Find the best seat on a plane with Seatguru
Frequent flyers know well that airplane seats are not made all equal; some terrible, others more comfortable. Often you don’t know how your seat will rate until you board, but not anymore! Seatguru.com is a website that provides layouts of aircraft from all the main carriers with colour coding to indicate which seats to avoid, […]
Design your own floor plans
If you are planning a new house, altering your existing house or just rearranging the furniture, the AutoDesk Homestyler online tool can help you design and visualize what your house or room will look like. The Homestyler program is free to use. It is provided by Autodesk, who also create the professional 3d drawing AutoCad […]
Research medical terms online
The internet has given us access to a huge information resource of medical and health advice regarding symptoms, medications and treatments, but the information given may not always agree from site to site. Which websites therefore can you trust to give sound advice? As we covered in our June 2015 issue, not everything you read […]
Keep track of your medical records online
Keeping track of medical records, test results and health information could be a lot easier for you using an online system, especially if you have children. HealthVault is a Microsoft product which is free to use and it helps you consolidate all this information in one place. Keeping track of medical records, test results and […]
Preview what a room will look like before you paint it
Have you ever painted a room in your house only to regret you chose that colour, or are you thinking of repainting a room but are unsure what a certain colour will look like? This month we introduce an online tool that allows you preview your finished product! Sherwin Williams is a famous paint provider […]
Keep track of Your Fuel Consumption
With the help of this website, you can keep track of your vehicle’s actual fuel economy over time, allowing you to budget more effectively, change your driving habits and as a result, save some money! Fuelly.com is a website that allows you to enter a few details each time you fuel up your vehicle, and […]
Get Crafting Inspiration Online
If you enjoy fiber crafts such as knitting and crochet or even embroidery and quilting then the web has a wealth of great resources for you. There are sites that teach new skills and stitches and others which provide free patterns for a range of projects. We’ve searched out some great sites to help you […]
Make Completing Household Chores Fun for the Kids
Anything that you can do to make doing chores around the house fun for children will encourage them to help out. Better still, if you combine completing chores with earning rewards, you add even more incentive for them to contribute. The website ChoreMonster gives you a tool for combining chores with incentives to make the […]
Set Internet Explorer to your Preferred Home Page
When you start Internet Explorer the first thing you will see is the default Home page. In some cases this may not be the page that you actually want to see – if this is the case – you can change this page to whatever you want it to be. So, for example, if you […]
Get help for School Projects
The internet is full of handy resources for school projects. From printable graph papers to pictures that can be used for school projects and even sites that provide useful research, we have rounded up a range of sites for you to use as homework resources. MathSphere (www.mathsphere.co.uk/resources/MathSphereFreeGraphPaper.htm) is a great site for math resources including […]
