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array_files[0]=new Array(0,1,"./orrery.htm","2009-04-02","35K","The Orrery - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, Orrery    ","Easytorecall UK Web Directory, What is an Orrery?    "," The Orrery - Easytorecall Webzine Home | What is an Orrery? • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games The Orrery An Easytorecall Article Detail from the painting The Orrery by Joeseph Wright of Derby 1734-1797. You can view this and more of Joseph Wrights work at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, in The Strand, Derby. Page Contents: What is an Orrery? The Scale Problem A Brief History Online Orrery Simulations Make your own Orrery Simulation Make your own Hands on Orrery Where can I visit to see some Orreries? Where can I buy an orrery? Orrery Simulation Instructions for making your own Orrery Simulation What is an Orrery? An orrery is, quite simply, a mechanical model of the solar system. To see some superb examples visit www.orrerymaker.com which is the website of Brian Greig who specialisies in creating facsimilies of historical scientific instruments. Quite often an orrery is used in teaching children the basics of how the solar system works and many schools encourage children to make their own. The Scale Problem The major problem with any solar system model is one of scale. For example, suppose the sun were modelled as, say the size of a golf ball (roughly 4.3cm diameter), then Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system would, on that scale, be a bit less than half a centimeter across, the earth would be slightly less than half a millimeter and the moon would have to be a one tenth of a millimeter in diameter. JupiterEarth Sun But the biggest problem with any solar system model is the actual distance of the planets from the sun. Suppose, again, we made the sun the size of a golf ball. Then if we decided we wanted the distances to be modelled to scale, the earth would have to be over 4.5 meters from the sun and Pluto, the furthest planet from the sun, would have to be placed over 180 meters away! For this reason some people think that orreries can be misleading and not very useful - I disagree. If we bear in mind the scale problems, then orreries can not only be extremely useful as teaching tools, but very beautiful in their own right. A Brief History Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was born in Poland. A keen astronomer, Copernicus is most remembered today for his book De Revolutionibus published in 1541 in which he put forward the theory that the earth, along with the other planets in the solar system, orbits the sun and not the other way around as was commonly believed at the time. The position of the Church, which was extremely powerful in Europe then, was that the earth was fixed at the centre of the universe with the sun, planets and stars revolving around it. Part and parcel of this belief was that the heavens were perfect. Copernicus sun centred theory was championed by Kepler (1576-1630), a brilliant mathematician who went on to develop his three laws of planetary motion on the assumption that the earth, along with the other planets, orbited the sun. Also famous in this connection is Gallileo (1563-1642), who spent the last 10 years or so of his life under house arrest for refusing to acknowledge that the sun centred model was only a theory. The telescope in Gallileos day was a relatively new invention. So we shouldnt be too surprised to learn that it was Gallileo who was the first to turn his telescope to the sky. He was therefore the first to observe Jupiters four major moons, now known as the Gallilean moons, orbiting Jupiter. This was clearly in oposition to the beliefs of the day where everything was supposed to orbit the Earth. He also saw craters on the moon - to him this was further proof that the heavens were not perfect. Please click here to see an animated gif showing the four moons orbiting Jupiter. However, by the begining of the 1700s, the sun centred system was generally accepted and it was at this time that the first model of the solar system was made. George Graham (1674-1751) was a renowned clockmaker - you can see his tomb in Westminster Abbey. He made the first model of the solar system. A copy of this model was made by the instrument maker John Rowley who had been commssioned by Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery. Thus a model of the solar system became known as an orrery. The model which you can see on the right was made around 1712 and is now held at the Science Museum. Online Orrery Simulations The Electric Orrey from the University of St Andrews is simple to use and shows the inner and outer solar system. The inner and outer solar systems are shown separately for ease of viewing and show the relative positions of the planets from todays date onwards. You can also speed it up if you like! Solar System Simulator is worth having a look at. It can seem a bit slow but you can always leave it running and check on the progress of the planets now and again! A very good virtual solar system can be found at www.nationalgeographic.com. In order to view this properly in 3D you need to download the Viscape plug in. (If you cant get the link on the page to work you should be able to find Superscape Viscape Universal at Tucows). Also the plug in wont work with Firefox, (urrrrgh) but it will work with Internet Explorer. However, it is worth it! The simulation is interactive plus each view is accompanied by explanatory notes. Take a virtual fly by tour of the solar system with Planet 10 from www.planet-science.com You can zoom in or out and view the planets from above or from the side. Very good indeed. (You may need to install the latest Shockwave player.) The software is written by Wired Science which is part of Planet Science which in turn is owned and run by the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts. This particular simulation uses Shockwave. Make your own Orrery Simulation First go to Easytorecalls Orrery Simulation to see what it will look like. If you know what you are doing, you can find the images here. If you dont quite know what you are doing, we have prepared a set of instructions to walk you through it. Instructions to make your own hands on Orrery Don Rogerson, from Alaska, has made an orrery for his children out of Lego! No detailed instructions, but plenty of pictures (more here) that might give the more adventurous some ideas. Eli Whitney Museum gives diagramatice instructions for making an orrery using wood, a few washers and of course models for the sun and the inner planets. This is a great project to do with your children. Build a Solar System is from San Franciscos Exploratium (great site by the way). It allows you to calculate at the click of a button all the sizes you need to build a true scale model of the solar system plus a couple of ideas on how you could put this into action. Excellent for children to get a feel of just how big the solar system really is. The National Optical Astronomy Observatories from the US has more detailed instructions for this kind model in The Thousand Year Model or, The Earth as a Peppercorn. For younger children, Enchanted Learning has templates you can use to make a solar system mobile. There is something a little more elaborate along the same lines from Southern Indiana Education Center. Where can I see some orreries? The Science Museum in London has a fine collection of orreries on display, some of which you can see some online. Greenwich Observatory has a couple of orreries you can see. If you havent been to Greenwich before, I would definitely recommend the Planetarium. Only a couple of pounds to get in - excellent value and much better that the London Planetarium in my view! The Armagh Observatory is an astronomical research institute that not only owns several orreries but also has an interactive project called The Human Orrery which allows people to play the part of the moving planets. The Observatory also hosts the Armagh Planetarium and the Armagh AstroPark. Click here for a list of historical instruments owned by the Obervatory. You might want to use your browsers find on page feature to find details of all of them. Please note that the observatory itself is not generally open to the public, but occasional public tours are organised on request. Scottish visitors might be interested to know that the University of Aberdeen Natural Philosophy Collection houses a fine collection of historical scientific instruments. However, access to the public is limited at the moment and only a small part of the collection is open for public viewing. The Whipple Museum is part of Cambridge University and is open to the public on weekday afternoons. You can find some fascinating historical scientific instruments including some magnificent orreries in the Upper Gallery. The Museum of the History of Science is housed in the Old Ashmolean Building in Broad Street Oxford, and has several orreries to see. They are open in the afternoons every day of the week. Free Admission. Techniquest in Cardiff Bay is a science discovery centre with many interactive exhibits including an orrery. The Exploratory in Bristol, also a science discovery coentre, has a large solar system model called the Solar System Way which includes detailed models of the planets and their moons. Where can I buy an Orrery? Fergusons Orrery These orreries are a working representation of the Earth and Moon system, and include all of the planets known at that time. James Ferguson was born in Keith, Scotland in 1710, he was a self-taught scientist and astronomer. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763. He became a friend of Dr. Benjamin Franklin when he visited Britain to lobby Parliament about tax grievances. Ferguson designed a variant of Dr. Franklin’s famous three-wheeled clock for which he received acclaim. The brass plaques with engraved zodiac signs are copies of the original drawings by James Ferguson. All moving parts; planets, decorative balustrades, ornamental figures (large model), engraved dials and zodiac plaques are manufactured from solid brass. The exception is the solid gem stone blue earth globe ball; (jewel globe: lapis lazuli for oceans, a variety of other semi-precious stones are used for countries, such as: turquoise, or jade, or tigers eye). The base is manufactured from stained American white oak (Quercus alba), a wood that is used extensively in cabinet making. Both models run electrically. Small model achieves full rotation in ½ hour. The large model in 5 minutes. The large model can also be disconnected from the motor and hand turned to see planets, earth and moon rotation at a higher speed for demonstration purposes. Both models may have the planets moved by hand to specific positions. Currently the only places you can buy these orreries from (are far as we can find out) are: http://www.theprezzyshop.co.uk http://www.devonclocks.com http://www.widescreen-centre.co.uk http://www.green-witch.com http://curiousminds.co.uk Solar System Mobile With this incredible 106cm diameter Solar System Mobile you can explore the wonders of the universe from the comfort of your own bedroom! This Remote Controlled, motorised mobile has nine planets that actually orbit the sun. The sun also lights up and casts its glow on the detailed coloured planets. Listen to the included Audio CD to enjoy a fascinating tour of our solar system whilst watching the mobile in action - CD includes fascinating facts about each planet. The remote control also doubles up as a light pointer which you can use to locate each planet and to make comets and meteors streak through the night sky. Each mobile kit includes nine full colour detailed planets, remote control with built-in light pointer and comet maker, glow-in-the-dark star stickers and the 15 minute audio CD. The mobile can be fitted very simply to a ceiling using the enclosed hardware, and as it is battery operated so there is no need to worry about connecting to the mains! • www.prezzybox.com £24.95 + £2.95 P&P = £27.90 • Special Offers: Prezzybox has offered us a £5 discount off every order over £20 for our readers. Just enter EASYTORECALL at the checkout. • Free Delivery on orders >£40 Solar System Planetarium Model Making Kit Build your own glow in the dark solar system planetarium model of 30cm span. Assemble, paint and highlight it with glow effects. Watch it glow in the dark as in real Space. Its an inspiring science craft. Contains 1 set of 3-dimensional Solar System planetarium model, 1 brush, 1 stripe of paint pots and glow paint, 1 set stand and rotating arms, 9 steel bars, 1 sand paper, 1 Saturn ring template and detailed instructions with bonus wall chart of Solar System. http://curiousminds.co.uk £8.50 +P&P £2.00 = £10.50 3D Solar System Mobile Making Kit An inspirational science craft for the whole family. Build your very own designed solar system mobile which revolves and glows in the dark. Mobile is 75cm x 75xm when built. Its amazing! Contains full set of snap to build, no glue needed solar system plastic planets, full set of easy-to-assemble hanging structure and hanging Lines, 2 paint strips, glow paint, paint brush, bonus wall chart with fun facts of solar system (size:42cm x 60cm). painting and assembling instruction sheet. http://curiousminds.co.uk £14.99 +P&P £3.00 = £17.99 Helios Planetarium/Orrery with Northern Sky Dome This stunning fully electric model shows the planets orbiting the Sun at their correct relative speeds with a removable Star dome. The planets from Mercury to Saturn orbit the Sun at their correct relative speeds and the Moon orbits the Earth in synchrony. Subjects to study: * The Planets in their Orbits (length of a year, inferior and superior planets and more) * The Moon and its Phases * Eclipse Basics * The Time - solar, sidereal and G.M.T. The orrery can have all its planets displayed or just one or two. The planets can be positioned for any year or month up to 2020. The speed and direction of rotation can be changed! Show how the stars and constellations have fixed locations in space whilst the planets orbit the Sun. Additional subjects to study with the star dome: * The Ecliptic and the Zodiacal constellations * How the planets appear to move against the night sky * Use of the Helios outside at night - where should the stars appear in the sky? The domes show the stars around the ecliptic plus those over either the Northern or Southern hemispheres. Looking through the dome you see the stars visible at night! To deliver the levels of understanding, accuracy is at the core of the Helios with planets revolving at their correct relative speeds and the star dome showing all major stars and constellations. www.cochranes.co.uk Article: Copyright 2000-2009 easytorecall.com TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us What is an Orrery?     ");
array_files[1]=new Array(0,1,"./free_courses.htm","2009-04-02","18K","Free Online Courses - Easytorecall Webzine    ","free online courses    ","Where you can get free online education    "," Free Online Courses - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Online Courses Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites offering free online courses Email College • www.emailcollege.co.uk Headers: Free Online Courses: Business, Personal Development, Jobs & Careers, Health, Information Skills, Creativity & Ideas, Consumer Issues, Writing Guides A series of mini courses provided free - you get your materials via email. There is a certificate at the end of each course - to show you have done the work - although it is not a nationally recognised qualification. The website is operated by volunteers and is non profit making. Open Learn Learning Space • http://openlearn.open.ac.uk Headers: Free Online Courses: Arts and History, Business and Management, Education, Health and Lifestyle, IT and Computing, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Modern Languages, Science and Nature, Society, Study Skills, Technology Part of the Open University. All the courses are just a few hours long and you access the material direct from the website. There are also several learning clubs and forums you can join. Alison • http://alison.com/ Headers: Free Online Skills Training Large number of multimedia online courses (all free by the way) in Digital Literacy & IT Skills, Enterprise & Business Skills, Financial & Economic Literacy, Health & Safety & Compliance, Health Literacy, Leadership & Management Training, Language Skills, Personal Development & Soft Skills, Teacher Training GCF Learn Free • www.gcflearnfree.org Headers: Free Online Courses: Everyday Life, Math & Money, Computer Training Course in: Computer Basics, Windows, Internet Basics, Email Basics, Internet Safety, Mozilla Firefox, Using Office Software, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Office, OpenOffice.org, Outlook 2003, Publisher 2003, Exploring Life, Career Development, Workplace Development, Math basics, Money basics. Funded by GCF Community Foundation. The BBC • www.bbc.co.uk Headers: Free Online Mini Courses: Basic Skills, Cookery, Creative Writing, Environmental Studies, Gardening, Health, History, Information Technology, Languages, Media Studies, Science, Sports and Fitness Work through these completely free online courses at your own pace. Mostly video and audio tutorials. BBC Training & Development • www.bbctraining.com Headers: Free Online Courses: Television, Radio, Broadcast Technology, Journalism Originally designed for BBC staff, these courses are now free for all to use. Vision2learn • www.creatingcareers.net Headers: Free Online Courses The courses available from this site are funded by the Learning and Skills Council and are therefore free. Courses are in IT, Entrpreneurship, Money Management, Healthy Living and Sports Coaching. All courses lead to nationally recognised qualificaitons and students receive support from qualified tutors. Accreditation is through your local college. Available for residents over 16 in England. Virtual Business Partner • www.skills-4-success.com Headers: Bookkeeping Courses, Business and Finance, Business Practices, Human Understanding, Hospitality, Writing and Journalism Vocational, Sales, Computers and IT Accredited distance learning packages with full tutor support. As well as the paid for courses, Virtual Business Partner also offers a large number of free online courses that provide an introduction to a variety of business topics from negiotiation skills to using IT in your business. Home and Learn • www.homeandlearn.co.uk Headers: Free Computer Tutorials Choose from beginners computing, MS Word, Excel, Visual Basic, Powerpoint, PHP, web design and Visual C#.NET. Registerwith them and you can also get free exams! They even have course files for you to download. They make their money by selling Home and Learn books (you dont have to buy these, but you might want to). Help with PCs • www.helpwithpcs.com/courses/Course.htm Headers: Free Computer Courses This is the free section of Help with PCs where you can find free tutorials on software and hardware topics. Not a great layout but you might find just what you need here. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
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Picture Viewers & Editors - viewers with some editing capability Flash - make Flash presentations 3D Modelling & Animation Programs - includes simples modelling programs to raytracing and also an architectural modelling program Vector Graphics Freeware - make vector graphics that will resize perfectly Paint & Drawing - from wonderfully sophisticated paint programs to more simple ones including a nice one for children Panorama Stitchers - two excellent programs Landscape Generator - an open source landscape generator Miscellaneous Graphics Programs - includes screen capture software, reflection effects, an icon editor, plant creator, photo album generator, a wonderfull little colour picker and the Rasterblaster! Free Panorama Stitchers Autostitch • www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch Program Type: Panorama Photo Stitcher Wow!!! I looked at this program after using Hugin (see below) - which is great - but this is so easy and does a brilliant job. Its completely automatic. All you do is load in the pictures you want to stitch together and in no time at all you have a perfectly stitched together panorama without any input (other than selecting the images) on your part at all! Its an amazing piece of software. See how Autostitch dealt with 5 images taken from Crickley Hill near Cheltenham - the result of about 2 minutes work - and then have a look at what we produced with Hugin after considerably more effort. Although on the website you download a demo of Autostitch this is actually the full strength program. What companies can pay extra for is the chance to develop further products using Autostitch. Otherwise it is free to use - if your demo expires just download the lastest version from the website. We are not sure if this means that in the future we may have to pay for Autostitch, but if that day comes then we will definitely be getting out our credit cards! Hugin • http://hugin.sourceforge.net Program Type: Panorama Photo Stitcher By far the easiest way to get going with this program is to follow the beginners tutorial which can be found on the website. The only problem I had was when asked to save the file as a tiff - it didnt work! Heaven knows why. However I did manage to save the file as a jpeg. Take a look here at five photos taken from the top of Crickley Hill (nr Cheltenham) that I was able to stitch together - after only the one tutorial! This really is a very easy program to get to grips with straight away but has more than enough capability for the kind of tweaking that advanced users will want. Excellent. Platforms: Linux, Windows, MacOSX and many Unix systems. Free Landscape Generator Terragen • www.planetside.co.uk/terragen Program Type: Scenery Generator Some years ago I installed a paid for landscape generator called Vue DEsprit 3.0 that was free with a computer magazine (the new version was due out and this was by way of advertising - they now have version 6 out I believe). I spent a few happy hours generating landscapes to my hearts content. I was intrigued therefore when I saw that there was a free landscape generator out there. However, although I managed to get this program to work (just - it still wont save my rendered images), compared to Vue DEsprit 3.0 it is pretty basic, even after I downloaded the free plugins available on the website - see resources. In view of the fantastic quality of some free programs out there, all in all I find this one disappointing. However, I am prepared to admit that maybe I dont have the skills to get the best out of this program. The version I downloaded is v0.9.43. Tutorials plus an idea of what an experienced Terragen user can achieve can be found here: http://www.rcscs.co.uk/terragen/ and here: http://www.terrasource.net Platforms: Windows and Mac Terragen 2 • www.planetside.co.uk/terragen Program Type: Scenery Generator Much better! I actually managed to produce this image in bitmap form in about half an hour with no tutorial help - OK its not very good but its better than nothing at all which is what I achieved with Terragen 0.9! Tutorials plus an idea of what an experienced Terragen user can achieve can be found here: http://www.rcscs.co.uk/terragen/ and here: http://www.terrasource.net Platforms: Windows and Mac Landscape Studio • www.planetside.co.uk/terragen Program Type: Heightmap Generator This program will produce terrain maps for use in other landscape program such as Terragen. (See above). Platforms: Windows and Mac Free Miscellaneous Graphics Programs Reflet • www.photofiltre.com Program Type: Reflection Effects Small program but incredibly effective - see here to see what we achieved in about 10 seconds flat with no tutorial help! Wonderful! You can find Reflet, along with other programs, under freeware in the main lefthand window on the Photofiltre website (note that Photofiltre Studio itself is shareware and not freeware). Platform: Windows Plant Studio • www.kurtz-fernhout.com Program Type: Plant Creator Another small program but quite delightfull. With this program you can make plant models. Here is one we made just using the basic plant wizard and the breed option. The program will, however, do more than we have attempted so far. The program is completely free and has a help screen plus there is additional support on the website. Platform: Windows IcoFX • http://icofx.ro/ Program Type: Icon Maker/Editor Great program and 100% free. Create your own icons from scratch or convert (and edit it you like) an existing image. For a full list of the many features plus tutorials, see the website. Platform: Windows Icona 5 • http://jansfreeware.com Program Type: Icon Editor Small simple and easy to use program. Its a zip file that extracts the program - you should therefore extract it to the folder you want the program to be in. JAlbum • http://jalbum.net Program Type: Photo Album Generator Excellent program. Make web albums of your images and view the albums in your web browser. Use the templates provided or customise it to your own specs. There are dozens of different skins you can download from the website. Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (and others) Web Album Maker • www.web-album-maker.com Program Type: Photo Album Generator Another excellent free photo album maker using Flash or html templates (no Flash experience necessary). In fact it couldnt be easier to use. Just add images from your computer, click next, choose a template and then click make! You can just view or upload it straight to your website. Probably not quite so versatile as JAlbum. Platforms: Windows Web Photo Album • http://vicman.net/webalbum Program Type: Photo Album Generator A small program that easily allows you to create and publish albums for the web. Choose from about 30 templates. Platforms: Windows The Rasterbator • http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator Program Type: Image Rasterisation This free program creates huge rasterised images from any picture. You can upload your image and have it rasterised online or download the program - probably better as there is then no size or resolution limits. Very easy to use but you will need a pdf viewer as the program uses this to output the rasterised images. Platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux (not tested). Color Cop • http://colorcop.net Program Type: Colour Picker Love it! You can use the colour picker (eyedropper) on any part of your screen irrespective of what program is open. And it will also stay on top when you click onto another program, unless you minimize it. Features include a magnifier, auto-copy to the clipboard, multiple output options, colour options, mouse wheel support and more. Click top left to bring up all the available options. Platform: Windows Cam Studio • http://camstudio.org Program Type: Streaming Video Software Free open source streaming video software that will enable you to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files. It also has a built-in SWF Producer that can turn the AVIs into streaming Flash videos (SWFs). Use it to create video demos and tutorials or to record problems you might be having with your computer (for the tech support people who, lets face it, think the rest of us are complete idiots and dont believe a word we say!) Wink • www.debugmode.com/wink Program Type: Tutorial & Presentation Creation Freeware program that allows you to create tutorials and presentations using screenshots. Features: Audio: Record voice as you create the tutorial for explaining better. Input formats: Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats. Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals. Multilingual support: Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese. Smart Capture Tools: Capture screenshots automatically as you use your PC, based on mouse and keyboard input Performance/Quality: Creates highly compressed Flash presentations (few kbs to few hundreds of kbs, much smaller than competing commercial products) ideal for using on the web. Platforms: Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).   AndreaMosaic • www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic Program Type: Photo Mosaic Creator This makes those pictures that are themselves made up of other tiny little pictures. Very easy to use. Just specify the picture you want to have a mosaic of and then the folder containing the images you want the program to use. You can even extract images from video files. Free for personal or commercial use. Platforms: Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and various versions of Linux (x86 only).  Back To Free Software Main Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Freeware Graphics Software - Photo Editors, Picture Viewers, 3D Modelling, Vector Graphics, Paint Programss     ");
array_files[3]=new Array(0,1,"./setting_up_a_website.htm","2009-04-02","23K","How To Set Up Your Own Website - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, How To Set Up Your Own Website    ","How To Set Up Your Own Website    "," How To Set Up Your Own Website - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games How to set up your own website How to set up a website for business or pleasure Q What do I need to have in order to get myself a website? 1. Web page or pages. Like the one you are looking at now. These can be created in anything from MS Word (save your document as html) or a top end web editor such as Dreamweaver. Behind all the words, formatting and images you can see here there is coding (click View: Source in Internet Explorer). Luckily, a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web editor will write the code automatically for you. Nevertheless, if you want to make your own web pages you will need to get to grips with how to make web pages, whether it is with paid for software or a free web editor. There is another option which is to use the free online tools provided by the web space providers (see 3). These are available with paid for and free web space. For a complete novice this is the best and easiest option. You can always change the way you edit your pages at a later date. 2. A domain name - for example http://www.easytorecall.co.uk is our domain name and is our address on the internet. 3. Web space. All your web pages need to be located physically on a large computer that is available to the world 24/7. This is called a web server and the service provided is called web hosting. Your domain name is linked to your webspace so that whenever someone types your domain name into their browser they are directed via the world wide web to your webspace. There are several possibilities for getting webspace. a. Your own internet service provider may offer free webspace as part of the package. b. There are companies offering free webspace c. You can pay for webspace. This is an ongoing cost but you will get more space and greater bandwidth* than with any of the free options. * The more bandwidth you have, the more people can use your website and download information from it at the same time. Q How do I set up a website from scratch? There are various options if you want to get a website up and running. The first thing to decide is how you want the website to work for you. Option 1. You want a website to put up some photos for your family to view or for a club or society and you dont mind what the domain name (web address) is. Option 2. You want option 1 above, but want a domain name of your own choosing, eg lions-volleyball.org.uk or you want a site to advertise your business and want to use the free webspace given to you by your ISP or from a company offering free webspace. Option 3. You want your own chosen domain name that is linked directly to webspace. Option 1. Q. How do I set up a Website and I dont mind it having a long name? A. Your ISP might offer free webspace. Each ISP has its own way of doing things so the best thing to do in this case is to check their homepage and follow the instructions. When you do this you will get a domain name that looks something like this: http://virginfreespace.members/ gkbrown/ Cost : Free If your ISP doesnt offer webspace, you will need to look at option 2. Top Option 2. Q. How do I set up a website but Id like a domain name of my own choosing A. Here is where you need to pay some money, but it need not be as much as you might think. So lets assume you are called the Lions Volleyball Club. Then what you need to do is go to a website that sells domain names and buy one! See below for buying domain names. So you would go to the site and they will have a place for you to type in the name you want. Then they will check if this is still available. If you choose something really flashy like abc.com it will be gone as someone will have snapped it up. But say you want www.lions-volleyball.org.uk Q. Hold on a minute, why .org.uk and why not one of the other extensions that are on offer such as .co.uk or .com? A. The extension .org.uk is used for a for a club or society, or a non-profit making organisation. If you are running a business site then choose .co.uk or .com or one of the other new ones such as .biz. Q. Whats the difference between .co.uk and .com? A. Each country has its own extension, Italy for example has the extension .it The UK extension is .co.uk and really .com is for American sites but ... the .com extension was the only one used in the early days of the internet and so appears on sites from all over the world. In addition, some UK companies prefer to use it to the newer .co.uk. Really it is a matter of taste but the .co.uk is generally cheaper! So anyway, we want www.lions-volleyball.org.uk so the idea is to buy that. Whoever you buy it from, you will have the facility to point it to any other web address that you want, via a simple to use web-based control panel. So for example if I put the Volleyball site on my freespace (See above) http://virginfreespace.members/ gkbrown/ Then I can have www.lions-volleyball.org.uk as the address for this. When someone types www.lions-volleyball.org.uk into their browser they will be automatically redirected to http://virginfreespace.members/ gkbrown/ Q. Who can I buy a domain name from? A. A lot of sites sell domain names. Check out our own listings. www.britishnic.com is a good example. They sell UK domain names and each name includes web and email forwarding. It costs £15 for 2 years. Web Forwarding is the term used for redirecting the domain name you have bought to any web address you choose. Whoever you buy your domain name from will have an easy to access control panel on the web where you can fill out all the details needed to redirect your domain name. Email forwarding is also interesting. You can have a flashy email address too! So I can put anything I like in front of the new name I have bought (lions-volleyball.org.uk) and use it as an email address by redirecting it to my usual email address. Again, this redirection is easily achieved via the control panel as in the web forwarding example above. So for example I can have: graham@lions-volleyball.org.uk or enquiries@lions-volleyball.org.uk or indeed anything@lions-volleyball.org.uk and anything sent to these email addresses will all be redirected to my normal email address. (You may want to read our article about getting rid of spam in order to protect your email addresses.) Cost : From under £10 per year, but you can pay more for a package that includes hosting (see below). You can even pay for shopping basket facilities if you want to sell goods online. Top Option 3. Q. You want a nice flashy name that includes webspace. This is the simplest and most professional solution. It has also become very affordable. For around about £30-£50 per year you get the domain name and webspace with it. When you sign up (see webhosting and domain name companies) you will be given all the details you need. Given that costs have reduced so much, this can often be preferable - and easier - option for small clubs and societies and personal websites. Whoever you sign up with will give you a web based control panel. Here there will be a facility to upload files to your webspace (called a file manager) simply by selecting them off your computer. Anyone going to your domain name will automatically see these. Alternatively you might prefer to use an FTP manager. This is a program that you install on your computer and use to upload your files - more convenient and all the password details you will need are available on your web hosting control panel. Below is a review of a completely free FTP program. Filezilla FTP Program • http://filezilla-project.org This excellent free ftp program has a nicely laid out interface and gets the job done very quickly and easily. On the left are your files on the home computer and on the right, the internet. Simply drag and drop or double click and the site is updated. Top Taking care of the pennies by Steve Sutherland THE aim of this article is to explain to webmasters of sports and hobby sites how they can make a modest income of roughly 10p to £10 per day from their sites. If you run such a site, then perhaps you have wondered about placing some advertising on it, if only to help with costs. Of course, nothing is guaranteed on the internet. This is not a get rich quick monologue. However, hopefully this article can help you earn some realistic income from your site, with no more than a few hours work, followed by a minimal amount of ongoing work. • read full article TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
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Down Lexico Way by Graham Brown See Also: Where to Play Scrabble Online No Butts IT was 1931, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, and architect Alfred Mosher Butts had just lost his job. There was little work to be found designing buildings. In fact, there was little work at all. So he elected to devise a new board game based on words. Lexico was to be renamed four times over the next 17 years . New Anagrams, Alph , Criss-Cross and Criss-Crosswords. He eventually sold the game to James Brunot who changed the name to Scrabble and trademarked it in 1948. Since then millions of sets have been sold worldwide. And what about Alfred? Well, he didnt get rich from Scrabble, but he did become re-employed as an architect and lived a long and happy life, dying in 1993 at the age of 93. Into the Net I began my search for Scrabble on the Net at www.scrabble.com. The tips section begins with the 120 officially sanctioned Two Letter Words. The reason for learning these? . They are useful to create parallel plays or for squeezing in a good play on a blocked board They are also very useful for simply showing off! You can, for example, venture OO with aplomb. And how about AA, AE, AI, AX, AY, BA, BO, CH, DA, DI, EA, EE, FY, GI, GU, ID, IO, JO, KA, KO, KY, LI, MU, NA, NE, NU, NY, OB, OD, OE, OI, OM, OS, OU, OY, PH, PI, QI, SI, TE, UT, WO, XI, XU, YU, and ZO! Then there are Hooks. These are letters that can be placed on the front or rear of a word to make a new word. So your opponents carefully laid NAB turns into NABK (a prickly shrub) as they frantically try to reach a triple word square via your FRY or attempt to embellish your SUCH (both words being on the unhookable list!). The official Scrabble website www.scrabble.com has something for everyone and even includes some excellent shockwave games including an inspired mix of Scrabble and Space Invaders. Playing online I had been trying for some time to find a free scrabble playing program. Bob s site provided the answer. Once Networdz was downloaded, Marilyn (my non-silicon scrabble consultant) was soon losing regularly to words such as nidering feazed neap and the interesting barhop. I should add though, that running FOUL along VANMAN helped her finally claim victory for the human race, chalking up points with fa, on um and la. A fine case of squeezing in a good play on a blocked board. Play the silicon scrabblemeister only if you feel brave, on form, bright as a button and lucky. Not feeling any of those, I decided to try my luck playing against carbon based life. Within 15 minutes on Bobs site I had an enjoyable game against the polite but deadly American sniper139 but got picked off word by word. However, it was great fun and you can play up to 3 people at the same time. For Networdz and other online Scrabble websites see our main Scrabble Page Speedys story Bob (Speedy) told me the story of his site. I couldnt believe all the hoops that people needed to go through just to play a game of Scrabble. It took hours to figure out so I decided to try to make it easier for everyone. The first thing I did was get a hold of the official dictionary used in tournament play. That was my biggest complaint about Networdz at the time. The installation program completely installs and configures all aspects of the game. What used to take an hour, could now be done with a simple double-click. People who knew nothing about computers were playing in a matter of 10-15 minutes. The one thing that I am most proud of is that you will NEVER see an advertisement for anything on my webpages. I have had tons of offers from game companies, online gaming businesses and such to advertise on my site, but I just cant do it. I wanted to create a place where Scrabble players can go to play other people, get information and feel like they are in a Real Persons website..... not some impersonal money making operation. Hopefully I have created such a place. Everyday I get about 10-30 quick little message from people saying a quick thanks. It doesnt sound like a big deal in the big scheme of things, but in the world of the Internet most people dont send little thank-you messages. So, when I get these messages, I know that they wouldnt have taken the time to write to me unless I really did make a small difference. And thats worth more then any ad banner could ever pay me. Speedys site, in a sea of getrichinaminute.com sites, is refreshing. As ultra-cool as inventing a world famous board game in the depths of the Great Depression. So if you enjoy scrabble, you may not be able to email Mr Butts anymore but why not send a quick thankyou to Speedy. And if all those High-Tec shares should come crashing down, dont sit around moping over that lost £100. Turn the certificate over, get a pen and use it for something useful - create a Parlour Game. If you have a website on scrabble you would like featured then please email me For loads more places to play scrabble online see our main Scrabble page TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
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array_files[9]=new Array(0,1,"./periodic_table_game/periodic_table_game.htm","2009-04-02","15K","Periodic Table Game - Easytorecall Webzine    ","periodic table game, games, periodic table, chemistry games, periodic table games    ","Periodic Table Game - A fun way to learn the periodic tbale    "," Periodic Table Game - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Welcome to Easytorecall Webzine, part of Easytorecall UK Web Directory • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff • articles • prime ministers game • kings & queens game • great art games Periodic Table Game Do you know the Periodic Table? Brush up your knowledge with our fun game - learn and play at the same time! Its easy to play. Just click on the element number in the table where you think each element belongs. Period Table Game START GAME Best Interactive Periodic Table Websites: ChemiCool There is also a forum, a chemistry dictionary and chemistry tools Chemical & Engineering News Click the elements for articles written by chemistry scientists. The Periodic Table of Videos Click on an element and see a video about it. From the University of Nottinham. Chemical Elements Allows you to choose how you want the table to be displayed. Click on an element for basic information and atomic structure The Elements Very cool. Lots of information and images for each element. Periodic Table of Elements Standard table - move your mouse over for more information and click to display the Wikipedia entry for that element. Lenntech Periodic Table Clear and concise. Basic information plus uses and environmental effects. RSC- Visual Elements Periodic Table (Flash) Nice looking table plus you can choose to download an elements data in pdf format. Mokeurs Periodic Table You get all the basic information without having to open another page - but if you do you get a 3D model of the atomic structure. Periodic Table (Advanced) Basic information plus you can display the table by atomic weight, radius, density, boiling point, 1st ionisation potential and electronegativity. Periodic Table Classic (Download - Free Software) Very nice indeed. Well recommended. PDF Peridodic Tables to Download Pdf tables in a variety of formats available for download. PDF or Tiff Periodic Table - Coloured A coloured table that you can choose to download either as a pdf or as a tiff. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[10]=new Array(0,1,"./orrery_pictures.htm","2009-04-02","12K","Pictures for the Orrery Simulation - Easytorecall Webzine    ","orrery pictures    ","Pictures for the Orrery Simulation    "," Pictures for the Orrery Simulation - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Images for the Orrery Simulation sun.gif mercury.gif venus.gif earth.gif moon.gif mars.gif deimos.gif phobos.gif space.gif Space background courtesy of Project Sanctuary Article: Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[11]=new Array(0,1,"./orrery_instructions.htm","2009-04-02","17K","Make your own Orrery Simulation - Easytorecall Webzine    ","orery, orrery, orrary    ","Instructions on how to make your own online Orrery    "," Make your own Orrery Simulation - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Instructions for Making your own Javascript Orrery Simulation First go to Easytorecalls Orrery Simulation to see what it will look like. Time: about 5 minutes if you already have, and can use a web editor. Please note that if you can, you might find some of the earlier steps a bit tedious! Time: about 30 minutes if you dont. Step 1. You will have to have an html editor. If you dont have one, there are free ones available for download. See our page on Free WYSIWYG Web Editors. If you dont have any experience of creating web pages, we suggest you try Web Weaver EZ which you can download from here: www.mcwebsoftware.com. Step 2. When you first open Web Weaver you will see a screen like this: You can use this view to type, insert pictures and generally make a web page. Try it. Its fun! However, for our purposes, you need to be in whats known as source view. Click view (at the top, 3rd one in) and choose source. Click this. You should now be in source view: Step 3. Select all the text you see and delete it. An easy way to select everything is to hit control + A. You are now ready to copy in the code for the orrery. Step 4. You need to have a folder somewhere on your computer to hold your web page and the images. Create this folder now and call it Orrery Simulation. Within this folder create another folder and call it images, with a small i. Step 5. Next you need to copy the source code of our simulation page. Open this page up now. In your browser click view and then source. Select all (control + A) and then copy. (You can copy the selection easily by hitting control + c) Step 6. Go back to Web Weaver and make sure you are still in source view. Paste the text you copied by hitting control + v. Click save. This will take you back to the normal view. Make sure you save it in your Orrery simulation folder. Step 7. You can preview your page at this time (last icon on the right) but it will look a bit odd because there are no images there yet. You can get the images you need by opening our orrery pictures page. Or you can make your own - this is probably the most rewarding way to go. You can find loads of planetary images on the web by typing a planet name into Yahoo (or Google) images. Select the images you like the best and then edit them to the correct size in the photo editor of your choice. Step 8. Right click each image in turn and click save picture as. In the dialogue box name each picture as indicated by the text next to the image. It is important that you save the images in the image folder you created within your main orrery folder because this is where the web page will look for them. Step 9. Now you probably want to get rid of the Easytorecall logo. Just click on it in your html editor and hit delete. Its gone. Step 10. If you would like to customise your page more, you can add your own images or change the background (lots of choice at Moon Stars or you might like to try Nasas Astronomy Picture of the Day which has an archive you can search). If you want to get rid of any or all the text, just select and delete it. Good luck! Many thanks to Patrick Brennan for writing the Javascript for the simulation. Article: Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[12]=new Array(0,1,"./cardmatch/artists_game.htm","2009-04-02","11K","The Great Art Game - Easytorecall Webzine    ","","Kings and Queens of England Game    "," The Great Art Game - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Welcome to Easytorecall Webzine, part of Easytorecall UK Web Directory • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • great art games The Great Art Game Apologies! We have moved the Great Art Game to a new server. You can find all the games here The Great Art Game TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[13]=new Array(0,1,"./online_cookery.htm","2009-04-02","14K","Online Cookery Know How - UK Web Sites - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, food, drink, food and drink, cookery tutorieals on the web, cookery tutorials, online cooking tutorials    ","Online Cookery Classes    "," Online Cookery Know How - UK Web Sites - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Food & Drink Main Index Online Cookery Tutorials Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, UK websites BBC Masterchef Course • www.bbc.co.uk This free online course covers: 1. Food hygiene 2. Food deliveries and stock rotation 3. Knife handling and safety 4. Food purchasing and budgeting 5. Patisserie and presentation techniques Each of the 5 modules takes around 5 - 15 minutes to complete (you dont have to do it all in one go). Register, read the module and then answer the questions. If you pass, you get an e-certificate from the BBC. Delia Online • www.deliaonline.com Headers: Recipes, Ingredients, Cookery School, Community As well as hundreds of recipes, there are dozens of how to articles from how to whisk egg whites to how to roast chicken, all accompanied by explanatory pictures. Epicurious • www.epicurious.com Headers: Recipes, Features, Cooking, Drinking, Restaurants Includes chefs tips, online technique videos plus food and wine dictionaries. Food Network • http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/cooking Headers: TV, Cooking, Party Ideas, Quick & Easy, Get Healthy, Tasty Travel, Kitchen Design, Videos Cookery knowhow from the US food program. Includes cooking guides, cooking demos (online video), culinary quesitons and answers, encyclopaedia plus lots of recipes. Very good. 911 Chef Eric • www.911cheferic.com Headers: Cooking Classes, Food Articles, Tools & Features You have to pay a small monthly subscription in order to access the online cookery classes. There are over 300 classes plus a hints and tips tutorial, menu ideas and email help. There is a demo you can view before you decide to join. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[14]=new Array(0,1,"./naming_stars.htm","2009-04-02","14K","Naming Stars - Article - Easytorecall Webzine    ","naming stars     ","UK Web Directory, naming stars    "," Naming Stars - Article - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Naming Stars An Easytorecall Article There are a few companies who, for a fee, offer to name a star after you. The companies who sell this service will name the star only once and will record the name in a book which is usually registered in a copyright office. But will this name be official? The short answer is - no. Firstly, be aware that there is more than one company offering this service and each one has its own register of star names, so your star could end up being named after a number of different people. Secondly, the only international authority for naming celestial bodies is The International Astronomical Union. The IAU has special (and pretty complicated!) rules for assigning names, which are then recognised and used by astronomers world wide. I quote: the IAU dissociates itself entirely from the commercial practice of selling fictitious star names or real estate on other planets or moons in the Solar System. Visit the IAU page Naming Astronomical Objects for more information: http://www.iau.org/public_press/themes/naming/ Even so, you may believe that, even if not officially recognised, it would be fun or romantic to get a star certificate with your name or the name of a loved one on it. If thats the case you can go here for a listing of companies that provide this service. If, on the other hand, your purpose is to get someone, a child maybe, interested in astronomy, then there are many more useful gifts that you might consider. Have a look at our page on orreries - if you scroll down to the bottom of the page we list places where you can buy models of the solar system, with prices from £10 to £1400! Also, many websites sell telescopes suitable for children from about £15.00 to whatever you are prepared to pay. (For a listing of UK companies who sell telescopes online see the telescopes page in the Easytorecall UK Web Directory). An astronomy software package, such as Redshift, (you can get this from Amazon), might be the answer, or have a look at our free astronomy software page which lists some excellent free programs. And dont forget, theres always books! TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
