www.abamas.com - My favourite links


News:

NRK - Norwegian Public Broadcasting general news page (N)
BBC - British Public Broadcasting general news page
Din Side, consumer and technology news. Good articles, many ads (N)
The Verge. Vox Media technology news site

General Utilities:

Duckduckgo. Excellent search engine that doesn't track you. My favourite
YR, an excellent worldwide weather forcast service (N+E)
Wikipedia, often a better source of information than search engines
Openstreetmap. A free, open license map. Preferred over Google Maps etc.
OANDA currency converter

Internet Utilities English:

Flightradar 24. Great live flight tracker. Impressive
Vesselfinder. Tracks marine traffic
Cambridge English dictionary
Wayback Machine. Archive of old web.sites

Internet Utilities Norwegian:

Startsiden, Norwegian "startpage" with links & search engines (N)
Check electic utility costs from different Norwegian providers (N)
Check todays electricity prices (N)
Finansportalen. Compare prices on financial services in Norway (N)
Find the phone number behind expensive Norwegian short numbers (N)
Statistisk Sentralbyrå (Statistics Norway) konsumprisindeks (N)
Kartverket: Make your own Norway map, also marine and outdoors (N)

Travel:

Travel Advice to all countries seen through the eyes of the CIA
Travel Advice to all countries seen through the eyes of Norwegian UD (N)
Lonely Planet: Woldwide travel. Lots of links for each country
Tripadvisor: Great for checking and reviewing travel services
More travel-links can be found here

Photography:

Dpreview.com. The best camera review site (and some lenses too)
Photozone lens reviews. Read reviews that you didn't find on Dpreview.com
DXOmark A more scientific approach to their camea and lens tests
Cameralabs. Camera and lens review site - good lens shot samples
Bilder Nordic. Excellent school of photography in Oslo(N)
More photography-links and links to photographers can be found here

Computing, electronics and HiFi:

Manualslib. A HiFi page with service and user manuals. No login required.
Hifishark. A HiFi page collecting HiFi classifieds around the Internet
Troels Gravesens page with lots on loudspeaker and filter design
A tone generator for testing audio etc.
More Computing, electronics and HiFi links can be found here

Software libraries, web development and utilities:

NINITE. The best place for free software. Avoids unwanted extras
W3C Markup Validation Service. Validate your web-site to the standards
Easycounter. A utility to analyze web-site traffic and other site info
More software and web utility links can be found here

Other sites of interest to me:

Bærum Undervannsklubb. My scuba dive club in Norway (N)
Dakota Norway is a vintage aircraft club flying a DC3 "Dakota" (N)
Dataamatørforeningen. Some stuff from a computer club in the 80's and 90's (N)
A webcam located in a mountain-area near Oslo I often visit
A weather data source and webcam located in my neighborhood (N)
Matportalen: An updated report on poisons in clams in Norway (N)
Why you should not use Facebook
IEC Online Electrotechnical Vocabulary


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