games, animations, movies, creative outlets, and much, much more. Well worth a visit.

 Graphics and Print Publishing

• www.adobe.com - Adobe Systems Incorporated. Makers of the best publishing graphics and layout software.

 Literature

• www.allreaders.com - A fantastic site for book reviews and recommendations, no matter what your taste in books is.

 Music

• www.mp3.com.au - Australian Music Provider Service.
• www.pulseradio.net - Sydney based global Internet radio station. [SOTM Winner May 2002]
• listen.to/technoferrets - Technoferrets Radio Show Site. (This is here for prosperity. As I haven't updated the site in about 2 years)

 Online Publications

• www.megatokyo.com - Mega Tokyo online comic [SOTM Winner June 2002]

 Personal

• www.talentedman.com - Memories of a Talented Man, The Official Bill Peden memorial site.
• Rest In Peace Bill - Bill Peden Memorial Message Thread ( on www.bluelight.nu )

 Programming

• www.borland.com - Borland Software Corporation. The makers of Delphi, C++ Builder, JBuilder, Kylix and Turbo Assembler (to name but a few).

 Social (sites contain forums, message board, IRC, or similar)

• www.bluelight.nu - The New Bluelight.
• www.pulseradio.net - Pulse Radio. [SOTM Winner May 2002]
• www.rave.net.au - Synergy Rave Network.
• www.raves.com.au - Melbourne Raves.
• www.streetnation.com - Street Nation Community Site.
• www.streetraves.com - Street Nation Raves Site.

 Web Development

• www.macromedia.com - Macromedia, The makers of the finest collection of web and multimedia editing programs around.

 Web Services

• www.google.com - Google Internet Search Engine. Probably the best search engine on the Internet.
• www.altavista.com - Altavista Digital Internet Services. Another really good search engine, But their best feature is the "Bable Fish" Translation Engine. It will translate between most languages. You can translate plain text or whole web pages.