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array_files[16]=new Array(0,1,"./junk_letters_phones_calls.htm","2009-04-02","14K","Getting Rid of Junk Letters, Phone Calls and Faxes - UK Web Sites - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, junk mail, junk phone calls, junk faxes    ","Getting Rid of Junk Letters, Phone Calls and Faxes    "," Getting Rid of Junk Letters, Phone Calls and Faxes - UK Web Sites - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Getting rid of Junk Letters, Phone Calls and Faxes UK websites UK Readers Register Online for the Following Services: Junk Phone Calls Fed up with junk phone calls? I know I am! Who needs someone trying to sell you double glazing on a Sunday afternoon? Well, no more. Register with www.tpsonline.org.uk, the Telephone Preference Service, to make your phone number unavailable to marketing organisations. In fact, under recent legislation it is now unlawful for such organisations to call you if you have registered. Registration is FREE. Allow 28 days for activation. Junk Letters To opt out of marketing lists register online at www.mpsonline.org.uk. This is the Mailing Preference Service, a free service funded by the direct mail industry to enable consumers to have their names and addresses removed from (or added to) direct mailing lists. Junk Faxes Did you know that it is unlawful to send unsolicited sales and marketing faxes without prior permission? Register your fax number online at www.fpsonline.org.uk to banish this nuisance. It really does work! Junk Email You can register online at the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) for the e-mail preference service. This allows you to opt out of national e-mail lists. Unfortunately this will not stop spam e-mailers who do not use the e-mail preference service to clean their lists. For more ideas on stopping spam please see our article Getting Rid of Spam. The Electoral Register You may have noticed that on the electoral registration form there is a tick box that will exclude you from the Commercial Register. This register is for sale to companies who may want to contact you for marketing purposes, and is separate from the actual Electoral Register which is for voting and legal purposes. If you do not want to be contacted by a commercial organisation, make sure you tick the box next time you get an electoral registration form. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[17]=new Array(0,1,"./internet_telephony.htm","2009-04-02","28K","Internet Telephony - Easytorecall Webzine    ","Internet communication, computer telephones, internet telephony, voip services, skype phones, voip phones    ","A description of Internet Telephony (VOIP), companies who offer internet telephony services and a list of companies where you can buy equipment    "," Internet Telephony - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Internet Telephony Equipment Internet Telephony - Free Voip Services Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, UK websites Take me straight to Free Internet Telephony (VOIP) services An Introduction to Internet Telephony Internet telephony, or VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) as it is known, is currently in its infancy, and is a way of making telephone calls using the internet as opposed to the standard circuit switching phone system we are used to. When you use the internet, your computer downloads and uploads information in “packets” of data as and when a request is made. VOIP works in a similar way, the information in this case being sound and possibly video. Packet Switching, as it is called, is much more efficient than the traditional circuit switching technology used in existing phone systems. If you would like to learn more about how this technology works, please visit http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ip-telephony.htm. There are 3 main ways you can use VOIP: 1. PC to PC phone calls. The good news here is that these types of calls are FREE worldwide. All that is needed for 2 or more people to communicate is that all have a computer; all are connected to the internet (preferably with broadband or some other fast connection); all have speakers and microphones; all have the same VOIP software installed on their computers. The software is free. The calls are free. All you pay is your normal monthly ISP subscription. The software of choice in my family is Skype, but many of the others offer similar features. With this type of software not only can you speak online, you can send links, photos and text messages too. Most software allows conference calls, so that you, your auntie in Australia, and your son in Canada can all share the same conversation. To get going, download one or more of the VOIP software packages listed below and get your family and friends to do the same. 2. PC to Phone/Fax In other words, you can use your PC as a telephone to call up ordinary landlines and mobiles. All of the software listed below allows you to do this. The differences between them lie in the rates they charge. If you want this kind of service, you should check the tariffs carefully to see which ones suit your needs best. Most offer cheap alternatives to standard phone rates, especially if dialling abroad, but some do not. If you use BT Communicator for example you will pay normal BT rates for your calls. Most software is very simple to use and you “dial” using a dial pad similar to the picture below: 3. Phone/Fax to PC You can use the one number to receive calls and faxes from landline and mobiles. Your internet telephone service provider will issue you with a number that you can give out. Be careful here though as some of these numbers may be expensive for the person calling you. If you choose Tiscali Netphone for example you are issued with a personal Netphone number which is an 0871 number and costs the caller 10p per minute. Companies Offering Free Voip Services: Skype • www.skype.com Headers: PC to PC, PC to Phone Want to talk to your friends and family, wherever they are in the world, for free? Well, if all parties have a computer with broadband and Skype installed on it (the program is itself free), you can. Skype currently has 50 million registered users and is growing fast. You can also conference up to 5 parties, send instant messages and share files. Skype also offers low cost phone calls to and from landlines. Voicemail (subscription service) will record a message for you if can’t take the call, and allows you to send voice messages between users. Skypecast allows up to 100 participants in a conversation. Join in other Skypecasts or start your own. Very useful for lecutures, hobby groups, work meetings etc. You can edit your Skype profile and add a photo, of course, but you can also add a Skype Me button on your website, if you have one. You just need to add a small amout of code (Skype will give you this) and when you set your status to Skype Me in Skype itself, the button will also show on your website! Neat! Available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Pocket PC. ooVoo • www.oovoo.com Headers: Free Video Chat and Video Conferencing A favourite in our family because you can have 3 way video chats. Also the interface is very stylish, which always helps! As well as video chats features include: record video chats, send video messages, use video effects, text chat with up to six people, send files and find friends (the world really is getting smaller these days!). It can be used to make phone calls but this service is only available for the US and Canada. There is also the ooVoo me link service - put an oovoo link on your blog or webpage or in your email signature. Other ooVoo users can then click on the link to call you (there are privacy options). Yahoo! Messenger • http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/btc.html Headers: PC to PC, Computer to Landlines/Mobiles Yahoo has joined up with BT Communicator to provide a messenger PC to PC messenger service (using Yahoo! Messenger) and PC to landline/mobile service (using BT Communicator). Make free, worldwide PC-to-PC calls with other Yahoo! Messenger users. Other features include free voicemail, call history, webcam, photosharing and conference calls. You can also search for a number free from the 118 500 BT Directory Enquiries tab in Yahoo! Messenger and pick up your BT Answer 1571 remotely over the internet. To make phonecalls to landlines and mobiles you use BT communicator which is launched from Yahoo Messenger by clicking on the telephone icon. The charges will appear on your BT phone bill and are the same as the charges from your BT landline. After you have installed messenger and got a yahoo id, you can get started with BT Communicator by clicking on the Messenger menu top left. Click Register for BT Communicator. This launches the registration webpage. Google Talk • www.google.com/talk Headers: PC to PC Voip Calls, Intant Messaging, Gmail Notifications, File Transfers There are two options here. You can download Google Talk so that it on your computer or use Google Talk via the web. Either way you just have to create an account to get going. Of course, if you want to speak to someone specific they will also have to have Google Talk or a Gmail address. From Gmail you can access Google Chat but if you want to talk you have to have Google Talk open. There is no video at present, but you can have group chats if you want. Google Talk Chatback for your website: Chatback allows visitors to your website to chat with you, even if they havent signed up for Google Talk. Simply paste the html code for your google badge (see our non working illustration) into your web page and your visitors can chat with you whenever you are signed into Google Talk. The badge displays your online status. After you have signed up with Google Talk, get your chatback badge by visiting: www.google.com/talk/service/badge/New To use this facility you need to have Google Mail open as the messages are displayed there, but you can minimise the window as you will be alerted by a sound whenever someone initiates a chat. Tiscali Netphone • http://netphone.tiscali.co.uk Headers: PC to PC, PC to Landlines/Mobiles, Send Text Messages Tiscalis Netphone allows broadband users to make free PC to PC calls with other Netphone users. You do not have to have Tiscali as your ISP to use this service (click on Sign up now for free website membership). You can also request a personal Netphone number (this is an 0871 number) which can be called by anyone with a landline or a mobile. You pay nothing for incoming calls but the caller pays the standard rate for 0871 numbers (currently 10p per minute on BT). This number can also be used as an answering machine and a fax - faxes and voicemails are sent to your email address. Calls to phones are fairly cheap - full tarif details on the website. Paltalk • http://register.paltalk.com Headers: Instant Messaging, Instant Video Chat Instant Video chat community. Paltalk’s 4 million plus users can see, hear, and talk to one another instantly – anywhere in the world. There are over 4000 different chat rooms or you can set up a private chat room, so whether you are looking friendship, love, or just want conversation there is almost certainly a video chat room for you. Features: Paltalk supports Yahoo, AIM, and ICQ instant messaging Enhanced live video streaming Free voice and video chat with up to 10 people Screen capture Multiplayer games and music downloads. Paltalk is free but you can upgrade to paid subscription for banner free windows plus greater video functionality for business conferencing etc. • Special Offers: 1 week free trial period for Paltalk x-Treme. pc-telephone • www.pc-telephone.com Headers: PC-to-Phone/Fax calling, Free PC to PC Calls, Phone/Fax to PC Low cost PC to phone calls worldwide. You can also use PC-telephone to make free PC to PC calls and use your PC to receive phone calls and faxes. You can choose the IDSN connection option (tends to get better quality phone connection) but you can still use pc-telephone if you have another type of internet connection. Net2Phone • http://web.net2phone.com/home_english.asp Headers: Residential Broadband Phone Service, PC to Phone/Fax With Voiceline you can use your phone via your broadband connection (DSL, cable, T1, or satellite) to make phone calls. This means calls are generally cheaper that via a normal phone line, especially if you are calling abroad. The downside is that you have to buy hardware to connect your phone to your pc. The PC to phone/fax service (Net2Phone CommCenter) is a little more straight forward in that you just download the software to get started. Free PC to PC calling is available with the CommCenter providing the person you call also has CommCenter. VoipCheap • www.voipcheap.co.uk Headers: PC to Phone, Phone to PC, PC to PC VoipCheap really is just that - cheap. Many locations, including UK phone numbers, are free. All you have to do is deposit a minimum of £10 to get going. (You get a minute free without the deposit). PC to PC is free with other VoipCheap users. VoipCheap will also assign you a phone number so that people can call direct to your PC. The VoipBuster • www.voipbuster.com Headers: Phone to PC, PC to Phone, PC to PC VoipBuster will give you your own phone number so that you can receive calls from regular phones onto your PC. In addition phone calls to many countries (not including the UK) around the world are also free - see rates for details. PC to PC calls are free with other VoipBuster users. Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger) • http://get.live.com/messenger/overview Messenger allows you to send instant messages to people who also have Messenger installed plus you can now use it for video and audio chat. Easy to use - just right click on the contact you want to talk to. You can also access your Hotmail account from the Messenger interface plus create your own Windows Live Space which you can use to set up your own blog/photo album etc. Messenger also incorporates a dialer so that you can make cheap internet phone calls from your computer. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[18]=new Array(0,1,"./index.htm","2009-04-02","26K","Webwatch - including Website of the Day    ","",""," Webwatch - including Website of the Day Home | Monkey Worlds Charlie Charlie RIP, Feb 2009 We were very sad today to learn that Charlie from Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre died on the 8th February. In 1989 Charlie was one of the very first chimpanzees to be rescued by the founder of Monkey World, Jim Cronin, who himself passed away just a little under two years ago. Before his rescue, Charlie had been very badly treated, being both physically and mentally abused. However, the staff of Monkey World changed all that and managed, with care and dedication, to get him back to something approaching good, if not perfect, physical and mental health. His life at Monkey World over the last 20 years has been testament to the great work carried out by all the staff there. However, over the past couple of years, Charlie had been slowing down quite a lot and sadly his condition worsened over the last week or so. Although vets John Lewis and Mike Nathan did everything they could, unfortunately, Charlie died. His age is not known exactly but he is thought to have been around 25. 10/02/09 Elephant Art Oh My God! Isnt the web wonderful? We just came across a video of an elephant painting - yes really painting! Amazing. And if you dont believe it just watch this video There are more videos here Page Turners British Library turn over a new leaf The British Library have got a great new gizmo on their site. With it you can get access to rare books including Jane Austens early handwritten works and the original illustrated and handwritten Alice in Wonderland. There are over 10 already with more to follow. Using the Shockwave software, which is a free download, you can browse these books with your mouse - turning the pages almost like a real book. There are plans to increase the selection and also the Libary is going to let other museums use the software. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html Videos to pour over Videos Galore Video Jug is a site just packed full of useful videos Its got everything from how to fold a T-Shirt in 2 seconds ... to how to drive green. From how to make orange cake ... to how to make pepper jump. You can also start a discussion of your own and ask or answer a question. You can browse for subjects or just use the search box. Whatever you are interested in there will probably be something on Video Jug about it. There is a vast array of stuff and its all great quality. Tip: If you type Stephen Fry then you will find a series of interesting interviews with him. http://www.videojug.com Disc World? The flat Earth myth I see there is a new advert on TV at the moment implying (yet again) that people in the middle ages thought the Earth was flat. Not true! This old chestnut has been well and truly debunked for many years now but it looks like it wont go away. The myth seems to have gotten into general circulation after being aired in the 1820s in a story by Washington Irving about Christopher Columbus. It seems that, contrary to what Washington Irving wrote, the big debate at the time of Columbus was not whether the Earth was flat but rather what the size of it was. And further, there is no evidence to suggest that anyone thought it was anything other than round! Read more here http://www.bede.org.uk/flatearth.htm Hey Diddle Diddle Does the Earth have two moons!? Watching a repeat of QI the other night we were astonished to discover that, according to Stephen Fry, the Earth has not one but 2 moons! The second moon, a 5km wide lump of rock, was identified as Cruithne (Celtic: another name for the Picts and pronounced something like krooee-nyuh). Looking further into this we discovered that Cruithne is not a second moon but a near Earth asteroid (named asteroid 3753 in 1986 when it was first discovered). Is it a second moon? Well, Cruithne does not orbit the earth in the same way as our moon, but rather is co-orbital to it which means it shares the Earths orbit but does not actually orbit the earth itself. So no, it isnt actually a second moon and whats more there are more of these co-orbital near Earth asteroids out there! To learn more visit www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/3753/3753.html, which is written by Paul Wieger one of the scientists who worked out the mechanics of Cruithnes orbit in 1997. For some great animations (the text is a bit dense) scroll down to the bottom of the page and look under MPEG movies. Impress with your Geography Fun way to learn Geography Lets face it, all schoolwork is dull but Geography seemed to me to be the capital of dullsville. But if you want to make up for an embarassing lack of knowlege of where the latest war is on the news, or just want to shine in quizzes check out Trivia Plaza. Its full of fun quizzes and is guaranteed to improve your knowlege of capitals, rivers, mountains, countries and why not be a respected flag expert amoung your friends? And there are plenty more on Free online Geography games page. Articles and Reviews Easytorecall articles and reviews, including UK shopping articles Click here for a full run down. Free Stuff The web is full of free stuff! We list free stuff from free software to free dating, with more being added constantly. Click here for a full run down. Periodic Table Game Do you know the Periodic Table? Brush up your knowledge with our fun game - learn and play at the same time! Click here for a full run down. Kings & Queens of England Game Do you know the Kings and Queens of England? Brush up with our fun game - learn and play at the same time! Click here to play Prime Ministers of Britain Game Do you know the Prime Ministers of Britain? Brush up with our fun game - learn and play at the same time! Click here to play Great Art Games Brush up your knowledge of the great artists with our fun game - learn and play at the same time! Piece together some of the greatest art in the world. Improve your memory and have fun playing our great art memory matching game. Website of the Day Every day we feature a different website. We also have an archive of previous websites of the day. Website of the Day Who are we? etr Web Design Stroud Gloucestershire 01453 750891 Easytorecall Webwatch is a regular weblog searching the Web for great new sites. We also feature articles and reviews on all aspects of the web. Latest Webzine Articles We also run The Easytorecall Web Directory. Useful Links: Virtual Maxs Cafe For great applets and scripts. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[19]=new Array(0,1,"./how_well_do_you_know_your_world.htm","2009-04-02","11K","How well do you know your world? - An online geography game from Travelpod    ","mastermind, online geography games    ","How well do you know your world, geography game    "," How well do you know your world? - An online geography game from Travelpod Home | How well do you know your world? A game from Travelpod This Traveler IQ challenge compares your geographical knowledge against the Worlds First Travel Blogs other 3,136,799 travelers who have taken this challenge as of Thursday, October 02, 2008 at 09:55PM GMT. (TravelPod is a member of the TripAdvisor Media Network) Online geography game from Travelpod TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[20]=new Array(0,1,"./getting_rid_of_spam.htm","2009-04-02","22K","Getting Rid of Spam - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, spam email    ","Advice on how to get rid of spam email using Outlook Express    "," Getting Rid of Spam - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Spyware and Getting Rid of Pop-Up Windows Are you fed up with pop-ups? One easy way to get rid of pop-ups is by downloading and installing....... • read full article Getting Rid of Spam Article - recalim your inbox! Spam Spam Spam - If you are having problems with spam then there are a number of ways to beat it. Is it possible to have a spam-free e-mail address? Yes! I had one for years with absolutely no spam. Then stupidly I gave it out on a competition website, something I had never done before. Now the address is completely ruined with hundreds of spam emails every week. Just from one blunder. I got myself a couple of new email addresses which I protect by following the few simple rules below. Dont give out your e-mail address Unless it is to people you actually want to hear from, of course. There are lots of websites where you are asked to enter your email address. Most of these are respectable and dont pass the address on to spammers, but why take the risk? Also you might be tempted to join mailing lists or post messages. The answer is: Dont use your own email address. You can get free web based email addresses at places like Yahoo! Mail and MSN Hotmail which you can use instead of your private email address. You can also get free POP3 emails which you can use instead of your main address. There is also a great free service we have found that can help to reduce spam: http://mailnull.com. With MailNull, you can give out a separate temporary email address to every company which asks you for one and so keep an eye on who might be selling your email address! Any mail sent to that address will be sent on to your own email address. Another free service is Guerrilla Mail www.guerrillamail.com (yes it is a bit like war!). This company provides disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 minutes. Great if you only intend to use a service once. Dont ever reply to spam emails They will just send you a lot more! Dont expose your email address on the internet This is a big no no. Spammers trawl the web using robots looking for these email addresses and you will be spammed. If you have a website there are several ways to mask your email address. Here are a couple of them. 1. Email obfuscation. There are several places you can do this and the one we like is from Tim Williams. Simply type your email address in the box shown, type in what you want it to say (e.g. email me) and press obfuscate my email address. You then copy and paste the whole of the code into the source code of your html document at the place you want the contact invitation to appear. 2. You can use a graphic of your email address with no email link at all. It is up to your reader to type your email address into their email client. Complain to your ISP Forward any offending emails onto your ISP. Most ISPs have their own anti-spam filtering systems and are always looking to improve performance. You can also register (free) with Spamcop.net and report instances of spamming. Report an email and they send warning information to the ISP responsible for hosting the services used by the spammer. Every little helps. Change Your Email Address If you are inundated with spam at present, then one thing you can do is get a new email address and delete your current one - it depends on how bad your problem is! Before you take this step you could try spam filtering software (See below). Having to change your email address is a nuisance - you have to tell all your contacts, change details on any online accounts you are signed up for like bank, credit cards, Amazon etc., etc. - but it is the only way to become spam free. Email addresses are fairly easy to come by. You will probably find that your ISP allows you to add new ones and delete old ones. If not, you can find one from our list of Free Pop Email Addresses and Free Web Mail Addresses. Spam Filtering Software There are lots of spam filtering programs on the market - type spam filtering program into Google to see several results. One such company is www.spamjab.com which has a system designed specifically to protect families, in particular children, from inappropriate and unsolicited email. It was developed in 2003 by a team of Cambridge email experts with the original aim of protecting children. The service was launched in November of that year and then expanded to support small businesses as well as families. There is no software to download and install; just a simple registration process that takes only 5 minutes. Currently the service is FREE. For small businesses there are a number of options including smtp and pop support. Other free spam filtering software includes MailWasher Free. This particular software will only filter for one email address. It checks your mail on the server before it is actually downloaded to your inbox. SpamPal works in a slightly different way in that it checks your email as you download it to your email software and tags any suspicious emails with a special header, which you can filter out using your normal mail filtering. There are also free online spam blocking services such as the SpamCop DNS-based blocking list. This is an automatic list of sites sending email that has been reported as spam and you canfigure your mailserver to refect mail based on the blocklist. Email Client Settings Most email clients have Message Rules that enable you to filter your incoming mail. Outlook Express settings It is easy to use, all you do is click Tools, then Message Rules and then Mail. Then click the New button and you will get a box come up with 4 sections. In these you can specify various actions you want Outlook Express to take automatically when you get your mail. For instance you can have any email with Viagra in the subject line put straight into the deleted items folder! Lets do that as an example, so in section 1 you would click the box next to the second item named When the Subject line contains specific words, then in section 2 click the box next to the third item named Delete it. Once you have done that, the 3rd section will now have a hyperlink in blue saying contains specific words. Click this hyperlink and type in Viagra and then click the Add button. Then click the OK button and you should find that the next time you get your messages, if Viagra is in the Subject line then it will automatically be shunted into the deleted items folder without even hitting your inbox!. Another useful option is to have emails from specific email addresses placed automatically in a specific folder. To do this click Tools, Message Rules Mail then click the New button as before to get the box come up with the 4 sections. In section 1 this time click the box next to the top item Where the From line contains people. In section 2 click the first item Move it to the specified folder and then you will see 2 blue hyperlinks in section 3. Click the first of these contains people and type in the email address (you can also use the Address book button on the right if they are in that). and click the Add button. Then click the 2nd blue hyperlink in section 3 to choose the folder you want the email moved to. Then click the OK button. Now every email from that person will automatically be place in that folder. There are load of other useful options, for instance you could stop any emails with certain words in the main body of the email etc etc. It is well worth a play with this if you are having problems with spam. I began to realise why spammers misspell names or leave spaces. They sometimes type V iagra with a space so the message gets through but you could always put iagra instead and get rid of those too! After a few days Ive managed to get 90% of my spam straight into the deleted items folder. Thunderbird Settings This is very similar to Outlook Express (see above). Click Tools and then Message Filters. Click New to insert filters. As you can see there are several options such as copy or move to other folders, change priority, set to junk status and so on. The best way to learn how to use this is to play around with it! TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[21]=new Array(0,1,"./free_wysiwyg_web_editors.htm","2009-04-02","25K","Free WYSIWYG Web Editors - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, web buildlers, web editors, WYSIWYG, WYSIWYG Web editors, Web bulding for beginers    ","Listing of free WYSIWYG web editors    "," Free WYSIWYG Web Editors - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free WYSIWYG web editors and other useful free programs for webmaster Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, UK websites Free WYSIWYG web editors and text editors. Plus we have also found an excellent free program that gives you website statistics, an intuitive free FTP program, live website chat software and a really nice DHTML menu builder. We have yet to find a free WYSIWYG web editor that has an inbuilt sitewide search and replace function - although we are still searching! What we have found, however, is a very good free standalone search and replace program that you can use to search and replace hundreds (probably thousands, we havent checked) files in one go. You can use this in conjunction with any of the free editors to give greater functionality. We have listed this program first. BK ReplaceEm www.snapfiles.com Program Type: Search and Replace 100% free text search-and-replace program that can operate on multiple files at once. You can also setup a list of operations to perform. Software is by Custom Fit Software. 572KB Download Nvu www.nvu.com Nvu (thats pronounced N view) is an impressive 100% free open source web authoring software. Its WYSIWYG so you dont have to know html to use it. Here are some of the things it can do: Integrated web file management Enhanced handling of forms, templates, etc. Extensibility which allows advanced users to build their own extensions to Nvu with a dash of JavaScript. Video tutorials on the website. Its available for Windows, Unix and MacOSX. Amaya www.w3.org/Amaya Amaya is an open source project hosted by W3C. Its available for Windows, Unix and MacOSX. Ewisoft Website Builder www.ewisoft.com Free website builder especially for beginners or website content owners, who dont understand HTML and may find other design software are too dificult. Mozilla Suite www.mozilla.org From Netscape. This has a web browser, email client, IRC chat and an HTML editor. Trellian Webpage www.trellian.com/webpage Suitable for both beginners and advanced users. Web Dwarf www.virtualmechanics.com From software developers Virtual Mechanics, WebDwarf is a free wysiwyg web editor with drag and drop editing. Web Weaver EZ www.mcwebsoftware.com Free WYSIWYG Web page editor for Windows. Drag N Drop your images and other items around your Web page.Very easy to use and a breeze even for absolute beginners. Free Text Editors HTML-Kit www.chami.com/html-kit Much more than just a text editor and a must if you want your webpages to achieve full accessibily. HTML Kit is a standards-compliant full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS and other common languages and over 400 plugins available. It features HTML Tidy which allows you to clean up your webpages and is recommended by W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium). Platforms: Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, NT 4, ME, 98 and 95. Alleycode www.alleycode.com Includes a tutorial for beginners plus advanced features such as CSS and optimizer wizards. Crimson Editor www.crimsoneditor.com Program Type: Source Code Web Editor Crimson Editor is a small, fast loading, professional source code editor for Windows. Features of Crimson Editor include: Edit multiple documents, Syntax highlighting, Multi-level undo / redo, Project management, Directory tree view window, Find & Replace, Column mode editing, Natural word wrapping, Spell checker, User tools and macros, Edit remote files directly using built-in FTP client, Print & Print preview Arachnophilia www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/ Program Type: Source Code Web Editor Written in Java so can be used by almost any operating system. Can import a wide variety of file types and convert to HTML. This is not freeware but careware - in order to get your free copy of Arachnophilia the stipulation is that you should stop whining for an hour, a day, a week, your choice. Cant say fairer than that. DHTML Menu Builder Soyouthink DHTML Menu Builder Free Version • www.dhtml-menu-builder.com Program Type: DHTML Menu Builder Professional DHTML pop-up menus. Choose your own fonts and colours. Each menu button can be customised separately. Add icon and pictures. The interface is very simple so making a menu is a breeze. The javascript code is generated automatically. Its also search engine friendly. Soyouthink has several free and paid for software products Platform: Windows FTP Programs Filezilla FTP Program • http://filezilla-project.org This excellent free ftp program has a nicely laid out interface and get the job done very quickly and easily. On the left are your files on the home computer and on the right, the internet. Simply drag and drop or double click and the site is updated. Live Chat Volusion Live Chat • www.volusion.com/livechat_software.asp Program Type: Live Chat Software If you would like to add a chat facility to your website. The software is free and fully customisable. This is a free offering from Volusion who provide (paid for!) ecommerce solutions for businesses. Platform: Windows Skype • www.skype.com Add a Skype Me button on your website, if you have one. You just need to add a small amout of code (Skype will give you this) and when you set your status to Skype Me in Skype itself, the button will also show on your website! Neat! Available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Pocket PC. Google Talk • www.google.com/talk Google Talk Chatback for your website: Chatback allows visitors to your website to chat with you, even if they havent signed up for Google Talk. Simply paste the html code for your google badge (see our non working illustration) into your web page and your visitors can chat with you whenever you are signed into Google Talk. The badge displays your online status. After you have signed up with Google Talk, get your chatback badge by visiting: www.google.com/talk/service/badge/New To use this facility you need to have Google Mail open as the messages are displayed there, but you can minimise the window as you will be alerted by a sound whenever someone initiates a chat. Link Checker Xenus Link Sleuth • http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html Program Type: Free Link Checker Saves a huge amount of time if you have a lot of links to check. Simply type in the url of your website and the program checks all the outgoing links for you and flags up any broken links. You can choose how you want the results to be sorted. Platform: Windows only Website Statistics eWebCounter.com • www.ewebcounter.com Program Type: Free Website Statistics and Web Counter The nice thing about this is that you do not have to have the web counter displayed visibly on your website if you dont think it will fit in with your design. The stats, which you view online, only track in detail the last 200 visits at any one time, but this is more than enough to get a feel for where your visitors are coming from and what they are doing on your website. The stats are detailed and very to access and implement, plus you can track more than one website. Statistics include page activity, visitor activity, referral activity, user information and who is on your website in real time. The free account offers 150,000 page views, per month and a maximum of 5 projects (tracked websites) but full details are included. If you want more page views and a bigger log size, you can always upgrade to one of their paid options. Google Sitemap Generator Vigos Gsitemap • www.vigos.com Program Type: Google Sitemap Generator for Windows If you want to submit a sitemap to Google sitemaps then this software will generate one easily and quickly for you. TIP: Do you want to find out who is linking to your site? You could try Google. Type in link:www.yoursite.com in the search box . This will bring up links to your home page so if you want to find out about a specific page, just type in the specific address. Or you could go to Yahoo and type in linkdomain:yoursite.com leaving out the www. Note that not all links to your site may be shown because linking sites might not yet have been indexed by Google or Yahoo. Google Rankings To find out what position you are in Google for any particular search term go to googlerankings.com. Type the search term you are interested in and hold your breath! TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[22]=new Array(0,1,"./free_web_space.htm","2009-04-02","15K","Free Web Space - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free web space, web space    ","Reviews and ratings of websites offering free web space    "," Free Web Space - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Web Space Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites 100% Free Webspace Good-Host www.good-host.com Ad supported free hosting with 300MB web space and a monthly bandwidth of 30GB. The package includes a free domain (or use your own) and subdomains. Three MySQL databases, FTP access, PHP, Perl, SSI, MySQL, Cron. Your own control panel plus you can install automatically a variety of software for creating blogs, content management, discussion boards, e-commerce, image galleries, mailing lists and more. Plus over 60 website templates to alter to your own needs. Free-Space www.free-space.net Premium and free hosting plans available. There are 2 free hosting plans. The ad free one allows you 200MB of ad free space plus 2GB monthly transfer allowance, web control panel (cPanel) and FTP access. You can use your registered domain or choose a free subdomain. The web space supports HTML PHP CGI Perl MySQL and there are 5 Email accounts. You can use your own web editor to build and edit your website or you can use their online web editor rvSiteBuilder. The enhanced free package has ads but you get 500MB of web space, 5GB bandwidth, 2 mysql databases and 1 addon domain. Digital Arts www.digitalartsuk.com Several hosting plans. The free one allows you 150MB of space plus unlimited POP3 email addresses but you do have to carry Google advertsing. MySQL, Perl and PHP supported. Free Virtual Servers www.freevirtualservers.com Again, lots of hosting packages on offer. The free one gives you 100MB space, POP3 email plus many more features including a website builder. No adverts. Lycos Tripod www.tripod.lycos.co.uk You can get 50MB of web space free here plus you have the use of their WebBuilder software, WebFTP and, for adanced users, the Tripod PHP4U service. There are tutorials, add-ons, scripts, forums and statistics. Synthasite www.synthasite.com You can start building your free website straight away - no downloads, you do it all from your browser. Your domain name will look something like this: http://yourname.synthasite.com/ There are links to Synthasite and Free CSS Templates at the bottom of each page but other than that there seems to be no advertising at all. 2ip www.2ip.com/index 100MB of free webspace plus site creation tools, free guest book, forum, forms and statistics. Full FTP access. No adverts. It does not support advanced hosting solutions such as Perl or PHP. Site creation tools included. Buy domain name and get free webspace Afmu www.afmu.com Several hosting plans, including a FREE hosting plan if you buy your domain name from them. 100MB web space with many add on including stats, PHP and more. Also there are no advertisments placed on your site. Pretty good deal! TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[23]=new Array(0,1,"./free_web_email.htm","2009-04-02","14K","Free Webmail - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free email address, free webmail    ","Reviews and ratings of websites offering free webmail    "," Free Webmail - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address www.guerrillamail.com Free Web Based Email Addresses Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites The beauty of a web-based email address is that you can access it from absolutely anywhere in the world, just as long as you have an internet connection. If you are interested in free pop 3 email addresses, click here. Hotmail http://login.live.com Free webmail with 1000Mb of storage space from MSN. If you subscribe to one of the Hotmail premium services (this is pretty cheap at around £15 per year) you can also view your messages from your pop3 email account. Yahoo http://uk.docs.yahoo.com Free webmail. You can also retrieve mail from your pop3 mail accounts through Yahoo mail which means you can get all your email via the web even when you are away from your computer. This service is free, but access to your Yahoo mail via your own computer using POP3 is available only if you upgrade to Yahoo Mail Plus (around 20 per year). Mail.com www.mail.com Free web mail with 100Mb mailbox allowance. Includes free calendarm cards and games etc. Very quick and easy to sign up with nice email addresses such as yourname@mail.com. You can be up and running in a couple of minutes. You can also upgrade to the premium service. AOL https://my.screenname.aol.com Secure mail boxes free from the ISP giant AOL. SoftHome http://www.softhome.net/ Web-based email. 6MB storage and 150 messages. 10MB/month transfer quota. Its free but you will get advertisments to pay for it. It will also expire after 3 moths of disuse. POP3 email is only available to subscribing users. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[24]=new Array(0,1,"./free_website_templates.htm","2009-04-02","16K","Free Website Templates - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, internet services, web building, web sites, web tools, free web templates, website templates, templates, web templates    ","Where to find the best free website templates    "," Free Website Templates - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Website Templates Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites All of the following websites offer 100% free web template designs. Ben Meadowcroft • www.benmeadowcroft.com/webdev/ Headers: CSS Templates Some basic and a couple of not so basic CSS templates. Free CSS Templates • www.free-css-templates.com Headers: CSS Templates Over 200 free CSS templates for use on commercial and not commercial websites. Free Templates Online • www.freetemplatesonline.com Headers: Free Website Templates Very large collection of free templates split up into several categories. Freewebtemplates • www.freewebtemplates.com Headers: Free Website Templates, Free Web Graphics, Desktop Wallpaper, Website Tools Thousands of free web templates plus graphics and backgrounds. Interspire • www.interspire.com Headers: Free Web Templates, Free Newsletter Templates, Free Logo Designs Nice collection of free designs in a variety of styles, suitable for business and personal. Layouts4free • www.layouts4free.com/free-layouts Headers: Free Web Layouts Over 4000 website templates including DHTML layouts, Flash layouts, HTML layouts, XHTML layouts, hi-tech layouts and more! You can also get logos, graphics and wallpapers here, all for free. Mastertemplates • www.mastertemplates.com Headers: Free Website Templates, Free Powerpoint Websites, Free Logo Templates Hundreds of professional templates available free, in a variety of styles. Open Designs • www.opendesigns.org Headers: Designs, Forum, Search, RSS Feed Thousands of free XHTML and CSS web design templates. Open Source Web Design • www.oswd.org Headers: Free Web Design Templates Thousands of professional templates available free. All have been submitted free of charge by members of the web design community for free download. TemplatesBox • www.templatesbox.com Headers: Free Templates, Flash Templates, Premium Templates, Tutorials Free and paid templates for building websites. Large selection of free templates including some of the Flash ones. No registration needed. Subscribers pay an annual fee to get access to all the templates. Zeroweb • www.zeroweb.org Headers: Free Services, Website Layouts, Web Graphics, Clipart Large numbers of free website layouts and templates, clipart, buttons, banners, backgrounds, icons plus an assortment of website tools. Website Development Categories • Webdesign Companies • DIY Websites • Website Templates • Website Templates - Free • Web Hosting & Domains • Web Tools & Resources • Free Web Editors • Free Webspace • Free Clipart • How to Set up a Website TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[25]=new Array(0,1,"./free_wallpapers.htm","2009-04-02","28K","Free Desktop Wallpapers&Screensavers - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free wallpapers, free desktop wallpapers, free screensavers, wallpapers, desktop wallpapers    ","Reviews and Ratings of Websites Offering Free Desktop Wallpapers & Screensavers    "," Free Desktop Wallpapers&Screensavers - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Desktop Wallpapers and Screensavers Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Screensavers • www.screensavers.com Headers: Free Screensavers, Free Wallpapers Huge range of free screensavers and wallpapers. When you download, dont forget to un-check the box for the Starware toolbar - unless of course you want it! It contains a pop-up blocker, weather information, dictionary, Smileytown and highlight. Saver Forge • www.bouffler.freeserve.co.uk/Screensavers.htm Program Type: Free Screensaver Maker This freeware program allows you to make slideshow screensavers of your favourite pictures. Very easy to use. The program will create and install the screensaver for you, all at the same time. Platform: Windows Desktopography http://desk08.customize.org Headers: Free Wallpapers Contributed by designers - there are some pretty stylish wallpapers to choose from here in a wide variety of file sizes. Earth Wallpapers www.earthwallpapers.org Headers: Free Wallpapers Very nice earth images available for download in 9 difference resolutions. Free Wallpapers www.freewallpapers.to Headers: Free Wallpapers Great selection of wallpapers from puppies to the space shuttle, plus some very good digital art images. The Minds Eyes www.themindseyes.com Headers: Free Wallpapers Large range of wallpapers to suit alll tastes including 3D and fractal pictures. Only the 800x600 sizes are free - to get the larger images you need to subscribe. PC-Wallpapers www.pc-wallpapers.co.uk Headers: Free Desktop Wallpapers Excellent range including art and photographic images. Plus some great user created images! Get you creative juices flowing and get your name in print. All images are downloadable in 1027x768 or 800x600 sizes. You can also have images sent to your mobile. Screensavers-Free www.screensavers-free.co.uk Headers: Free Screensavers Great range of pretty cool (not to mention, free) animated screensavers for download. All screensavers have been animated with flash actionscript. Choose from a variety of themes such as seasonal screensavers, digital art, aquariums and more. All screensavers are virus, spyware and adware checked plus you dont have to worry about additional programs being installed on your computer - you just download the screensaver you want. Very nice. Donate if youre feeling generous. Visual Paradox www.visualparadox.com Headers: Free 3D Desktops Wallpaper Probably my favourite wallpaper website. The images are first class and are available in 3 sizes. Includes photographic and digital images. VladStudio www.vladstudio.com/home Headers: Desktop Wallpapers, Dual Monitor Wallpapers Excellent! All of these wallpapers here are made by Vlad Gerasimov, artist and computer expert. Choose low, high quality or widescreen in 5 different sizes. Plus there is a section for those of you with 2 monitors - you do, however, have to subscribe to get these. JoBlo www.joblo.com Headers: Movie Wallpapers Most of the popular films are represented here. Choose from 3 sizes. For wallpaper newbies (Windows users) There are lots of websites offering free wallpaper for your desktop. These websites are useful in that they generally offer wallpapers in desktop sizes (e.g. 800x600 or 1024x768 pixels) so that the whole of your screen is filled. But whenever you see a picture on the web you would like as a desktop image you can always right click the image to set as a desktop background: Internet Explorer Firefox Firefox gives you the chance to decide whether you want the image to be centred, tiled or stretched. Also, Firefox at this point allows you to change the colour of the background for those cases where the image is smaller than your desktop. Internet Explorer, however, will immediately set the image as the desktop. If you want to alter your desktop settings, right click anywhere on the desktop and choose properties at the bottom of the menu that appears. The Display Properties window appears and from here you can change your screensaver, desktop wallpaper and appearance, amongst other things. If you have never looked at Display Properties before, the best way to see what you can do is to play around with your settings. To change your wallpaper settings, choose the desktop tab and explore to see what happens if you change position and colour. This is also the place to be if you want to browse your computer for any of your own images to set as a desktop. If you dont like the original size of the image you have chosen, or you would like to alter it in any way, then it is possible to change it. There are a couple of ways of doing this fairly easily. One is to use to save option when you right click your image (see above). The other way is to use the copy option. Copy an Image Right click the image in your browser and click copy if you are using Internet Explorer or copy image if you are using Firefox. The image is now on your computers clipboard, which means you can paste the image into any sort of photo editing program you want. If you dont have one we recommend Irfanview which is a free photo viewer and editor, or else see our Free Photo Editing Software page. To paste the image simply left click edit (top left in Irfanview and most photo editors) and choose paste. You can now resize the picture by choosing resize from the Image menu. If you are using Irfanview, you can immediately set it as your desktop background (options - set as wallpaper). Otherwise, click File and then save as. Choose a name for your picture and a destination on your computer. If, like me, you are a bit of a desktop wallpaper - o - phil you might even want to start a folder in which to keep your favourites. The image on the right is one I sometimes use on my own desktop. It is an image I downloaded from St Petersburg Academy of Art Foundation which you can find here: http://academart.com. Save an Image Right click the image in your browser, click save image as (or save picture as if you have Internet Explorer). The Save Image window appears. Navigate to the folder you would like to save the picture in. You will probably want to save it into My Documents. If you do not have a suitable folder, you can make a new one easily by clicking the third icon along at the top of the save image window. Name you folder anything you like. You can then open the image up and resize it using your favourite photo editor. Once you have saved the edited image, you can then set it as a desktop background by using Display Properties as described above. Good places to get desktop sized artwork Manfredi Beninati • http://manfredibeninati.com Headers: Paintings, Collages, Drawings, Sculputures, Etherial artwork from the contemporary Italian artist Manfredi Beninati, sometimes called The painter of dreamland. Beninati was born in 1970 in Palermo, Sicily, and now lives and works in Palermo, Rome and Los Angeles. Academy of Art Foundation, St Petersburg • http://academart.com/ We think that the art here is stunning. If you want to have a look at the work of some of Russias top up and coming artists, head over to the St Petersburg Art Academy. The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci • www.drawingsofleonardo.org Over 50 good sized images of some of Leonardos drawings. Some of them are a bit gruesome - Leonardo was very interested in how the juman body works - but for anyone interested in the works of the great man, this is an excellent resource. Chinese Paintings • www.chinesepaintings.com This website is actually a US gallery with original Chinese paintings and caligraphy artworks for sale. Exquisite artwork by Chinese artists. The image shown on the left is a detail from Longevity Cranes and Lotus by Chinese artist Lou Dahua, who specialises in birds and flowers. Vladimir Kush • www.vladimirkush.com Wonderfull surrealist paintings from Vladimir Kush, the new Salvador Dali (in my view). And not only that, the superb website design alone makes this a worthwhile click. Vladimir Kush was born in 1965 in Russia and produces paintings and sculptures. The painting shown on the left is called African Sonata. Musical Iconography• www.greatbassviol.com/iconography.html Very large number of high resolution images of paintings featuring musical instruments from artists through the centuries. You can browse the artist A-Z. Joseph Lorusson • www.josephlorussofineart.com Fine art from American painter Joseph Lorusso, whose style is vaguely reminiscent of Hopper. You can enjoy Lorussos paintings online as well as buy an original. The images are also big enough to use as wallpapers. Make your own screensavers If you would like to create your own slideshow screensavers, we recommend SaverForge, a freeware program for windows. You can download it here: http://www.bouffler.freeserve.co.uk/Screensavers.htm. This program is extremely simple to use. Just add your favourite pictures (you can put them into a folder first and select the whole folder if you like) and then save your screensaver. Then click on the icon (second from last on the right hand side) that will create an installation file which you can access from your screensaver window*. You will be asked for the location of the screensaver you want to create an installation file for - just navigate to the screensaver you saved. * Right click anywhere on the desktop and click properties; then click screensaver and look at the drop down box. Navigate to you new screensaver. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[26]=new Array(0,1,"./free_translation_services.htm","2009-04-02","14K","Free Computer Translation Services - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, translation services, free translation services, computer generatied translation    ","A round up of the best free translation services    "," Free Computer Translation Services - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Computer Translation Services Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites These are fineif you just want the jist of a message, but do not rely on them for a perfect translation! - If thats what you are looking for you need to pay - see a list of companies offering human translation services on our translation services page. As a bit of fun, we put the following French passage into the 3 best free translators we could find. The results, which you can see below, were not bad! Not sure how they would manage with technical documents though ... Il y avait une fois des jumeaux qui sappelaient Gaston et Georges. Les deux garçons aimaient à jouer près de la forêt où demeuraient beaucoup de bohémiens. Les parents des jumeaux leur disaient de ne pas aller trop loin de la maison, car les garçons navaient que neuf ans. Cependant, un jour un jeune bohémien sapprocha de la maison où demeuraient les jumeaux, Gaston et Georges Mousse. (If you want to input French characters into your computer, go here) Promt-Online http://translation2.paralink.com There were once the twins who were called Gaston and George. Both boys liked to play near the forest where resided many tramps. The parents of the twins told them not to go too much far from the home, because the boys were only nine years old. However, one day a young tramp went up to the home where resided the twins, Gaston and George Mousse. Gogle Language Tools http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en There were once twins who were called Gaston and George. The two boys liked to play close to the forest where remained much of gipsies. The parents of the twins said to them not to go too much far from the house, because the boys were only nine years old. However, one day a young gipsy approached the house where remained the twins, Gaston and George Mousse. Wordlingo www.worldlingo.com There was once of the twins who were called Gaston and George. The two boys liked to play close to the forest where remained much of gipsies. The parents of the twins said to them not to go too much far from the house, because the boys were only nine years old. However, one day a young gipsy approached the house where remained the twins, Gaston and George Foam. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[27]=new Array(0,1,"./free_stuff_on_the_web.htm","2009-04-02","18K","Free Stuff on the Web - Easytorecall Webzine    ","free stuff, free clipart, free competitions, free cookery tutorials, free dating, free desktop weather, free e-cards, free internet phone calls, free lotteries, free online games, free POP3 email, free quizzes, free recipes, free screensavers, free software, free trials, free web space    ","Reviews and ratings of websites offering free services and products    "," Free Stuff on the Web - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Free games, free clip art, free competitions, free dating, free iq tests, free software • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Stuff on the Web Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Yep. Its all free! No tricks. You might want to take a particular look at the free software pages - we list free programs to rival the likes of Photoshop, Word, Norton and many more. Catalogues Clip Art Competitions Cookery Tutorials Dating Desktop Weather Programs e-cards Education Email - POP 3 Email - Web-based Fonts Internet Phone Calls IQ Tests Lotteries Magic Tricks Online Games Online Surveys Photographic Images Recipes Screensavers & Wallpapers Software Translation Services (Computer) Web Space WYSIWYG Web Editors Website Templates CBFSMS • www.cbfsms.com/ Headers: Free SMS Text Messaging for the UK Great service. Just type in your message and the UK mobile phone number and click Send SMS! That simple. RSPB • www.rspb.org.uk Headers: Advice, Birds & Wildlife, Reserves, Shop The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is a wildlife conservation charity founded in 1889. Part of its aim is to protect and restore important wildlife areas across the UK. At present there are over 150 RSPB reserves in the UK covering more than 240,000 acres. Each reserve is described with details of opening times and charges. The site contains an A-Z of UK birds with images, descriptions and habits. If you are new to birdwatching, there is also a section on watching birds, which contains useful tips and advice. Membership of the society is £34 per year for one adult or £44 per year for 2 adults. Family membership is £50. Youngsters under 16 might also be interested in the RSPBs Free Wildlife Fun Book - plus there are lots of other, free, online, activities such as games, competitions and educational articles. Readymechs http://readymech.com Readymechs from Fwis, a US graphic design company, are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an 8.5x11 page and printed with any printer. You’ll need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build time. Each one is a pdf download and there are around 20 designs to choose from. Drawspace http://dev.drawspace.com Humoungus number of drawing lessons (the sort you need a pencil and paintbrushes for!) that you can either view online or download. And whats more they are free! All you have to do to get your hands on them is to register (free) which also allows you to participate in the forums. All lessons are created by Brenda Hoddinott who, in her own words, is a self-educated portraitist, visual artist, forensic artist, illustrator, art educator and author. Fantastic resource. Free Money! Do you like social networking? Then Make Money On Yuwie. Yuwie is a social networking site where you get paid to hangout on the internet with your friends, post blogs, share your favorite pictures and much more! Recommended Free Stuff Websites Webweaver • www.webweaver.nu Headers: Free Website Tools and Clipart Free & low cost stuff for web your website, HTML Tips and Tricks, as well as a large clipart archive! PaysYou.co.uk • www.paysyou.co.uk UK Freebies, free stuff and discounts on the Internet. This site will provide you with links to free money, free gifts, free music, free gadgets, free mobiles, discounts, vouchers plus much more. Updated Weekly. Pays You - The best UK freebies, free stuff and discounts at the click of your mouse. Updated weekly TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Free games, free clip art, free competitions, free dating, free iq tests, free software     ");
