The Quiet Site

Advantages: it's quiet and the views
Disadvantages: shop opening time

...As we haven't been camping for about 4 years and the youngest had never been we decided she was old enough to take the plunge. We decided we didn't want to travel too far and only stay 3 nights as we didn't know what she would be like. We guessed that she would love it as once she is outside she doesn't want to come back in. I trawled the internet looking to book somewhere - most said 'No need to book just come along' Some suggested phoning on the day. We didn't want to do this as we prefer booking with children so we know where we are going. I came across 'The Quiet Site' a campsite in Ullswater which is about one hour 30 mins drive away from us -perfect. It had its own website so I checked it out. It seemed nice, it was family run had a shop, bar and adventure playground. Great although the bar wasn't important to us as we...

rojm 24.08.2009 (03.09.2009) · Read review
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Love is there on the internet

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...***Forgive me if the category choice for this seems a little odd . The only other close one was Online Dating, which in my mind ties in with dating websites and suchlike, and really doesn't apply to my situation . Also, this review is probably not going to be particularly useful to anyone - it's simply me documenting my experience of an internet relationship . Please rate it as you find it, but bear in mind my category dilemma *** I first met Phill in September last year. I'd been playing an online multiplayer game for about 3 years up to that point, when I started to get a little tired of always playing with American players - nothing against them, just the timing of activities never seemed to work for me . So, I asked on the games forums if anyone had a UK linkshell (similar to a guild) they'd be happy for me to join, I got a reply...

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Kaspersky Internet Security - average protection

Advantages: Provides basic tools for anti virus, easy to install
Disadvantages: none really, just prefer AVG.

...As a university student we have to pay a rediculously high amount for tuition fee's so the college I am doing my foundation degree in offers free laptops for the duration of the course. The laptop comes fully equipped with Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 and it really does the job. Most anti virus software is available for free with the opportunity to upgrade however it is worth it from a business perspective, to buy something like this. Kaspersky - available from http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/kis25orkav30?THRU&reseller=43021&gclid=COjpgZPllp4CFVtn4wod6BIzlw - is a security software which provides anti virus protection and identity theft protection. I often purchase things online and I, like anybody, have downloaded applications. Loosing work for university would be incredibly frustrating so I am pleased with the protection available...

kayleaf 19.11.2009 · Read review
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CIAO's Internet

Advantages: Sourse of inspiration and much usefulness. An easy place to start your ciao-ing. Gets great reads.
Disadvantages: You may not eb interested in the internet, but this is where it all happens (mostly)

...hopefully be read by a lot of people. If not through interest, then through curiosity, seeing an opinion on a site they’ve never heard of. Try it (but don’t use them all up!!). Also in this section you’ve got the things like….actually, I won’t bother telling you what’s there, you already know. Everything is internet based though (obviously). It’s a great place to find out about anything you’re interested in. Whether it be online shopping, gambling or fee stuff, to name but a few. As well as writing a lot here, I’ve also read a lot of particularly helpful opinions from it. I was recently looking around for a new ISP, so where better to look than on Ciao. Found my ISP and I’m fully happy with it. That’s what Ciao’s for. There is so much useful information in...

BJEEE 08.02.2001 (10.02.2001) · Read review
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Viking Internet site

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Doesnt do everything

...I am the senior administrator at my company, and since working here I have been contacted by so many stationary companies offering 'bargins' and 'value for money' and in my company - thats the most important thing, we do a big order of stationary every week, and every few weeks we buy furniture and a vast amount of cleaning product. Due to different companies being able to put offers on different products, my company have an account with 2 companies, one company is our main one, we order our envelopes, paper, pens etc from them, The other company is Viking, I discovered Viking whilst looking for a product that our usual company didn't do, i surfed the internet for the product (some postal tubing) and Viking was first in the search results, and when checked against other internet companies, Viking offered the best deal. Their...

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MONEY LAUNDERING AND INTERNET FRAUD - THE FACTS

Advantages: Plenty of ignorant people to defraud in the world
Disadvantages: I'll find you

...you will see in the email header the entire route the email took with IP addresses. f) ANY ABUSE SHOULD BE REPORTED TO THE FOLLOWING EMAIL ADDRESS: abuse@ the your email providers name e.g. abuse@ yahoo.com g) Bookmark all your favourite sites - when you want to visit your favourite sites e.g. bank, credit card, shops then you should always use your bookmarks and not links in email or sometimes even links on other sites. For money mule internet fraud e.g. courier services and car sales please see No. 5 below (ii) Email scams Some of (i) would be an email scam, but really what I want to discuss here is the plea for money types of mails which link in with the money laundering aspects I will talk about below. Again any unsolicited email may well be a scam especially when they ask you for money to help a charity or person or even to...

coleecip 20.02.2008 (22.02.2008) · Read review
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The finest site on the internet

Advantages: Delivery speed, after-sales, prices, free postage
Disadvantages: Vast selection, but not quite as vast as amazon

...Given the plethora of internet DVD, CD and gaming sites available now, it's easy to latch on to the first site you use and stick with it for all future purchases. After all, how many of us have the time to either trawl through Google every time we need to buy a DVD? Admittedly, there are excellent price comparison sites out there which does make our searching a little easier, but even those cannot compare every retailer. Even then, when we've found a site we think to be cheap, there can be hidden costs such as VAT and postage and packaging to increase the price from excellent to decidedly average. No, what most of us need is a recommendation of a site that has no hidden costs, is easy to use, reliable and, above all, cheap. This segues us nicely to www.play.com Play have been around since 1996 in a couple of guises, but have...

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Review of Play.com

Worst Internet Banking Site Ever!

Advantages: Does the job, Free antivirus, Secure with PINSentry
Disadvantages: Only 1 month worth of statements is accessible, PINSentry, Not user friendly to do some things

...something that most people will have no problems with, I can imagine that people whom have bad eyesight or are visually impaired (i.e. red-green colour blinded individuals, in particular) would have great difficulty reading those. Hovering over those links simply underlines them and doesn't change colour so that would not help those who have difficulty reading those links. I'm sure good website design guidelines state you're supposed to use dark text over light backgrounds and to not use such light colours on white backgrounds. All other links are either dark blue or light blue throughout the site though, so do follow the site colour scheme. SITE CONTENT Most reviews will probably jump straight into the Internet banking side of such sites but I thought that it's worth mentioning some of the other uses of the site. Aside from being able to apply...

Deru 06.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Barclays Bank Online

A good Internet shopping site

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...Amazon have exceptional customer service and provide excellent service every time. Each and every time I order books from them, they arrive on time as specified by Amazon. I find that they have an excellent range of books and I always find what I am looking for. The prices are average, as I have come across books that are cheaper elsewhere. But on the whole the Amazon site is easy to navigate and has facilities for customers who shop there regularly. It is a secure site, so there is not danger of your details falling in the wrong hands....

JOSI78 29.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Amazon.co.uk

.BT internet

Advantages: very easy to install, three packages to choose from.
Disadvantages: You get disconnected after every two hours.

...BT INTERNET When I got my new pc one of the first things I wanted to do was to get the Internet, so I kept asking my mum to get the internet and telling her about all the good prices on offer out there and that I really needed it for my home work (lol). Then about six months later she telephoned BT and asked them for one of their Internet installation disks. When the disk arrived in the post I had to install it because no body else knows much about the computer. I found the installation process and signing up extremely easy and very fast. I think BT Internet is one hundred percent the best, because of many things, such as, it is very easy to install and set up, and it is quite simple and fast to register all your details and other things such as method of payment etc, There are three packages to choose from with BT...

jtsguy 01.12.2001 (08.04.2003) · Read review
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