array_files[28]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_vector_graphics_programs.htm","2009-04-02","13K","Freeware Vector Graphics Software - Easytorecall Webzine    ","Freeware Vector Graphics Software    ","Listing of the Best Free Vector Graphics Software    "," Freeware Vector Graphics Software - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Freeware Vector Graphics Software • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Free Vector Graphics Software Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Inkscape • www.inkscape.org Program Type: Vector Graphics Editor Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, and can much the same as Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X Serif DrawPlus4 • http://www.freeserifsoftware.com Program Type: Graphic Design and Vector Drawing Very good free program that will work with Serif 3D Plus. All you need to do to get this is to register with Serif to recieve their weekly newsletter. Lots of wizards make this a great program for beginners. If you like the package you can, for a minimal sum, upgrade to DrawPlus6 which is an enhanced version of DrawPlus4. Tutorials available on site. Platforms: Windows Back To Free Software Main Index Back to Free Graphics Software Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Freeware Vector Graphics Software     ");
array_files[29]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_utilities.htm","2009-04-02","18K","Free Software - Utilities - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free, free software    ","Listing of the best free software    "," Free Software - Utilities - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Free Software - Utilities Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites for Zip programs, PDF readers and Screen Capture utility, Streaming video software Tugzip • www.tugzip.com Why on earth would anyone want to pay around £20 for a zip program? This one is absolutely free and will extract and archive your files as quick as you like. Very easy to use. Excellent. Supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives. Supports BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and NRG disc-images. Platform: Windows Zipitfast! • www.zipitfast.com Zipitfast! is the second free zip program we have chosen to feature. It, too, will extract and archive your files. And it is also absolutely free. Personally I prefer the Tugzip environment but its all a matter of taste and you can change the skins on this program. Also very easy to use. ZipItFast! supports virtually all compression formats including Zip, Exe, Tar, Cab, gZip, Lha, Ace, Rar and over 20 additional formats. Platform: Windows 7Zip File Manager • www.7-zip.org 7Zip is an open source program that allows you to archive and extract files. It is also a file manager which means you can use it to copy move and delete files and folders. Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS. Platform: Windows Free Download Manager • www.freedownloadmanager.org Program Type: Download Manager This program allows you to download video from sites such as You Tube and Google Video; it increases download speeds and it has an upload manager. The program is open source. Platform: Windows Foxit Reader • www.foxitsoftware.com If you do not have a pdf reader, we recommend Foxit Reader, a free pdf reader which runs on most Windows platforms and which is very fast. It runs instantly without any installation. Adobe Reader • www.adobe.com Alternatively you can download Adobe Reader, also free but rather slow and clunky, but which will run on Windows, Mac, Linux, Palm and mobiles. Screen Hunter 5 Free • http://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm Program Type: Screen Capture The makers, Wisdom Soft, offers 3 versions of Screen Hunter. The free version allows you to capture full screen, active window and rectancular area. It will also show the mouse pointer if you want it to. Cam Studio • http://camstudio.org Program Type: Streaming Video Software Free open source streaming video software that will enable you to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files. It also has a built-in SWF Producer that can turn the AVIs into streaming Flash videos (SWFs). Use it to create video demos and tutorials or to record problems you might be having with your computer (for the tech support people who, lets face it, think the rest of us are complete idiots and dont believe a word we say!) Wink • www.debugmode.com/wink Program Type: Tutorial & Presentation Creation Allows you to create tutorials and presentations using screenshots. Features: Audio: Record voice as you create the tutorial for explaining better. Input formats: Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats. Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals. Multilingual support: Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese. Smart Capture Tools: Capture screenshots automatically as you use your PC, based on mouse and keyboard input Performance/Quality: Creates highly compressed Flash presentations (few kbs to few hundreds of kbs, much smaller than competing commercial products) ideal for using on the web. Platforms: Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only). Back To Free Software Main Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[30]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_security_cleaning.htm","2009-04-02","23K","Free Software - Cleaning and Security - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free, free software, free spyware removers    ","Listing of the best free software    "," Free Software - Cleaning and Security - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Free Software - Security and Cleaning Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites CCCleaner • www.ccleaner.com This is an excellent freeware cleaner for windows. It will do all the usual things - clean up the registry, remove temporary files, recycle bin etc and will also clean out IE, Firefox and Opera files that you dont want. Very good. This is freeware but if you decide to donate (optional) you will be emailed all new releases before they are available on the site. Platform: Windows WinPatrol • www.winpatrol.com WinPatrol detects new programs loaded onto your computer and asks you if you want to accept the program or not. It is a great means of defence against backdoor programs - programs that install themselves on your computer without your knowledge. You can also check through your existing start up programs to see if you want to keep them or not. Ultra Defragementer • http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net Very fast open source defragmenter for windows. And very easy to use. Platforms: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003,Windows Vista and all of the 64-bit editions of Windows. AVG Anti Virus Free Edition • http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 AVG Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single-home computer use only. The free edition gives you anti-virus scanning engine, automatic virus updates and automatic internet detection. This free edition is funded by AVG Pro. See also the AVG Anti-Rootkit Free and AVG Anti-Spyware Free Comodo Antivirus • http://antivirus.comodo.com 100% free antivirus programl with free updates. Includes on demand and on access scanning, email scanning, process monitoring, worm blocking and host intrusion prevention. Comodo is a leading IT company with offices in the US, UK, Ukrain and India. Platform: Windows Click here to see all Comodo free products: Comodo Firewall Comodo Verification Engine Comodo Anti-Malware Comodo AntiSpam Comodo AntiVirus Comodo iVault Comodo BackUp Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Classic • www.free-av.com Free anti virus protection for private use only. Avira offers three anti virus solutions. The free edition offers the following features: Protection against viruses, worms and Trojans Protection against expensive dialers and phishing Detects and deletes rootkits Platform: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris Avast! 4 Home Edition • www.avast.com Free anti-spyware & anti-rootkit for Windows (private use only) Avast! offers several anti virus products and the Home Edition is free for non commercial use. Updates are automatic. Available in over 30 language versions. Platform: Windows Comodo • www.personalfirewall.comodo.com 100% free firewall with free updates. They also show plenty of tests that it has passed plus it has won awards from the likes of PC Magazine. Platform: Windows Click here to see all Comodo free products: Comodo Firewall Comodo Verification Engine Comodo Anti-Malware Comodo AntiSpam Comodo AntiVirus Comodo iVault Comodo BackUp Ad-Aware • www.lavasoftusa.com Ad-aware Standard Edition is a free program from Lavasoft that scans your system for tracking components, i.e. spyware, and gives you the option of removing it. You can download Ad-aware, either by clicking the Download.com link on Lavasoft, or by going there directly from here. Unless you go for one of Lavasofts paid packages, do remember to scan your computer regularly for spyware and also to update Ad-aware. Its free, so why not? Platforms: Windows Spybot - Search & Destroy • www.spybot.info Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer, including adware and spyware, dialers, keyloggers and trojan. Amongst many other features, it can also remove usage tracks. Free, but please donate it you can. Platforms: Most windows operating systems. Linux and Mac not supported. Sandboxie • www.sandboxie.com Sandboxie is different from Adaware or Spybot in that it creates a sandbox, a temporary storage area. Any information that would normally be written to the hard disk ges written instead to the sandbox and never makes it to the hard disk. Not useful for many programs you use, but great to run the program with a web browser because you can be sure that a website cannot write any unsolicited directly to your hard disk. Fast download and quick install. Sandboxie is free but if you like it why not register your copy for a small fee? Even software developers have to eat! ZoneAlarm • http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp Program Type: Firewall Zone Labs do several firewall and anti virus programs. The free one (just called Zonealarm) is a basic protection from hackers, making your computer invisible on the net. ZoneAlarm is free for individual and not-for-profit charitable entity use (excluding governmental entities and educational institutions). Platform: Windows Fresh Devices • www.freshdevices.com There are 4 free programs on offer from Fresh Devices: Fresh Download which is a download manager Fresh Diagnose, a diagnostic utility that can analyse and benchmark you system Fresh UI, a tweaking tools for optimising windows Fresh View is a multimedia bowser that allows you to orgainize all your media files. Free for personal/private use. Abexo Free Registry Cleaner • www.abexo.com Program Type: Registry Cleaner This is the lite version of Abexos Registry Cleaner. It can back up your registry, clean the resistry. You can also restore from any of the backups you make. Eusing Free Registry Cleaner • www.eusing.com Program Type: Registry Cleaner Clean and repair your registry quickly and easily. This is freeware but they would appreciate a donation. RegSeeker • www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm Program Type: Registry Cleaner Registry cleaner plus you can display various information such as startup entries, several histories, installed applications and more. You can also search for any item inside your registry, export/delete the results, open them in the registry - this last feature is very useful and enabled me finally to get rid of an incredibly irritating program (Jyve) that simply would not go away! This program is part of a suite of freeware programs from the makers of Hoverdesk. MailWasher Free • www.mailwasher.net Program Type: Free Anti Spam Software A free spam filter for email. This particular software will only filter for one email address. It checks your mail on the server before it is actually downloaded. Install, enter your email settings and download. You can then begin to teach it what is spam and what is not. The emails that are given the green light are sent to your inbox. SpamPal • www.spampal.org Program Type: Free Anti Spam Software SpamPal works in a slightly different way to Mailwasher in that it checks your email as you download it to your email software and tags any suspicious emails with a special header, which you can filter out using your normal mail filtering. Back To Free Software Main Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[31]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_picture_viewers.htm","2009-04-02","15K","Freeware Picture Viewers Software - Easytorecall Webzine    ","Freeware Picture Viewers Software, Free Picture Viewers    ","Listing of the Best Free Picture Viewers    "," Freeware Picture Viewers Software - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Freeware Picture Viewers • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Freeware Picture Viewers & Editors Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Most of these viewers have some editing capabilities Irfanview • www.irfanview.com Picture Viewer with basic picture editing capabilities. This is a great picture viewer that allows you to view, convert, optimize, scan & print, create slideshows, do batch processing, play movies & sounds plus quite a bit more. Plug ins are also available. XNView • www.xnview.com Prgram Type: Multimedia Viewer, Browser, Converter XNView and Irfanview, are, in my opinion, the best media browsers around at the moment. The best thing to do is download both and see which layout you prefer. Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and others Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition • http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/starter.html Program Type: Photo Editing/Picture Viewer Basic editing for your digital photos. You can fix common photo flaws such as red eye, color, and brightness, attach photos to e-mail, or send them to mobile phones. Order prints online. The downside with this program is that its clunky and not great if you have a lot of images. Also the program tends to push you to ordering online services which can be annoying if all you want to do is organise your images. Plus I really dont like the way it made itself the default viewer without asking! Platform: Windows Picasa • http://picasa.google.com Program Type: Picture Viewer and Editor This is a very professional looking viewer that also allows you to edit your photos. But I have to say I just dont like it, and have only included it because a family member raves over it! It cant seem to show all the pictures on my hard drive, no matter how hard I try to tweak the settings, plus I find it a little cumbersome to use. This is probably more useful for people who dont have large numbers of images on their computer. I would definitely recomend Irfanview over this. Back To Free Software Main Index Back to Free Graphics Software Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Freeware Picture Viewers     ");
array_files[32]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_photo_editing.htm","2009-04-02","21K","Freeware Photo Editing Software - Easytorecall Webzine    ","Freeware Photo Editing Software, Free Photo Editing Programs    ","Listing of the Best Free Photo Editing Software    "," Freeware Photo Editing Software - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Freeware Photo Editing Software • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Freeware Photo Editing Software Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites GIMP • www.gimp.org Program Type: Image Manipulation Photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. This is program is comparable to Photoshop. There are tutorials on the website to get you going. When you click on the link above choose either GIMP for Windows, GIMP for MAC or GIMP for UNIX, located about halfway down the page. Find educational and practical resources for the GIMP at Gimp Savvy - http://gimp-savvy.com/index.html. Completely free. This is an open source program. Platforms Supported: UNIX, Windows, Mac OS X Photoscape • www.photoscape.org Program Type: Photo Editing Excellent photo editor with many very nice editing features. The intuitive interface means you can be up and running with this program in no time. And it has quite a lot of other useful features including: Viewer, batch editor, animated GIF maker, splitter, nice screen capture facility, excellent color picker, rename facility and raw converter. Very nice. Platform: Windows PhotoPlus 6 • http://www.freeserifsoftware.com Program Type: Photo Editing and Animation Impressive. Very professional package from Serif - it even includes layers and animation facilites. There are also tutorials that you can download. The program is free but to use you need to register with them. Platform: Windows PhotoFiltre (Free Version) • www.photofiltre.com Program Type: Photo Editing (Look down the left had menu under Freeware for the free version). The layout of this program is a little like Photoshop, but with no layers. On the other hand, you can adjust brightness, contrast, colours, shadows, replace colour, transformations, batch processing, and lots more. Plus many artistic filters. There is even a basic drawing tool palette which includes a clone tool. Very easy to use and fast loading. The paid for version has more features and is not expensive. Plug ins and tutorials available on the website. From the web developer Antonio Da Cruz. Platform: Windows VCW Vicmans Photo Editor • www.vicman.net Program Type: Photo Editing Photo editing with basic painting/drawing capabilites. Transformations such as fish eye effects etc are built in. There are 3 plugins installed but - and this is a great feature - you can very easily import Photoshop plugins to use with this program. Another thing I like about this program is the preview zooming window that allows you to very easily zoom in and out and move easily from one part of an image to another. There is also a very good tutorial that comes with the program. Incidentally, when you download this program you also get the chance to install Web Photo Album which allows you to create photo galleries for the web. Platform: Windows Paint.net • www.getpaint.net Program Type: Photo Editing/Paint Program Despite the name (it started life as a small paint program), this is in fact a photo editing program as well as a paint program, with all the usual photo editing and paint tools, including layers. Fast loading, this is a very easy program to get to grips with. Online community with tutorials and plugins. Platform: Windows Pixia • http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/ Program Type: Paint Program Very nice paint program with many features including layers and masks plus it has photo editing features. The program is completely free and stacks up very well against many paid for paint programs. Tutorials on the website plus more at http://www.angelfire.com/fang/derangedrook/pixiatutorial.html Art Weaver • www.artweaver.de Program Type: Freeware Paint Program Yet another great freeware paint program, with a huge variety of brushes and the ability to create endless variants. Also supports layers plus image adjustment features (hue, saturation etc) and a variety of filters. One useful filter for anyone making a web page is texture:seamless with which you can make images that tile. Also pen tablet support for the real painters out there. If you dont want to pay hundreds of pounds for Corel Painter, then check this out. And having said that, the image adjustment tools are almost good enough to rival those of Photoshop, so as well as being a great paint program, it is also pretty good at photo editing. Platforms: Windows Image Forge • www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html Program Type: Freeware Paint/Photo Editing Program This is the freeware version of Image Forge (there are paid for versions you can upgrade to). Photo editing plus fairly basic paint facilities, although it does alow you to paint with patterns. A nice feature is that you can paint with icons - there are a number already loaded and you can always find more on the web (you are looking for files with extension .icl which you save to the ImageForge folder on lyour computer). You can also use the program to make slide shows. Platforms: Windows Fotosizer • www.fotosizer.com Program Type: Freeware Batch Image Resizing Want to send you digital photos by email? Or share them on the web? Then you probably want to reduce the size of them. This program allows you to do a whole load in one go. Just add a folder, decide on your settings, choose the destination folder and voilla! Platforms: Windows Rename4u • www.kellysoftware.com/software/Rename4u.asp Program Type: Freeware File Renaming Rename a batch of photos in one go. Very useful for digital camera users. Ever looked at a folder of photos from your digital camera and thought I cant be bothered to rename all those? With this program the whole thing can be done in seconds. Platforms: Windows Back To Free Software Main Index Back to Free Graphics Software Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Freeware Photo Editing Software     ");
array_files[33]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_paint_programs.htm","2009-04-02","20K","Freeware Paint Programs - Easytorecall Webzine    ","Freeware Paint Programs    ","Listing of the Best Free Paint Programs    "," Freeware Paint Programs - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Freeware Paint Programs • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Freeware Paint Programs Reviews and ratings of quality freeware paint programs Tux Paint • www.tuxpaint.org Program Type: Drawing Program for Children Ages 3-12 All the usual drawing tools you might find in a drawing program for adults but made easier and more intuitive for children. Plus you can save a picture to the virtual picturebook, view a slideshow, use some of the images included and print. This is open source software and downloads are completely free but you can buy the CD rom if you want. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Other Deep Paint • www.photo-freeware.net/deep-paint.php Program Type: Freeware Paint Program This is the free offering from Right Hemisphere (who also produce pay for graphics software). And its good! There are a huge number of preset paint brushes and if thats not enough you can make your own custom brushes. The image on the right was made just messing aroung with the preset brushes - no painting involved (which is good news for me!). Plus there are many clone brushes which allow you to duplicate parts of an image and clone (either straight or artistic) onto another location or canvas. The program also supports layers. When you install you can plug it directly into photoshop and also save projects as psd files. The interface is fairly simple (you can always check the help screens which are very good) so you can be up and running with this program in no time at all. Excellent. Platforms: Windows Art Weaver • www.artweaver.de Program Type: Freeware Paint Program Yet another great freeware paint program, with a huge variety of brushes and the ability to create endless variants. Also supports layers plus image adjustment features (hue, saturation etc) and a variety of filters. One useful filter for anyone making a web page is texture:seamless with which you can make images that tile. Also pen tablet support for the real painters out there. If you dont want to pay hundreds of pounds for Corel Painter, then check this out. And having said that, the image adjustment tools are almost good enough to rival those of Photoshop, so as well as being a great paint program, it is also pretty good at photo editing. Platforms: Windows My Paint • http://mypaint.intilinux.com Program Type: Paint Program Really nice, no clutter paint program. The interface is very simple and straighforward (no layers) with a large number of preset brushes to get you going. Plus the program allows you to make your own brushes if you want. Canvas size is unlimited and there is support for pressure sensitive tablets. The simplicity of My Paint means it will only open and save .png files - but you can always use something like Gimp to finish off. There is a tutorial on the website. Platforms: Windows, Linux Project Dogwaffle • www.download.com Program Type: Digital Painter Very nice. This is the lite version which allows you to draw, paint and animate on your PC. Even though this is the lite version, there are a lot of features here, with many different brush variants. If you like the program and want more features you can upgrade to the pro version. Platforms: Windows Pixia • http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/ Program Type: Paint Program Very nice paint program with many features including layers and masks plus it has photo editing features. The program is completely free and stacks up very well against many paid for paint programs. Tutorials on the website plus more at http://www.angelfire.com/fang/derangedrook/pixiatutorial.html PS: If you dont see the palettes when you start up the program, go to view and choose settings and then tick all the boxes. ArtRage Free Edition • http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html Program Type: Digital Painter Paint package that lets you paint with oils and pencils and to trace images. As it is the lite version, many of the features available in the full program are turned off. However, you can still get some nice effects within its limitations. Forums on the website. Platforms: Windows, Mac Paint.net • www.getpaint.net Program Type: Photo Editing/Paint Program Despite the name (it started life as a small paint program), this is in fact a photo editing program as well as a paint program, with all the usual photo editing and paint tools, including layers. Fast loading, this is a very easy program to get to grips with. Online community with tutorials and plugins. Platform: Windows Image Forge • www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html Program Type: Freeware Paint/Photo Editing Program This is the freeware version of Image Forge (there are paid for versions you can upgrade to). Photo editing plus fairly basic paint facilities, although it does alow you to paint with patterns. A nice feature is that you can paint with icons - there are a number already loaded and you can always find more on the web (you are looking for files with extension .icl which you save to the ImageForge folder on lyour computer). You can also use the program to make slide shows. Platforms: Windows Back To Free Software Main Index Back to Free Graphics Software Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Freeware Paint Programs     ");
array_files[34]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_office_programs.htm","2009-04-02","24K","Free Software - Office and Accounting Programs - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free, free software    ","Listing of the best free software    "," Free Software - Office and Accounting Programs - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Free Software - Free Office and Accounting Programs Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites. All the programs listed here are 100% free and include free word processing software, free accounting software, free payroll, free pdf readers, free desktop publishers and free online faxes. Open Office • www.openoffice.org Program Type: Office Suite OpenOffice.org is compatible with all other major office suites and inlcudes a very sophisticated word processor (equally as good as Word in most respects and in some cases better), database, spreadsheets, drawing package, presentation package and a maths program. Its hard to believe you can get something this good for nothing! You can, however, contribute time or money to the project (not compulsory). Large 89MB download. The product is free to download, use, and distribute. Platforms Supported: Most Windows OS, Solaris, GNU/Linus, Mac OS AbiWord • www.abisource.com Program Type: Word Processing Program Can read most document types including MS Word docs, WordPerfet, OpenOffice, Rich Text, HTML web pages and more. It doesnt have quite the same capabilities as Open Office, although it comes close. If you just want a basic word processor then choose this one as it is quick to download (5MB) and easy to use. Completely free. This is an open source program. Platforms Supported: Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Win 95 or later, QNX Neutrino, Mac OS TurboCash • www.turbocashuk.com Program Type: Accounting Software Fully-featured open source accounts packages for small businesses. Features: debtors, creditors, general ledger, full stock control, VAT accounting, invoicing, bank reconciliation, trial balance, balance sheet and income statements, full reporting and analysis, as well as mutli-company and multi-user capabilities. The software is a free download but you will have to pay if you want full support or would prefer the CD. Not as user friendly as Sage or Quickbooks but provides all the features needed to operate a set of accounts. Beware this is a massive 81MB download! Platform: Windows, a Linux version is being planned. Winweb • www.winweb.com Program Type: Online Accounting Software Winweb offers online solutions for businesses. Included in there amongst its other, paid for, packages, is its free offering LiveNet with Accounting Software which is for one companies accounts only. Dont forget that you do not download this software - its done online. The free package includes live support, also free of charge. Platform: Not applicable Adminsoft • www.adminsoftware.biz Program Type: Accounting Software The free version of this software is a cut down version of the paid for software on offer at Adminsoft - but you can maintain a set of accounts on it. Although the interface will appear pretty basic to anyone used to Sage or Quickbooks, the program does include sales and purchases ledgers, bank payments and receipts, journals and an asset register. Platform: Windows GnuCash • www.gnucash.org Program Type: Accounting Software Gnu Cash is an open source finance/accounting program. Although this is a nice, easy to use program, we advise starting up some ficticious accounts and then spending time getting used to the way the program works. You can operate as many sets of accounts as you like and there are several templates to choose from, although these can be altered later. The way the program works is fairly simple and operates on the double entry principle - you can edit an account (eg expenses, income etc) and the program will prompt you to enter the equivalent double entry - for example, if you want to enter a payment you have made, you are asked to specify what kind of expense it is. The program has several usefull features such as an online banking connection, budgetting, account reconciliation, recurring transaction and good reporting. Businesses can also use this program as you can enter vendors and customers plus it will generate aging summaries as well as a number of other features useful for business acounts. However, if you do have a business we reckon it is probably better to spend the £100 or so on a program like Sage Instant Accounting which handles things like VAT much more easily. Platforms: GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Also available in several languages. Payroo • www.payroo.com Program Type: UK Payroll Web based payroll for up to 50 employees. The program has the main features you will find in any paid for software including SSP, SMP, automatic tax code updates, BACS payment linkage plus many more. And it is automatically updated with legislative changes. The program is Inland Revenue accredited and you can use it to file your returns online. Online tutorials available. 12Pay • www.12pay.co.uk Program Type: UK Payroll Free HMRC accredited payroll software that you download and use on your own computer. There is an introductory training video that you can download to get going. You can upgrade to a premium version if you want more functionality but even this is still cheaper than the cheapest Sage payroll package. HMRC Employers CD-ROM (UK only) Did you know that the CD-ROM you get from the Inland Revenue can be used to calculate PAYE and NIC? We dont recommend that you use this if you have more than just a few employees as it is a little clunky and slow compared to commercial packages. However, if you have a small business with just one or 2 employees then this will enable you to calculate pay without having either fork out for yearly software upgrade fees or pay someone to work out the wages - the process is fairly simple and anyone can use it whether they have an accounting background or not. You will need to install the CD onto your computer to use the calculators. If you are new to payroll, click on Learning Zone on the main menu and you will be taken through the process step by step. Foxit Reader • www.foxitsoftware.com If you do not have a pdf reader, we recommend Foxit Reader, a free pdf reader which runs on most Windows platforms and which is very fast. It runs instantly without any installation. Adobe Reader • www.adobe.com Alternatively you can download Adobe Reader, also free but rather slow and clunky, but which will run on Windows, Mac, Linux, Palm and mobiles. PagePlus SE • www.freeserifsoftware.com Program Types: Desktop Publishing Sophisticated free desktop publisher from Serif that allows you to create leaflets, brochures, cards etc. All you need to do to get this is to register with Serif to recieve their weekly newsletter. Tutorials available on site. FaxZero • http://faxzero.com Program Type: Online Fax Send a fax for free to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada only. Select a .doc or .pdf file or simply enter text. The free version includes ads on the cover sheet. ReplaceEm www.snapfiles.com Program Type: Search and Replace 100% free text search-and-replace program that can operate on multiple files at once. You can also setup a list of operations to perform. Software is by Custom Fit Software. 572KB Download AutoHotkey • www.autohotkey.com Program Type: Macro Utility Excellent free, open source utility that allows you to get out of performing repetitive computer tasks using shortcut keystokes and mouse clicks. Features: Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing btw can automatically produce by the way. Create custom data-entry forms. Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script. Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities. Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that dont have AutoHotkey installed. Tutorials available on the website. Platform: Windows PDF Creator • www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator Program Type: Open source PDF Creator Create PDF documents from any program that is able to print. Also you can create PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS and EPS files. And you can merge multiple files into one folder. Unfortunately (and this is a common problem with free PDF makers) hyperlinks do not work in the generated PDF documents - you can get around this by installing PDF-T-Maker (choose help and search for hyperlink for details). This program installs itself into Word and from the Word toolbar you should be able to create a postscript file (.ps) of your document which will work with PDF Creator. However, I couldnt get it to work! You have to specify a default postcript printer, in this case PDF Creator, but I just get a runtime error each time I try. Cest la vie. Even more unfortunately, I could get none of the other free pdf makers, such as qvPDF and Free PDF, to even work! So kudos to this one for at least producing something! Platform: Windows Back To Free Software Main Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[35]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_miscellaneous.htm","2009-04-02","16K","Free Software - Miscellaneous - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free, free software    ","Listing of the best free software    "," Free Software - Miscellaneous - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Free Software - Miscellaneous and Hobbies Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Google Earth • http://earth.google.com Program Type: Earth Imaging Bliss!! For areas that are mapped by Google Earth the detail is fantastic. Download this and you will probably spend the next couple of hours just browing around. You can type in an address and it will zoom in there for you. You can also search for schools, parks, restaurants and hotels plus get driving directions. Its a large program and you will need broadband to use it. Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows, Linux Lektora • www.lektora.com Lektora is a free program that allows you to easily download your favourite blogs and RSS feeds in order to build your own virtual newspaper. Lektora installs a button in your browser and will automatically download several feeds, but you can easily add more and delete the ones you dont want. Platforms: Windows, MacOS X, Linux Evolution Software We have found two free pieces of virtual gene pool software: Darwin Pond and Gene Pool. Darwin Pond and Gene Pool are easy enough to install and run. Darwin Pond is a little more sophisticated but we like Gene Pool in that you have the oportunity of segregating the population into halfs and quarters and seeing what happens. Platform: Windows There is also an online applet called the Blind Watchmaker Applet. Just start the applet and leave it running - it takes quite some time. (You do need to keep the browser window open while the applet is running). Fractal Forge • http://sourceforge.net/projects/fractalforge Explore the branches of the Mandelbrot set! Platforms: Windows Periodic Table Classic http://www.freshney.org/education/pt/ Free periodic table software. Very nice indeed. Well recommended. Before 3you 3Know It Lite • www.byki.com Program Type: Free Language Software Choose from over 60 different languages. from Spanish to Afrikaans. This is the lite version which means that they are hoping you will buy the deluxe version - but this is not essential. And the lite version is still pretty good. Platform: Windows, Mac, PocketPC, Palm Saver Forge • www.bouffler.freeserve.co.uk/Screensavers.htm Program Type: Free Screensaver This freeware program allows you to make slideshow screensavers of your favourite pictures. Very easy to use. The program will create and install the screensaver for you, all at the same time. Platform: Windows EZBack-it-up • www.rdcomp.net/ezbackitup Program Type: Back Up Utility Freeware program that allows you to do back up jobs with just a couple of clicks once the job has been set up. Note the author of this software is not updating at present and the last update was 2004. Very good program. Platform: Windows Back To Free Software Main Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[36]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_media_programs.htm","2009-04-02","22K","Free Software - Media Programs - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free, free software    ","Listing of the best free software    "," Free Software - Media Programs - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Free Software - Free Media Software Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Free Download Manager • www.freedownloadmanager.org Program Type: Download Manager This program allows you to download video from sites such as You Tube and Google Video; it increases download speeds and it has an upload manager. The program is open source. Platform: Windows Free Studio Manager • www.dvdvideosoft.com Program Type: Video Converter This is a great tool that includes: YouTube to iPod and PSP Converter Video Dub Audio Dub Video to Flash Converter YouTube to MP3 Converter DVD Decrypter 3GP Video Converter Video Flip and Rotate YouTube Download YouTube Uploader Video to iPod and PSP Converter Video to iPhone Converter Video to MP3 Converter Video to JPG Converter YouTube to iPhone Converte Studio Manager Extract images from video and convert to jpg All of the above are free tools. Program is easy to install and run. Platform: Windows, Mac AVS DVD Player • www.dvdvideosoft.com Program Type: Universal DVD player Also from DVDVideoSoft.com, this is a free universal player that supports the following file types: *.ifo, *.vob, *.avi, *.divx, *.div, *.mp4, *.m4v, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.dat, *.m1v, *.m2v, *.mpe, *.dvr-ms, *.vro, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.3gpp, *.3gp2, *.wmv, *.asf, *.mov, *.qt, *.rm, *.rmvb, *.dv, *.dif, *.flv, *.mkv, *.ogm. Platform: Windows, Mac VideoLAN VLC Media Player • www.videolan.org Program Type: Media Player We like this program very much as often it will play files that other players will not. VLC supports a large number of multimedia formats for most platforms. See website for full details. WavePad www.nch.com.au/wavepad Program Type: Audio Editing Fully featured sound editor for windows that allows you to edit audio files and add effects such as echo and amplification if you want. Supports MP3 and may other file formats. This software is free because, as the developers NCH freely admit, they hope you will upgrade to their bigger and better masters edition! Fair Use www.fairusewizard.com Program Type: DVD to DivX Converter Create movies or backup your DVDs on your computer and convert them to DivX to play on your standalone player. iTunes www.apple.com/itunes Program Type: Music Player iTunes software is a fairly large download - 21MB. During installation, iTunes will offer to find and import your current music collection. Plus you can also play videos. Avid www.avid.com/freedv/ Program Type: DV Editing Avid Free DV is standalone software which includes basic video and audio editing capabilities. Platforms: Windows, Macintosh OS X dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC) www.dbpoweramp.com Program Type: CD Ripper Digitally Rip Audio CDs and compress to a multitude of audio formats plus convert between formats. Platform: Windows Juice • http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net Program Type: Podcast Manager Juices primary purpose is to manage podcasts. It has a built-in directory with thousands of listed podcast feeds. You can listen to scheduled podcasts when ever you like. What it does is it downloads updated podcasts automatically so you can listen when you like. Juice is accessible for blind and visually impaired users (windows version only) plus it is completely free. Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux Real Player http://uk.real.com/player Program Type: Video Player, Music Player The free version of Real Player allows you to download videos from the web and add to your playlist. You can also listen to hundreds on radio stations online (just click Music) including all BBC stations. You can of course use to listen to video and audio clips on your own computer and burn Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Yahoo! Music Jukebox • http://music.yahoo.com Program Type: Music Player Play, rip and burn MP3s and CDs. It also has access to Launchcast Radio which, in addition to featuring dozens of radion stations, allows you to customise your own station! You can even ban all those irritating songs! You can get the free player here (or you can buy the Yahoo! Music Jukebox Plus which has various add ons). Platforms: Windows Daemon Tools • www.daemon-tools.cc Program Type: A virtual cd/dvd-rom optical storage media emulator A what??? Basically it creates a virtual image on your computer (thats the virtual cd/dvd) and by doing so it will open the following types of file: cue/bin, iso, ccd (CloneCD), bwt (Blindwrite), mds (Media Descriptor File), cdi (Discjuggler), nrg (Nero), pdi (Instant CD/DVD), b5t (BlindWrite 5), isz (Compressed ISO images) Also useful if you want to create a backup of any of your original CDs or DVDs. I have to say I was very pleased with this application when I was able to open a file all other zip programs resisted! To use, simply right click on the system tray icon, let your mouse hover where it says Virtual CD/DVD-ROM, do some more hovering over Device 0: and then choose Mount image. A window will open up that allows you to navigate to the file you need to open. Click open. To access the help files, just right click the system tray icon; alternatively use the online forums. Please note that this program is free only for non commercial purposes. Platform: Windows Video DVD Maker Free http://protectedsoft.com Program Type: DVD Maker This is one of the free offerings (See also Final Free Burner) from Protectedsoft software, a commercial company offering a range of media software. It has the following features: Capture video from any video device (DV camera, web camera, TV tuner, etc.) Import any video file (AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV, etc.) Burn to any type of media (CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL, etc.) DVD Video, Video CD, Super Video CD Intuitive user interface 100% freeware - no adware or spyware Platform: Windows Final Burner Free http://protectedsoft.com This is one of the free offerings (See also Video DVD Maker Free) from Protectedsoft software, a commercial company offering a range of media software. It has the following features: Burn Data CD/DVD (CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, etc.) Autorun menu designer Burn Audio CD (Import *.wav; *.mp3; *.ogg; *.mid; *.wma; *.aac; *.mp4; *.m4a; *.xm; *.mod; *.s3m; *.it; *.mtm; *.mo3 audio files.) Burn Video DVD (Import AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV, etc. Capture from Web cam, TV tuner, DV, etc.) Burn ISO images AudioCd Ripper 100% freeware - no adware or spyware Platform: Windows Imgburn www.imgburn.com Program Type: CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray Burner This freeware program has the following modes: • Read - Read a disc to an image file • Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc • Write - Write an image file to a disc • Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct • Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing Platform: Windows, Linux Back To Free Software Main Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[37]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_internet_communications.htm","2009-04-02","23K","Free Software - Internet and Communications - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free, free software    ","Listing of the best free software    "," Free Software - Internet and Communications - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Free Software - Internet and Communications Programs Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites See Also: Internet Telephony Firefox • www.mozilla.com Netscapes 100% free browser and my own particular browser of choice (although I occasionally need to use Internet Explorer to open up certain websites, but not often). There is a bookmark toolbar - which makes life much easier -, tabbed browsing, built in pop up stopper, it blocks viruses and spyware and has a really great find on page facility. There are lots of themes (or skins) available to download so you can make it look how you want. Firefox is generally regarded as more secure than IE. Thunderbird • www.mozilla.com From Netscape and my personal favourite email client. It has spam filters, message search, message rules, junk mail controls. It supports IMAP and POP3 mail as well as HTML. You can easily import your existing email accounts and messages. MozBackup • http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com Mozbackup allows you to back up and restore Firefox and Thunderbird settings, including all your mail and bookmarks. Brilliant. Avant Browser • www.avantbrowser.com 100% free and available in 41 languages. Tabbed browsing plus there is a facility to store all your settings online, which means you can access all your bookmarks from where ever you are. It includes an autofill feature, a pop up blocker and a ad blocker. You can block urls plus you can diaable various web page elements such as images, flash and so on. You can also import bookmarks and RSS feeds from other browsers. Opera • www.opera.com 100% free. Opera used to have a paid and free version with the free version featuring ads. Not so anymore. The free version is ad free and there is no paid veersion. It will handle BitTorrent, has a content blocker whereby you can remove ads or images and you can block pop ups. There is a useful search function which you can customise to include your favourite search engines. Choosing site preferences and you can determine how Opera deals with it - by blocking pop-ups, cookies, content, changing the way it is displayed and what it displays. There is also a feature called Widgets which are small web programs (eg games, feeds, podcasts, weather news and so on) that you can run from your desktop. Voyager www.majorgeeks.com/download630.html Features include: Tabbed browsing that allows you to run multiple web browsing sessions within a single interface. Unique side-bumping navigation feature that allows you to navigate back and forth through web pages as well as switch between multiple web sessions. Built in Google powered multi-language translation feature. Dynamic navigation sidebar for going through your favorite links as well as common internet tasks such as ICQ and email. Special accessibility features such as highlighting tables and hyperlinks. Special filters such as ad filtering, flash ad filtering, dialog filtering, content filtering, and popup filtering. Bookmark management features allow you to add your own custom bookmarks as well as use your existing Internet Explorer favorites to get to your favorite websites fast. Webaroo http://www.webaroo.com Webaroo downloads web packs for you to view offline. Current webpacks available are World News, Wikipedia, World Soccer, Places Platform: Windows Skype • www.skype.com Headers: PC to PC, PC to Phone Want to talk to your friends and family, wherever they are in the world, for free? Well, if all parties have a computer with broadband and Skype installed on it (the program is itself free), you can. (Actually, it will work after a fashion even if one party has dial up - I dont know what happens if both have dial up) Skype currently has 50 million registered users and is growing fast. You can also conference up to 5 parties, send instant messages and share files, although we have found that email is quicker for large files. Skype also offers low cost phone calls to and from landlines. Voicemail (subscription service) will record a message for you if can’t take the call, and allows you to send voice messages between users. You can also use Skype as an instant messenger - in contacts just highlight the person you want to send a message to and then click on the chat icon. Available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Pocket PC. See Internet Telephony for more free PC to PC applications Miranda IM • www.miranda-im.org Open source instant messenger for windows. Very fast and does not need installing and is so small it can fit on a floppy. Lots of plug ins availabe so you can customise to your hearts content! Platform: Windows Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger) • http://get.live.com/messenger/overview Messenger allows you to send instant messages to people who also have Messenger installed plus you can now use it for video and audio chat. Easy to use - just right click on the contact you want to talk to. You can also access your Hotmail account from the Messenger interface plus create your own Windows Live Space which you can use to set up your own blog/photo album etc. Messenger also incorporates a dialer so that you can make cheap internet phone calls from your computer. Tugzip • www.tugzip.com Why on earth would anyone want to pay around £20 for a zip program? This one is absolutely free and will extract and archive your files as quick as you like. Very easy to use. Excellent. Supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives. Supports BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and NRG disc-images. Platform: Windows Zipitfast! • www.zipitfast.com Zipitfast! is the second free zip program we have chosen to feature. It, too, will extract and archive your files. And it is also absolutely free. Personally I prefer the Tugzip environment but its all a matter of taste and you can change the skins on this program. Also very easy to use. ZipItFast! supports virtually all compression formats including Zip, Exe, Tar, Cab, gZip, Lha, Ace, Rar and over 20 additional formats. Platform: Windows 7Zip File Manager • www.7-zip.org 7Zip is an open source program that allows you to archive and extract files. It is also a file manager which means you can use it to copy move and delete files and folders. Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS. Platform: Windows UltraVNC www.uvnc.com Program Type: Remote Control Software UltraVNC (which is licensed under the GNU General Public Licence) is completely free software that allows you to control a PC remotely from another PC, whether you are troubleshooting or just want access to your PC when you are on the move. Platforms: Windows Filezilla FTP Program • http://filezilla-project.org This excellent free ftp program has a nicely laid out interface and get the job done very quickly and easily. On the left are your files on the home computer and on the right, the internet. Simply drag and drop or double click and the site is updated. FaxZero • http://faxzero.com Program Type: Online Fax Send a fax for free to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada only. Select a .doc or .pdf file or simply enter text. The free version includes ads on the cover sheet. Back To Free Software Main Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[38]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_flash_presentation.htm","2009-04-02","15K","Freeware Flash Presentation Software - Easytorecall Webzine    ","Freeware Flash Presentation Software    ","Listing of the Best Free Flash Presentation Software    "," Freeware Flash Presentation Software - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Freeware Flash Presentation Software • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Freeware Flash Presentation Software Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Powerbullet Presenter • http://powerbullet.com Program Type: Flash presentations Really great little program for making flash presentations. And it really is so intuitive to use that you can use this whether you have experience of Flash or not. In their words it is specifically designed for creating multi-page presentations that are commonly used in electronic sales brochures and catalogues, splash screens, slideshows and student projects. There are also forums on the website. Platform: Windows Advanced Effects Maker • www.effectmaker.com Program Type: Flash and Javascript Effects The free edition (there are 2 other paid for options) have 40 free effects that you can use, including scrollers, text effects, slideshows and menus, plus a few other effects such an analogue clock. All the effects are customisable. This program is fairly easy to get to grips with - just click on the help tab and then the user guide to get started. Platforms: Windows, Mac MemoriesOnWeb • www.codejam.com/slideshow/mow.htm Program Type: Free Slideshow Software Very nice, very simple to use and its completely free! Its developed by the same people who make the paid for software MemoriesOnTV. Drag and drop your images into the main pane, choose music (if you want) and then choose the transition effects you like. All thats left is to generate the video and you can also send it up to YouTube at the same time if you want. The video generated is an avi file. If you dont want it in this form we recommend Free Studio Manager from www.dvdvideosoft.com to convert it. Platform: Windows Web Album Maker • www.web-album-maker.com Program Type: Photo Album Generator Another excellent free photo album maker using Flash or html templates (no Flash experience necessary). In fact it couldnt be easier to use. Just add images from your computer, click next, choose a template and then click make! You can just view or upload it straight to your website. Probably not quite so versatile as JAlbum. Platforms: Windows Back To Free Software Main Index Back to Free Graphics Software Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Freeware Flash Presentation Software     ");
array_files[39]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_astronomy.htm","2009-04-02","21K","Free Astronomy Software - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free, free software, free astronomy software    ","Listing of the Best Free Astronomy Software    "," Free Astronomy Software - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Free Software - Astronomy Programs Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Stellarium • http://stellarium.sourceforge.net Prgram Type: Free open source 3D planetarium software. With Stellarium you get realistic skys in real time - what you see is what you see! You can also move the time on or go back. Use the mouse left button to move the view around and click on the icons bottom left to see what the program will do. Features include over 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalogue with information, asterisms and illustrations of the constellations, images of nebulae, realistic Milky Way, very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset, the planets and their satellites. Very good. We would recommend this software to anyone, beginners included. Platforms Supported: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows HNSky • www.hnsky.org/software.htm Prgram Type: Planetarium Program Free planetarium program for windows. There are 2 downloads to choose from, the small 4 MB basic package or the large 40MB basic package. The larger download includes a large TYCHO2 star database, deepsky help file, planetary images and deepsky images. Additional star databases, images and other supplements available to download. Easy to navigate around with this program and you can zoom in and out with ease. Platforms Supported: Windows Skyorb • www.realtech-vr.com/skyorb 3D planetarium and star gazing software. 100% free. Skyorb is one of several free programs from Realtech. Stylish graphics. This is another realistic real time view of the sky. You can move around the sky with the mouse but the movement is a little counter intuitive and also very sensitive. We like the Features of this software: 3D interface, search engine, a large catalogue of stars, planets, moons and updatable comets and asteroids database. Choose to see the actual sky from any point on Earth or from any planet from the solar system. Platforms Supported: Windows, Mac, BeOrb, Others Cartes du Ciel • www.stargazing.net Prgram Type: Planetarium Software Excellent free atronomy software. The program allows you to draw sky maps or just browse the sky on your computer. Full help sections included with the program. Download the complete package and then the later update. Additional catalogues and search indexes are also available for downloading. Platforms Supported: Windows Open Universe • www.openuniverse.org Program Type: Solar System Simulation Solar System simulation in real time. View all the planets, moons etc, move along their paths, follow them and orbit them. The downloaded file comes with its own extractor and you should extract OU to where ever you want the program to reside as there is no installation file. Platforms: Windows, Linux/UNIX Please Note: Firefox will not open the download page - you should use Internet Explorer if you have windows. Star Calc • www.relex.ru/~zalex/main.htm Program Type: Planetarium & Star Mapping View star positions from any geographical location, zoom in and out, choose the brightness threshold for astronomical objects, print off star maps - and more. Click on an item to get information. We are impressed with this freeware program. Its easy to manipulate and fast. Platforms: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP Home Planet www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html Program Type: Astronomy / Space / Satellite-tracking Here are some of the features of Home Planet: An earth map Detailed position and phase data for the Sun and Moon. Positions of planets and a selected asteroid or comet, A sky map Databases of the orbital elements of 5632 asteroids and principal periodic comets A telescope window which can be aimed A horizon window which shows the view toward the horizon at any given azimuth. Object Catalogue allows archiving images, sounds, and tabular data about celestial objects. Chart catalogues Orrery Satellite tracking panel View Earth From panel Satellite database DDE server permits export of real-time Sun, Earth, and Moon information to any DDE client. Computerised telescope pointing Catalogue look-up Observing site selection Animation Time and date can be set to any moment from 4713 B.C. into the distant future. An optional screen saver Platforms: Windows 95/98/Me and NT 4.0/2000/XP Orbiter • http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html Program Type: Space Flight Simulator Launch the Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center to deploy a satellite, rendezvous with the International Space Station or take the futuristic Delta-glider for a tour through the solar system. Beware, it is a 48MB download. Create a folder to unzip the files to - there are a lot of them! Platform: Windows Distant Suns • www.distantsuns.com Program Type: Planetarium As well as the paid for version, you can also download the Distant Suns Special Edition Free Version. Personally I dont like it and much prefer some of the other astronomy programs listed on this page. But there again, what do I know? Im probably not using it properly! The only way to find out if its for you is to download it and have a go. Platform: Windows Mars Simulation Project • http://mars-sim.sourceforge.net Program Type: Mars Simulation Project! Ever wondered what future settlements on Mars might look like? XML configuration files allow the user to modify the simulation properties. Platform: OS independant Night Vision • http://home.att.net Program Type: Planetarium This is a very simple and fast Java program that can display the night sky from any location on earth. You can control the look of the display by choosing colours, fonts and which objects to display. You can also run the program at various speeds. Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux, Other Google Earth • http://earth.google.com Program Type: Earth Imaging To switch between the sky and earth images just click the little button on the top toolbar: Use the mouse to drag the view around the screen. Currently this is fairly basic as astronomy programs go with a simply view of the celestial sphere, but there is lots of information and pictures which you can access just by clicking with the mouse. 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array_files[40]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software_3d_medelling.htm","2009-04-02","22K","Freeware 3d Modelling Software - Easytorecall Webzine    ","Freeware 3d Modelling Software    ","Listing of the Best Free 3d Modelling Software    "," Freeware 3d Modelling Software - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Freeware 3d Modelling Software • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Software Main Index Freeware 3d Modelling / Animation Software Reviews and ratings of the best freeware 3d modelling software Google SketchUp • http://sketchup.google.com Program Type: 3D Graphics Now here is an interesting idea. Use Google SketchUp to create 3D images and you can upload them to the Google Earth 3D warehouse! You dont have to - you can use the program to make your own models and keep them all to yourself if you like. There is a lot of tutorial help for this program and it is fairly simple to use so you can get going immediately. When we tested it we found the program a little unwieldy to use but that was probably down to unfamiliarity and inexperience. Clearly some people have mastered the program pretty well - you can see that from the model shown above of the Luxor Temple by the Eqyptian Tourist Authority. Indeed there seems to be a large community of SketchUp - ers out there! If you want to join in the fun, download the free (fully funtioning) version of SetchUp or you can pay for the pro version (free 8 hour trial but quite expensive to buy). Platforms: Mac OS X and Windows. Albatross 3D • www.ppmodeler.com Program Type: Freeware 3D Modelling Software AKA ppModeler, 100% free. This is a fairly sophisticated 3D modelling program but, as a novice, I didnt get too far because of the dearth of good quality tutorials - there are some on the website (click forum for a list) but you probably need to have some experience with 3D modelling programs (or an awful lot of time) to make too much sense of these or, indeed, the help screens. If anyone knows of a good tutorial, please let us know! ppModeler has the following features: * SDS modeling, with sharp edges * Symmetrical meshes * Blob modeleing, with ellipse, 3D splines, 3D meshes. * 2D/3D curves: mixe of straight lines and splines, Read TTF font, Boolean operations. * Toolboxes on meshes, faces, edges and vertices, texture projection. * Use the mouse and/or the keyboard (numerical values) Platforms: Windows, BeOS, Linux OpenFX • www.openfx.org Program Type: 3D Modelling and Animation Open-Source 3D modeling, animation and rendering suite created by Dr. Stuart Ferguson. Features include a full renderer, morphing, animation and it has plug in capabilities. Large 43MB download. You can find some first class tutorials here: http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/graphics/openfx/ plus you can download a basic version of the OpenFX manual. You can also find help with this program on the Openfx forums plus examples of users work. Platforms: Windows Povray • www.povray.org Program Type: Raytracing Not for the faint hearted! This is a very powerfull 3D modeller and renderer but with this program there is no possibility of creating/inserting 3D objects and moving them around, which is what you get with many other packages. All the modelling is done by code (you work on what are called .pov files) but the quality of the ensuing graphics is superb. The image on the left (a demo that comes with the program) gives an idea of the quality that can be achieved. Beginners will almost certainly want assistance and although there are help screens that come with the program, the best thing to do first, after downloading and installing the program, is to head off Mikes Povray Page where, in addition to his own set of tutorials, you can also find links to the best beginner Povray tutorials on the web and links to Povray tools such as the tree generator POV-Tree. You can also peruse the image galleries there to get inspiration. There is also a pretty impressive insert menu add on to the standard program that you can get from Friedrich Lohhmuller (this link is also on Mikes website). There are several files to download but it is definitely worth it. Platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux. Blender www.blender3d.org Program Type: Freeware 3D Modelling & Animation Sophisticated 3D modeling and animation program. This is a fairly complicated program to use, especially if you are new to 3D modeling, but there are video tutorials available for download as well as tutorials on the website. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Now 3D • http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/ Program Type: 3D Animation and Modelling Like Serif 3D below this is probably the kind of program a beginner might like to use to ease themselves into 3D modelling before embarking on more sophisticated programs like Albatross and OpenFX. Several built in shapes and you can add your own materials and backgrounds. Download the N3D Plugin pack (on the downloads page) and this will allow you to import objects. The tutorials available on site are very good and guide you through the capabilites of the program - there are no help screens but there is a manual you can download. Platform: Windows DesignWorkshop Lite • www.artifice.com/free/dw_lite.html Program Type: Architectural 3D Modelling and Rendering This is a free lite version which means you can upgrade to the more powerful versions of this software (not expensive) if you decide you like this and want more functionality. To get the free download just fill in the registration form and then download both Design Workshop and the tutorials file before you begin the installation. Platforms: Windows and Mac Serif 3D Plus • http://www.freeserifsoftware.com Program Type: 3D Animation and Modelling Fairly basic program but has several built in shapes that you can use. You can add your own materials and backgrounds plus there are the usual tools for lighting and moving etc. It has 3D instant scenes and 3D text effects. Tutorials available on site. Anim8or • www.anim8or.com Program Type: Animation & 3D Modelling Freeware character animation and 3D modeling software which is fairly easy to get the hang of. The software is written by Steven Glanville simply because he loves 3D graphics! Good for him! The download is a small zip file which you need to extract to the folder you want to keep the program in and you will also need to put your own shortcut on the start menu. On the website you will find galleries, movies, tutorials plus active forums and a chat room. Platforms: Windows Microsoft GIF Animator • Download Great little program for creating animated GIFs. Platform: Windows Tales Animator • www.dollysoft.com (If this link does not work you can get it from here: http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/tales-animator.html) Program Type: Animation Software for Children Basic set of characters is provided plus you can create custom characters. Cartoons can be exported as AVI files, DVDs, GIFs or Comics. Platforms: Windows Back To Free Software Main Index Back to Free Graphics Software Index TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Freeware 3d Modelling Software     ");
array_files[41]=new Array(0,1,"./free_software.htm","2009-04-02","20K","Freeware - 100% Free Software - Easytorecall Webzine    ","Freeware, Free Software, Freeware Programs     ","Listing of the best free software    "," Freeware - 100% Free Software - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Freeware - 100% Free Software • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Freeware - 100% Free Software Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Software is pretty expensive these days and if you had to actually buy all the graphics, office, web, security (etc etc) progams you need then it would cost literally thousands of pounds - Photoshop alone would set you back around £500! But luckily you dont need to spend all your hard earned money as there is some great freeware out there that is comparable to the most expensive commercial packages. Many of the programs we feature are Open Source programs - this is software where you can view the source code, alter it and redistribute it if you like. All the Open Source programs we list are free. Some programs we list are just great little programs written by individuals. Some are freeware programs from commercial software companies, such as AVG, who maybe hope that a certain percentage of satisfied takers will go on to buy their paid for products. We dont mind that - they are giving us free programs, after all! This is not a definitive list of freeware programs. We have chosen only what we consider to be the best free software out there on the web. You can see what we think of a particular program by the number of stars it has. And note, all the programs we list are, at the time of writing, 100% freeware, you do not have to pay for it. Some developers may ask for donations - but that is entirely up to you and how generous you are feeling! We are constantly looking for new freeware programs to add to the list, so watch this space! If you are looking for something specific and cannot find it here, we recommend you try www.download.com. Please choose a freeware category from the list below. Miscellaneous and Hobbies Astronomy Software Internet & Communications - Freeware browsers and email clients plus internet telephony, remote control software, FTP and online faxes Security and Cleaning- Protect your computer clean, running efficiently and free from viruses and malware with these handy freeware programs Office and Accounting- free word processing software, free accounting software, free payroll, free pdf readers, free desktop publishers and free online faxes. Graphics - Freeware photo editing, picture viewers & editors, Flash, 3D modelling and animation programs, vector graphics, paint and drawing, panorama stitchers, landscape generator plus a few miscellaneous graphics programs Media- Freeware video/music players, audio editing, DV editing, converters, podcast manager, DVD maker and burners Web Editing - Freeware WYSIWYG and text editors Utilities Freeware - Freeware Zip programs, PDF readers and Screen Capture utility Latest Freeware Software Reviews PhotoFiltre (Free Version) • www.photofiltre.com Program Type: Freeware Photo Editing (Look down the left had menu under Freeware for the free version). The layout of this program is a little like Photoshop, but with no layers. On the other hand, you can adjust brightness, contrast, colours, shadows, replace colour, transformations, batch processing, and lots more. Plus many artistic filters. There is even a basic drawing tool palette which includes a clone tool. Very easy to use and fast loading. The paid for version has more features and is not expensive. Plug ins and tutorials available on the website. From the web developer Antonio Da Cruz. Platform: Windows Paint.net • www.getpaint.net Program Type: Freeware Photo Editing/Paint Program Despite the name (it started life as a small paint program), this is in fact a photo editing program as well as a paint program, with all the usual photo editing and paint tools, including layers. Fast loading, this is a very easy program to get to grips with. Online community with tutorials and plugins. Platform: Windows Advanced Effects Maker • www.effectmaker.com Program Type: Freeware Flash and Javascript Effects The free edition (there are 2 other paid for options) have 40 free effects that you can use, including scrollers, text effects, slideshows and menus, plus a few other effects such an analogue clock. All the effects are customisable. This program is fairly easy to get to grips with - just click on the help tab and then the user guide to get started. Platforms: Windows, Mac My Paint • http://mypaint.intilinux.com Program Type: Freeware Paint Program Really nice, no clutter paint program. The interface is very simple and straighforward (no layers) with a large number of preset brushes to get you going. Plus the program allows you to make your own brushes if you want. Canvas size is unlimited and there is support for pressure sensitive tablets. The simplicity of My Paint means it will only open and save .png files - but you can always use something like Gimp to finish off. There is a tutorial on the website. Platforms: Windows, Linux Evolution Software We have found two free pieces of virtual gene pool software: Darwin Pond and Gene Pool. Darwin Pond and Gene Pool are easy enough to install and run. Darwin Pond is a little more sophisticated but we like Gene Pool in that you have the oportunity of segregating the population into halfs and quarters and seeing what happens. Platform: Windows There is also an online applet called the Blind Watchmaker Applet. Just start the applet and leave it running. (You do need to keep the browser window open while the applet is running). PDF Creator • www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator Program Type: Open source PDF Creator Create PDF documents from any program that is able to print. Also you can create PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS and EPS files. And you can merge multiple files into one folder. Unfortunately (and this is a common problem with free PDF makers) hyperlinks do not work in the generated PDF documents - you can get around this by installing PDF-T-Maker (choose help and search for hyperlink for details). This program installs itself into Word and from the Word toolbar you should be able to create a postscript file (.ps) of your document which will work with PDF Creator. However, I couldnt get it to work! You have to specify a default postcript printer, in this case PDF Creator, but I just get a runtime error each time I try. Cest la vie. Even more unfortunately, I could get none of the other free pdf makers to even work! So kudos to this one for at least producing something! Platform: Windows TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Freeware - 100% Free Software     ");
array_files[42]=new Array(0,1,"./free_quizzes.htm","2009-04-02","22K","Quizzes, Puzzles and Word Games on the Net - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, quizzes, games, prizes, free, sudoku     ","Quizzes with prizes on the net, free draws free lotteries    "," Quizzes, Puzzles and Word Games on the Net - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Quizzes, Puzzles and Word Games - The best websites on the net Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Quizzes and Puzzles Online Mastermind Online Word Games Quizzes and Puzzles A Fun Zone • www.afunzone.com Hundreds of puzzles to play online for free. Includes crosswords, sudoku, word search, brainteasers, word crunch and many more. 43 Plc Quizzes • www.whowantstowina.com Quizzes played against the clock to win prizes. They are all free-to-enter quiz web sites with multiple prizes. Its a fun, fast and interactive experience in an exciting testing environment, where you can pit your wits against the clock. Score 1,000 points and gain entry into many different exciting prize draws. The best entrants will also win cash prizes for topping the leaderboard. You can play as many times as you wish to try and improve your position on the leaderboard. You can interact with the site by adding your own general knowledge, footballing, music, film, sport or formula one questions. If accepted you are then credited with being the questionmaster each time their question appears on the site. FunTrivia • www.funtrivia.com Loads of quizzes on all topics imaginable for all ages plus an active community if you like to chat. You can even create you own fun trivia tournament. There are also game shows, crosswords and an online crossword maker. Great fun. Free to join. Wizard Trivia • www.wizardtrivia.com You can join free to try out the daily quiz and the multiplayer games. The multiplayer game lets you play online against other members or a computer robot. Subcribe and you get access to other features including the Trivia University. Useless Knowledge • www.uselessknowledge.com Its got Trivia, Quotes, Quizzes, History, Useless Facts and More! If you have ever wondered ... What animal has the largest eyes? Why do the stars twinkle? And why are Blue Jeans sewn with Orange thread? Then this is the site for you. It has also got a stack of those infuriating matchstick puzzles. You know the type - move one match to create a square or something. Cryptogram • http://teppo.tv/cryptogram/index.php Great fun. These cryptograms are simple substitution ones. There is a help screen if you havent done any of these before. Tiki the Penguin • http://tiki.oneworld.net Website especially for younger children. Great interactive quizzes, stories and articles, guides and fun stuff. And hosted by a penguin!! There is also a queston and answer page where children can write in and ask questions. Top Word Games Wordsplay www.wordsplay.net This used to be called weboggle. Oys timed boggle online against other players. Compulsive for anyone who likes word games. Daily Sudoku www.dailysudoku.co.uk Daily puzzle. Playable online or print off a copy to complete with your morning coffee. Puzzle Choice www.puzzlechoice.com Free to play interactive and printable. There are crosswords, word search, number puzzles, logic puzzles, quizzes and word play. There is also a section for childrens games. WebSudoku www.websudoku.com Play sudoku online for free. Easy to pretty fiendish! Sudoku Solver www.sudokusolver.co.uk Really stuck? Enter what you have in the grid and get the solution with detailed steps to see how it was done. Puzzlers Cave www.puzzlerscave.com Lots of crossword puzzles to play online or to print. You dont have to register but if you do your (free) membership allows you to save crosswords whilst you are playing. You can also upload crosswords for other puzzlers to play. Plus there is the Puzzlers Cave Crossword Compiler - basic edition is free or you might choose to purchase the pro version. Daily Crossword Puzzles www.bestcrosswords.com Free online crossword puzzles to play in your browser and there are also printable crosswords to do offline. If you register you can submit your scores. Vivi Online Crosswords www.vivi.addr.com Online crosswords from easy to tough. Also has themed crossword puzzles. AMOs Online Crossword Puzzle Dicitonary www.amo.qc.ca/cgi-bin/pub/ODico/dico.out Having trouble with crossword clues? Enter you search string and AMO will give you a list of words that fit the bill. OK, so its cheating! (You can even find any word that matches a specific pattern of letters.) One Across www.oneacross.com Crossword clue search - enter a crossword puzzle clue and either the length of the answer or an answer pattern. Plus there are cryptograms (you can make or solve them), an anagram sover and a dictionary. Nice site. Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker www.varietygames.com/CW You can create crossword puzzles for free and you can view your puzzle and the solution in your browser. Note, they will urge you to buy the pro version of the software, which you may well want to do. Crossword Clue Solver www.crosswordsolver.org If you are really stuck on a crossword, enter the letters you know, specify the word length and the Crossword Solver will give you a list all the possible words. Online Boggle/Wordracer Solver www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/netboggle.pl Basic but fast and it does the job. This one uses the UNIX dictionary. Jumbalaya http://jumbalaya.netfrolic.com This game is really online boggle by another name. You can play either with other people or with the computer. To play in multiplayer games there is a 5 per year subscription fee to pay. However, you can try out a demo game before deciding if its for you plus there is a chat facility and a mailing list. Online Boggle www.visionpcservices.com/impax/boggle/login.asp To play you have to register. Babble www.playbabble.com/700 Boggle game with an active online chat facility. There is one game each day. You have to pay to get the full features of this community. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[43]=new Array(0,1,"./free_pop3_email.htm","2009-04-02","14K","Free POP3 Email Addresses - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free POP3, POP3 email addresses    ","Reviews and ratings of websites offering free POP3 email addresses    "," Free POP3 Email Addresses - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free POP 3 Email Addresses Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites What is a POP3 email address? Simply it is one that you can use on your own computer with your email software such as Outlook Express. If you are interested in web-based email, which you access via the internet, there are a number of places where you can get these free. Blubottle www.bluebottle.com Bluebottle offers 3 email options, including Bluebottle Freemail which has 100% Spam Free Email, Anti-Spoofing, Webmail / POP3 / SMTP, Access, 250MB storage, 10 MB Attachments, SSL Webmail login, Email Signatures, Forum Support and Contacts GMail http://gmail.google.com Google Mail is completely free. You can use it as a web based email address or access it via your own computer. Features include: Spam filter Search messages online Chat feature - you can connect to Google Talk via your online mail account Advertising Free IMAP Virus scannning Well over 6000MB storage space Gawab www.gawab.com Sign up for a web based email address. Once you have this you can then set your account up to work with POP/SMTP. The amount of email storage space per member is limited to 15MB. HotPOP www.hotpop.com Various POP email packages available including the Basic, which is free. The free package is supported by advertisments. You get: 10MB storage 3 forwarding destination addresses Max. message size is 500KB Max. number of messages per day 1000 Max. number of messages that can be sent each day is 500 Lavabit http://lavabit.com Again, several POP email packages with the Basic package free. Plus there are no adverts with this one. With Lavabit you get: 128MB storage Virus protection Max. number of incoming messages per day is 1024 Max. number of outgoing messages per day is 256 Message size limit is 32MB LPeMail www.lpemail.com 100% free POP3 and web based email accounts. This is what you get: Spam filter Virus protection 10MB storage space Max. message size is 1MB VFEmail www.vfemail.net VFEmail offer several POP and IMAP email packages. The copper one is the free offering carries advertising and includes: 50MB storge Monthly bandwidth of 50MB Spam and virus protection TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[44]=new Array(0,1,"./free_photos.htm","2009-04-02","15K","Free Photgraphic Images - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, free images, free photos, free photographic images    ","Reviews and ratings of websites offering free photographic images    "," Free Photgraphic Images - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Photographic Images - the best websites on the net Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites See Also: Free Clipart Turbo Stock Images • www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images/ Headers: Free Stock Photos All the images on Turbo Stocks free pages are public domain, so please use them as you wish. Note - if you use the search box at the top of the page the images returned are ones you may have to pay for. FreeDigitalPhotos • www.freedigitalphotos.net Headers: Free Stock Photos Thousands of images free for personal or commercial use (however if you use one of the images on a website, they do ask for a link back and if you use one in printed media, please credit them). Print quality high res images are available for a fee. Excellent selection in a wide range of categories. Public Domain Photos • www.public-domain-photos.com Headers: Photos, Clipart The photographs and clipart on here are all public domain and are therefore free to use for any purpose, personal or commerical. According to them, this is the largest collection of public domain photos on the net! The photographs can be downloaded in high resolution. Free Images • www.freeimages.co.uk Headers: Free Stock Photos Excellent range of free photographic images. The only restrictions are that you do not redistribute them to other people and a link to them if you use any of the images on your website or a credit if you use them in printed material. Seems reasonable! Very good selection from technology to food and abstract to sports. FreeFoto.com • www.freefoto.com Headers: Free Stock Photos Over 100,000 images organised into 145 sections and over 3000 categories! Were impressed, especially as these images are completely free for non-commerical use. If you do want to use them for your business, email them for a price list. Morgue File • http://morguefile.com Headers: Public Image Reference Archive Free stock photography for anyone who wants to use it. There is even a place on the website where you can store images you particularly like - you can even share your images with others . Just click on Lightboxes. Excellent. Burningwell • www.burningwell.org Headers: Public Domain Images Search or browse the large collection of public domain images. Free to use for any purpose. Free Images • www.freeimages.co.uk Headers: Free Stock Photos Over 2500 original stock photos which are searchable. They do, however, ask for a link back if you are using any of the images on your website and a credit if you use an image in printed material. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[45]=new Array(0,1,"./free_online_surveys.htm","2009-04-02","23K","Online Recipes - UK Web Sites - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, recipes, recipe, food recipe    ","Best Websites for Online Recipes    "," Online Recipes - UK Web Sites - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Online Surveys Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, UK websites Do you like giving your opinion and taking part in polls? Then why not get rewarded for it? The following websites between them offer various incentives from free entrance into prize draws to points which can be converted into goods to actual cash. And they are completely free to join and participate. Great UK Surveys • www.greatuksurveys.co.uk Headers: Online Survey Complete the 50 question survey (around 5 minutes) and go into the draw to win £5,000 every 3 months. Members give permission to be contacted about products and research projects that match their profile. Toluna • www.toluna.com Headers: Online Surveys Toluna is an interactive website where you are paid for giving your opinion and take part in polls. You test products, vote and answer online surveys. You are paid in points which are convertible to Amazon vouchers each time you login and participate. You can also use your points to enter prize draws. Emailinform • www.emailinform.com Fill in their online survey and Emailinform promise to keep you informed of the latest offers, discounts and competitions on the web. Just click on to their rewards page. Incentives are typically discount vouchers for various stores and have even included free holidays and phones. They promise never to sell your email address on to anyone! Consumer Link • http://uk.consumerlink.com Headers: Online Surveys Become a member of Consumer Link and periodically you will be invited to participate in a survey or discussion group. Its completely free to join and payment for participation can range from £5 to £100! Not bad. Dialego • www.panel.dialego.co.uk Headers: Online Surveys Join the Dialego Access Panel and take part in consumer surveys. You are rewarded with panel points which can be redeemed for cash or e-gift vouchers. efocus.com • www.efocus.com Headers: Online Focus Groups Take part in online focus groups and get paid for it. These virtual focus groups last for around 90 minutes. International Global Test Market • www.globaltestmarket.com Headers: Online Surveys Get paid for taking part in surveys. Register with them and they will start sending you online surveys that you are paid to complete. Global Opinion Panels • www.globalopinionpanels.com Headers: Online Surveys You get entered into the Global Opinion Panels sweepstakes with substantial cash prizes as a reward for completing their surveys (no more than 15 minutes). Do you feel lucky? Home of Research • www.homeofresearch.com Headers: Online Surveys Get paid to take part in online surveys. Every survey you take earns you points. 100 points = £1 and for each survey you are paid up to 500 points. You also get 50 points just for registering. You can redeem your points for cash when you have earned 2000. Marketing Analytics • www.marketing-analytics.co.uk/joinpanel.htm Headers: Online Focus Groups Join the Marketing Analytics web panel and you will be contacted with details and times when they have an online project for you to take part in. Payment is up to £20 per hour. Marketing Analytics is a member of the Market Research Society. Media Transfer • http://uk.mediatransfer.com Headers: Online Surveys Register for free and take part in surveys that are sent to you periodically. For each survey you are rewarded with points which can be redeemed for Amazon vouchers (or something similar) when you have reached 100 points. My Points • www.myvoice.co.uk Headers: Online Surveys Earn points by taking part in online surveys and questionnaires. For every 2000 points you clock up, you get a £20 voucher to spend with high street retailers. To get to 2000 points you will need to complete between 40 and 100 express surveys or between 13 and 40 research questionnaires. UK Opinion Now • www.opinionnow.co.uk Headers: Online Surveys Free to register and you will be invited to participate in surveys on various topics. For a 30 minute survey you get £5 or US7. Opinionnow.co.uk is the marketing research-server of Untiedt Research. ALL ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES Opinionate • www.opinionate.co.uk Headers: Online Surveys Free to register and you are paid in cash for participating in online opinion polls. Payout when your account babalnce reaches £10. You can earn up to £6.50 for each survey you participate in. Pure Profile • www.pureprofile.com Headers: Online Surveys Create a profile get paid to complete surveys. You will also receive paid offers that are matched to your profile. Your account with Pure Profile is credited with money when you complete surveys and view paid offers from businesses. Saros • www.sarosresearch.com Headers: Online Surveys, Discussion Groups The good news is that if you are asked to take part in one of the Saros discussion groups you will typically get paid £30-£50 for 2 hours work. The bad news is that the most you can expect to participate in is 2 per year. Unfortunately the surveys are rewarded only with entry into a prize draw. Spider Metrix • www.spidermetrix.com Headers: Online Surveys Become a spider for free and earn points for each survey you undertake. When you have earned enough points you can redeem them for cash and e-vouchers. Survey Club • www.surveyclub.com Headers: Online Surveys Get paid money to fill out online surveys. Just create a Survey Club account and register for surveys you are interested in. You will be paid in either cash, prizes or free products. Survey Monster • http://surveymonster.net Headers: Online Surveys With Survey Monster you can earn cash, prizes and free products. Not bad considering all you have to do is take part in their online surveys. You do not have to pay to participate. Surveys.com • www.surveys.com Headers: Online Surveys Free membership to take part in surveys where you will be rewarded with iponts, discounts and prizes. The surveys are usually fairly short - 5 to 10 minutes - and once registered you are invited by email to take part roughly 2-3 times per month. Surveys.com is operated by GFK. UK Survey Panel • http://uksurveypanel.com Headers: Online Surveys Get paid for each survey you fill out, either in cash, in the form of free products or entries into competitions and sweepstakes - it depends on the company for whom you are filling out the survey. Valued Opinions • www.valuedopinions.co.uk Headers: Online Surveys Valued Opinions is another website where you get paid actual dosh for completing their online surveys. To get started just fill in the personal detail to register. You get a free entry into their prize draw just for joining! Visitor Friendly • www.visitorfriendly.com Headers: Online Questionnaires If you join up to Visitor Friendly as a visitor you are expected to visit various websites and then answer questions regarding those websites. For each review (approx. 15 mins) you get £2. You are paid each month for amounts over £15. UK only What I Buy • www.whatb.co.uk Headers: Online Surveys As the name implies, the surveys here are about what products you buy. You are rewarded by being entered in prize draws plus with cash. What I Buy is operated by GFK, one of the worlds largest market research companies. Opinion World • www.opinionworld.co.uk Headers: Online Surveys Take online surveys here and be entered into prize draws to win a variety of prizes such as an iMac. Ayton Global Research • www.cosmeticresearchonline.co.uk Headers: Online Consumer Research Get free bath and beauty products to evaluate. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[46]=new Array(0,1,"./free_online_scrabble.htm","2009-04-02","30K","Free Online Scrabble Type Games - Easytorecall Webzine    ","scrabble, online scrabble    ","Free Online Scrabble Type Games    "," Free Online Scrabble Type Games - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Rules, Tips and Advice for playing Scrabble Scrabble.com is a gateway page to the Hasbro and Mattel websites which both have lots of tips and advice for playing scrabble and also, most importantly, give the rules of the game. www.scrabble.com SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear is not affiliated with Hasbro. Scrabble on the Net Reviews and ratings of websites where you can play scrabble and similar games online Down Lexico way It was 1931, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, and architect Alfred Mosher Butts had just lost his job. There was little work to be found designing buildings. In fact, there was little work at all ... • Graham Brown, a non scrabble playing chess fanatic, takes a foray into the world of online scrabble and gives his own take on what its all about! Read article Play Scrabble (and Scrabble Type Games) Online Play Email Scrabble Other Websites of Interest Word Finders and Scrabble Solvers Associations clubs and tournaments Scrabble Software Play Scrabble (and Scrabble Type Games) Online Internet Scrabble Club www.isc.ro Play Scrabble Online with others Massive online scrabble site - when I looked there were around 5000 people online! And you can play in English (UK and US), French, Romanian, Italian or Dutch. To get started you need to register (completely free) and then download Wordbiz (available for Windows, Mac and Linux), a program that allows you to play scrabble online. Once the program is installed you are prompted to open a connection (have your login and password handy) - its as simple as that! Click on seek to get a game. If you want you can just observe a game. To get the full flavour of what you can do here click on the help tab. ScrabbleOn (Windows Users Only) www.scrabbleon.org Play Scrabble Online with others, Play Locally To play at ScrabbleOn, you have to download the program Networdz. To do this you need to join the games room - easy just click on the Scrabble On link on the left hand side, choose a user name and you are in. Type in the command !download and you will be given the download address. Type in the address into your browser and the download will start automatically. Install the program on your computer. You should then read the setup help section on the website in order to configure Networdz and to learn how to connect online. Then you are free to play online against other players - you can also chat at the same time! There are tournaments and helpful tools such as word lists. It is completely free to play at ScrabbleOn. You can also play Networdz locally against your own computer. You need to have Wndows in order to use Networdz. Literati from Yahoo Games http://uk.games.yahoo.com Play Scrabble Online with others What Yahoo has is a game called Literati - much like scrabble. It seems to be a very busy site - I had little trouble finding an oponent. Sign up (its completely free) and get started straight away. There are no downloads. The board is a little different to an ordinary scrabble board but operates in much the same way. There is a section on how to play or you can just hit the play now button (there is also a list of rooms further down the page that you can chose to play in and you can also choose between social, beginner, intermediate, advanced, ladder and league. Scrabble Blast www.games.com/game/scrabble-blast Single Player Game Scrabble Blast is from Games.com. You can play it free online or you can download the paid for version. Although it has the feel of a Scrabble board, it is unlike the normal game in that you are presented with a board like the one shown on the left. You make words by clicking on letters, after which those letters are removed and the ones above drop down to take their place - with new ones filling in the spaces at the top. Scoring is similar to the usual game. Occasionally a letter tile will be a bomb and you have to use it in a word before it reaches the bottom of the board. Beware! This game can be quite addictive ... Free to play online. Scrabble Raid Attack www.games.com/game/scrabble-rack-attack Single Player Game Like Scrabble Blast this is an AOL game. You get a rack of 7 letters and you have to make as many words out of them as possible. The game is timed and there are bonus points available if you get all words of a particular length. Great for improving your Scrabble. Choose between easy, normal and hard. Good Luck! Free to play online. The Man in Blue - SScrabble www.themaninblue.com/experiment/SSCrabble Play online against yourself. Very basic game but it plays nicely. The fact that there is no opponent means you can set up really good scores for yourself! This is a Javascript game so it shoould play in any Javascript enabled browser. It uses the UNIX dictionary. Email Scrabble The Pixie Pit (Subscription Website) www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble emailEscrabble for those of a more leisurely bent. You can view the rules of Scrabble and check out the forums for more information or you can join in the chat rooms. Allthough this is a subscription website, the cost is fairly minimal at just 12 per year. Stupid Stuff - Crossword www.stupidstuff.org/main/scrabble.htm Crossword Interactive scrabble type game. There are no downloads here, just click Play Crossword and you can view past games or begin a new game. To play you have to enter the email adresses of the people you want to play with, and there are virtually no time limits - a game will only be deleted if it goes 30 days without play! WordScrabbler - Crossword http://wordscrabbler.com/crossword This game is also called Crossword and is pretty much the same beast! Except here a game will only be deleted if it goes 20 days without play. So you have to rush with this one. Net-Scrabble http://photojar.com No downloads neeeded to play online. Register to get started and then you can create games - public or private - or signify that you want to join other games. Having said that, there were no public games available to join when I logged in, but you can always create one yourself! Bug Cafe http://us.bugcafe.net/language/en/ Bug Cafe has 3 games you can play: Backgammon, Chess and Bug Words. There are no downloads and these are essentailly email games - you have your turn and your opponent receives an email telling them its their go a nice leisurely way to play! There are lots of people signed up to Bug Cafe so there should be no shortage of opponents. You can play 2, 3 or 4 player games. Recommended. Braingamez - InterWebWord www.braingamez.com Braingamez has several word games and puzzle games to play. The one most like scrabble is Interwebword where you place letters on a grid - but in my view this is not as good as many of the other games listed on this page. But try it out - you might like it! It is another email word game with no downloads. You can find opponents on the site if you like or play with a friend. Top Other Websites of Interest Scrabble Stop scrabblestop.com Links, tips, tricks, downloads, word-lists, and many other resources for Scrabble players of all ages. Scrabble Challenge www.braunston.com/kevin/scrabble/wsc.html Play a word on the current board displayed and the best turn will be entered on the board - and the roll-of-honour. The board is updated at 15 hour intervals, so I hope you are not in a hurry! Time To Teach www.timetoteach.co.uk/links/iccubescrabble.html Ice Cube Word Scramble - practise making scrabble words. Good for children. Top Word finders and scrabble solvers Wordfinder www.wordfinder.co.uk Download. Free program that allows you to search for Anagrams, Matching Patterns, Words containing certain letters, All words which can be made from certain letters, Words with predominantly vowels or consonants, Words which contain a Q not followed by a U. Fast download and quick installation, plus its very easy to use. Interactive Wordplays http://www.wordplays.com/p/index Great website with lots of useful tools for the word game addict as well as some nice little word games to play such as boggler, word morph and may more. Tools include anagram finder, crossword helper, word finder and crypto cracker! Scrabble Solver http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/scrabble.htm Finds all 2-7 letter words plus there is a crossword solver, useful words lists, anagram solver and lots more. Online and free to use. Avalanches Scrabble Word Finder www.scrabblewordfinder.com With this online scrabble word finder you can play it alongside your game and type in your oponents words as they are played! Of course, we would only advocate the use of this website for practise purposes! Scrabb www.geocities.com/scrabb2001 A program that searches for the highest scoring word for each move. Its shareware so you have to pay. Scrabble Rack www.boulter.com/scrabble Online word checker, word lists and word finders for scrabble. Free to use. TextTwist http://grecni.com/texttwist.php Type in letters and you get all the word combinations. Dont know what dictionary is used, but could be useful. Top Associations clubs and tournaments Association of British Scrabble Players www.absp.org.uk Includes news, calendar, results, ratings and games plus advice for new player and a list of all Scrabble culbs and leagues. Scrabble Australia www.scrabble.org.au In addition to clubs and tournaments, there are word lists, quizzes, rules, strategy and much more. Scrabble Club http://scrabbleclub.com/ US clubs, events and tournaments listed. National Scrabble Association (US) www.scrabble-assoc.com Tournament listings, clubs, championships, school Scrabble, Scrabble in Canada. Worldwide Scrabble Organisations http://home.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/world.html Contacts for major Scrabble organizations worldwide. Top Scrabble Software Scrabble - UK (Europe) version (PC CD) This is not a download - you get an actual CD! This is the Mattel version of Scrabble and has the following features: • The official Collins Scrabble dictionary is included and is updatable • Six different game modes • A coach to improve skills • Up to four players on the same computer • Up to 100 players via the Internet in Duplicate mode. You can buy this software here: Amazon - www.amazon.co.uk Scrabble - US version Yahoo http://get.games.yahoo.com You can buy Scrabble software from Yahoo Games. This particular Scrabble game is the North American (Hasbro) version. You can play against the computer or human opponents plus if you get stuck there are hints available. This version includes Merriam-Websters The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[47]=new Array(0,1,"./free_online_recipes.htm","2009-04-02","21K","Online Recipes - UK Web Sites - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, recipes, recipe, food recipe    ","Best Websites for Online Recipes    "," Online Recipes - UK Web Sites - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Online Recipes - The Best Websites on the Net Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites All of the following websites have free recipes. BBC • www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes Excellent search with recipes for practically everything. Or you can search by programme recipes or from a long list of chef recipes. If you want to browse, choose the quick recipe links. Delia Online • www.deliaonline.com Headers: Recipes, Ingredients, Cookery School, Community As well as hundreds of recipes, there are dozens of how to articles from how to whisk egg whites to how to roast chicken, all accompanied by explanatory pictures. Botanical • www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/recipe.html Recipes that include herbs found in A Modern Herbal (M Grieve pub. 1931). Find out how to preserve green walnuts in syrup or how to make carrot jam. Chinavoc • www.chinavoc.com/cuisine/index.asp Nice selection of well laid out Chinese recipes. Cocktail Fun • Cocktail Recipes Cocktail fun has an A to Z listing of hundreds of different cocktails, and in addition there is drinking game ideas, information on spirits, cocktail videos and much more. Diabetic-Recipes • www.diabetic-recipes.com A wide range of menus and recipes suitable for diabetics. Eat the Seasons • www.eattheseasons.co.uk If you want to find out what is the best local, seasonal and organic food available in the UK, then visit East the Seasons, a free online magazine devoted to food. You can also get tips on nutrition, buying, storage, preparation and eating plus recipes. Sign up to their newsletter to get weekly updates. Epicurious • www.epicurious.com/recipes Epicurious has a very good advanced search facility so that you can be fairly specific about the kind of recipes you want to see. For example, you can choose from a number of special considerations such as low fat, specify the course, the type of cuisine, occasion and well as the main ingredients. Excellent. eWorldcenter • http://eworldcenter.net/recipe Free International Recipes - Dishes and cooking for everyone Join the mailing list to receive free recipes, plus you can even post your own recipes. Free Old Time Cooking Recipes • www.free-old-time-cooking-recipes.com Wonderful Free Old Time Cooking Recipes from grandmas kitchen! In addition to soups, main meals and desserts, there is also a great collection of canning and preserving recipes plus Amish, old English and old Italian recipes. Ilovepasta • www.ilovepasta.org Everything you need to know about pasta, including how to cook it. Over 300 recipes to choose from. Iowa State University • www.ent.iastate.edu/misc/insectsasfood.html We couldnt resist this one! Insect recipes plus an insect nutritional values table! Indiatastes • www.indiatastes.com Large selection of authentic Indian vegetarian recipes, mostly from South India. From milk shakes to breads. International Vegetarian Union • www.ivu.org/recipes Vegetarian recipes from all over the world. Browse by region/country. Dont bother with the search, however, it just takes you to Google! I typed in dosa, was taken to Google and guess what the top listing was? Yes, it was the International Vegetarian Union! Iranian/Persian Recipes • http://iranlink.addr.com/recipes.htm Simple, no nonsense website with 110 authentic Iranian dishes from Iranian born Farzin Mokhtarian. Jamie Oliver • www.jamieoliver.com A nice selection of recipes from Jamie Oliver from starters to deserts. He even includes some of his school dinner recipes. Martha Stewart • www.marthastewart.com No list of recipe websites would be complete without Martha Stewart. There are over 4000 recipes plus you can watch highlights from her TV show. Middle Eastern Recipes • www.ummah.com/family/recipes.html Simple site offering a range of easy to cook Middle Eastern Recipes. Mountain Breeze • www.mountain-breeze.com/kitchen/dandelions Dandelion recipes! If the dandelions dont do it for you, look further down the page for a very nice collection of more conventional food recipes, including family recipes and Kentucky recipes. NativeTech • www.nativetech.org/recipes/index.php Large selection of Native American recipes contributed by visitors to NativeTech. Each recipe includes information such as tribal affiliation.You can choose printer friendly view. Rampant Scotland • www.rampantscotland.com Over a hundred traditional Scottish recipes, including such gems as Whisky-Mac Prawns and Drunken Rhubarb Crumble. Recipe Network • Recipe Network UK recipe site where people can add their favourite recipes. Over 300 recipes on the database which you can review. Or if you have a specific question or comment you can use the message board. The Creole & Cajun Recipe Page • www.gumbopages.com/recipe-page.html If you are new to this style of cooking, there is a basics section with helpful tips to setting you on the path to making that perfect gumbo! VegWeb • http://vegweb.com Recipes suitable for vegan and plain old vegetarians (and of course theres nothing to stop meat eating trying out some of these recipes!) Whats nice about this site is that each recipe is followed by readers comments and is rated according to readers votes. The Worlds Healthiest Foods • www.whfoods.com Ditch the Pot Noodles and try out some of these delicious sounding healthy eating recipes. Over 100 recipes available. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[48]=new Array(0,1,"./free_online_mini_golf.htm","2009-04-02","38K","Free Online Mini Golf and Crazy Golf - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, online mini golf, online crazy golf, min golf online, crazy golf online    ","Free Online Games    "," Free Online Mini Golf and Crazy Golf - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Online Mini Golf and Crazy Golf Best online mini golf that you can play for free: Online Mini Golf - Nabisco World www.nabiscoworld.com Up to 4 players From Nabisco, the snack manufactuer. This is probably the hardest online mini golf game, and probably the best. It is certainly the most interesting. It gets easier once you get the hang of it (promise!) so dont give up on it immediately. And you can practice each hole as many times as you like before tackling the full 18 holes in one go. When you click the link, wait a moment for the page to redirect. Mini MiniGolf - Nabisco World www.nabiscoworld.com Up to 2 players This is the easier mini golf option from Mabisco - notice I said easier, not easy! In layout it is similar to Office Mini Golf (see below). As with the main game, you can practice each hole individually before go for the full 18 holes. . Mini Putt Games Mini Putt 1 A nice and simple single player mini golf. The course is fairly simple with no particular hidden dangers. Its easy to aim the ball and you soon get used to the strength needed to get to where you want to go. Mini Putt 2 This is in the same style as Mini Putt 1 except that here you can take part in tournaments if you want. To take part in a tournament just enter your name and if your score is good enough you will be entered on the leader board. Mini Putt 3. This link takes you to the game created by 2dplay.com. Its a single player game with a rather different feel from the Mini Putt 1 & 2,and the ball is (in my view) harder to aim and shoot. Mini Putt III This is my particular favourite. It is a much more simple aim and shoot kind of game - no golf clubs, just the mouse pointer. It can be played with up to 4 players. The mouse control is very good on this game. If you are a beginner to online mini golf, we recommend you start with either this one or Mini Putt 1. Mini Putt 4 or Mini Golf This is much trickier than the others! You have to be very sure of the strength of your shot before you putt and it has hazards such as water, which, if you hit them you have to take the shot again. Mini Putt 4 is a single player game. Cheetos Mini-Putt Golf www.2dplay.com Single Player and Multi Player Play mini golf with Chester Cheetah. Nice action and well laid out, with no particularly hard obstacles to overcome. Nice sound effects and you can turn the music off if you want. Choose up to 4 players to play the game. You can also choose to play holes 1-9, 10-18 or all of them. This game does not appear to be available from the Cheetos website. 247 Mini Golf www.flashgames247.com Single Player, Multi Player This is a very nice simple flash golf game which you can play on your own or you can play against others on the internet. Simply register with flashgames247 and you can play games and chat online with other members. Putt it in! http://putt-it-in.freeonlinegames.com This is a 1 or 2 player option. Nice sound effects and the club is nice and easy to control. The game environment is attractive and the course itself is interesting. Very nice game. Pow Pows Mini Golf www.outsidetheboxsoftware.com Single Player, 2 Player, Online Sophisticated shockwave mini golf that you can play by yourself, with a friend, or, if you are feeling sociable, you can find an opponent online. The graphics on this game are really very good indeed. There are 3 main controls - aim, putt and accuracy. These can be a bit tricky to get used to. You can also change the view of the course. Excellent. Adventure Golf www.bransontracks.com Single Player Mini Golf courtesy of The Track Family Fun Parks. There are lots of fun hazards to overcome - if you get completely stuck dont worry as there is an eight stroke limit on each hole (dont ask how I know this). In fact this course is a lot trickier than it might at first appear. Great fun. Pitchn Put Golf http://pitching-put- golf.freeonlinegames.com Fun mini golf game for a single player. Its by a French developer, Periscope Creations, so the instructions are in French. However, the principle is the same as in all mini golf games. The action is set in a house and you move from room to room as you complete each of 9 holes - navigating your way around the furniture as you go. Move the mouse away from the player to increase the power of the shot. Go Jouer! Mean Greens http://arcade.espn.go.com Play locally with up to 4 players, Online Multiplayer Tricky! Even getting on to the putting green can be difficult. But persevere because this game is fun and challenging and well worth the effort. This is a nine hole shockwave game and the graphics are very good as you might expect. To play online multiplayer you will have to register but this is free. Excellent. Postopia Miniature Golf http://postopia.com Single Play, Online Multiplay You can play on your own or, if you are feeling sociable, you can play online against other players. This game is very similar, but not identical, to Mean Greens (see above). As with Mean Greens, it is fun but challenging and well worth the effort. More like crazy golf than mini golf. There are 9 holes to complete. Office Mini Golf http://www.tbs.com Play with up to 4 players This is one of two mini golf games from TBS, the US comedy channel (see Island Mini Golf). There are 18 holes and you have to navigate your way around a series of office desks, avoiding hazzards such as piles of envelopes, mice (both kinds), coffee cups and calculators. Good fun. Island Mini-Golf http://www.tbs.com Play with up to 4 players This is one of two mini golf games from TBS, the US comedy channel (see Office Mini Golf). There are 18 holes and you have to navigate your way around a series of holes set in a tropical island environment. Its fairly straightforward, although there is the occasional crab hazzard to avoid. Good fun. Shooting Stars Krazy Golf www.bbc.co.uk 1 or 2 player What are the scores George Dawes? Sound effects courtesy of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and the sound track to Steptoe and Son. Quite hard to control the mouse in this challenging 3d mini golf game. Moving the mouse changes the perspective, but, as with all these games, well worth getting the hang of how it works. Sky Golf www.miniclip.com Single Player Very stylish 3D mini golf game from Miniclip. The holes are platforms in the sky - hence Sky Golf. Be careful not to hit the ball too high or it goes right over the edge! This is not only quite a challenging course but one of the best mini golf games out there. The controls are easy once you get used to them but it pays to read the instructions first. Excellent. St Mulligans 3-Putt www.stmulligan.com Single Player, 2 Players Great game with great graphics. Use the arrow keys to get different views of the course. The course is arranged as platforms in the sky - a bit like Sky Golf but the course is very different. If you want to play the entire 18 holes you will have to register - try out the 9 holes practise course before you decide. Once you have registered - this is free - you can not only play the 18 holes but also can have 2 players playing against each other on the same computer. Excellent game. Widmer Beer Golf www.widmer.com Single Player Mini golf courtesy of the Widmer Brewing Company. As you might expect this has a beer theme, with beer bottles making up most of the obstables and hazzards. 18 holes with lots of interest. Easy to shoot plus nice sound effects. Dont hit the ball too hard! There is another version of this game - Widmer Beer Golf Classic - similar to Widemer Beef Golf but with less frills. Forrest Challenge 2 http://forest-challenge- 2.freeonlinegames.com Single Player Mini golf from FreeOnlineGames with a forest feel to it - there are trees dotted about around each hole. Fairly straightforward mini golf but look out for the water hazzards. There are 18 holes in this one. Flash Islands Miniature Golf www.flashisland.net Single Player, 2 Players Just 9 holes in this flash game but with interesting, moving hazzards. And the game is quite challenging. Hit the water or the sand and you go back to the start of the hole! Nice game. Electrotank Mini Golf http://www.electrotank.com Single Player, 2 Player, Multiplayer Real Time Challenge Play by yourself, with a friend on the same computer or play in real time against another person on the web. There are 4 cute characters to choose to play with, although sometimes they get in the way when you are taking a shot! Crazy Golf by David Thorburn www.mousebreaker.com Single Player There is a high score table with this one. The couse is fairly simple with no crazy hazzards but bear in mind that you dont have to hit the ball too hard. This game has a very nice feel to it but it is not as easy as you might at first think. There are 18 holes to complete. Crazy Golf 2 www.teagames.com Single Player This 9 hole mini golf game from Teagames is very similar in feel and style to Crazy Golf above. There are four courses to choose from - beginner, average, expert and master. As you line up the shot the power rating (determined by how much you pull back with the mouse) is displayed. Very useful for tricky up hill shots. Mini Golf From Yahoo Games http://games.yahoo.com Single Player Beware! This game might look simple and straightforward but it is FIENDISH! Especially the hole illustrated on the left. It actually took me 18 shots to get out onto the next hole! Good luck to anyone trying to finish this one. Thankfully its only 9 holes. Putting Edge http://www.putting-edge.com Single Player Glow in the dark mini golf from Putting Edge Fun Centers. Love it! There are 18 holes to play and you can play all 18 straight or choose which hole you want to play. Great graphics and nice sound effects. Its very easy handling and the hazzards are unusual and interesting. Very good. Tyrannian Mini Golf http://www.neopets.com Single Player Nice graphics to this straight forward mini golf game - even though some of the holes are a bit tricky! This is a reasonably challenging game which you will need to play a few times to get the hang of (unless you are really good!). When you have finished you can submit your score. Dumbolf www.gamesheep.com/game/dumbolf Single Player A lot more difficult than it looks at first glance. This flash game from Gamesheep is similar to other online putting games in that you have to hit a ball and pot it in a hole, different in that it is not a standard mini golf environment. Good fun though! This game, incidentally, is almost exactly the same as Miniclips Tiger Golf, except in that game its a tiger hitting the ball and not an elephant! Panda Golf www.ebaumsworld.com Single Player More similar to Dumbolf than to standard mini golf. Also not so easy! You dont actually get the usual score but move up to higher and higher levels. And you get as many goes on each level as you need. Each level you complete has a code number so you can return at a later date to finish off. Galactic Gravity Golf http://armorgames.com Single Player A great new twist on golf games. At first glance it seems completely unlike conventional golf. But - you have to choose the angle and the power of the shot to putt the ball. This time however you have the gravity of planets to deflect your ball off course. Challenging and fun. When you have mastered this game you can try Galactic Gravity Golf Deluxe. Gravitee www.suasive.com/games/gravitee Single Player Similar to Galavtic Gravity Golf. The gravity of the planets will deflect the ball. There are 10 rounds to play from The TriPlanet Open right up to The Master Cup. Mani Golf http://www.manigolf.com Single Player Not a standard mini golf layout but good fun nonetheless. Use the arrow keys to aim your ball and hit the space bar once to determine the strength of the shot and second to hit the ball. When you have potted the ball, hit the space bar to go onto the next level. There is also a high score table. Contour www.gamesreloaded.com Single Player Again, not a standard mini golf layout - you click on squares to form hills and valleys and the ball simply obeys gravity and rolls down the hills you have made. Use the hills to guide the ball into the holes. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[49]=new Array(0,1,"./free_online_mastermind.htm","2009-04-02","17K","Free Online Mastermind - Easytorecall Webzine    ","mastermind, online mastermind    ","Free Online Mastermind Games    "," Free Online Mastermind - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Online Mastermind Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Minnim Master Mind • www.fetchfido.co.uk With six colours and 4 pegs Minnim Master Mind is fairly straightforward, although each colour can be used more than once in the same row. It is also probably the most stylish mastermind game we have found. Just drag and drop the columns into the holes. Guess the Colors • www.gamesforthebrain.com Six standard colours and four peg holes in each row, colours can be used more than once. We like this one because it has the feel of a standard Mastermind set. You cannot, however, move a peg once it has been placed. Click on a colour and the pegs start fill up from the left. As soon as the row is full the score for that try comes up. There are also lots of other good games elsewhere on the website which (the hint is in the domain name) are supposed to be good for the brain! Mastermind from irt.org • http://www.irt.org This is an excellent mastermind game. You can choose the level of difficulty: From 4 up to 8 balls in play; Row length from 4 to 8 holes; You can choose to have blanks in play or not And you can specify the number of attempts allowed. Click on a colour and then on the hole you want to place it - you can change the colour later if you want. Click OK to get the attempt marked. Goofys Best Guess • www.disney.com.au A Goofy version of mastermind from Disney. Click NEW and then drag the coloured pegs onto a hole on the board. When you have made your choice, click GO. The results are displayed on the red button. Master Mind from 2inventive • www.2inventive.com Four pegs and eight colours. This one is nice and simple to use - just drag and drop the pegs. You can only use one colour once though - no doubling up, but with eight colours that would make it very hard! I like the fact that you can change the position of a peg once you have put it down - not all games will do that. Nice layout. Master Mix • www.pixelkleckse.de This is rather impressive flash website. To navigate to the mastermind game move the mouse over the bottom part of the screen until you get Flash Games - then choose Mastermind from the menu. A submenu appears - click the + next to play. Its worth the hassle! Now if you can speak German, all the better as you will be able to understand the comments as you make a play, but even if you dont this is a great version. One of my favourites. Park-a-Palooza • www.chevroncars.com Mastermind with a car theme from The Chevron Cars website. Click through the colours on each car using the arrows to the left and right. Once you have made your choice click Check It to see how youve done. Grand Mastermind • www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~andrew/gm Tricky. This game involves shapes as well as colours so there is much more variation than normal. However, each line is marked with three possible answers rather than two. A blue circle if you get the colour in the right place but not the shape, black for right shape and colour in the right place and a white circle for right colour and right shape in the wrong place ...... Oh, go and have a look for yourself! Master Brain • www.kiddonet.com/kiddonet/mmind A very simple four peg board with six colours. We like it just because it is so simple. You just drag and drop the pegs onto the holes and if you change your mind just replace the colour with another peg (unless it the last peg you drop in which case the score comes up immediately and you cannot change). And if you complete the puzzle you get a very nice fanfare as the solution is revealed! TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[50]=new Array(0,1,"./free_online_geography_games.htm","2009-04-02","18K","Free Online Geography Games - Map Games - Easytorecall Webzine    ","online geography games, geography games online, map games    ","Free Online Geography Games - Map Games    "," Free Online Geography Games - Map Games - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Online Geography Games, Map Games • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Geography - Online Games Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites offering free online map and geography games Want to brush up on your knowledge of countries and capitals? The following websites feature map games, and geography quizzes. Great fun for children and adults. How well do you know your world? The phrase come and have a go if you think youre hard enough springs to mind. This is fast, furious and pretty difficult, especially on the later levels. Good fun, though! This game is from TravelPod. Geosense • www.geosense.net And here is another game similar to the one above. This one even has a high score table. How many countries can you name in 5 minutes? • www.oneplusyou.com/bb/view2/countries Well, there are around 200 so this is quite a tough challenge! Rethinking Schools - Map Game • www.rethinkingschools.org/ Learn the countries of the Middle East in this drag and drop map game. The Middle East stretches as far west as the Western Sahara in Africa, so you can brush up on your North Africa Countries as well. This is a drag-and-drop game you play by clicking the link or the map graphic. (All ages). Requires Flash. You can also print out the map when you have finished. English Counties Quiz • http://codebox.no-ip.net You get 5 minutes to name all the English counties. There is a map that fills up with your correct answers. (Use the search to find the quiz) TimedQuiz • www.timedquiz.com/timed/us-states How many US states can you name in 10 minutes? National Geographic - Geospy • www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy You answer Where is questions by clicking on the map. You can choose the continents games, the Countries Games (you choose a continent first) or the states and provinces game which is confined to North America. The maps are a little small but the website is fairly slick. Lizard Point - Test your Geography Knowlegde • www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz There are several quizzes that focus on different parts of the world plus you can choose to identify countries or country capitals. You get 3 goes to locate the country/city before you have to move on to the next question and you get a score at the end. Sheppard Software • www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm Lots of geography games for the entire world - click on a region and choose from capitals, countries or landscape. The games are a great learning tool. Purpose Games • www.purposegames.com Lots and lots of map games that are timed. Just check out the high score tables to see what you are up against! Europe Quiz • www.quia.com/mc/321370.html Match up capital cities with their European country. No map but this is pretty compulsive until you have actually learned all the names! Triviaplaza - World Geography Quizzes • www.triviaplaza.com The great thing about these is that you can keep on playing until you get all the answers right and get marked with an A plus! The questions are not identical each time, but reappear often enough so that you can get a perfect score if you remember the answers. Choose from world landmarks, mountains, capitals, countries, flags and the shapes of world regions. Seterra - Learn Geography • www.wartoft.nu/software/seterra/ This a freeware program you can download. It uses maps to test you on countries and capitals plus there are quizzes. A few hours with this program and you will be a geography egghead for sure! The dowload is quite small, only around 800kbs. US States There are a few drag and drop games for the US map. • www.addictinggames.com/50states.html Learn where all the 50 states of the US are in this drag and drop geography game. You are timed and get a percentage mark at the end. • www.sheppardsoftware.com This is very similar to the above game. • www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf Stylish Flash map game. And if you feel like learning more about each state, head over to 50states.com or to theus50.com which have all the information you need. If you need to do some learning first, try out www.scholastic.com/play/states.htm or http://www.yourchildlearns.com/us_map.htm Map & Map Games • www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FF# There are several map games from maps.com including games where you click a map and drag and drop games. There is even a map crossword puzzle. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Online Geography Games, Map Games     ");
array_files[51]=new Array(0,1,"./free_online_games.htm","2009-04-02","22K","Free Online Games - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, Web Directory, free games, free online games, online games, arcarde games, word games, strategy games, skill games    ","Free Online Games    "," Free Online Games - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Online Games Online Mini Golf Online Mastermind Quizzes, Puzzles & Word Games Online Scrabble Games Kings & Queens of England Game The Great Art Game Great Art Online Jigsaws Great Art Pairs Periodic Table Game Online Geography Games Samorost 1 Samorost 2 Quest for the Rest Sprout Moses Carrying the Torch Glass Fantasy Rollercoaster Kings Call Quick rundown of quality games websites where you can play games online for free: Orisinal Games Addicting Games All Games Free Java Gaming Arcade Outpost Arcade Pod Arcade Town Buzzle CandyStand Crazygames Daily Free Games Dimensionex Fetchfido Flyordie Free Arcade Free Online Games Free Online Multiplayer Free World Group Game Garage Game Pipe Game Rival GameDesign GameDesire Games.com Games That Dont Suck GamesTotal Gamesville Americas Army AstroDragon Gamezarena GPrime Its Your Turn IWin Jay is Games Kurnik Lets Play Maid Marian Memir Software Miniclip MooFunGames Mousebreaker MSN Games Newgrounds Ongameport Online Games Only Online Multiplayer Games Phatgames Phatplay Pop Cap Games Riddler SimulatedSports Smilie Games Swirve Synthetic Reality Tiscali Games Unlimited Web Games TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[52]=new Array(0,1,"./free_magic.htm","2009-04-02","14K","Magic - UK Web Sites - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, magic, conjuring, card tricks, thumbtips    ","UK Web Directory, Magic websites    "," Magic - UK Web Sites - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Magic Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked websites MagicTricks.co.uk • www.MagicTricks.co.uk Headers: Downloads, Exclusive Items, Own Brand, Gift Ideas, Beginners, Pick A Trick, Mentalism, Street Magic, Pub Tricks, Magic on TV, Cards, Money, Ring & Key, Sponge Magic, Rope/Silk Magic, General Magic, Accessories, DVDs, Videos, Books Join the Magic Tricks Mailing List and get a FREE magic trick plus news of special offers. Free Card Tricks • www.free-card-tricks.net Headers: Card Magic, Coin Magic, David Blaine, Levitation, Bar Tricks, Quick Tricks Excellent free resource for budding magicians everywhere. There are completely free instructions for oodles of tricks - you can even learn how to levitate (well maybe not exactly levitate but Ive seen this one in action and its pretty good it you get it just right ...) Card-Trick • www.card-trick.com/free_card_tricks.htm Headers: Free Card Tricks, Card Tricks History, Card Magicians, Card Sleights, Poker, Free Magic Tricks, Card Tricks for Sale Here you can get free instructions for several card tricks and some mental magic tricks. There are also several articles on card sleights. This is a UK website so if youre feeling flush (ahem) you can also buy some of the card tricks that are for sale. Magic For All • www.magicforall.com Headers: Download Magic Tricks Large number of tricks and videos you can download. Prices vary depending on the trick If you are unfamiliar with the idea of downloading tricks, to get the hang of it there a number of tricks that you can download and try out for free. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[53]=new Array(0,1,"./free_iq_tests.htm","2009-04-02","23K","Free IQ Tests - Easytorecall Webzine    ","free IQ tests, IQ tests, free intelligence tests    ","The best free IQ tests on the web    "," Free IQ Tests - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Free IQ Tests • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Japanese IQ Test http://fulgerica.com Can you get all these people across the river without breaking the rules? Switch the frogs to the opposite side within 2 minutes www.funstufftosee.com Free IQ Tests Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Wandering what your IQ score is? Here we list what we consider to be the best free iq tests on the web. Nearly all the ones we have listed give you an IQ score at the end and we tell you if they dont. Some of them will also offer a detailed report for a fee which is usually in the region of around 10. You can improve your IQ score. It has often been said that IQ tests do not measure intelligence, but simply the ability to do IQ tests! Maybe. We certainly believe that you can raise your IQ score with a bit of preparation. If you would like to try this we suggest you head over to Bob Pearsons Website where you can get a whole boat load of tips and tricks to improve your rating. However, if you are unused to IQ tests, you might like to have a go at some of the tests first to get a feel for the kinds of questions that are asked. When you feel ready to start the tests you might like to begin with the Mensa Workout and Test Your IQ as both these tests give you the answers and tell you which you got right and which you got wrong. Mensa Workout • www.mensa.org/workout2.php? There are 30 questions in this free IQ test and you should allow yourself 30 minutes to complete them. When you have finished click the submit button and you are presented with your score out of 30 (its not translated into an IQ score) plus the answers to all the questions with explanations. Note that this is not the official Mensa test but they let you know if you are likely to qualify should you decide to take the test. Test Your IQ • www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1641/iqown.html There are 60 questions which you have 45 minutes to answer (you keep your own time). You should write your answers down on a piece of paper and then mark them against the correct answers which are given at the end. You are then shown a table from which you can read off your IQ rating. Read through the sample questions before you begin. Puzz.com Intelligence Test • www.puzz.com/intelligencetest.html These are puzzles rather than standard IQ test questions but we have included them because they are fun to do. There are 10 fairly detailed questions with answers provided. You can calculate your IQ rating based on the number of questions you get right. No time limit. SimpleIQ • http://simple-iq.com 13 minutes to answer 38 questions and you get scored at the end of it. Nice, small and simple, this is a good one to try first. IQ Test Labs • www.intelligencetest.com/test/signupuser.php Another small test. This is a 15 minute timed test with a score given at the end. IQTest • www.iqtest.sk There are several tests you can do here - mathematical, logical, pictorial, visual, or a mix of all of these. You can take as long as you like over these (sometimes quite difficult) questions and there is a choice of tests to choose from. To find out your score you need to submit your name and email and you will appear on the results table on the website. IQTest • www.iqtest.sk There are several tests you can do here - mathematical, logical, pictorial, visual, or a mix of all of these. You can take as long as you like over these (sometimes quite difficult) questions and there is a choice of tests to choose from. To find out your score you need to submit your name and email and you will appear on the results table on the website. High IQ Society • http://www.highiqsociety.org/iq_tests/ This is a society (a bit like MENSA) and you can take the tests online for free. The cognitive mental abilites IQ test (eCMA) is a timed test of 36 questions around 6 subjects. At the end your score is calculated for free. You can (of course!) buy a more detailed report. If you get a score of 124 or more you are eligible to join the society. Majons Online IQ Test • www.majon.com/iq.html There are several untimed tests here to try out. The tests are untimed and reasonably short. When you have finished, enter your email address and the result is emailed to you immediately. Psychtests • www.psychtests.com/tests/alltests.html#demo More tests than you can shake a stick at here, but as you are reading this page you will probably be interested in the Classical IQ Test which you will find under the free premium tests list. There are 60 questions and you are allowed 45 minutes. You are given your IQ score at the end. The Classic IQ Test from Tickle • http://web.tickle.com 8 pages of IQ questions and at the end of it you are given your IQ score and a short analysis, all for free. The test is untimed. However, if you would like to find out which questions you got right, a detailed analysis of your strengths and weaknesses, charts and graphs plus information on how to enhance your IQ in the future you need to purchase a report. (The cost is small, around £13) The IQ Test Page • www.genekernis.com/iq2/ Take the test and you will be given a percentage test score rather than an IQ score. To get the full report showing answers, IQ level etc., plus a Myers-Briggs Personality Evaluation you will have to pay around 10. On the website there are also personality, psychological and relationship tests, plus puzzles and quizzes. Fun & Quick Free IQ Tests Intelligence Test • hwww.mikescomputerinfo.com/inteltest.htm Only 10 questions but be careful! Most Simple IQ Predictor • http://blog.thaipulse.com/2007/10/most-simple-iq-predictor-in-existence.html The shortest IQ test you are likely to take! Good fun. Free IQ Tests with no scores - professional IQ testing websites where you can take the test for free but have to pay to get the report! Queendom IQ Tests • www.queendom.com/tests/testscontrol.htm?s=72 There are several tests you can take here including the Classical IQ Test (109 questions to do in 40 mins) and the Culture Fair IQ Test. Other tests include emotional, spatial and verbal. BUT, and yes it is a big but, you dont get scored unless you buy the full report - not terrifically expensive at around 7 but all the same! Might be worth having a go at some of the tests to get some practice in. IQ Testing Online • www.iq-testing-online.com This test looks at verbal, mathematical and spatial areas. The test takes around 15-20 minutes to complete and is not timed. Note the test is free to do but to get your score you have to pay for the full report which is around 10. Free IQ Test Websites to Avoid like the Plague Free IQ Test • www.free-iqtest.net Well laid out and quite short test - only around 15-20 minutes with a score at the end. To get this you navigate several screens of advertising and onlines surveys. Also, they want your email address, home address and phone number before they give out the score. Taking all this into account we find that we cannot recommend this website at all. We only mention it in case you find it via some other search method and decide to give it a go. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Free IQ Tests     ");
array_files[54]=new Array(0,1,"./free_fonts.htm","2009-04-02","17K","Free Fonts - Easytorecall Webzine    ","free fonts, free windows fonts    ","Free Fonts and How to Install Them in Windows     "," Free Fonts - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Free Fonts - Where to get them and how to install them on a Windows PC • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Fonts - Where to get them and how to install them on a Windows PC Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites There are thousands of free fonts out there for you to use - the biggest problem is looking at them all! Here, we show you how to install fonts on a windows machine and where to find free fonts. How to Install Fonts on your Windows computer Firstly. download the font(s) you want and save it to a convenient place on your hard drive. I chose a font called aberration from 1001 Free Fonts and clicked the Win download button and saved it to my desktop. (The font was zipped up so I unzipped it to the desktop also). Click Start and then Control Panel. Choose Fonts. The Fonts window will load. Choose File: Install new font Navigate to where you saved the font (in my case the desktop), highlight and click OK. Make sure the Copy fonts to Fonts folder is ticked. You should now be able to open up any program you have that uses fonts and see the new font in the font list. Best Places to get Free Fonts Simply The Best Fonts http://simplythebest.net/fonts Lots of categories to browse or just go for th alphabetical listings. Fonts for Mac and PC. 1001 Free Fonts www.1001freefonts.com As the name suggests, they have a huge number of free fonts for you to download. For Windows and Mac. Abstract Fonts www.abstractfonts.com Over 10000 free fonts. View by category, designer or A-Z. dafont www.dafont.com Huge number of fonts to download for PC and Mac. Choose by name, theme or font author. Font Freak http://www.fontfreak.com/pre.htm Very good. Huge number of fonts divied into PC fonts, Mac fonts and Dingbats. Acid Fonts www.acidfonts.com Great choice for Mac and PC. Webpage Publicity http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html Over 6000 free fonts for windows. Rattlesnake Jacks • http://members.memlane.com/gromboug Headers: Clipart, Fonts To quote A cowboy action shooting & old west site, offering you old fashioned clip art, western fonts, and some canadian wild west history! You can even hear some rag time classics on the site. Excellent. Jack believes all the clipart and fonts on the site are copyright free, so use and enjoy! Freeware Font Managers Fontlist www.bitstorm.org/fontlist With FontList, you can create a HTML file that will show all the fonts installed on your computer. Use your browser to change the style of and zoom in on a font. Also you can create a print out of all your fonts. AMP Font Viewer www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php Font manager, which allows a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories. Supports TrueType and OpenType fonts Free and Easy Font Viewer www.styopkin.com Free&Easy Fonts Viewer shows you all the installed fonts in the Fonts folder in your Control Panel in one window. You can scale the fonts up and down and check out how they look in different font styles (bold, italic, underline, strike through). ksFontViewer www.kellysoftware.com/software/ksFontViewer.asp Very simple program that allows you to see how a sample piece of text will look in the fonts on your computer. Choose standard, bold or italic. Tip: Use the down arrow to go to the next font. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Free Fonts - Where to get them and how to install them on a Windows PC     ");
array_files[55]=new Array(0,1,"./free_e_cards_2.htm","2009-04-02","23K","Free E Cards - Easytorecall Webzine    ","free e cards, free e-cards, e cards    ","Reviews and ratings of websites offering free ecards    "," Free E Cards - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Free e-Cards, Free e Cards • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free E-Cards - page 2 Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Dazed by the number of free e-card websites on the internet? We were, until we started sorting out the wheat from the chaff. The websites listed below are what we consider to be amongst the best; from sites that do video e-cards to ones that provide stunning postcard images. And also sites that are just a little bit unusual and off the wall. So in fact there is something here for all tastes. Back to Free E Cards page 1 Superlaugh • www.superlaugh.com Headers: Free Animated E-Cards Superlaugh produce their own designs of humerous free ecards, with cards for most occasions, from romance to interactive cards. Very good. Irish Corner • www.irishcorner.com Headers: Free e-cards Stunning photographs of Ireland - who can resist? Landscapes and people. Jimpix • www.jimpix.co.uk Headers: Free e-cards In the words of Jim(?) himself, This is my take on the fat, bloated, over-saturated free e-card market. Many of the cards are political, some are just unusual. Some are intereactive. Most are of a very high quality, mostly animated. Just-Pooh • www.just-pooh.com/ecards.html Headers: Free e-cards Strictly for Winnie the Pooh fans. The cards are drawings of Winnie the Pooh and friends. Kritter Cards • www.krittercards.com Headers: Free e-cards Large and varied selection of postcards of all kinds of kritters. Select by animal. Some of the images are photographs, some are clipart type drawings. Miniclip Clipart www.miniclip.com/ecards/en/ Animated e-cards from the games company Miniclip. Original and imaginative. You can send these cards in the normal way by inserting the email address in an online form or, if you dont like leaving email addresses online, you can send it direct from your own email client - the email simply contains a link to the page where your card is held. You can also send via Hotmail, Yahoo etc. MoMA E Cards • http://moma.e-cards.org Headers: Free e-cards MoMA stands for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and they have hundreds of e-cards featuring paintings, photography, drawings, plus film and video, that you can send for free. Each card is accompanied by brief biographical details. Nature Postcards • www.naturepostcards.com Headers: Nature e-cards Excellent selection of many stunning postcards of art, nature and travel subjects, from underwater to space exploration. All the postcards are of a good size. Nobodyhere • www.nobodyhere.com Headers: Free e-cards Supported by the Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Nobodyhere has a truly off the wall collection of e-cards, chat and bugs!?! The cards, though there are not many of them, are outstanding, and many of them are interactive. Physlink - Einstein E-Cards • www.physlink.com/Fun/EinsteinCards/Index.cfm Headers: Free e-cards As the name suggests, all the postcards here have a physics flavour, from space images to pictures of Einstein himself, all with an Einstein quotation. Physlink is a physics and astronomy webzine. Regards.com • www.regards.com Headers: Free e-cards Wide and diverse collection of cards (more than 1600 to choose from), including flash animations and still images. If you want you can upload your own image and send that as an e-card. And just in case you are no good at remembering dates, you can send cards up to 14 months in advance and they will deliver it for you on the date you choose! They provide email reminders and you can also create a personal address book with them so you dont have to keep filling in the details every time you send a card. The recipient receives an email which directs them to the website where they can view the card and message and also send a thankyou note. Cards are kept on the website for just 3-4 weeks and 7-10 days after pick up at which time they get deleted. If you want to keep the card simply click the file menu on your browser and save the page as webpage complete. Someecards • www.someecards.com Headers: Free Still E-Cards These are humerous ecards and the sample shown here gives a taste of the style of the cards to be found here. There is a big choice to be had with representation for most occasions. You can also buy printed versions of these cards which can be customised. (Its a US website, but they will ship globally). Snoopy • www.snoopy.com Headers: Free Snoopy E-Cards This large selection of e-cards all feature Snoopy characters and some of the cards are animated. Write your own personalised message. Tatty Teddy Cards • www.tattyteddyecards.com Headers: Free Musical E-Cards Tatty Teddies! Loads of categories from parent days to anniversaries. These cards are seriously cute, but with lots of variation around the theme of, well, tatty old teddies! You can choose to have music or not. The Nature Conservancy • http://nature.org Headers: Free e-cards Free postcards from Nature Conservancy, which is a US charity working on nature conservancy projects in Asia and the Americas. They offer a great selection of stunning wildlife images, including animals, flowers and landscapes, plus you can also download some great wallpaper for your desktop, take part in quizzes, or watch some amazing videos. The Tate e-cards • www.tate.org.uk/cgi-bin/ecards.pl Headers: Free e-cards For art lovers everywhere. This is quite a small collection, but there are usually some cards from their current exhibitions. e Greetings • www1.egreetings.com Headers: Free e-cards A very good selection of ecards, with some still photographs but nearly all animated ecards. There is a variety of styles of card for all sorts of occasions. And there is no limit on how much you can write! There are even styles in the form of stationery so what you send looks like a letter. WWF Free E-Cards • www.worldwildlife.org/ecards Headers: Free e-cards, Free Wallpaper Well, they are really e-postcards but great images nonetheless. And as you can guess from the sample shown here, most of the cards have a message of some sort on them - search through the images to find one with a message that fits. And if you are feeling generous, you can always donate ....... (It is a good cause!) All E-Cards • www.all-ecards.com Headers: Free Electronic Postcards An extensive collection of still e-cards, mostly photographs, from a variety of genres, from underwater images to classic cars, from art to teddy bears. Personalise the card by adding music, a stamp and a message. You can arrange to have the card sent within a month. Cards are stored on their server for 14 days after they are sent. Back to Free E Cards page 1 TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Free e-Cards, Free e Cards     ");
array_files[56]=new Array(0,1,"./free_e_cards.htm","2009-04-02","23K","Free E Cards - Easytorecall Webzine    ","free e cards, free e-cards, e cards    ","Reviews and ratings of websites offering free ecards    "," Free E Cards - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Free e-Cards, Free e Cards • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free E-Cards Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites Dazed by the number of free e-card websites on the internet? We were, until we started sorting out the wheat from the chaff. The websites listed below are what we consider to be amongst the best; from sites that do video e-cards to ones that provide stunning postcard images. And also sites that are just a little bit unusual and off the wall. So in fact there is something here for all tastes. HD Greetings • www.hdgreetings.com Headers: Free 3D video e-cards Outstanding! These e-cards are so good that I could scarcely believe they are free - so I sent one and they are! And you can add photos, music and text. The reason HDGreeetings is able to offer this service is that it produces paid for customised marketing solutions for companies the free e-cards are a kind of shop front for their merchandising business. Highly recommended. The recipient receives an email with a web link to click. You can also send and receive your cards in Facebook. Plans are afoot to make it so that the cards can be saved as a video file - you will then be able to keep them for as long as you like. All Posters Ecards •www.allposters.co.uk Headers: Free Electronic Postcards The worlds largest poster and art print store. You can send any one of their 100,000 images (yes, thats right, 100,000) as a free personalised e-card. Thats a lot of choice! Just click on the image you like and you will see an option on the right hand side to send as an e-card. Click this and you can add a personal message. Recipients are sent a web link to view the card which is kept on their servers for 30 days. All-Yours • www.all-yours.net Headers: Free Animated e-cards, Postcards Great selection of flash movie cards from All Yours, plus wallpapers, screensavers and postcards. Pretty good quality. And you can also customise you email nitification and choose when to have the card sent (you get organise it up to 2 months in advance). Cards are deleted 4 weeks after delivery. Animal Planet • http://animal.discovery.com/games/ecards/ecards.html Headers: Free Electronic Postcards This is part of the website of the TV channel, Animal Planet. There are not a lot of images here, but what they do have is good. Cards include animal sounds and a brief description of the animal. You can personalise the actual card itself by adding a title, a stamp and an accompanying personal message. Note: To complete the email address: to enter the @ sign I had to use the on my keyboard. This is something to do with US/UK keyboard anomolies ..... Art Russia • http://artrussia.ru Headers: Free e-cards Art Russia showcases the work of hundreds of contemporary artists, mostly Russian. Not only do you get to look at some great art (which you can also buy), but each painting can also be sent as an ecard. Carlsencards • www.carlsencards.com Headers: Free Animated E-Cards We love this website. Not a great number of cards (around 60 ish at the time of writing) but all are very well done and funny. All the cards have been made by Martine Carlsen herself, so you wont see them on any other website. You can even design your own congratulations ecard. The recipient receives an email which directs them to the website where they can view the card and message. ecardica.com • www.ecardica.com Headers: Free ecards Lots of free ecards here for most occasions; some of them are flash cards, most are humerous. You can also get free printable calendars, wallpapers, buddy icons and screensavers (note if you download a screensaver you get a MyWay Search toolbar installed as well - can be useful but you can always uninstall it if you want). eNature • www.enature.com/ecard Headers: Free e-cards For nature lovers out there, here is a selection of nature postcards, including: Birds, Mammals, Natures Garden, Beautiful Butterflies, Night Sky, Under the Sea, Weird & Wonderful and Winter Animals. Each card, and we like this, is accompanied by a name plus species information for plants and animals. Very nice. The eNature website is positively stuffed full of information about the plants and animals of the US covering around 6000 individual species and in addition offers screensavers, contests and quizzes. There are also flash cards such as this one, Aberts Towhee, that you can put onto your own website. Friends of the Earth • www.foe.co.uk/cards Headers: Free e-cards Send ecards instead of paper cards and help save some of the 200,000 trees that are pulped to create all the cards sent over the Christmas period. Of course, you dont have to send FOE cards Funny Ecards • www.funny-ecards.com Headers: Free Animated e-cards Great (not to mention extensive) selection of humerous ecards most of which are produced by Funny Ecards themselves. There are cards available for most occasions and most have a musical accompianament. Geek Culture • www.geekculture.com Headers: Free e-cards If you would like to send something a little bit different, try Geek culture, for the geek in your life! You can add music. Grants Central Station Post Office • http://grantmcl.tripod.com/postoffice Headers: Free E-Cards Some unusual black and white free e-cards plus the Dancing Baby with a choice of tunes! Excellent. Greet2K • www.greet2k.com Headers: Free E-Cards Large selection of e-cards for most occasions. Many of the cards are good quality Flash cards. There are even party/wedding invitation e-cards! Write your own personalised message. View cards online. Greetings Island • www.greetingsisland.com Headers: Free Animated e-cards Excellent selection of e-cards including still pictures, animations and flash movies, to suit most tastes, including childrens cards. Hallmark • www.hallmark.com Headers: Free e-cards, Paper Cards Hallmark, of course, is famous for cards and their online site offers a very wide choice of classy, flash e-cards. Collect the card from the site. Interesting.com • www.interesting.com/postcards Headers: Free Virtual Vintage Postcards, E-Cards & E-Greetings No animations, just plain, simple and classy vintage e-cards. The cards are organised into occasion and also by theme, so you should have no trouble finding the card you want. The website, interesting.com, has, in addition to the ecards, many interesting articles on historical subjects. It is also associated with the websites englishhistory.info and historyimgaes.com. Free e Cards page 2 TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Free e-Cards, Free e Cards     ");
array_files[57]=new Array(0,1,"./free_clipart_2.htm","2009-04-02","20K","Free Clipart / Animations - Easytorecall Webzine    ","free clipart, free animations    ","Reviews and ratings of websites offering free clipart    "," Free Clipart / Animations - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Free Clipart and Animations • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Clipart and Animations - the best websites on the net - page 2 Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites All the websites listed below have their own free clipart galleries. If you want a particular animation, you will need to save it rather than just copying it - right click and select save. You might also be interested in where to get Free Photographic Images Back to Free Clipart Page 1 Free Graphics www.free-graphics.com Over 30,000 free clipart images including animated gifs, icons, backgrounds, bullets, clip art, and pictures. Images for use on personal websites only. Graphic Maps www.graphicmaps.com Rather specialised but very good if you are looking for continent images, globe images, outline maps and so on. Clip art may be used without written approval on any web site, intranet site or within a document or publication. If you use the clip art they would appreciate, a link (of any kind) back to Graphic Maps or WorldAtlas.com. Hasslefreeclipart www.hasslefreeclipart.com Headers: Free Clipart Nice selection of good quality clipart for both personal and commercial use, with a wide range of categories to choose from. There is also a small range of photo clipart. iBand www.iband.com/clipart.html Good range of good quality general clipart in most categories. Free for anyone to use (personal or commercial) as long as you give them a link back if you use them on your website. Internet Clipart www.internetclipart.com Not so much clip art as photo objects and images. There are over 2000 images on the website from animals to cars. Free for anyone to use (personal or commercial) as long as you give them a link back if you use them on your website. Karen Whimsy http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/ Very large collection of mostly black and white public domain images/clip art that Karen has sourced from old books. Wide variety of categories. The images, which are jpegs (and fairly large and good quality) are free to save onto your computer. If you want a high resolution image in tif format, there is a small fee. Kelta Web Concepts www.keltawebconcepts.com.au/clipart.htm Kelta Web Concepts, Australian web design consultants, are offering free a nice range of over 100 clipart images, all of which are on a transparent background so they can be used on any colour background you like. Microsoft Office Clipart http://office.microsoft.com Great collection of clipart to download and you can browse or search. Please note that unless otherwise specified, the services offered by Microsoft are for your personal and non-commercial use. Js Magic Galleries www.jsmagic.net As well as music, photography, poetry, works of art, and animated stories there is an extensive collection of free graphics and clip art. All images are copyright free. You need to drill around the site quite a bit to see exactly what is on offer but this link will take you directly to the free images section. Public Domain Photos www.public-domain-photos.com Headers: Photos, Clipart The photographs and clipart on here are all public domain and are therefore free to use for any purpose, personal or commerical. According to them, this is the largest collection of public domain photos on the net! The photographs can be downloaded in high resolution. Prodraw www.prodraw.net Fabulous free animations (for personal use only). Rattlesnake Jacks • http://members.memlane.com/gromboug Headers: Clipart, Fonts To quote A cowboy action shooting & old west site, offering you old fashioned clip art, western fonts, and some canadian wild west history! You can even hear some rag time classics on the site. Excellent. Jack believes all the clipart and fonts on the site are copyright free, so use and enjoy! The Kidz Page www.thekidzpage.com Over 1300 free images that younger children will love to use to spice up their own webpages and projects. Webweavers Free Clipart www.webweaver.nu/clipart/ Here is a great collection of free clip art and some animations from the public domain. Excellent choice in a wide choice of categories. Free for anyone but please link back to them. If you go to the main Webweaver page you can also find other free web design tools plus a collection of web design tips and tricks. WiseGorilla www.wisegorilla.com/clipart.html A comprehensive collection of rather stunning educational clipart. All clipart offered here has been selected from work in the public domain so feel free to use as you will! Good for them. WP Clipart http://www.wpclipart.com Headers: Clipart, Photos Thousands of very high quality public domain images in PNG format (or, instead of saving you can just right click and copy and paste into a new image in your image editor or word processing program). The quality of these images is good enough that they can be printed off. Click on Browse the Collection for access to the categories available. Zeroweb • www.zeroweb.org Headers: Free Services, Website Layouts, Web Graphics, Clipart Large numbers of free website layouts and templates, clipart, buttons, banners, backgrounds, icons plus an assortment of website tools. Free Clipart Page 1 TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Free Clipart and Animations     ");
array_files[58]=new Array(0,1,"./free_clipart.htm","2009-04-02","21K","Free Clipart / Animations - Easytorecall Webzine    ","free clipart, free animations    ","Reviews and ratings of websites offering free clipart    "," Free Clipart / Animations - Easytorecall Webzine Home | Free Clipart and Animations • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Free Clipart and Animations - the best websites on the net Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites All the websites listed below have their own free clipart galleries. If you want a particular animation, you will need to save it rather than just copying it - right click and select save. You might also be interested in where to get Free Photographic Images Open Clip Art Library www.openclipart.org Open source, public domain clipart that can be freely used. Use the search box to find what you are looking for. Ace Clipart www.ace-clipart.com Every image in their gallery is free for personal or commercial use; however they do appreciate a link back if you use clip art for your website. Animation Central http://animation-central.com Very good quality animations totally free for non commercial use. Please give a link back if you are using them on your website. Animations Galore www.animations-galore.com There is a huge amount of really good quality animations on this website covering a wide variety of subjects, from humour to transportation. Excellent. I can find no restrictions on use. Antique Clipart http://antiqueclipart.com Large collection (over 1000) of Public Domain Victorian and Edwardian era clipart. The collection includes people, animals, flowers, furniture, holidays, fruit, transport and more. As these images are public domain, you can use them as you wish. Artvex www.artvex.com Headers: Free Clipart Over 10,000 original free clipart images from a wide range of categories. Not only that, the images are excellent quality and of a good size. Images are saved as gifs. There are restrictions though. Permission is granted for limited non-profit personal use of up to fifteen (15) images from all categories and credit is due on all published works. All commercial or institutional use requires licensing. Artie www.artie.com 15,000 animated gifs free for personal use. Give a link to the site if you use any of the animations on a website. Not available free for commercial sites. Barrys Clipart Server www.barrysclipart.com Very nice collection of clipart with a good search facility. Feel free to use Barrys Clipart Server content in personal/ non profit projects. You are not permitted to use any of the photo or clipart images for any commercial purposes. Bravenet http://resources.bravenet.com Thousands of free clipart images useful to webmasters, including all the usual buttons, dividers and bullets etc. Clip Art Warehouse www.clipart.co.uk Headers: Clipart, Animated Gifs Large selection of public domain clip art gathered together by Clip Art Warehouse. If you use one on your website they ask for a link back. Cool Clips http://dir.coolclips.com Headers: Clipart, Photos, Illustrations Really very good selection of good quality clipart. The only slight snag is that you can only get a 150 pixel (the size shown here) jpeg image of each piece of non animated clip art for free. To get any other size or file format you will have to pay! However, this is such a good website we are almost tempted...... We can find no restrictions on who can use the free clipart and photos shown here. Cool Notions http://dir.coolclips.com Headers: Free Animated Gifs, Free Clip Art, Free Web Page Backgrounds, Public Domain Images, IT Articles Not a particularly large collection of clip art and animations, but a refreshingly quirky one! The clipart is a mixture of clipart and photos and although many are public domain, you get the feeling that many of the others are by the web master himself - for example the animated gif shown here is in a category called Fun with 19th Century Illustrations. Watch closely! Well worth browsing through the categories as you may well turn up something unique and unusual. Designed to a T www.designedtoat.com Headers: Free Graphics, PSP Tutorials, Web Design, Logo Design, Design Tips Great selection of graphics free for personal and commercial use. Includes backgrounds, bullets, clipart and dividers. Plus some very useful tips for web designers. DisneyClips www.disneyclips.com Headers: Disney Clipart Thousands of unique Disney clipart, clipped andor coloured by the webmaster himself. There is also a collection of non-Disney characters. This clipart is extremely good quality and images are saved as gifs. (If you want to just copy them, you will need to print screen). Please note that these images are the copyright of Disney and thus can only be used for non-profit and private use. eDigg http://clipart.edigg.com Thousands of free clipart, covering a wide range of subjects, from nature to technology. The images are gifs and vary in size depending on the image - some are fairly large (eg 500x500 pixels), some a little smaller than this. These are good quality images that are completely free for either public or personal use. Free Clipart www.free-clipart-pictures.net Good selection of large size clipart. All graphics are free for teachers, educators etc. and personal homepages of webmasters. They will appreciate a link back from your website although you are under no obligation to do so. The graphics are not free for commercial use - if you wish to use any of them, please contact the site. Free Fever Clip Art www.freefever.com Seriously large collection of over 10,000 free clipart images and elsewhere on the site you can find buttons, backgrounds, bullets and animated gifs. The clipart varies in quality but well worth a look around as there is such a wide variety. Free Clipart Page 2 TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us Free Clipart and Animations     ");
array_files[59]=new Array(0,1,"./desktop_weather_programs.htm","2009-04-02","18K","UK Desktop Weather Programs - Easytorecall Webzine    ","UK Weather Programs, UK Weather Programmes, UK Desktop Weather, UK Desktop Weather Programmes, UK Desktop Weather Programs    ","Desktop Weather Programs suitable for use in the UK    "," UK Desktop Weather Programs - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Weather Main Index UK Desktop Weather Programs When I first went looking for a small program that could sit in my system tray and give me weather forecasts for my local area, Google seemed to produce a huge number of choices. However, that promise seemed to disappear the more I checked out the programs - most were for the USA! After an exhaustive(ting) search, I did manage to find a small number of free programs suitable for the UK that you can download from the internet. Most get the weather updated by The Weather Channel. The BBC gets its weather from the Met Office but at present only BBC Wales offers a desktop weather program. Here is hoping that the choice will become a little wider in the future! The one I eventually decided to use on my desktop was Weather Exchange. You can get it free from Downloads.com or you can download it direct from the developer, Ambient Weather. The weather data is supplied by a global network of weather enthusiasts who submit their data via the internet. Select the town or airport closest to you and you can choose from a drop down list of weather stations for that area. So far I have found the imformation to be fairly accurate and you get 5 day forecasts displayed on your desktop. Be careful though, you might get the bug! If you decide to buy a weather station (and the sort you need are not cheap - it will cost you anything from £150 upwards) and join the network, it is probably a good idea to buy the station from the UK rather than from Ambient Weather which is a US site. Another tool you might like to consider is Desktop Weather from The Weather Channel. With this particular one you can choose your nearest town and information such as temperature and wind speed is displayed. There is also information such as driving, ski, golf, sever weather and health weather information. Although you can customise this to your own area, Desktop Weather tends to be US centric, but even so has a lot of useful features. The Weather Watcher has a fairly professional feel about it. Simply hit the download data button on Weather Watcher and the information, including temperature, humidity, wind speed, pressure and much more, is displayed for the next 3 days. Options allow you to customise Weather Watcher which downloads the information from The Weather Channel. If you live in Wales , then you might like to try Desktop Derek, courtesy of BBC Wales. Derek (Derek Brockway) is definitely the most amusing desktop weather tool and will give you temperature, wind direction, visibility and pressure for your local area. There are links to the BBCs 5 day weather forecast, BBC Wales Weather and a webcam. Right click Derek and you can view detailed weather, change your town or just make Derek wave, twirl or do the Derek! The Weather Network, a Canadian Weather TV Station, has a tool called WeatherEye. There is an international section where major UK and european cities are listed. Clicking on the city name will open a page at The Weather Network giving 4 day forecasts. Desktop Sidebar (a whopping 10Mb download) will not only give you a snapshot of the weather in your local area for today and tomorrow, you can also have scrolling news from whichever news website you choose. It has a quick launch toolbar, your computers performance figures, a calendar, slideshow, messenger, ICQ, an analogue clock and more plus it will display various functions from Outlook Express so you can access your folders from the sidebar. All the major search engines are available to use. There is also an extension exchange where you can change the look of your sidebar and find plugins. You dont have to have all the toolbars displayed if you dont want - and bear in mind that it will use up resources on your computer, although the developers say that it uses minimal system resources. The weather is courtesy of The Weather Channel. If there is a budding meteorologist in the family, Weather Tracker from KIDware Software is suitable for younger children. This free program is very simple to use and allows you to record high and low temperatures plus rainfall. You can then display the information on graphs or bar charts. TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
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array_files[62]=new Array(0,1,"./articles_reviews.htm","2009-04-02","18K","Article and Reviews - Easytorecall Webzine    ","uk directory, Articles and Reviews    ","Easytorecall UK Web Directory Article and Reviews Index    "," Article and Reviews - Easytorecall Webzine Home | • webwatch • website of the day • free stuff on the web • articles • kings & queens game • prime ministers game • periodic table game • great art games Articles Easytorecall Articles and Reviews Ancient Board Games in Perspective - Book Review Wikipedia - Fonts of knowledge Affiliate Article - Taking Care of the Pennies. Making money from a sports or hobby website using UK specific affiliate schemes. Backgammon - a brief history, where to learn how to play online, where to play online, free backgammon software. Bellringing Article 1 - A non ringers look at a very English pastime. Bellringing Article 2 - Bellringing webnews Biscuits on the Net - A brief history, interesting links, basic recipe for shortbread plus great webistes for other biscuit recipes Blackjack Masterclass - Blackjack for beginners Chess Main Index - Includes chess articles, book reviews, chess webwatch and exclusive free issues of Chess Today Crazy Golf on lthe Net - interview with the webmaster of MiniatureGolfer.com Digital Cameras - How digital cameras work Foosball on the Net - A brief history of the game and some foosball related websites Getting Rid of Junk Letters/Phone Calls/Faxes - Its easy and its free (UK users only) Getting Rid of Spam - Plagued by spam? Or just want to protect yourself against it? We offer some helpful advice. Heros Fountain - How to make Heros Fountain Home Staging - How to prep your house for sale Internet Telephony - An introduction to internet telephony plus the best free Voip services Lectures on the Web - Where to find the best free lectures on the web Mahjong - Introdution plus where to play online and where to buy mahjong sets in the UK Naming Stars - Naming stars - what is all that about? Non Geographic Telephone Numbers - What are they and where to buy them Orrery - Containing: What is an Orrery?, A Brief History, Online Orrery Simulations, Make your own Orrery Simulation, Make your own Hands on Orrery, Where can I visit to see some Orreries?, Where can I buy an orrery?, Orrery Simulation Podcasting - a guide to the latest podcasts and free podcast software Poker Articles - a collection of 6 articles to help hone your poker skills Primates - Several pages dealing with primate classification, primates family tree, primate conservation and websites. Quizzes - Article Quotations on the web - Article Scrabble - Article plus: Play Scrabble (and Scrabble Type Games) Online Word Finders and Scrabble Solvers Associations clubs and tournaments Scrabble Software Shade-Grown Coffee - What is it? Severn Bore - Not so boreing! Spyware and Pop-Up Windows - How to get rid of spyware and pop up windows on your computer How Telescopes Work - A simple explanation. Telecope Specifications Explained - A must read if you are thinking of buying a telescope The Trachtenberg Method - An amazing man and his method. Volleyball Article - Mintonette on the web Waterpolo Article - Waterpolo on the net Dewpoint Temperature - Dewpoint temperature explained Desktop Weather Programs - Where to find desktop weather software suitable for the UK Sundials - Article plus where to buy sundials in the UK Setting up a Website - Beginners guide to setting up a website Top Tips for the Typist - How to improve your typing skills UK Shopping Articles: Buying Goods from Abroad Guide to Internet Shopping Internet Consumer Rights Returning Goods TopHome Copyright 2000-2008 easytorecall.com Terms - About Us     ");
array_files[63]=new Array(0,1,"./ancient_board_games_in_perspective_review.htm","2009-04-02","20K","Ancient Board Games in Perspective - Review    ","book review, Ancient Board Games in Perspective    ","A review of the book by Irving Finkel Ancient Board Games in Perspective    "," Ancient Board Games in Perspective - Review Home | An Easytorecall Book Review by Graham Brown See Also Books Articles & Reviews Chess Poker on the Web Monopoly Sites Online Games Ancient Board Games in Perspective edited by Irving Finkel 352p, 150 b/w illus British Museum Press 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0-7141-1153-7 ISBN-10: 0-7141-1153-8 Hardback. Price GB £50.00 Buy it from: Oxbow Books Oxford Tel: 01865 241249 Anyone who has worked in The Office must surely have met a Mr Know-it-all. I have ... he was a world authority on every subject you would care to air and a few you wouldnt. Then ... one day he started talking about chess. Now Im no Grandmaster or anywhere near, but I play quite a bit of this game ... its a passion. Suddenly it became clear ... the guy knew next to nothing! What he could do with great talent ... was talk bull for England. He shouldnt be wasting his time on me, he should be clocking on down the Houses of Parliament and helping to run the gaff. And so it was, that to help myself get a quick idea of how authoritative Ancient Board Games in Perspective was, I jumped straight to the Chess section. My guard against sharp suited con-artists. The first thing I noticed was that one of the Chapters was written by International Grandmaster Raymond Keene. OK, I know hes well known for his interest and erudition in Chess History. So far so good! Indeed as it turned out the contributors included scholars from all over the world. And the book was inspired by the first international colloquium on board games which took place at the British Museum. The 31 chapters are mostly derived from the lectures given at this conference. As I delved into Keenes Grandmasters of Shatrianj and the Dating of Chess I was drawn into the excitement of the flavour of the whole subject of Ancient Board Games itself. We are led back into history to a time when around 700AD a chess expert by the name of As-Suli created a chess puzzle. Keene uses it to demonstrate just how good the early masters of the game were. No one had succeeded in cracking this puzzle As-Suli created ... for thousands of years! Indeed it was only recently that the Russian Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh succeeded. We should thank Averback for this as the fact that he solved it proved that the puzzle itself wasnt just a bluff! And those who failed to solve it for thousands of years have also helped by showing the amazingly high standard of chess needed to create such a devious puzzle. From this it gives us an insight into the standard of chess of people from 1000s of years ago. There is no confusion involved, we are on a subject we can measure. Indeed the subject of board games overall can provide the same sort of checks and balances that my hobby of chess did in sussing out the office bluffer. We get a clearer view of history in the same way. Another interesting aspect of the book is that there is such a variety of subjects and viewpoints. There is plenty more on chess. But some of the other articles are even more interesting. The detail is amazing, the illustrations fascinating, many and varied. Chapter 2 deals with the Royal Game of Ur and makes a really good argument for it not being used as a game. Rather the boards found were used for divination, or a kind of fortune telling. This was for example used by rulers to determine when to construct a temple. Work wouldnt begin until the signs were right. Chapter 3 takes the same game and makes an even better argument for it being used both for divination and as a game! This is a tour de force in the work of a professional historian. He uses every technique. There are lots of statistics to analyse the dice throws, photos of original boards and a lot of work on deciphering codes. A tablet of unbaked clay which had been lying around the British Museum had cuneiform script on it. He identifies on one side the playing board - or to some it was just a board used for divination and telling fortunes. But on the other side ... are the rules of the game! Not content with that he also uses a cuneiform letter of the seventh century BC that occurs on a tablet from the library of ASsubanipal, king of Assyria. The letter was addressed to the king himself and writer alludes to the game to show his confidence in a future truimph in war. This is a massive chapter which must have taken ages to compile. It is also by the author of the book. He apologies for the book taking 17 years to compile ... the conference was in 1990! But I think this is simply a sign that the book is of the highest quality. After all a lesser editor could have put all the lectures together and put the book out in 17 days. I can imagine that such an academic book could be a bit dry and academic. But not a bit of it ... this book is alive with history and ideas and knock about debate. The sheer mixture and scope of the topics is mind blowing. This is CSI detective style archaeology, full of clues, hypothesis, red herrings, connections, ideas and opinions. Interesting and satisfying academic writing that succeeds in being engaging and entertaining. Contents 1. Homo Ludens: The Earliest Board Games in the Near East - St. John Simpson 2. The Royal Game of Ur - A. Becker 3. On the Rules for the Royal Game of Ur - I.F. Finkel 4. Mehen: The ancient game of the Serpent - T. Kendall 5. Were There Gamesters in Pharaonic Egypt? W.J. Tait 6. The Egyptian game of Senet and the Migration of the Soul, P. A. Piccione 7. 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array_files[77]=new Array(0,1,"./trinitylodge/visiting.htm","2009-03-04","3K","Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children    ","",""," Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children & Trinity Lodge Special School 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 e-mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Enabling Young Lives Visiting Residents are encouraged to have visitors and stay in contact where appropriate with individuals who are important to them. Trinity Lodge actively helps residents to maintain links with family and friends and willingly supports continuity with past arrangements. Facilities are available at Trinity Lodge to receive visitors in one of the many private areas at the home. Appropriate visitors, friends and family of residents are welcomed at all reasonable times. A telephone in a quiet, private area is made available for residents to stay in contact with all those people who are important to them, to discuss any private matters. Registered Provider as a Childrens Home(CLD) under the Care Standards Act 2000 Certificate No. H000000093, Service No. 0000015478     ");
array_files[78]=new Array(0,8,"./trinitylodge/trinityreferralform.doc","2009-03-04","180K","trinityreferralform.doc    ","",""," ABOUT THE YOUNG PERSON |Family Name: |Forename(s) | |Present Address: | | | |Gender: MALE / |Known as: | |FEMALE | | |Legal Status: |Who holds Parental Responsibility: | |Date of last Statutory Review: |Date of Birth, and Age: | |Place of Birth: |Language Spoken: | |Ethnic Origin: |Religion and Culture: | |Date of Arrival in United Kingdom: |Date of Asylum Application: | |Solicitor: | |Name, Address, Telephone and Fax numbers, of allocated Social Worker | |including Emergency Out of Hours Telephone and Fax numbers: | |Social Worker | |Name: | |Address: | | | |Telephone: | |Fax: | |Emergency Out of Hours Contact | |Telephone: | |Fax: | |Name and address of Referring Agency to Trinity Lodge | |Agency Name: | |Address: | REASONS FOR MAKING THE REFERRAL |Reasons for making the Referral (including current involvement): | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Details of the last three placements: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Has the Young Person ever lived in any of the following accommodation: | |Hostel YES / NO | |Bed & Breakfast YES / NO | INTERESTS, HOBBIES AND LEISURE |How does the Young Person spend their personal and social time? | | | | | | | | | | | SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE |What degree of skill would you say the Young Person has in the following | |areas: | |Tick appropriate Box |GOOD |MEDIUM |POOR |NEED HELP | |Personal Hygiene |( |( |( |( | |Relationships |( |( |( |( | |Relationships with Adults|( |( |( |( | |Relationships with Peer |( |( |( |( | |Groups | | | | | |Cooking |( |( |( |( | |Aware of Poor Diet |( |( |( |( | |Is competent in Self Care|( |( |( |( | |Cleaning |( |( |( |( | |Budgeting their Money |( |( |( |( | |Shopping |( |( |( |( | |Time Keeping |( |( |( |( | |Physical Exercise |( |( |( |( | |Communication |( |( |( |( | |Maintaining Safety and |( |( |( |( | |Security | | | | | |Are they familiar with |( |( |( |( | |their Rights in Care | | | | | |Eager to Learn |( |( |( |( | |Does your Client have any|( |( |( |( | |knowledge of the Law both| | | | | |Civil and/or Criminal, | | | | | |and their legal Rights | | | | | |Does your Client possess |( |( |( |( | |an awareness of sexual | | | | | |health issues and the | | | | | |nature of sexually | | | | | |transmitted diseases | | | | | |Does your Client have an | ( |( |( |( | |awareness of basic | | | | | |household chores e.g. | | | | | |changing a light bulb, | | | | | |changing a fuse in a | | | | | |plug? | | | | | PERSONAL |List your Clients Strengths. (This could be making people laugh, | |sensitivity to other peoples needs, etc.) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |List the number of incidents your Client has been involved in during the | |most recent placement. Describe how they were dealt with. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Is the Young Person receiving any counselling and/or any emotional support?| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Does your Client have a history of any of the following? | |If YES, expand on the answer, if appropriate. | | | |MENTAL ILLNESS. Yes / No | | | |VIOLENCE. Yes / No | | | |ALCOHOL ABUSE. Yes / No | | | |EX-OFFENDER. Yes / No | | | |DRUG ABUSE. Yes / NO | | | |CRIMINAL ACTIVITY (Specify). Yes / No | | | |SOLVENT ABUSE. Yes / NO | | | |GAMBLING. Yes / No | | | |BULLYING. Yes / NO | | | |SELF-HARM. Yes / No | | | |SLEEPING PATTERN/BED TIMES. Yes / No | | | |OTHER (please specify) | | | | | | | |Are there any persons to be refused contact? YES / NO. | |If YES, specify names and addresses below: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |FAMILY HISTORY - including siblings and significant others | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Contact arrangements with the Family: | | |ADDRESS |FREQUENCY | |MOTHER | | | |FATHER | | | |BROTHER(S) | | | |SISTER(S) | | | |PERSON WITH PARENTAL | | | |RESPONSIBILITY | | | |OTHER (PLEASE SPECIFY) | | | |Doctors Name and Address: | |Dr. | | | | | | | |Are there any diagnosed health concerns? YES / NO. Specify specific| |health needs. | | |YES |NO | |YES |NO | |EPILEPSY |( |( |ECZEMA |( |( | |DIET |( |( |DIABETES |( |( | |ALLERGIES |( |( |DISABILITIES |( |( | |SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA |( |( |ASTHMA |( |( | |GYNAECOLOGICAL |( |( |OTHER |( |( | |PROBLEMS | | | | | | |Any current medication? | | | |Periods in Hospital | |DATES |HOSPITAL |REASON |CONSULTANT | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | EDUCATION |School, or College, attending | | | | | | | |Education Performance | | | | | | | |What support does the Young Person need? | | | | | | | |If not in School, what are the educational arrangements? | | | | | LONG TERM OBJECTIVES FOR THE YOUNG PERSON |Please tick the Objective detailed below, if appropriate. | |( Rehabilitation to Birth Family | |( Rehabilitation to other Relatives | |( Long Term Foster Care | |( Referral to Alternative Residential Unit | |( Supported Living in the Community | |( Independent Living | |Other (please specify) | |( | |( | |( | |( | When this form has been completed, please send it back to the address listed on the front page. Signature: ______________________________________________________ Name ______________________________________________________ [PRINT NAME IN BLOCK LETTERS] Job Title: ______________________________________________________ Date: ______________________________________________________     ");
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array_files[80]=new Array(0,1,"./trinitylodge/termtimes.htm","2009-03-04","2K","Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children    ","",""," Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children & Trinity Lodge Special School 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 e-mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Enabling Young Lives Term Times for 06/07 The school year runs for 39 weeks. Term dates for the coming year are as follows: • Autumn 4th for September to 20th of December • Spring 3rd of Jan to 31st of March • Summer 16th April 20th of July The school day runs from 9am to 3.30pm Registered Provider as a Childrens Home(CLD) under the Care Standards Act 2000 Certificate No. H000000093, Service No. 0000015478     ");
array_files[81]=new Array(0,8,"./trinitylodge/td.doc","2009-03-04","24K","td.doc    ","",""," Brilliant! Right so what do you need from me now? I have some ideas for waht we need on the site - is there a standard format? Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: Graham Brown To: alex shaw Subject: Re: website Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:42:51 +0100 Dear Alex Thats it! Mystery Solved ftp.btconnect.com username: anariesingh password: paradise55 gets me to the right account to be able to amend the website! And its even better than that .... as I have found out that this account gives full contol of the trinitylodge.co.uk domain name!!! indeed it gives control to 3 additional domain names in total. The domain footstepscare is registered to Anslim Narinesingh at your companies address and you own the other two. So the reason trinity-lodge.co.uk was not available is that you own that one as well!:-) footstepscare.com renewal date 25/08/2007 trinity-lodge.co.uk renewal date 01/05/2007 trinitylodge.co.uk renewal date 25/08/2008 Here are the full account billing details Billing Details: Mr anslim nariesingh Mr Michael Ward 8 Trinity Av Westcliff-on-Sea SS0 7PU England Tel:01702434184 Company Details Alex Shaw Trinity Lodge 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff-on-Sea SS0 7PU England This account username: anariesingh password: paradise55 has the full Internet Business Pack which is £5 per month. I assume that the bill is going to 8 Trinity Avenue. I suggest we stay with the BT pack for now and you can always review it later. There are cheaper options but its still a reasonable deal for what is a huge amount of webspace. I just need to get familiar with the ftp and the current webspace set up but we can now move ahead with actually changing the site. cheers Graham Products you own Internet Business Pack Create and manage a functional website for your business quickly, with no software knowledge. BT Internet Business Pack includes: . A domain name (www.yourbusiness.co.uk) . Website Creator to build your website . Webspace to host your website (120Mb) . 100 personalised email addresses e.g. your.name@yourbusiness.co.uk or sales@yourbusiness.co.uk     ");
array_files[82]=new Array(0,8,"./trinitylodge/statementofpurposeletter.doc","2009-03-04","183K","statementofpurposeletter.doc    ","",""," 1.1 [pic] Trinity Lodge Residential Childrens Home 8 Trinity Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, Essex, SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 E-Mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Statement of Purpose and Function |CONTENTS | |Topic |Page | |Introduction |3 | |Aims and objectives |4 | |Facilities and Services |5 | |Registered Provider, Responsible person |6 | |Qualifications of the Registered Provider and Registered |7 | |Manager | | |Staff numbers and qualification |8 | |Supervision, Training and Development of Staff |8 | |Organisational Structure |10 | |Service Provision |10 | |Admission Criteria |11 | |Plan for Positive Outcomes |12 | |Ethos and Philosophy |13 | |Health protection and promotion |16 | |Education and promotion of education |17 | |Activities - Recreational, Sporting and Cultural |18 | |Consultation with young people |20 | |Control, restraint and discipline |21 | |Young person protection and to counter bullying |24 | |The procedure for dealing with unauthorised absence |25 | |Electronic surveillance of young people |25 | |Fire precaution and emergency procedures |25 | |Religious instruction and observance |26 | |Contact arrangements |26 | |Complaints |27 | |Reviews or Placement Plans |30 | |Accommodation and Sleeping arrangements |31 | |Therapeutic techniques used and arrangements for their |32 | |supervision | | |Anti-discriminatory practice and the young peoples rights|32 | |Appendix I - Organizational Structure Diagram |33 | |Appendix II - Staff qualifications and experiences |34 | | | | Introduction This Statement of Purpose and Function is written in accordance with the regulatory requirements of the Care Standards Act 2000 and the Childrens Home regulations 2001. The statement is produced by Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited. The directors of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited are: Crystal Shaw, Alex Shaw and Michael Ward. Reference is also made within the statement to a series of Trinity Lodge policy documents, which can be read in conjunction with this statement. These are all available in full at 8 Trinity Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 8AJ. A copy of this statement is provided to the Commission for Social Care Inspection and is also available to:- . Each person who works at Trinity Lodge . The placing Authority or Agency of any young person provided with accommodation at Trinity Lodge |...............................| |Date..............| |................... | |.......... | | |Alex Shaw | | | |Responsible Person| | |...............................| |Date | |..(acting) | |..................| | |William Farrow |...... | | |Registered manager| | 1 Aims and Objectives The removal of a child from their own home is considered potentially, one of the most invasive and life changing experiences of his or her life. This action is therefore at the pinnacle of child protection measures. All those involved in the partnership of care including the child, parents, others with parental responsibility, care staff, allocated social worker and any agreed interested party, must be confident that this action is, and will continue to make a positive difference in the life of each child as a result. Every possible care must always be taken to ensure that all children accommodated meet all the criteria for admission, placement continuation and eventual discharge as appropriate. The home will provide a service for children with learning disabilities. The World Health Organisation defines learning disabilities as: a state of arrest or incomplete development of mind and someone with a learning disability is said also to have significant impairment of intellectual function and significant impairment of adaptive/social functioning This means that children will have difficulties understanding and learning new things, and in generalising any learning to new situation, as well as having difficulties with a number of social tasks, for example communication, self-care, awareness of health and safety. A final dimension to the definition is that these impairments were present with the person from childhood, and not acquired as a result of an accident or following the onset of illness. In the UK, the Department of Health has used the terms moderate, severe and profound to classify learning disabilities. These have been linked to IQ test scores. More importantly attempts have been made to recognise that that the level of support children need in their lives are as important as the label given to their level of impairment. 1. Aims The home aims to:- . Provide a high quality service within a stable environment to meet the needs of young people with learning disabilities between 12 and 18 years of age who need medium to long-term residential care. . To enable young people placed at the home to develop emotionally, socially and educationally by assessing, planning, implementing and monitoring the young persons needs 2. Objective The Objectives of the home are:- . To enable young people who leave care to make a smooth transition of reintegration into:- - their own or another family; - other services or - adult residential services. . To work with the placing authority collaboratively to achieve the objectives of the overall care plan for the young person. . To enhance the personal self esteem of each young person by the creation and maintenance of a living environment which maximizes safe opportunities to learn, to develop, to make sense of previous experiences and to realize an appropriate degree of self- determination. Facilities and Services Provided 3. Each young person will have, prior to admission, an agreed Care Plan, detailing comprehensive arrangements for their care. 4. Each young person will have, and will be able to access, the support of an allocated social worker. 5. The Care Plan is considered a contract of care by those in the partnership of care. This sets out assessed needs of the young person, the objectives of the placement, how these are to be met and the contributions to be made by those in the partnership of care. The Care Plan must include as a minimum:- . Health needs and health promotion. . Care needs, including safeguarding and promoting welfare. . Physical and emotional needs. . Education needs and attainment targets. . Cultural, religious, language and racial needs and how they will be met. . Leisure needs. . Contact arrangements with family, friends and significant others. 6. Each young person will have an allocated key-worker. It will be the responsibility of the key-worker supported by other staff, to ensure that the requirements of the Care Plan are implemented in the day-to- day care of the young person. 7. The key worker will provide individual guidance, advice and support to the young person and will regularly make time available to the young person in order to do so. Such time may be referred to as Key- Work Sessions. 8. Where appropriate, to meet specific needs, those in the partnership of care will engage the services of specialist provision from other agencies, including therapists, specialist health providers, leaving care organisations and education services. 9. Each young person will have access to advocacy services which is independent of both the management of Trinity Lodge and the allocated field Social Worker. Information regarding such services will be made available to the young person who may require assistance in accessing the service. The Registered Provider and Registered Manager 10. The registered provider for Trinity Lodges services is:- Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea Essex, SS0 7PU 11. The Responsible Individual (as defined under current legislation). On behalf of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited, responsible for management of the services at Trinity Lodge is:- Mr Alex Shaw 12. The Registered Manager is: William Farrow Qualifications of the Registered Provider and Registered Manager 4.1 Responsible Individual- Alex Shaw Alex studied for his B.A. Hons degree at Bristol University before moving to UCL to study for a Masters degree. Since finishing university Alex held senior management and general management positions before co-founding Trinity Lodge in 2000 and registering as responsible individual, initially under the old Registered Homes Act 84 with reference to the Children Act 89. In 2002 Alex was then registered under the NCSC and latterly the CSCI. Alex has achieved an NVQ4 for Management in Care (with childcare modules), Advance Food Hygiene certificate, Child Protection certificates and is currently studying for a degree in Health and Social Care. Alex is also a director of two other registered homes for children with learning disabilities. 4.2 Manager- William Farrow William Joined Trinity Lodge in 2005 having previously managed Elderly and Adult Learning Disabilities services, and has many years experience in care. William has Foundation and Advanced Care Management qualifications, specific Learning Disabilities qualifications and has a hands-on, person-centred approach to management. His enthusiasm and dedication will provide Trinity with the opportunity to continue to move forward with its service provision. 3. Deputy Manager - Sophie Zwizwai Sophie is the longest serving member of our staff team and has recently qualified as a Social Worker. Sophie holds a BA with Education Degree, BA (Hons) Social Work Degree, a Diploma in Special Education Needs and a Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education. Sophie has vast experience in looking after children with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour and brings a wealth of experience to the management team. Sophie is an NVQ Assessor for Caring For Children and Young Persons and is an Associate Lecturer with South East Essex College in the Education and Social Studies department. Other courses Sophie is qualified to teach are Moving & Handling, Food Hygiene and Anti-Discriminatory practice. Staff numbers and qualification Trinity Lodge will have a manager who will be supported by a Deputy, Senior Residential Social Workers and Team Leaders and a team of full- time and part-time Residential Social Workers. The nights are always staffed by a waking night team, who may be supplemented by sleep-in staff. The home also has an attached pool of relief staff to cover any staffing shortfalls. For specific details please see Appendix II - Staff Details. A minimum of two staff members will be on duty at any time. The minimum ratio of staff to young people will be 1:3. Supervision, Training and Development of staff 4. Supervision . Supervision is an integral and necessary tool for the effective, efficient and safe delivery of services to young people in public care :- . Supervision is provided for all staff at Trinity Lodge, using a variety of formats, including peer supervision, team meetings and where appropriate, action learning events. All staff are provided with individual, direct 1:1 supervision from a senior member of staff at least once per month. For full details of this programme, please refer to the corporate staff supervision policy (available at Trinity Lodge). . All supervision appointments are recorded within an annual schedule, so that all staff are aware when and where this is available. . New members of staff will be given supervision on a fortnightly basis during the first 6 months of their employment. . Staff employed in the staff bank relief pool, are provided with supervision no less frequently than after each eight shifts worked at Trinity Lodge. . Records are kept, of agreed actions and targets for each staff member. 5. Training . All staff engaged by Trinity Lodge will have a period of induction on commencement of their appointment. . Trinity Lodge has an annual training plan, detailing both the base training requirements for all staff and the specific and specialist areas required by individual staff, to meet the needs and purpose of the home. . As required by legislation, a minimum ratio of 80% of all care staff at Trinity Lodge will have completed their NVQ level 3 in Caring for young people & Young People (or a course with similar competency based assessment) by Jan 2005. . New staff engaged from January 2007, will hold the NVQ level 3 or be working towards this or another qualification which matches the assessed competencies required for this training, or begin working toward them within three months of joining the Team. . In addition, All new members of staff are required to complete a detailed and assessed Induction Programme at Trinity Lodge . An introduction to child protection, Fire training, the education policy for young people in public care, medicine administration procedures and recording will be provided for all staff, as part of their induction programme. . All staff members will be required to undergo training in caring for children with learning disabilities. Trinity Lodge will source training places on suitable courses and provide bespoke training within the unit. . The home will also source courses accredited by the British Institute for Learning Disablities (BILD). . All staff working at Trinity Lodge will be trained and regularly updated in the safe handling and administration of medicines. All In-house training will be recorded. 6. Staff Development . All staff will keep an updated personal, professional development portfolio, which will contain all details of their previous training and professional experiences, their qualifications and their agreed development targets (with completion criteria) for the following year. . All staff will have an annual appraisal where they can discuss their performance, identify training needs and agree targets. . All staff development requirements will be identified and agreed through supervision and the on-going appraisal process. Training & development opportunities will be provided for a minimum of six paid days per year, for each staff member . Staff will be encouraged to access post-qualifying and management training in young peoples care, as appropriate Organizational structure The registered provider - Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Ltd has been operating in this sector for four years. The directors of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Ltd are:- Crystal Shaw, Alex Shaw and Michael Ward. For specific details please refer to Appendix I - Organisational Structure and Appendix II - Staff Details Service Provision 7. Trinity Lodge is designated as a medium to long-term residential young peoples home, for young people with a Care Plan to remain looked-after by the Local Authority through to reunification, alternative family or care placement or through to their adulthood. 8. Trinity Lodge is designed to provide accommodation for a maximum of six young people (of both genders) at any time, who will have a learning disability (Autism, Aspergers etc) and may display various forms of challenging behaviour, may have experienced various forms of abuse, may display a wide variety of associated trauma related behaviour(s) and who may be the subject of appropriate legal orders. 9. Trinity Lodge can provide accommodation for young people with a wide cross-section of needs, within a broad age range from 12 to 18 and of both genders. 10. In providing accommodation, it is anticipated and understood that each young person will have individual and special needs. Specialized services for young people with acute mental health and/or physical disability needs are not provided within Trinity Lodge. Criteria for admission 11. All referrals must be made to the Registered Manager or Deputy Manager. Placing Authorities will usually telephone to find out if a bed is available. The following information must be obtained to process a request for placement: - Age of the young person - Sex - Does the young person have diagnosed learning disability? - Are there special needs identified? . The home will accept emergency and planned placements as defined in section 9.6. . If clarity needs to be established the Responsible Individual or Registered Manager will contact and inform the referring Agency. . In the absence of the Registered Manager all referrals will be handled by the Responsible Individual. . Trinity Lodge Referral Forms are to be completed by the referring Social Worker and authorised by the Team Manager. . A Duty Social Worker/Allocated Social Worker to be identified on Referral Form. . All Young People referred to Trinity Lodge must have a named Social Worker within three days of admission 12. In accordance with good practice, at the point of referral, it is expected that alternative resources will already have been explored, including placement with extended family and/or friends. A positive decision should then have been taken, that placement at Trinity Lodge is the best option available to meet the young persons assessed need(s). 13. The needs of any new young person concerned, and the likely effects of his/her admission upon the existing group of residents, are fully considered and recorded, when making decisions in respect of all admissions to the home. This is to ensure a best-fit matching for all young persons and to ensure that, as far as possible, no young person presents a significant risk to the safety or developmental opportunities of any other. 14. In all cases, the proposed new young person, along with any person with parental responsibility should be made aware of the pre- admission assessment, the outcome of this, and will have been as involved as possible in the pre-placement planning. 15. Trinity Lodge can offer a home to young people who have a history of behavioral problems and has an educational statement. However, a full case discussion will be required prior to a service being offered, in order to identify additional/specialist resources needed. In all cases, regardless of past circumstances, all information appertaining to each young person, including any risk assessment(s) must be shared (in accordance with Health & Safety legislation) between all agencies involved in placement. 16. A planned placement is accommodation arranged with the maximum amount of information for all involved in the partnership of care for the young person. It provides the opportunity for the young person to visit Trinity Lodge prior to admission, and agrees the tasks, preferred outcomes and the time limits of the placement, as outlined in the care plan. An emergency Placement is accommodation arranged with essential information available and the need by a placing authority to have the child accommodated prior to the young person visiting the home. A risk assessment must be done prior to admission. A review meeting regarding the placement must be convened within 72 hours of first accommodating the child. 17. In all cases, care planning will then follow the schedule set within the Department of Health Looked-after Young people system. i.e.: First review of care plan within 28 days of placement and then three months and six months. Further reviews will take place at six monthly or annually; or as requested sooner by any member of the Partnership of Care. The statutory paperwork complete with consent forms must be made available at point of placement. Plan for Positive Outcomes 18. Trinity Lodge strives to provide a secure and stable environment for young people. The vision is to provide a positive care option for young people requiring residential care 19. The style of operation is to simulate, wherever possible a family type environment. Staff will try to include the young people where possible in their duties periodically to give them a sense of reality as is usual in a family home. Such duties may include preparation of meals and domestic tasks. Similarly, doors are not usually locked (save for the Staff offices and bedrooms to provide privacy) and young people are encouraged and assisted by the staff to play an active role in the operation of the home. 20. Young people are informed and will participate in any decision to change the arrangements for their accommodation. Changes made to the home will be discussed. New staff will be introduced to young people and new residents introduced to existing residents. The underlying ethos and philosophy of Trinity Lodge 21. The Department of Health identifies six core values which contribute to quality care practice in all residential settings. They are:- . Privacy . Dignity . Independence . Choice . Rights . Fulfillment Trinity Lodge seeks to promote all of these values at all times, by way of the following examples of good practice. 22. Privacy:- . All young people have their own room. . All young people will receive sensitivity in practice, especially when dealing with personal issues. . Information about all young people will remain confidential. Information about one young person will not therefore be disclosed to another, or to any inappropriate source. . At Trinity Lodge, there is no designated visitors room or facilities at this time, however there is a plan to utilize a dedicated room in the next door provision (number 6) as an extra lounge which will include use for visitors and scheduled meetings with other professionals. The aim of this is to ensure that the young peoples areas are not used for these purposes. Care is taken to ensure that there is a homely environment, and to not develop an institutional feel. 23. Dignity . Staff have an active awareness of each persons racial, cultural, religious and dietary needs, enabling the celebration of difference for all. Trinity Lodge provides a living environment and operational culture that places the needs of young people as paramount, above all others. . Trinity Lodge uses techniques for managing young peoples behaviour, based principally on reinforcement and reward, avoiding punitive measures in reaction to negative behaviour(s), so that young people can learn from their mistakes and from the modeling of staff and the adults around them. 24. Independence . Trinity Lodge provides a living environment and operational culture which encourages the development of self-confidence and which allows young people appropriate opportunities to take some calculated risks, in their learning journey. . At Trinity Lodge, each young person is able to access and record in their own personal file. . Trinity Lodge will implement an independent living skills programme, for young people to use in their learning journey toward the maximum appropriate independence. . Trinity Lodge works in partnership with leaving care services of placing Local Authorities, to ensure access to support systems for young people leaving the homes service. . The provision of clear information about how to complain is available to all young people at all times. . All young people have access to an independent advocacy service including the provision of a free-phone telephone service 11.5 Choice . Each young person is encouraged to personalise their own bedroom within reason. . New residents of Trinity Lodge, (following initial settling-in) will each be encouraged to re-design the décor of their own room, for which a budget allocation is made. . Young people are actively encouraged to share and influence (appropriate to age) the day-to-day routines and practices within the home through a variety of means, including attending residents meetings. . Young people are encouraged to exercise their own religious and cultural preferences. . Young people are actively encouraged to partake in a wide variety of leisure activities. 25. Rights . Trinity Lodge supports, promotes and complies with the European Convention on the Rights of the Young person (copy available at the home). . Trinity Lodge Provides a safe physical environment. . Trinity Lodge actively promotes social learning, so that all young people can learn to understand their rights and responsibilities within the home, within the community and toward others . All young people are made aware of how they should expect staff to behave, and what they should do if this is not their experience. . All young people are provided with guidance, which informs them how to influence decisions about their future. . All young people are provided with information about the independent advocacy service and of how they can pursue a complaint (both formal and informal). 11.6 Fulfillment . The use of care planning and reviews (LAC system) at Trinity Lodge, will be used to track developments for each young person and ensure that service provision most appropriately meets health, education and social needs in order to maximize the future life chances for each young person. . Trinity Lodge will actively promote family contact, as appropriate and agreed in the Care Plan for each young person. . Each young person will be given the opportunity to actively engage in, and influence the planning and delivery of services for them. . Trinity Lodge plan to develop a multi-agency steering group, with parents/people with parental responsibility and young people (resident) representatives within the next 6 months of operation. This will focus on general developments of the service provision. . Led by the staff group, Trinity Lodge will strive to ensure that each young person has the opportunity to engage fully in their local community. Health protection and promotion The arrangement to protect and promote the health of young people accommodated at Trinity Lodge . 26. Given the importance of ensuring that a young persons health is adequately monitored whilst living at Trinity Lodge, the key worker will ensure the compilation of a full health history (which is recorded on the LAC documentation), including details of vaccinations, serious illnesses and episodes of hospitalisation. This will form the basis of their personal health record, which they will complete and retain throughout the time they spend in care. Any gaps or further information required will be requested from parents/carer or the young persons GP. 27. As part of the admission process, the key worker will ensure, in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that each young person is registered with a local GP. 28. The key worker will also ensure, again in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that arrangements are in place for each young person to visit a dentist once every six months, or more often if necessary, and that they are encouraged to attend. 29. The key worker will also ensure, again in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that arrangements are in place for each young person to visit an optician once every twelve months, or more frequently if necessary, and that they are encouraged to attend. 30. Where a young person has a medical condition that necessitates regular medication, decisions about who will be responsible for administering this will be taken after consultation with the GP and those with parental responsibility. Medications kept at Trinity Lodge will always be stored in a locked receptacle and labeled for each young person and is for that young person to use ONLY. When working towards independence - self administration by a young person of their own medication is a skill they need to learn - this will be negotiated and a risk assessment carried out to help assess the situation. 31. All care staff at Trinity Lodge, share a common responsibility to promote the health and welfare of all accommodated young people. To this end, they have a responsibility for talking to young people in an age appropriate manner, about things which may adversely effect their health: Typically this may include personal hygiene, diet, smoking, alcohol, drug and solvent misuse and general health. 32. With the approval of those with parental responsibility (for those under 16), staff will provide age appropriate information and seek to deal with issues which arise for each young person from their developing sexuality. Typically, this may involve the provision of education and guidance in respect of sexual activity, contraception, promiscuity, sexuality, HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted diseases. Appropriate literature from the Health Education Department of the Health Authority may be made available. 33. All health checks, health appointments and medications (including non-prescribed) are recorded on individual medical records held at the home, which clearly identify (with a photograph) each young person. 34. All staff are conversant with first-aid requirements. Trinity Lodge will work towards all members of staff completing basic training in First aid. 35. Specialist therapeutic and counseling services are available from the Health service 36. Young people aged 16 years and over can give their consent to medical treatment. Young people below this age may also give consent depending on their capacity to understand the treatment. It is for the doctor to decide whether the young person is capable of giving informed consent. Young people who are of an age and understanding to withhold informed consent CANNOT be medically examined or treated without their consent. This can be over ridden by someone with parental responsibility. 37. In accordance with government LAC 94(4) guidance, all young people are actively discouraged from smoking. Smoking is not permitted within the building at Trinity Lodge. Only young persons aged 16 years and over may be permitted to smoke and then only outside of the home, away from other young people. Staff are not allowed to smoke in front of the young people at any time, or to provide any assistance for young people to smoke. Education and promotion of education This section should be read in conjunction with information regarding Trinity Lodge School within which facility it is our intention to provide bespoke, on-site educational facilities. We are currently undergoing the registration process and already provide part-time on site tutoring from a specialist teacher to meet the needs of our residents who have already been excluded from school. Arrangements for the education and promotion of education for young people accommodated including facilities for private study. 1. Education, in all of its forms, is one of the cornerstones of personal growth and development. All young people will be actively encouraged to partake in educational opportunities appropriate to their need(s). 13.2 Trinity Lodge is determined to support young peoples education by the widest means possible. This support should also, in all cases, be available from all members of the partnership of care and/or any other appropriate person. This might include, Social Worker, social inclusion officer, School/College, Special Needs service, Educational Psychologist,       ");
array_files[83]=new Array(0,4,"./trinitylodge/statementofpurposea4.pdf","2009-03-04","227K"," Draft Statement of Purpose and Function    ","     ","     ","1.1 RESIDENTIAL HOME FOR CHILDREN/YOUNG PEOPLE IN NEED OF CARE Statement of Purpose and Function Trinity Lodge Residential Childrens Home 8 Trinity Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, Essex, SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 E-Mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk 01-06 Statement of Purpose and Function 2 Statement of Purpose and Function CONTENTS Topic Page Introduction Aims and objectives Facilities and Services Registered Provider, Responsible person Qualifications of the Registered Provider and Registered Manager Staff numbers and qualification Supervision, Training and Development of Staff Organisational Structure Service Provision Admission Criteria Plan for Positive Outcomes Ethos and Philosophy Health protection and promotion Education and promotion of education Activities ­ Recreational, Sporting and Cultural Consultation with young people Control, restraint and discipline Young person protection and to counter bullying The procedure for dealing with unauthorised absence Electronic surveillance of young people Fire precaution and emergency procedures Religious instruction and observance Contact arrangements Complaints Reviews or Placement Plans Accommodation and Sleeping arrangements Therapeutic techniques used and arrangements for their supervision Anti-discriminatory practice and the young peoples rights Appendix I ­ Organizational Structure Diagram Appendix II ­ Staff qualifications and experiences 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 10 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 20 21 24 25 25 25 26 26 27 30 31 32 32 33 34 Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 3 Introduction This Statement of Purpose and Function is written in accordance with the regulatory requirements of the Care Standards Act 2000 and the Childrens Home regulations 2001. The statement is produced by Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited. The directors of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited are: Crystal Shaw, Alex Shaw and Michael Ward. Reference is also made within the statement to a series of Trinity Lodge policy documents, which can be read in conjunction with this statement. These are all available in full at 8 Trinity Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 8AJ. A copy of this statement is provided to the Commission for Social Care Inspection and is also available to:· · Each person who works at Trinity Lodge The placing Authority or Agency of any young person provided with accommodation at Trinity Lodge .................................................. Alex Shaw Responsible Person Date........................ .................................(acting) William Farrow Registered manager Date ........................ Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 4 1 Aims and Objectives The removal of a child from their own home is considered potentially, one of the most invasive and life changing experiences of his or her life. This action is therefore at the pinnacle of child protection measures. All those involved in the `partnership of care including the child, parents, others with parental responsibility, care staff, allocated social worker and any agreed interested party, must be confident that this action is, and will continue to make a positive difference in the life of each child as a result. Every possible care must always be taken to ensure that all children accommodated meet all the criteria for admission, placement continuation and eventual discharge as appropriate. The home will provide a service for children with learning disabilities. The World Health Organisation defines learning disabilities as: `a state of arrest or incomplete development of mind and someone with a learning disability is said also to have `significant impairment of intellectual function and significant impairment of adaptive/social functioning This means that children will have difficulties understanding and learning new things, and in generalising any learning to new situation, as well as having difficulties with a number of social tasks, for example communication, self-care, awareness of health and safety. A final dimension to the definition is that these impairments were present with the person from childhood, and not acquired as a result of an accident or following the onset of illness. In the UK, the Department of Health has used the terms moderate, severe and profound to classify learning disabilities. These have been linked to IQ test scores. More importantly attempts have been made to recognise that that the level of support children need in their lives are as important as the label given to their level of impairment. Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 1.1 Aims The home aims to:· 5 Provide a high quality service within a stable environment to meet the needs of young people with learning disabilities between 12 and 18 years of age who need medium to long-term residential care. To enable young people placed at the home to develop emotionally, socially and educationally by assessing, planning, implementing and monitoring the young persons needs Objective The Objectives of the home are:- · 1.2 · To enable young people who leave care to make a smooth transition of reintegration into:- their own or another family; - other services or - adult residential services. To work with the placing authority collaboratively to achieve the objectives of the overall care plan for the young person. · · To enhance the personal self esteem of each young person by the creation and maintenance of a living environment which maximizes safe opportunities to learn, to develop, to make sense of previous experiences and to realize an appropriate degree of selfdetermination. 2 Facilities and Services Provided 2.1 Each young person will have, prior to admission, an agreed Care Plan, detailing comprehensive arrangements for their care. Each young person will have, and will be able to access, the support of an allocated social worker. The Care Plan is considered a `contract of care by those in the `partnership of care. This sets out assessed needs of the young person, the objectives of the placement, how these are to be met and the contributions to be made by those in the `partnership of care. The Care Plan must include as a minimum:· · Health needs and health promotion. Care needs, including safeguarding and promoting welfare. 2.2 2.3 Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function · · · · · 2.4 6 Physical and emotional needs. Education needs and attainment targets. Cultural, religious, language and racial needs and how they will be met. Leisure needs. Contact arrangements with family, friends and significant others. Each young person will have an allocated key-worker. It will be the responsibility of the key-worker supported by other staff, to ensure that the requirements of the Care Plan are implemented in the dayto-day care of the young person. The key worker will provide individual guidance, advice and support to the young person and will regularly make time available to the young person in order to do so. Such time may be referred to as `Key-Work Sessions. Where appropriate, to meet specific needs, those in the `partnership of care will engage the services of specialist provision from other agencies, including therapists, specialist health providers, leaving care organisations and education services. Each young person will have access to advocacy services which is independent of both the management of Trinity Lodge and the allocated field Social Worker. Information regarding such services will be made available to the young person who may require assistance in accessing the service. 2.5 2.6 2.7 3 The Registered Provider and Registered Manager 3.1 The registered provider for Trinity Lodges services is:Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea Essex, SS0 7PU 3.2 The `Responsible Individual (as defined under current legislation). On behalf of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited, responsible for management of the services at Trinity Lodge is:Mr Alex Shaw 3.3 The Registered Manager is: William Farrow Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 7 4 Qualifications of the Registered Provider and Registered Manager 4.1 Responsible Individual- Alex Shaw Alex studied for his B.A. Hons degree at Bristol University before moving to UCL to study for a Masters degree. Since finishing university Alex held senior management and general management positions before co-founding Trinity Lodge in 2000 and registering as responsible individual, initially under the old Registered Homes Act 84 with reference to the Children Act 89. In 2002 Alex was then registered under the NCSC and latterly the CSCI. Alex has achieved an NVQ4 for Management in Care (with childcare modules), Advance Food Hygiene certificate, Child Protection certificates and is currently studying for a degree in Health and Social Care. Alex is also a director of two other registered homes for children with learning disabilities. 4.2 Manager- William Farrow William Joined Trinity Lodge in 2005 having previously managed Elderly and Adult Learning Disabilities services, and has many years experience in care. William has Foundation and Advanced Care Management qualifications, specific Learning Disabilities qualifications and has a hands-on, person-centred approach to management. His enthusiasm and dedication will provide Trinity with the opportunity to continue to move forward with its service provision. 4.3 Deputy Manager ­ Sophie Zwizwai Sophie is the longest serving member of our staff team and has recently qualified as a Social Worker. Sophie holds a BA with Education Degree, BA (Hons) Social Work Degree, a Diploma in Special Education Needs and a Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education. Sophie has vast experience in looking after children with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour and brings a wealth of experience to the management team. Sophie is an NVQ Assessor for Caring For Children and Young Persons and is an Associate Lecturer with South East Essex College in the Education and Social Studies department. Other courses Sophie is qualified to teach are Moving & Handling, Food Hygiene and Anti-Discriminatory practice. Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 8 5 Staff numbers and qualification Trinity Lodge will have a manager who will be supported by a Deputy, Senior Residential Social Workers and Team Leaders and a team of full-time and part-time Residential Social Workers. The nights are always staffed by a waking night team, who may be supplemented by sleep-in staff. The home also has an attached pool of relief staff to cover any staffing shortfalls. For specific details please see Appendix II ­ Staff Details. A minimum of two staff members will be on duty at any time. The minimum ratio of staff to young people will be 1:3. 6 Supervision, Training and Development of staff 6.3 Supervision · Supervision is an integral and necessary tool for the effective, efficient and safe delivery of services to young people in public care :Supervision is provided for all staff at Trinity Lodge, using a variety of formats, including peer supervision, team meetings and where appropriate, action learning events. All staff are provided with individual, direct 1:1 supervision from a senior member of staff at least once per month. For full details of this programme, please refer to the corporate staff supervision policy (available at Trinity Lodge). All supervision appointments are recorded within an annual schedule, so that all staff are aware when and where this is available. New members of staff will be given supervision on a fortnightly basis during the first 6 months of their employment. Staff employed in the `staff bank relief pool, are provided with supervision no less frequently than after each eight shifts worked at Trinity Lodge. Records are kept, of agreed actions and targets for each staff member. · · · · · 6.4 Training · All staff engaged by Trinity Lodge will have a period of induction on commencement of their appointment. Trinity Lodge has an annual training plan, detailing both the base training requirements for all staff and the specific and · Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 9 specialist areas required by individual staff, to meet the needs and purpose of the home. · As required by legislation, a minimum ratio of 80% of all care staff at Trinity Lodge will have completed their NVQ level 3 in `Caring for young people & Young People (or a course with similar competency based assessment) by Jan 2005. New staff engaged from January 2007, will hold the NVQ level 3 or be working towards this or another qualification which matches the assessed competencies required for this training, or begin working toward them within three months of joining the Team. In addition, All new members of staff are required to complete a detailed and assessed Induction Programme at Trinity Lodge An introduction to child protection, Fire training, the education policy for young people in public care, medicine administration procedures and recording will be provided for all staff, as part of their induction programme. All staff members will be required to undergo training in caring for children with learning disabilities. Trinity Lodge will source training places on suitable courses and provide bespoke training within the unit. The home will also source courses accredited by the British Institute for Learning Disablities (BILD). All staff working at Trinity Lodge will be trained and regularly updated in the safe handling and administration of medicines. All In-house training will be recorded. · · · · · · 6.5 Staff Development · All staff will keep an updated personal, professional development portfolio, which will contain all details of their previous training and professional experiences, their qualifications and their agreed development targets (with completion criteria) for the following year. All staff will have an annual appraisal where they can discuss their performance, identify training needs and agree targets. All staff development requirements will be identified and agreed through supervision and the on-going appraisal process. Training & development opportunities will be provided for a minimum of six paid days per year, for each staff member · · Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function · 10 Staff will be encouraged to access post-qualifying and management training in young peoples care, as appropriate 7 Organizational structure The registered provider ­ Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Ltd has been operating in this sector for four years. The directors of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Ltd are:Crystal Shaw, Alex Shaw and Michael Ward. For specific details please refer to Appendix I ­ Organisational Structure and Appendix II ­ Staff Details 8 Service Provision 8.3 Trinity Lodge is designated as a medium to long-term residential young peoples home, for young people with a Care Plan to remain looked-after by the Local Authority through to reunification, alternative family or care placement or through to their adulthood. Trinity Lodge is designed to provide accommodation for a maximum of six young people (of both genders) at any time, who will have a learning disability (Autism, Aspergers etc) and may display various forms of challenging behaviour, may have experienced various forms of abuse, may display a wide variety of associated trauma related behaviour(s) and who may be the subject of appropriate legal orders. Trinity Lodge can provide accommodation for young people with a wide cross-section of needs, within a broad age range from 12 to 18 and of both genders. In providing accommodation, it is anticipated and understood that each young person will have individual and special needs. Specialized services for young people with acute mental health and/or physical disability needs are not provided within Trinity Lodge. 8.4 8.5 8.6 9 Criteria for admission 9.3 All referrals must be made to the Registered Manager or Deputy Manager. Placing Authorities will usually telephone to find out if a bed is available. The following information must be obtained to process a request for placement: - Age of the young person - Sex Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function - Does the young person have diagnosed learning disability? - Are there special needs identified? 11 The home will accept emergency and planned placements as defined in section 9.6. · · · · · If clarity needs to be established the Responsible Individual or Registered Manager will contact and inform the referring Agency. In the absence of the Registered Manager all referrals will be handled by the Responsible Individual. Trinity Lodge Referral Forms are to be completed by the referring Social Worker and authorised by the Team Manager. A Duty Social Worker/Allocated Social Worker to be identified on Referral Form. All Young People referred to Trinity Lodge must have a named Social Worker within three days of admission 9.4 In accordance with good practice, at the point of referral, it is expected that alternative resources will already have been explored, including placement with extended family and/or friends. A positive decision should then have been taken, that placement at Trinity Lodge is the best option available to meet the young persons assessed need(s). The needs of any new young person concerned, and the likely effects of his/her admission upon the existing group of residents, are fully considered and recorded, when making decisions in respect of all admissions to the home. This is to ensure a `best-fit matching for all young persons and to ensure that, as far as possible, no young person presents a significant risk to the safety or developmental opportunities of any other. In all cases, the proposed new young person, along with any person with parental responsibility should be made aware of the preadmission assessment, the outcome of this, and will have been as involved as possible in the pre-placement planning. Trinity Lodge can offer a home to young people who have a history of behavioral problems and has an `educational statement. However, a full case discussion will be required prior to a service being offered, in order to identify additional/specialist resources needed. In all cases, regardless of past circumstances, all information appertaining to each young person, including any risk assessment(s) must be shared (in accordance with Health & Safety legislation) between all agencies involved in placement. 9.5 9.6 9.7 Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 9.8 12 A planned placement is accommodation arranged with the maximum amount of information for all involved in the `partnership of care for the young person. It provides the opportunity for the young person to visit Trinity Lodge prior to admission, and agrees the tasks, preferred outcomes and the time limits of the placement, as outlined in the care plan. An emergency Placement is accommodation arranged with essential information available and the need by a placing authority to have the child accommodated prior to the young person visiting the home. A risk assessment must be done prior to admission. A review meeting regarding the placement must be convened within 72 hours of first accommodating the child. 9.9 In all cases, care planning will then follow the schedule set within the Department of Health `Looked-after Young people system. i.e.: First review of care plan within 28 days of placement and then three months and six months. Further reviews will take place at six monthly or annually; or as requested sooner by any member of the `Partnership of Care. The statutory paperwork complete with consent forms must be made available at point of placement. 10 Plan for Positive Outcomes 10.3 Trinity Lodge strives to provide a secure and stable environment for young people. The vision is to provide a positive care option for young people requiring residential care The style of operation is to simulate, wherever possible a `family type environment. Staff will try to include the young people where possible in their duties periodically to give them a sense of reality as is usual in a family home. Such duties may include preparation of meals and domestic tasks. Similarly, doors are not usually locked (save for the Staff offices and bedrooms to provide privacy) and young people are encouraged and assisted by the staff to play an active role in the operation of the home. Young people are informed and will participate in any decision to change the arrangements for their accommodation. Changes made to the home will be discussed. New staff will be introduced to young people and new residents introduced to existing residents. 10.4 10.5 Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 13 11 The underlying ethos and philosophy of Trinity Lodge 11.3 The Department of Health identifies six core values which contribute to quality care practice in all residential settings. They are:· Privacy · Dignity · Independence · Choice · Rights · Fulfillment Trinity Lodge seeks to promote all of these values at all times, by way of the following examples of good practice. Privacy:· All young people have their own room. · All young people will receive sensitivity in practice, especially when dealing with personal issues. · Information about all young people will remain confidential. Information about one young person will not therefore be disclosed to another, or to any inappropriate source. · At Trinity Lodge, there is no designated visitors room or facilities at this time, however there is a plan to utilize a dedicated room in the next door provision (number 6) as an extra lounge which will include use for visitors and scheduled meetings with other professionals. The aim of this is to ensure that the young peoples areas are not used for these purposes. Care is taken to ensure that there is a homely environment, and to not develop an institutional feel. 11.4 11.5 Dignity · Staff have an active awareness of each persons racial, cultural, religious and dietary needs, enabling the celebration of difference for all. Trinity Lodge provides a living environment and operational culture that places the needs of young people as paramount, above all others. Trinity Lodge uses techniques for managing young peoples behaviour, based principally on reinforcement and reward, avoiding punitive measures in reaction to negative behaviour(s), so that young people can learn from their mistakes and from the modeling of staff and the adults around them. · 11.6 Independence · Trinity Lodge provides a living environment and operational culture which encourages the development of self-confidence Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 14 · · · · · and which allows young people appropriate opportunities to take some calculated risks, in their learning journey. At Trinity Lodge, each young person is able to access and record in their own personal file. Trinity Lodge will implement an independent living skills programme, for young people to use in their learning journey toward the maximum appropriate independence. Trinity Lodge works in partnership with leaving care services of placing Local Authorities, to ensure access to support systems for young people leaving the homes service. The provision of clear information about how to complain is available to all young people at all times. All young people have access to an independent advocacy service including the provision of a free-phone telephone service 11.5 Choice · Each young person is encouraged to personalise their own bedroom within reason. · New residents of Trinity Lodge, (following initial settling-in) will each be encouraged to re-design the décor of their own room, for which a budget allocation is made. · Young people are actively encouraged to share and influence (appropriate to age) the day-to-day routines and practices within the home through a variety of means, including attending residents meetings. · Young people are encouraged to exercise their own religious and cultural preferences. · Young people are actively encouraged to partake in a wide variety of leisure activities. 11.7 Rights · Trinity Lodge supports, promotes and complies with the European Convention on the Rights of the Young person (copy available at the home). · Trinity Lodge Provides a safe physical environment. · Trinity Lodge actively promotes social learning, so that all young people can learn to understand their rights and responsibilities within the home, within the community and toward others · All young people are made aware of how they should expect staff to behave, and what they should do if this is not their experience. · All young people are provided with guidance, which informs them how to influence decisions about their future. Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function · 15 All young people are provided with information about the independent advocacy service and of how they can pursue a complaint (both formal and informal). 11.6 Fulfillment · The use of care planning and reviews (LAC system) at Trinity Lodge, will be used to track developments for each young person and ensure that service provision most appropriately meets health, education and social needs in order to maximize the future life chances for each young person. · Trinity Lodge will actively promote family contact, as appropriate and agreed in the Care Plan for each young person. · Each young person will be given the opportunity to actively engage in, and influence the planning and delivery of services for them. · Trinity Lodge plan to develop a multi-agency steering group, with parents/people with parental responsibility and young people (resident) representatives within the next 6 months of operation. This will focus on general developments of the service provision. · Led by the staff group, Trinity Lodge will strive to ensure that each young person has the opportunity to engage fully in their local community. 12 Health protection and promotion The arrangement to protect and promote the health of young people accommodated at Trinity Lodge . 12.3 Given the importance of ensuring that a young persons health is adequately monitored whilst living at Trinity Lodge, the key worker will ensure the compilation of a full health history (which is recorded on the LAC documentation), including details of vaccinations, serious illnesses and episodes of hospitalisation. This will form the basis of their personal health record, which they will complete and retain throughout the time they spend in care. Any gaps or further information required will be requested from parents/carer or the young persons GP. As part of the admission process, the key worker will ensure, in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that each young person is registered with a local GP. The key worker will also ensure, again in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that arrangements are in place for 12.4 12.5 Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 16 each young person to visit a dentist once every six months, or more often if necessary, and that they are encouraged to attend. 12.6 The key worker will also ensure, again in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that arrangements are in place for each young person to visit an optician once every twelve months, or more frequently if necessary, and that they are encouraged to attend. Where a young person has a medical condition that necessitates regular medication, decisions about who will be responsible for administering this will be taken after consultation with the GP and those with parental responsibility. Medications kept at Trinity Lodge will always be stored in a locked receptacle and labeled for each young person and is for that young person to use ONLY. When working towards independence ­ self administration by a young person of their own medication is a skill they need to learn ­ this will be negotiated and a risk assessment carried out to help assess the situation. All care staff at Trinity Lodge, share a common responsibility to promote the health and welfare of all accommodated young people. To this end, they have a responsibility for talking to young people in an age appropriate manner, about things which may adversely effect their health: Typically this may include personal hygiene, diet, smoking, alcohol, drug and solvent misuse and general health. With the approval of those with parental responsibility (for those under 16), staff will provide age appropriate information and seek to deal with issues which arise for each young person from their developing sexuality. Typically, this may involve the provision of education and guidance in respect of sexual activity, contraception, promiscuity, sexuality, HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted diseases. Appropriate literature from the Health Education Department of the Health Authority may be made available. 12.7 12.8 12.9 12.10 All health checks, health appointments and medications (including non-prescribed) are recorded on individual medical records held at the home, which clearly identify (with a photograph) each young person. 12.11 All staff are conversant with first-aid requirements. Trinity Lodge will work towards all members of staff completing basic training in First aid. 12.12 Specialist therapeutic and counseling services are available from the Health service 12.13 Young people aged 16 years and over can give their consent to medical treatment. Young people below this age may also give Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 17 consent depending on their capacity to understand the treatment. It is for the doctor to decide whether the young person is capable of giving informed consent. Young people who are of an age and understanding to withhold informed consent CANNOT be medically examined or treated without their consent. This can be over ridden by someone with parental responsibility. 12.14 In accordance with government LAC 94(4) guidance, all young people are actively discouraged from smoking. Smoking is not permitted within the building at Trinity Lodge. Only young persons aged 16 years and over may be permitted to smoke and then only outside of the home, away from other young people. Staff are not allowed to smoke in front of the young people at any time, or to provide any assistance for young people to smoke. 13 Education and promotion of education This section should be read in conjunction with information regarding Trinity Lodge School within which facility it is our intention to provide bespoke, on-site educational facilities. We are currently undergoing the registration process and already provide part-time on site tutoring from a specialist teacher to meet the needs of our re      ");
array_files[84]=new Array(0,8,"./trinitylodge/statementofpurposea4.doc","2009-03-04","185K","statementofpurposea4.doc    ","",""," 1.1 [pic] Trinity Lodge Residential Childrens Home 8 Trinity Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, Essex, SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 E-Mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Statement of Purpose and Function |CONTENTS | |Topic |Page | |Introduction |3 | |Aims and objectives |4 | |Facilities and Services |5 | |Registered Provider, Responsible person |6 | |Qualifications of the Registered Provider and Registered |7 | |Manager | | |Staff numbers and qualification |8 | |Supervision, Training and Development of Staff |8 | |Organisational Structure |10 | |Service Provision |10 | |Admission Criteria |11 | |Plan for Positive Outcomes |12 | |Ethos and Philosophy |13 | |Health protection and promotion |16 | |Education and promotion of education |17 | |Activities - Recreational, Sporting and Cultural |18 | |Consultation with young people |20 | |Control, restraint and discipline |21 | |Young person protection and to counter bullying |24 | |The procedure for dealing with unauthorised absence |25 | |Electronic surveillance of young people |25 | |Fire precaution and emergency procedures |25 | |Religious instruction and observance |26 | |Contact arrangements |26 | |Complaints |27 | |Reviews or Placement Plans |30 | |Accommodation and Sleeping arrangements |31 | |Therapeutic techniques used and arrangements for their |32 | |supervision | | |Anti-discriminatory practice and the young peoples rights|32 | |Appendix I - Organizational Structure Diagram |33 | |Appendix II - Staff qualifications and experiences |34 | | | | Introduction This Statement of Purpose and Function is written in accordance with the regulatory requirements of the Care Standards Act 2000 and the Childrens Home regulations 2001. The statement is produced by Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited. The directors of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited are: Crystal Shaw, Alex Shaw and Michael Ward. Reference is also made within the statement to a series of Trinity Lodge policy documents, which can be read in conjunction with this statement. These are all available in full at 8 Trinity Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 8AJ. A copy of this statement is provided to the Commission for Social Care Inspection and is also available to:- . Each person who works at Trinity Lodge . The placing Authority or Agency of any young person provided with accommodation at Trinity Lodge |...............................| |Date.............| |................... | |........... | | |Alex Shaw | | | |Responsible | | | |Person | | |...............................| |Date | |..(acting) | |.................| | |William Farrow |....... | | |Registered | | | |manager | | 1 Aims and Objectives The removal of a child from their own home is considered potentially, one of the most invasive and life changing experiences of his or her life. This action is therefore at the pinnacle of child protection measures. All those involved in the partnership of care including the child, parents, others with parental responsibility, care staff, allocated social worker and any agreed interested party, must be confident that this action is, and will continue to make a positive difference in the life of each child as a result. Every possible care must always be taken to ensure that all children accommodated meet all the criteria for admission, placement continuation and eventual discharge as appropriate. The home will provide a service for children with learning disabilities. The World Health Organisation defines learning disabilities as: a state of arrest or incomplete development of mind and someone with a learning disability is said also to have significant impairment of intellectual function and significant impairment of adaptive/social functioning This means that children will have difficulties understanding and learning new things, and in generalising any learning to new situation, as well as having difficulties with a number of social tasks, for example communication, self-care, awareness of health and safety. A final dimension to the definition is that these impairments were present with the person from childhood, and not acquired as a result of an accident or following the onset of illness. In the UK, the Department of Health has used the terms moderate, severe and profound to classify learning disabilities. These have been linked to IQ test scores. More importantly attempts have been made to recognise that that the level of support children need in their lives are as important as the label given to their level of impairment. 1. Aims The home aims to:- . Provide a high quality service within a stable environment to meet the needs of young people with learning disabilities between 12 and 18 years of age who need medium to long-term residential care. . To enable young people placed at the home to develop emotionally, socially and educationally by assessing, planning, implementing and monitoring the young persons needs 2. Objective The Objectives of the home are:- . To enable young people who leave care to make a smooth transition of reintegration into:- - their own or another family; - other services or - adult residential services. . To work with the placing authority collaboratively to achieve the objectives of the overall care plan for the young person. . To enhance the personal self esteem of each young person by the creation and maintenance of a living environment which maximizes safe opportunities to learn, to develop, to make sense of previous experiences and to realize an appropriate degree of self- determination. Facilities and Services Provided 3. Each young person will have, prior to admission, an agreed Care Plan, detailing comprehensive arrangements for their care. 4. Each young person will have, and will be able to access, the support of an allocated social worker. 5. The Care Plan is considered a contract of care by those in the partnership of care. This sets out assessed needs of the young person, the objectives of the placement, how these are to be met and the contributions to be made by those in the partnership of care. The Care Plan must include as a minimum:- . Health needs and health promotion. . Care needs, including safeguarding and promoting welfare. . Physical and emotional needs. . Education needs and attainment targets. . Cultural, religious, language and racial needs and how they will be met. . Leisure needs. . Contact arrangements with family, friends and significant others. 6. Each young person will have an allocated key-worker. It will be the responsibility of the key-worker supported by other staff, to ensure that the requirements of the Care Plan are implemented in the day-to- day care of the young person. 7. The key worker will provide individual guidance, advice and support to the young person and will regularly make time available to the young person in order to do so. Such time may be referred to as Key- Work Sessions. 8. Where appropriate, to meet specific needs, those in the partnership of care will engage the services of specialist provision from other agencies, including therapists, specialist health providers, leaving care organisations and education services. 9. Each young person will have access to advocacy services which is independent of both the management of Trinity Lodge and the allocated field Social Worker. Information regarding such services will be made available to the young person who may require assistance in accessing the service. The Registered Provider and Registered Manager 10. The registered provider for Trinity Lodges services is:- Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea Essex, SS0 7PU 11. The Responsible Individual (as defined under current legislation). On behalf of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited, responsible for management of the services at Trinity Lodge is:- Mr Alex Shaw 12. The Registered Manager is: William Farrow Qualifications of the Registered Provider and Registered Manager 4.1 Responsible Individual- Alex Shaw Alex studied for his B.A. Hons degree at Bristol University before moving to UCL to study for a Masters degree. Since finishing university Alex held senior management and general management positions before co-founding Trinity Lodge in 2000 and registering as responsible individual, initially under the old Registered Homes Act 84 with reference to the Children Act 89. In 2002 Alex was then registered under the NCSC and latterly the CSCI. Alex has achieved an NVQ4 for Management in Care (with childcare modules), Advance Food Hygiene certificate, Child Protection certificates and is currently studying for a degree in Health and Social Care. Alex is also a director of two other registered homes for children with learning disabilities. 4.2 Manager- William Farrow William Joined Trinity Lodge in 2005 having previously managed Elderly and Adult Learning Disabilities services, and has many years experience in care. William has Foundation and Advanced Care Management qualifications, specific Learning Disabilities qualifications and has a hands-on, person-centred approach to management. His enthusiasm and dedication will provide Trinity with the opportunity to continue to move forward with its service provision. 3. Deputy Manager - Sophie Zwizwai Sophie is the longest serving member of our staff team and has recently qualified as a Social Worker. Sophie holds a BA with Education Degree, BA (Hons) Social Work Degree, a Diploma in Special Education Needs and a Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education. Sophie has vast experience in looking after children with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour and brings a wealth of experience to the management team. Sophie is an NVQ Assessor for Caring For Children and Young Persons and is an Associate Lecturer with South East Essex College in the Education and Social Studies department. Other courses Sophie is qualified to teach are Moving & Handling, Food Hygiene and Anti-Discriminatory practice. Staff numbers and qualification Trinity Lodge will have a manager who will be supported by a Deputy, Senior Residential Social Workers and Team Leaders and a team of full- time and part-time Residential Social Workers. The nights are always staffed by a waking night team, who may be supplemented by sleep-in staff. The home also has an attached pool of relief staff to cover any staffing shortfalls. For specific details please see Appendix II - Staff Details. A minimum of two staff members will be on duty at any time. The minimum ratio of staff to young people will be 1:3. Supervision, Training and Development of staff 4. Supervision . Supervision is an integral and necessary tool for the effective, efficient and safe delivery of services to young people in public care :- . Supervision is provided for all staff at Trinity Lodge, using a variety of formats, including peer supervision, team meetings and where appropriate, action learning events. All staff are provided with individual, direct 1:1 supervision from a senior member of staff at least once per month. For full details of this programme, please refer to the corporate staff supervision policy (available at Trinity Lodge). . All supervision appointments are recorded within an annual schedule, so that all staff are aware when and where this is available. . New members of staff will be given supervision on a fortnightly basis during the first 6 months of their employment. . Staff employed in the staff bank relief pool, are provided with supervision no less frequently than after each eight shifts worked at Trinity Lodge. . Records are kept, of agreed actions and targets for each staff member. 5. Training . All staff engaged by Trinity Lodge will have a period of induction on commencement of their appointment. . Trinity Lodge has an annual training plan, detailing both the base training requirements for all staff and the specific and specialist areas required by individual staff, to meet the needs and purpose of the home. . As required by legislation, a minimum ratio of 80% of all care staff at Trinity Lodge will have completed their NVQ level 3 in Caring for young people & Young People (or a course with similar competency based assessment) by Jan 2005. . New staff engaged from January 2007, will hold the NVQ level 3 or be working towards this or another qualification which matches the assessed competencies required for this training, or begin working toward them within three months of joining the Team. . In addition, All new members of staff are required to complete a detailed and assessed Induction Programme at Trinity Lodge . An introduction to child protection, Fire training, the education policy for young people in public care, medicine administration procedures and recording will be provided for all staff, as part of their induction programme. . All staff members will be required to undergo training in caring for children with learning disabilities. Trinity Lodge will source training places on suitable courses and provide bespoke training within the unit. . The home will also source courses accredited by the British Institute for Learning Disablities (BILD). . All staff working at Trinity Lodge will be trained and regularly updated in the safe handling and administration of medicines. All In-house training will be recorded. 6. Staff Development . All staff will keep an updated personal, professional development portfolio, which will contain all details of their previous training and professional experiences, their qualifications and their agreed development targets (with completion criteria) for the following year. . All staff will have an annual appraisal where they can discuss their performance, identify training needs and agree targets. . All staff development requirements will be identified and agreed through supervision and the on-going appraisal process. Training & development opportunities will be provided for a minimum of six paid days per year, for each staff member . Staff will be encouraged to access post-qualifying and management training in young peoples care, as appropriate Organizational structure The registered provider - Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Ltd has been operating in this sector for four years. The directors of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Ltd are:- Crystal Shaw, Alex Shaw and Michael Ward. For specific details please refer to Appendix I - Organisational Structure and Appendix II - Staff Details Service Provision 7. Trinity Lodge is designated as a medium to long-term residential young peoples home, for young people with a Care Plan to remain looked-after by the Local Authority through to reunification, alternative family or care placement or through to their adulthood. 8. Trinity Lodge is designed to provide accommodation for a maximum of six young people (of both genders) at any time, who will have a learning disability (Autism, Aspergers etc) and may display various forms of challenging behaviour, may have experienced various forms of abuse, may display a wide variety of associated trauma related behaviour(s) and who may be the subject of appropriate legal orders. 9. Trinity Lodge can provide accommodation for young people with a wide cross-section of needs, within a broad age range from 12 to 18 and of both genders. 10. In providing accommodation, it is anticipated and understood that each young person will have individual and special needs. Specialized services for young people with acute mental health and/or physical disability needs are not provided within Trinity Lodge. Criteria for admission 11. All referrals must be made to the Registered Manager or Deputy Manager. Placing Authorities will usually telephone to find out if a bed is available. The following information must be obtained to process a request for placement: - Age of the young person - Sex - Does the young person have diagnosed learning disability? - Are there special needs identified? . The home will accept emergency and planned placements as defined in section 9.6. . If clarity needs to be established the Responsible Individual or Registered Manager will contact and inform the referring Agency. . In the absence of the Registered Manager all referrals will be handled by the Responsible Individual. . Trinity Lodge Referral Forms are to be completed by the referring Social Worker and authorised by the Team Manager. . A Duty Social Worker/Allocated Social Worker to be identified on Referral Form. . All Young People referred to Trinity Lodge must have a named Social Worker within three days of admission 12. In accordance with good practice, at the point of referral, it is expected that alternative resources will already have been explored, including placement with extended family and/or friends. A positive decision should then have been taken, that placement at Trinity Lodge is the best option available to meet the young persons assessed need(s). 13. The needs of any new young person concerned, and the likely effects of his/her admission upon the existing group of residents, are fully considered and recorded, when making decisions in respect of all admissions to the home. This is to ensure a best-fit matching for all young persons and to ensure that, as far as possible, no young person presents a significant risk to the safety or developmental opportunities of any other. 14. In all cases, the proposed new young person, along with any person with parental responsibility should be made aware of the pre- admission assessment, the outcome of this, and will have been as involved as possible in the pre-placement planning. 15. Trinity Lodge can offer a home to young people who have a history of behavioral problems and has an educational statement. However, a full case discussion will be required prior to a service being offered, in order to identify additional/specialist resources needed. In all cases, regardless of past circumstances, all information appertaining to each young person, including any risk assessment(s) must be shared (in accordance with Health & Safety legislation) between all agencies involved in placement. 16. A planned placement is accommodation arranged with the maximum amount of information for all involved in the partnership of care for the young person. It provides the opportunity for the young person to visit Trinity Lodge prior to admission, and agrees the tasks, preferred outcomes and the time limits of the placement, as outlined in the care plan. An emergency Placement is accommodation arranged with essential information available and the need by a placing authority to have the child accommodated prior to the young person visiting the home. A risk assessment must be done prior to admission. A review meeting regarding the placement must be convened within 72 hours of first accommodating the child. 17. In all cases, care planning will then follow the schedule set within the Department of Health Looked-after Young people system. i.e.: First review of care plan within 28 days of placement and then three months and six months. Further reviews will take place at six monthly or annually; or as requested sooner by any member of the Partnership of Care. The statutory paperwork complete with consent forms must be made available at point of placement. Plan for Positive Outcomes 18. Trinity Lodge strives to provide a secure and stable environment for young people. The vision is to provide a positive care option for young people requiring residential care 19. The style of operation is to simulate, wherever possible a family type environment. Staff will try to include the young people where possible in their duties periodically to give them a sense of reality as is usual in a family home. Such duties may include preparation of meals and domestic tasks. Similarly, doors are not usually locked (save for the Staff offices and bedrooms to provide privacy) and young people are encouraged and assisted by the staff to play an active role in the operation of the home. 20. Young people are informed and will participate in any decision to change the arrangements for their accommodation. Changes made to the home will be discussed. New staff will be introduced to young people and new residents introduced to existing residents. The underlying ethos and philosophy of Trinity Lodge 21. The Department of Health identifies six core values which contribute to quality care practice in all residential settings. They are:- . Privacy . Dignity . Independence . Choice . Rights . Fulfillment Trinity Lodge seeks to promote all of these values at all times, by way of the following examples of good practice. 22. Privacy:- . All young people have their own room. . All young people will receive sensitivity in practice, especially when dealing with personal issues. . Information about all young people will remain confidential. Information about one young person will not therefore be disclosed to another, or to any inappropriate source. . At Trinity Lodge, there is no designated visitors room or facilities at this time, however there is a plan to utilize a dedicated room in the next door provision (number 6) as an extra lounge which will include use for visitors and scheduled meetings with other professionals. The aim of this is to ensure that the young peoples areas are not used for these purposes. Care is taken to ensure that there is a homely environment, and to not develop an institutional feel. 23. Dignity . Staff have an active awareness of each persons racial, cultural, religious and dietary needs, enabling the celebration of difference for all. Trinity Lodge provides a living environment and operational culture that places the needs of young people as paramount, above all others. . Trinity Lodge uses techniques for managing young peoples behaviour, based principally on reinforcement and reward, avoiding punitive measures in reaction to negative behaviour(s), so that young people can learn from their mistakes and from the modeling of staff and the adults around them. 24. Independence . Trinity Lodge provides a living environment and operational culture which encourages the development of self-confidence and which allows young people appropriate opportunities to take some calculated risks, in their learning journey. . At Trinity Lodge, each young person is able to access and record in their own personal file. . Trinity Lodge will implement an independent living skills programme, for young people to use in their learning journey toward the maximum appropriate independence. . Trinity Lodge works in partnership with leaving care services of placing Local Authorities, to ensure access to support systems for young people leaving the homes service. . The provision of clear information about how to complain is available to all young people at all times. . All young people have access to an independent advocacy service including the provision of a free-phone telephone service 11.5 Choice . Each young person is encouraged to personalise their own bedroom within reason. . New residents of Trinity Lodge, (following initial settling-in) will each be encouraged to re-design the décor of their own room, for which a budget allocation is made. . Young people are actively encouraged to share and influence (appropriate to age) the day-to-day routines and practices within the home through a variety of means, including attending residents meetings. . Young people are encouraged to exercise their own religious and cultural preferences. . Young people are actively encouraged to partake in a wide variety of leisure activities. 25. Rights . Trinity Lodge supports, promotes and complies with the European Convention on the Rights of the Young person (copy available at the home). . Trinity Lodge Provides a safe physical environment. . Trinity Lodge actively promotes social learning, so that all young people can learn to understand their rights and responsibilities within the home, within the community and toward others . All young people are made aware of how they should expect staff to behave, and what they should do if this is not their experience. . All young people are provided with guidance, which informs them how to influence decisions about their future. . All young people are provided with information about the independent advocacy service and of how they can pursue a complaint (both formal and informal). 11.6 Fulfillment . The use of care planning and reviews (LAC system) at Trinity Lodge, will be used to track developments for each young person and ensure that service provision most appropriately meets health, education and social needs in order to maximize the future life chances for each young person. . Trinity Lodge will actively promote family contact, as appropriate and agreed in the Care Plan for each young person. . Each young person will be given the opportunity to actively engage in, and influence the planning and delivery of services for them. . Trinity Lodge plan to develop a multi-agency steering group, with parents/people with parental responsibility and young people (resident) representatives within the next 6 months of operation. This will focus on general developments of the service provision. . Led by the staff group, Trinity Lodge will strive to ensure that each young person has the opportunity to engage fully in their local community. Health protection and promotion The arrangement to protect and promote the health of young people accommodated at Trinity Lodge . 26. Given the importance of ensuring that a young persons health is adequately monitored whilst living at Trinity Lodge, the key worker will ensure the compilation of a full health history (which is recorded on the LAC documentation), including details of vaccinations, serious illnesses and episodes of hospitalisation. This will form the basis of their personal health record, which they will complete and retain throughout the time they spend in care. Any gaps or further information required will be requested from parents/carer or the young persons GP. 27. As part of the admission process, the key worker will ensure, in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that each young person is registered with a local GP. 28. The key worker will also ensure, again in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that arrangements are in place for each young person to visit a dentist once every six months, or more often if necessary, and that they are encouraged to attend. 29. The key worker will also ensure, again in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that arrangements are in place for each young person to visit an optician once every twelve months, or more frequently if necessary, and that they are encouraged to attend. 30. Where a young person has a medical condition that necessitates regular medication, decisions about who will be responsible for administering this will be taken after consultation with the GP and those with parental responsibility. Medications kept at Trinity Lodge will always be stored in a locked receptacle and labeled for each young person and is for that young person to use ONLY. When working towards independence - self administration by a young person of their own medication is a skill they need to learn - this will be negotiated and a risk assessment carried out to help assess the situation. 31. All care staff at Trinity Lodge, share a common responsibility to promote the health and welfare of all accommodated young people. To this end, they have a responsibility for talking to young people in an age appropriate manner, about things which may adversely effect their health: Typically this may include personal hygiene, diet, smoking, alcohol, drug and solvent misuse and general health. 32. With the approval of those with parental responsibility (for those under 16), staff will provide age appropriate information and seek to deal with issues which arise for each young person from their developing sexuality. Typically, this may involve the provision of education and guidance in respect of sexual activity, contraception, promiscuity, sexuality, HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted diseases. Appropriate literature from the Health Education Department of the Health Authority may be made available. 33. All health checks, health appointments and medications (including non-prescribed) are recorded on individual medical records held at the home, which clearly identify (with a photograph) each young person. 34. All staff are conversant with first-aid requirements. Trinity Lodge will work towards all members of staff completing basic training in First aid. 35. Specialist therapeutic and counseling services are available from the Health service 36. Young people aged 16 years and over can give their consent to medical treatment. Young people below this age may also give consent depending on their capacity to understand the treatment. It is for the doctor to decide whether the young person is capable of giving informed consent. Young people who are of an age and understanding to withhold informed consent CANNOT be medically examined or treated without their consent. This can be over ridden by someone with parental responsibility. 37. In accordance with government LAC 94(4) guidance, all young people are actively discouraged from smoking. Smoking is not permitted within the building at Trinity Lodge. Only young persons aged 16 years and over may be permitted to smoke and then only outside of the home, away from other young people. Staff are not allowed to smoke in front of the young people at any time, or to provide any assistance for young people to smoke. Education and promotion of education This section should be read in conjunction with information regarding Trinity Lodge School within which facility it is our intention to provide bespoke, on-site educational facilities. We are currently undergoing the registration process and already provide part-time on site tutoring from a specialist teacher to meet the needs of our residents who have already been excluded from school. Arrangements for the education and promotion of education for young people accommodated including facilities for private study. 1. Education, in all of its forms, is one of the cornerstones of personal growth and development. All young people will be actively encouraged to partake in educational opportunities appropriate to their need(s). 13.2 Trinity Lodge is determined to support young peoples education by the widest means possible. This support should also, in all cases, be available from all members of the partnership of care and/or any other appropriate person. This might include, Social Worker, social inclusion officer, School/College, Special Needs service, Educationa      ");
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RESIDENTIAL HOME FOR CHILDREN/YOUNG PEOPLE IN NEED OF CARE Statement of Purpose and Function Trinity Lodge Residential Childrens Home 8 Trinity Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, Essex, SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 E-Mail: trinitylodge@email.com 14.6.08 Statement of Purpose and Function 2 Statement of Purpose and Function CONTENTS Topic Page Introduction Aims and objectives Facilities and Services Registered Provider, Responsible person Qualifications of the Registered Provider and Registered Manager Staff numbers and qualification Supervision, Training and Development of Staff Organisational Structure Service Provision Admission Criteria Plan for Positive Outcomes Ethos and Philosophy Health protection and promotion Education and promotion of education Activities ­ Recreational, Sporting and Cultural Consultation with young people Control, restraint and discipline Young person protection and to counter bullying The procedure for dealing with unauthorised absence Electronic surveillance of young people Fire precaution and emergency procedures Religious instruction and observance Contact arrangements Complaints Reviews or Placement Plans Accommodation and Sleeping arrangements Therapeutic techniques used and arrangements for their supervision Anti-discriminatory practice and the young peoples rights Appendix I ­ Organizational Structure Diagram Appendix II ­ Staff qualifications and experiences 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 10 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 20 21 24 25 25 25 26 26 27 30 31 32 32 33 34 Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 3 Introduction This Statement of Purpose and Function is written in accordance with the regulatory requirements of the Care Standards Act 2000 and the Childrens Home regulations 2001. The statement is produced by Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited. The directors of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited are: Crystal Shaw, Alex Shaw. Reference is also made within the statement to a series of Trinity Lodge policy documents, which can be read in conjunction with this statement. These are all available in full at 8 Trinity Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 8AJ. A copy of this statement is provided to Ofsted:· · Each person who works at Trinity Lodge The placing Authority or Agency of any young person provided with accommodation at Trinity Lodge .................................................. Alex Shaw Responsible Person Date........................ William Farrow ................................................ Manager Date ........................ Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 4 1 Aims and Objectives The removal of a child from their own home is considered potentially, one of the most invasive and life changing experiences of his or her life. This action is therefore at the pinnacle of child protection measures. All those involved in the `partnership of care including the child, parents, others with parental responsibility, care staff, allocated social worker and any agreed interested party, must be confident that this action is, and will continue to make a positive difference in the life of each child as a result. Every possible care must always be taken to ensure that all children accommodated meet all the criteria for admission, placement continuation and eventual discharge as appropriate. The home will provide a service for children with learning disabilities. The World Health Organisation defines learning disabilities as: `a state of arrest or incomplete development of mind and someone with a learning disability is said also to have `significant impairment of intellectual function and significant impairment of adaptive/social functioning This means that children will have difficulties understanding and learning new things, and in generalising any learning to new situation, as well as having difficulties with a number of social tasks, for example communication, self-care, awareness of health and safety. A final dimension to the definition is that these impairments were present with the person from childhood, and not acquired as a result of an accident or following the onset of illness. In the UK, the Department of Health has used the terms moderate, severe and profound to classify learning disabilities. These have been linked to IQ test scores. More importantly attempts have been made to recognise that that the level of support children need in their lives are as important as the label given to their level of impairment. Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 1.1 Aims The home aims to:· 5 Provide a high quality service within a stable environment to meet the needs of young people with learning disabilities between 12 and 18 years of age who need medium to long-term residential care. To enable young people placed at the home to develop emotionally, socially and educationally by assessing, planning, implementing and monitoring the young persons needs Objective The Objectives of the home are:- · 1.2 · To enable young people who leave care to make a smooth transition of reintegration into:- their own or another family; - other services or - adult residential services. To work with the placing authority collaboratively to achieve the objectives of the overall care plan for the young person. · · To enhance the personal self esteem of each young person by the creation and maintenance of a living environment which maximizes safe opportunities to learn, to develop, to make sense of previous experiences and to realize an appropriate degree of selfdetermination. 2 Facilities and Services Provided 2.1 Each young person will have, prior to admission, an agreed Care Plan, detailing comprehensive arrangements for their care. Each young person will have, and will be able to access, the support of an allocated social worker. The Care Plan is considered a `contract of care by those in the `partnership of care. This sets out assessed needs of the young person, the objectives of the placement, how these are to be met and the contributions to be made by those in the `partnership of care. The Care Plan must include as a minimum:· · Health needs and health promotion. Care needs, including safeguarding and promoting welfare. 2.2 2.3 Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function · · · · · 2.4 6 Physical and emotional needs. Education needs and attainment targets. Cultural, religious, language and racial needs and how they will be met. Leisure needs. Contact arrangements with family, friends and significant others. Each young person will have an allocated key-worker. It will be the responsibility of the key-worker supported by other staff, to ensure that the requirements of the Care Plan are implemented in the dayto-day care of the young person. The key worker will provide individual guidance, advice and support to the young person and will regularly make time available to the young person in order to do so. Such time may be referred to as `Key-Work Sessions. Where appropriate, to meet specific needs, those in the `partnership of care will engage the services of specialist provision from other agencies, including therapists, specialist health providers, leaving care organisations and education services. Each young person will have access to advocacy services which is independent of both the management of Trinity Lodge and the allocated field Social Worker. Information regarding such services will be made available to the young person who may require assistance in accessing the service. 2.5 2.6 2.7 3 The Registered Provider and Manager 3.1 The registered provider for Trinity Lodges services is:Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea Essex, SS0 7PU 3.2 The `Responsible Individual (as defined under current legislation). On behalf of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited, responsible for management of the services at Trinity Lodge is:Mr Alex Shaw 3.3 The Manager is: William Farrow Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 7 4 Qualifications of the Responsible Individual and Manager 4.1 Responsible Individual- Alex Shaw Alex studied for his B.A. Hons degree at Bristol University before moving to UCL to study for a Masters degree. Since finishing university Alex held senior management and general management positions before co-founding Trinity Lodge in 2000 and registering as responsible individual, initially under the old Registered Homes Act 84 with reference to the Children Act 89. In 2002 Alex was then registered under the NCSC and latterly the CSCI and now Ofsted. Alex has achieved an NVQ4 for Management, Advance Food Hygiene certificate, Child Protection certificates and a Certificate in Health and Social Care. Alex has also been a Director and involved with the set up of 2 other registered Childrens Homes 4.2 Manager- William Farrow William Joined Trinity Lodge in 2005 having previously managed Elderly and Adult Learning Disabilities services, and has many years experience in care. William has Foundation and Advanced Care Management qualifications, specific Learning Disabilities qualifications and has a hands-on, person-centred approach to management. His enthusiasm and dedication provides Trinity Lodge with the drive to continue to move forward with its service provision. William has recently achieved his Registered Managers Award Qualification. 4.3 Deputy Manager ­ Taffie Mutema Taffie has worked for Trinity lodge for the last 5 years, beginning as an RSW, working his way up to Team leader, Senior and more recently Deputy manager. Taffie is a very experienced childcare professional, bringing a wealth of experience to the team. Taffie has an NVQ3 in Health and Social Care and is currently studying for his NVQ4 in Management. He has also undertaken many statutory courses including Child Protection training and Physical Intervention. Taffie is well respected by the team, and is very well liked by the young people resident at Trinity. Taffie came to us with a wealth of experience from the Criminal Justice System. We are pleased to have him on board. 5 Staff numbers and qualification Trinity Lodge will have a manager who will be supported by a Deputy, Senior RSW, Team Leader and a team of full-time and part-time Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 8 RSWs. The nights are always staffed by a waking night team, who may be supplemented by sleep-in staff. The home also has an attached pool of relief staff to cover any staffing shortfalls. For specific details please see Appendix II ­ Staff Details. A minimum of two staff members will be on duty at any time. The minimum ratio of staff to young people will be 1:3. 6 Supervision, Training and Development of staff 6.3 Supervision · Supervision is an integral and necessary tool for the effective, efficient and safe delivery of services to young people in public care :Supervision is provided for all staff at Trinity Lodge, using a variety of formats, including peer supervision, team meetings and where appropriate, action learning events. All staff are provided with individual, direct 1:1 supervision from a senior member of staff at least once per month. For full details of this programme, please refer to the corporate staff supervision policy (available at Trinity Lodge). All supervision appointments are recorded within an annual schedule, so that all staff are aware when and where this is available. New members of staff will be given supervision on a fortnightly basis during the first 6 months of their employment. Staff employed in the `staff bank relief pool, are provided with supervision no less frequently than after each eight shifts worked at Trinity Lodge. Records are kept, of agreed actions and targets for each staff member. · · · · · 6.4 Training · All staff engaged by Trinity Lodge will have a period of induction on commencement of their appointment. Trinity Lodge has an annual training plan, detailing both the base training requirements for all staff and the specific and specialist areas required by individual staff, to meet the needs and purpose of the home. As required by legislation, a minimum ratio of 80% of all care staff at Trinity Lodge will have completed their NVQ level 3 in Trinity Lodge · · Statement of Purpose and Function 9 `Caring for young people & Young People (or a course with similar competency based assessment) by Jan 2005. · New staff engaged from January 2007, will hold the NVQ level 3 or be working towards this or another qualification which matches the assessed competencies required for this training, or begin working toward them within three months of joining the Team. In addition, All new members of staff are required to complete a detailed and assessed Induction Programme at Trinity Lodge An introduction to child protection, Fire training, the education policy for young people in public care, medicine administration procedures and recording will be provided for all staff, as part of their induction programme. All staff members will be required to undergo training in caring for children with learning disabilities. Trinity Lodge will source training places on suitable courses and provide bespoke training within the unit. The home will also source courses accredited by the British Institute for Learning Disablities (BILD). All staff working at Trinity Lodge will be trained and regularly updated in the safe handling and administration of medicines. All In-house training will be recorded. · · · · · 6.5 Staff Development · All staff will keep an updated personal, professional development portfolio, which will contain all details of their previous training and professional experiences, their qualifications and their agreed development targets (with completion criteria) for the following year. All staff will have an annual appraisal where they can discuss their performance, identify training needs and agree targets. All staff development requirements will be identified and agreed through supervision and the on-going appraisal process. Training & development opportunities will be provided for a minimum of six paid days per year, for each staff member Staff will be encouraged to access post-qualifying and management training in young peoples care, as appropriate · · · Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 10 7 Organizational structure The registered provider ­ Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Ltd has been operating in this sector for 7 years. The directors of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Ltd are:Crystal Shaw, Alex Shaw. The Financial organisation of Trinity Lodge has changed in the last year. Our Financial Director left Trinity Lodge in July 07, and we have appointed external Chartered Accountants to manage our Payroll produce our year end Accounts and Management Account. For specific details please refer to Appendix I ­ Organisational Structure and Appendix II ­ Staff Details 8 Service Provision 8.3 Trinity Lodge is designated as a medium to long-term residential young peoples home, for young people with a Care Plan to remain looked-after by the Local Authority through to reunification, alternative family or care placement or through to their adulthood. Trinity Lodge is designed to provide accommodation for a maximum of six young people (of both genders) at any time, who will have a moderate to severe learning disability (Autism, Aspergers, ADHD etc.) and may display various forms of challenging behaviour, may have experienced various forms of abuse, may display a wide variety of associated trauma related behaviour(s) and who may be the subject of appropriate legal orders. Trinity Lodge can provide accommodation for young people with a wide cross-section of needs, within a broad age range from 12 to 18 and of both genders. In providing accommodation, it is anticipated and understood that each young person will have individual and special needs. Specialized services for young people with a profound learning disability acute mental health and/or physical disability needs are not provided within Trinity Lodge. 8.4 8.5 8.6 Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 11 9 Criteria for admission 9.3 All referrals must be made to the Manager or Deputy Manager. Placing Authorities will usually telephone to find out if a bed is available. The following information must be obtained to process a request for placement: - Age of the young person - Sex - Does the young person have diagnosed learning disability? - Are there special needs identified? § The home will accept emergency and planned placements as defined in section 9.8. · · · · · If clarity needs to be established the Responsible Individual or Manager will contact and inform the referring Agency. In the absence of the Manager all referrals will be handled by the Responsible Individual. Trinity Lodge Referral Forms are to be completed by the referring Social Worker and authorised by the Team Manager. A Duty Social Worker/Allocated Social Worker to be identified on Referral Form. All Young People referred to Trinity Lodge must have a named Social Worker within three days of admission 9.4 In accordance with good practice, at the point of referral, it is expected that alternative resources will already have been explored, including placement with extended family. A positive decision should then have been taken, that placement at Trinity Lodge is the best option available to meet the young persons assessed need(s). The needs of any new young person concerned, and the likely effects of his/her admission upon the existing group of residents, are fully considered and recorded, when making decisions in respect of all admissions to the home. This is to ensure a `best-fit matching for all young persons and to ensure that, as far as possible, no young person presents a significant risk to the safety or developmental opportunities of any other. In all cases, the proposed new young person, along with any person with parental responsibility should be made aware of the preadmission assessment, the outcome of this, and will have been as involved as possible in the pre-placement planning. 9.5 9.6 Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 9.7 12 Trinity Lodge can offer a home to young people who have a history of behavioral problems and has an `educational statement. However, a full case discussion will be required prior to a service being offered, in order to identify additional/specialist resources needed. In all cases, regardless of past circumstances, all information appertaining to each young person, including any risk assessment(s) must be shared (in accordance with Health & Safety legislation) between all agencies involved in placement. A planned placement is accommodation arranged with the maximum amount of information for all involved in the `partnership of care for the young person. It provides the opportunity for the young person to visit Trinity Lodge prior to admission, and agrees the tasks, preferred outcomes and the time limits of the placement, as outlined in the care plan. In all cases, care planning will then follow the schedule set within the Department of Health `Looked-after Young people system. i.e.: First review of care plan within 28 days of placement and then three months and six months. Further reviews will take place at six monthly or annually; or as requested sooner by any member of the `Partnership of Care. The statutory paperwork complete with consent forms must be made available at point of placement. 9.8 10 Plan for Positive Outcomes 10.3 Trinity Lodge strives to provide a secure and stable environment for young people. The vision is to provide a positive care option for young people requiring residential care The style of operation is to simulate, wherever possible a `family type environment. Staff will try to include the young people where possible in their duties periodically to give them a sense of reality as is usual in a family home. Such duties may include preparation of meals and domestic tasks. Similarly, doors are not usually locked (save for the Staff offices and bedrooms to provide privacy) and young people are encouraged and assisted by the staff to play an active role in the operation of the home. Young people are informed and will participate in any decision to change the arrangements for their accommodation. Changes made to the home will be discussed. New staff will be introduced to young people and new residents introduced to existing residents. 10.4 10.5 Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 13 11 The underlying ethos and philosophy of Trinity Lodge 11.3 The Department of Health identifies six core values which contribute to quality care practice in all residential settings. They are:· Privacy · Dignity · Independence · Choice · Rights · Fulfillment Trinity Lodge seeks to promote all of these values at all times, by way of the following examples of good practice. Privacy:· All young people have their own room. · All young people will receive sensitivity in practice, especially when dealing with personal issues. · Information about all young people will remain confidential. Information about one young person will not therefore be disclosed to another, or to any inappropriate source. · At Trinity Lodge, there is no designated visitors room or facilities at this time, however there is a plan to utilize a dedicated room in the next door provision (number 6) as an extra lounge which will include use for visitors and scheduled meetings with other professionals. The aim of this is to ensure that the young peoples areas are not used for these purposes. Care is taken to ensure that there is a homely environment, and to not develop an institutional feel. 11.4 11.5 Dignity · Staff have an active awareness of each persons racial, cultural, religious and dietary needs, enabling the celebration of difference for all. Trinity Lodge provides a living environment and operational culture that places the needs of young people as paramount, above all others. Trinity Lodge uses techniques for managing young peoples behaviour, based principally on reinforcement and reward, avoiding punitive measures in reaction to negative behaviour(s), so that young people can learn from their mistakes and from the modeling of staff and the adults around them. · 11.6 Independence · Trinity Lodge provides a living environment and operational culture which encourages the development of self-confidence Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 14 · · · · · and which allows young people appropriate opportunities to take some calculated risks, in their learning journey. At Trinity Lodge, each young person is able to access and record in their own personal file. Trinity Lodge will implement an independent living skills programme, for young people to use in their learning journey toward the maximum appropriate independence. Trinity Lodge works in partnership with leaving care services of placing Local Authorities, to ensure access to support systems for young people leaving the homes service. The provision of clear information about how to complain is available to all young people at all times. All young people have access to an independent advocacy service including the provision of a free-phone telephone service 11.5 Choice · Each young person is encouraged to personalise their own bedroom within reason. · New residents of Trinity Lodge, (following initial settling-in) will each be encouraged to re-design the décor of their own room, for which a budget allocation is made. · Young people are actively encouraged to share and influence (appropriate to age) the day-to-day routines and practices within the home through a variety of means, including attending residents meetings. · Young people are encouraged to exercise their own religious and cultural preferences. · Young people are actively encouraged to partake in a wide variety of leisure activities. 11.7 Rights · Trinity Lodge supports, promotes and complies with the European Convention on the Rights of the Young person (copy available at the home). · Trinity Lodge Provides a safe physical environment. · Trinity Lodge actively promotes social learning, so that all young people can learn to understand their rights and responsibilities within the home, within the community and toward others · All young people are made aware of how they should expect staff to behave, and what they should do if this is not their experience. · All young people are provided with guidance, which informs them how to influence decisions about their future. · All young people are provided with information about the independent advocacy service and of how they can pursue a complaint (both formal and informal). Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 15 11.6 Fulfillment · The use of care planning and reviews (LAC system) at Trinity Lodge, will be used to track developments for each young person and ensure that service provision most appropriately meets health, education and social needs in order to maximize the future life chances for each young person. · Trinity Lodge will actively promote family contact, as appropriate and agreed in the Care Plan for each young person. · Each young person will be given the opportunity to actively engage in, and influence the planning and delivery of services for them. · Trinity Lodge plan to develop a multi-agency steering group, with parents/people with parental responsibility and young people (resident) representatives within the next 6 months of operation. This will focus on general developments of the service provision. · Led by the staff group, Trinity Lodge will strive to ensure that each young person has the opportunity to engage fully in their local community. 12 Health protection and promotion The arrangement to protect and promote the health of young people accommodated at Trinity Lodge . 12.3 Given the importance of ensuring that a young persons health is adequately monitored whilst living at Trinity Lodge, the key worker will ensure the compilation of a full health history (which is recorded on the LAC documentation), including details of vaccinations, serious illnesses and episodes of hospitalisation. This will form the basis of their personal health record, which they will complete and retain throughout the time they spend in care. Any gaps or further information required will be requested from parents/carer or the young persons GP. As part of the admission process, the key worker will ensure, in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that each young person is registered with a local GP. The key worker will also ensure, again in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that arrangements are in place for each young person to visit a dentist once every six months, or more often if necessary, and that they are encouraged to attend. 12.4 12.5 Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 12.6 16 The key worker will also ensure, again in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that arrangements are in place for each young person to visit an optician once every twelve months, or more frequently if necessary, and that they are encouraged to attend. Where a young person has a medical condition that necessitates regular medication, decisions about who will be responsible for administering this will be taken after consultation with the GP and those with parental responsibility. Medications kept at Trinity Lodge will always be stored in a locked receptacle and labeled for each young person and is for that young person to use ONLY. When working towards independence ­ self administration by a young person of their own medication is a skill they need to learn ­ this will be negotiated and a risk assessment carried out to help assess the situation. All care staff at Trinity Lodge, share a common responsibility to promote the health and welfare of all accommodated young people. To this end, they have a responsibility for talking to young people in an age appropriate manner, about things which may adversely effect their health: Typically this may include personal hygiene, diet, smoking, alcohol, drug and solvent misuse and general health. With the approval of those with parental responsibility (for those under 16), staff will provide age appropriate information and seek to deal with issues which arise for each young person from their developing sexuality. Typically, this may involve the provision of education and guidance in respect of sexual activity, contraception, promiscuity, sexuality, HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted diseases. Appropriate literature from the Health Education Department of the Health Authority may be made available. 12.7 12.8 12.9 12.10 All health checks, health appointments and medications (including non-prescribed) are recorded on individual medical records held at the home, which clearly identify (with a photograph) each young person. 12.11 All staff are conversant with first-aid requirements. Trinity Lodge will work towards all members of staff completing basic training in First aid. 12.12 Specialist therapeutic and counseling services are available from the Health service 12.13 Young people aged 16 years and over can give their consent to medical treatment. Young people below this age may also give consent depending on their capacity to understand the treatment. It is for the doctor to decide whether the young person is capable of giving informed consent. Young people who are of an age and Trinity Lodge Statement of Purpose and Function 17 understanding to withhold informed consent CANNOT be medically examined or treated without their consent. This can be over ridden by someone with parental responsibility. 12.14 In accordance with government LAC 94(4) guidance, all young people are actively discouraged from smoking. Smoking is not permitted within the building at Trinity Lodge. Only young persons aged 16 years and over may be permitted to smoke and then only outside of the home, away from other young people. Staff are not allowed to smoke in front of the young people at any time, or to provide any assistance for young people to smoke. 13 Education and promotion of education Our policy is to promote and achieve local education for all resident children placed at Trinity Lodge. The Westcliff area is serviced by a variety of specialist facilities for children with Learning Disabilities or difficulties and who have a Statement of Educational Needs, and the LEA ghas a duty to find a placement. Where a delay is experienced in organising a place locally or in the case of a new resident being excluded from school, Trinity Lodge does run Trinity lodge Special School, which can provide education for up to 6 statemented Children. Trinity lodge Special School is housed in a separate facility and is completely      ");
array_files[86]=new Array(0,8,"./trinitylodge/statementofpurpose.doc","2009-03-04","256K","statementofpurpose.doc    ","",""," 1.1 [pic] Trinity Lodge Residential Childrens Home 8 Trinity Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, Essex, SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 E-Mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Statement of Purpose and Function |CONTENTS | |Topic |Page | |Introduction |3 | |Aims and objectives |4 | |Facilities and Services |5 | |Registered Provider, Responsible person |6 | |Qualifications of the Registered Provider and Registered |7 | |Manager | | |Staff numbers and qualification |8 | |Supervision, Training and Development of Staff |8 | |Organisational Structure |10 | |Service Provision |10 | |Admission Criteria |11 | |Plan for Positive Outcomes |12 | |Ethos and Philosophy |13 | |Health protection and promotion |16 | |Education and promotion of education |17 | |Activities - Recreational, Sporting and Cultural |18 | |Consultation with young people |20 | |Control, restraint and discipline |21 | |Young person protection and to counter bullying |24 | |The procedure for dealing with unauthorised absence |25 | |Electronic surveillance of young people |25 | |Fire precaution and emergency procedures |25 | |Religious instruction and observance |26 | |Contact arrangements |26 | |Complaints |27 | |Reviews or Placement Plans |30 | |Accommodation and Sleeping arrangements |31 | |Therapeutic techniques used and arrangements for their |32 | |supervision | | |Anti-discriminatory practice and the young peoples rights|32 | |Appendix I - Organizational Structure Diagram |33 | |Appendix II - Staff qualifications and experiences |34 | | | | Introduction This Statement of Purpose and Function is written in accordance with the regulatory requirements of the Care Standards Act 2000 and the Childrens Home regulations 2001. The statement is produced by Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited. The directors of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited are: Crystal Shaw, Alex Shaw and Michael Ward. Reference is also made within the statement to a series of Trinity Lodge policy documents, which can be read in conjunction with this statement. These are all available in full at 8 Trinity Avenue, Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 8AJ. A copy of this statement is provided to the Commission for Social Care Inspection and is also available to:- . Each person who works at Trinity Lodge . The placing Authority or Agency of any young person provided with accommodation at Trinity Lodge |...............................| |Date..............| |................... | |.......... | | |Alex Shaw | | | |Responsible Person| | |...............................| |Date | |..(acting) | |..................| | |William Farrow |...... | | |Registered manager| | 1 Aims and Objectives The removal of a child from their own home is considered potentially, one of the most invasive and life changing experiences of his or her life. This action is therefore at the pinnacle of child protection measures. All those involved in the partnership of care including the child, parents, others with parental responsibility, care staff, allocated social worker and any agreed interested party, must be confident that this action is, and will continue to make a positive difference in the life of each child as a result. Every possible care must always be taken to ensure that all children accommodated meet all the criteria for admission, placement continuation and eventual discharge as appropriate. The home will provide a service for children with learning disabilities. The World Health Organisation defines learning disabilities as: a state of arrest or incomplete development of mind and someone with a learning disability is said also to have significant impairment of intellectual function and significant impairment of adaptive/social functioning This means that children will have difficulties understanding and learning new things, and in generalising any learning to new situation, as well as having difficulties with a number of social tasks, for example communication, self-care, awareness of health and safety. A final dimension to the definition is that these impairments were present with the person from childhood, and not acquired as a result of an accident or following the onset of illness. In the UK, the Department of Health has used the terms moderate, severe and profound to classify learning disabilities. These have been linked to IQ test scores. More importantly attempts have been made to recognise that that the level of support children need in their lives are as important as the label given to their level of impairment. 1. Aims The home aims to:- . Provide a high quality service within a stable environment to meet the needs of young people with learning disabilities between 12 and 18 years of age who need medium to long-term residential care. . To enable young people placed at the home to develop emotionally, socially and educationally by assessing, planning, implementing and monitoring the young persons needs 2. Objective The Objectives of the home are:- . To enable young people who leave care to make a smooth transition of reintegration into:- - their own or another family; - other services or - adult residential services. . To work with the placing authority collaboratively to achieve the objectives of the overall care plan for the young person. . To enhance the personal self esteem of each young person by the creation and maintenance of a living environment which maximizes safe opportunities to learn, to develop, to make sense of previous experiences and to realize an appropriate degree of self- determination. Facilities and Services Provided 3. Each young person will have, prior to admission, an agreed Care Plan, detailing comprehensive arrangements for their care. 4. Each young person will have, and will be able to access, the support of an allocated social worker. 5. The Care Plan is considered a contract of care by those in the partnership of care. This sets out assessed needs of the young person, the objectives of the placement, how these are to be met and the contributions to be made by those in the partnership of care. The Care Plan must include as a minimum:- . Health needs and health promotion. . Care needs, including safeguarding and promoting welfare. . Physical and emotional needs. . Education needs and attainment targets. . Cultural, religious, language and racial needs and how they will be met. . Leisure needs. . Contact arrangements with family, friends and significant others. 6. Each young person will have an allocated key-worker. It will be the responsibility of the key-worker supported by other staff, to ensure that the requirements of the Care Plan are implemented in the day-to- day care of the young person. 7. The key worker will provide individual guidance, advice and support to the young person and will regularly make time available to the young person in order to do so. Such time may be referred to as Key- Work Sessions. 8. Where appropriate, to meet specific needs, those in the partnership of care will engage the services of specialist provision from other agencies, including therapists, specialist health providers, leaving care organisations and education services. 9. Each young person will have access to advocacy services which is independent of both the management of Trinity Lodge and the allocated field Social Worker. Information regarding such services will be made available to the young person who may require assistance in accessing the service. The Registered Provider and Registered Manager 10. The registered provider for Trinity Lodges services is:- Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea Essex, SS0 7PU 11. The Responsible Individual (as defined under current legislation). On behalf of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Limited, responsible for management of the services at Trinity Lodge is:- Mr Alex Shaw 12. The Registered Manager is: William Farrow Qualifications of the Registered Provider and Registered Manager 4.1 Responsible Individual- Alex Shaw Alex studied for his B.A. Hons degree at Bristol University before moving to UCL to study for a Masters degree. Since finishing university Alex held senior management and general management positions before co-founding Trinity Lodge in 2000 and registering as responsible individual, initially under the old Registered Homes Act 84 with reference to the Children Act 89. In 2002 Alex was then registered under the NCSC and latterly the CSCI. Alex has achieved an NVQ4 for Management in Care (with childcare modules), Advance Food Hygiene certificate, Child Protection certificates and is currently studying for a degree in Health and Social Care. Alex is also a director of two other registered homes for children with learning disabilities. 4.2 Manager- William Farrow William Joined Trinity Lodge in 2005 having previously managed Elderly and Adult Learning Disabilities services, and has many years experience in care. William has Foundation and Advanced Care Management qualifications, specific Learning Disabilities qualifications and has a hands-on, person-centred approach to management. His enthusiasm and dedication will provide Trinity with the opportunity to continue to move forward with its service provision. 3. Deputy Manager - Sophie Zwizwai Sophie is the longest serving member of our staff team and has recently qualified as a Social Worker. Sophie holds a BA with Education Degree, BA (Hons) Social Work Degree, a Diploma in Special Education Needs and a Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education. Sophie has vast experience in looking after children with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour and brings a wealth of experience to the management team. Sophie is an NVQ Assessor for Caring For Children and Young Persons and is an Associate Lecturer with South East Essex College in the Education and Social Studies department. Other courses Sophie is qualified to teach are Moving & Handling, Food Hygiene and Anti-Discriminatory practice. Staff numbers and qualification Trinity Lodge will have a manager who will be supported by a Deputy, Senior Residential Social Workers and Team Leaders and a team of full- time and part-time Residential Social Workers. The nights are always staffed by a waking night team, who may be supplemented by sleep-in staff. The home also has an attached pool of relief staff to cover any staffing shortfalls. For specific details please see Appendix II - Staff Details. A minimum of two staff members will be on duty at any time. The minimum ratio of staff to young people will be 1:3. Supervision, Training and Development of staff 4. Supervision . Supervision is an integral and necessary tool for the effective, efficient and safe delivery of services to young people in public care :- . Supervision is provided for all staff at Trinity Lodge, using a variety of formats, including peer supervision, team meetings and where appropriate, action learning events. All staff are provided with individual, direct 1:1 supervision from a senior member of staff at least once per month. For full details of this programme, please refer to the corporate staff supervision policy (available at Trinity Lodge). . All supervision appointments are recorded within an annual schedule, so that all staff are aware when and where this is available. . New members of staff will be given supervision on a fortnightly basis during the first 6 months of their employment. . Staff employed in the staff bank relief pool, are provided with supervision no less frequently than after each eight shifts worked at Trinity Lodge. . Records are kept, of agreed actions and targets for each staff member. 5. Training . All staff engaged by Trinity Lodge will have a period of induction on commencement of their appointment. . Trinity Lodge has an annual training plan, detailing both the base training requirements for all staff and the specific and specialist areas required by individual staff, to meet the needs and purpose of the home. . As required by legislation, a minimum ratio of 80% of all care staff at Trinity Lodge will have completed their NVQ level 3 in Caring for young people & Young People (or a course with similar competency based assessment) by Jan 2005. . New staff engaged from January 2007, will hold the NVQ level 3 or be working towards this or another qualification which matches the assessed competencies required for this training, or begin working toward them within three months of joining the Team. . In addition, All new members of staff are required to complete a detailed and assessed Induction Programme at Trinity Lodge . An introduction to child protection, Fire training, the education policy for young people in public care, medicine administration procedures and recording will be provided for all staff, as part of their induction programme. . All staff members will be required to undergo training in caring for children with learning disabilities. Trinity Lodge will source training places on suitable courses and provide bespoke training within the unit. . The home will also source courses accredited by the British Institute for Learning Disablities (BILD). . All staff working at Trinity Lodge will be trained and regularly updated in the safe handling and administration of medicines. All In-house training will be recorded. 6. Staff Development . All staff will keep an updated personal, professional development portfolio, which will contain all details of their previous training and professional experiences, their qualifications and their agreed development targets (with completion criteria) for the following year. . All staff will have an annual appraisal where they can discuss their performance, identify training needs and agree targets. . All staff development requirements will be identified and agreed through supervision and the on-going appraisal process. Training & development opportunities will be provided for a minimum of six paid days per year, for each staff member . Staff will be encouraged to access post-qualifying and management training in young peoples care, as appropriate Organizational structure The registered provider - Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Ltd has been operating in this sector for four years. The directors of Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) Ltd are:- Crystal Shaw, Alex Shaw and Michael Ward. For specific details please refer to Appendix I - Organisational Structure and Appendix II - Staff Details Service Provision 7. Trinity Lodge is designated as a medium to long-term residential young peoples home, for young people with a Care Plan to remain looked-after by the Local Authority through to reunification, alternative family or care placement or through to their adulthood. 8. Trinity Lodge is designed to provide accommodation for a maximum of six young people (of both genders) at any time, who will have a learning disability (Autism, Aspergers etc) and may display various forms of challenging behaviour, may have experienced various forms of abuse, may display a wide variety of associated trauma related behaviour(s) and who may be the subject of appropriate legal orders. 9. Trinity Lodge can provide accommodation for young people with a wide cross-section of needs, within a broad age range from 12 to 18 and of both genders. 10. In providing accommodation, it is anticipated and understood that each young person will have individual and special needs. Specialized services for young people with acute mental health and/or physical disability needs are not provided within Trinity Lodge. Criteria for admission 11. All referrals must be made to the Registered Manager or Deputy Manager. Placing Authorities will usually telephone to find out if a bed is available. The following information must be obtained to process a request for placement: - Age of the young person - Sex - Does the young person have diagnosed learning disability? - Are there special needs identified? . The home will accept emergency and planned placements as defined in section 9.6. . If clarity needs to be established the Responsible Individual or Registered Manager will contact and inform the referring Agency. . In the absence of the Registered Manager all referrals will be handled by the Responsible Individual. . Trinity Lodge Referral Forms are to be completed by the referring Social Worker and authorised by the Team Manager. . A Duty Social Worker/Allocated Social Worker to be identified on Referral Form. . All Young People referred to Trinity Lodge must have a named Social Worker within three days of admission 12. In accordance with good practice, at the point of referral, it is expected that alternative resources will already have been explored, including placement with extended family and/or friends. A positive decision should then have been taken, that placement at Trinity Lodge is the best option available to meet the young persons assessed need(s). 13. The needs of any new young person concerned, and the likely effects of his/her admission upon the existing group of residents, are fully considered and recorded, when making decisions in respect of all admissions to the home. This is to ensure a best-fit matching for all young persons and to ensure that, as far as possible, no young person presents a significant risk to the safety or developmental opportunities of any other. 14. In all cases, the proposed new young person, along with any person with parental responsibility should be made aware of the pre- admission assessment, the outcome of this, and will have been as involved as possible in the pre-placement planning. 15. Trinity Lodge can offer a home to young people who have a history of behavioral problems and has an educational statement. However, a full case discussion will be required prior to a service being offered, in order to identify additional/specialist resources needed. In all cases, regardless of past circumstances, all information appertaining to each young person, including any risk assessment(s) must be shared (in accordance with Health & Safety legislation) between all agencies involved in placement. 16. A planned placement is accommodation arranged with the maximum amount of information for all involved in the partnership of care for the young person. It provides the opportunity for the young person to visit Trinity Lodge prior to admission, and agrees the tasks, preferred outcomes and the time limits of the placement, as outlined in the care plan. An emergency Placement is accommodation arranged with essential information available and the need by a placing authority to have the child accommodated prior to the young person visiting the home. A risk assessment must be done prior to admission. A review meeting regarding the placement must be convened within 72 hours of first accommodating the child. 17. In all cases, care planning will then follow the schedule set within the Department of Health Looked-after Young people system. i.e.: First review of care plan within 28 days of placement and then three months and six months. Further reviews will take place at six monthly or annually; or as requested sooner by any member of the Partnership of Care. The statutory paperwork complete with consent forms must be made available at point of placement. Plan for Positive Outcomes 18. Trinity Lodge strives to provide a secure and stable environment for young people. The vision is to provide a positive care option for young people requiring residential care 19. The style of operation is to simulate, wherever possible a family type environment. Staff will try to include the young people where possible in their duties periodically to give them a sense of reality as is usual in a family home. Such duties may include preparation of meals and domestic tasks. Similarly, doors are not usually locked (save for the Staff offices and bedrooms to provide privacy) and young people are encouraged and assisted by the staff to play an active role in the operation of the home. 20. Young people are informed and will participate in any decision to change the arrangements for their accommodation. Changes made to the home will be discussed. New staff will be introduced to young people and new residents introduced to existing residents. The underlying ethos and philosophy of Trinity Lodge 21. The Department of Health identifies six core values which contribute to quality care practice in all residential settings. They are:- . Privacy . Dignity . Independence . Choice . Rights . Fulfillment Trinity Lodge seeks to promote all of these values at all times, by way of the following examples of good practice. 22. Privacy:- . All young people have their own room. . All young people will receive sensitivity in practice, especially when dealing with personal issues. . Information about all young people will remain confidential. Information about one young person will not therefore be disclosed to another, or to any inappropriate source. . At Trinity Lodge, there is no designated visitors room or facilities at this time, however there is a plan to utilize a dedicated room in the next door provision (number 6) as an extra lounge which will include use for visitors and scheduled meetings with other professionals. The aim of this is to ensure that the young peoples areas are not used for these purposes. Care is taken to ensure that there is a homely environment, and to not develop an institutional feel. 23. Dignity . Staff have an active awareness of each persons racial, cultural, religious and dietary needs, enabling the celebration of difference for all. Trinity Lodge provides a living environment and operational culture that places the needs of young people as paramount, above all others. . Trinity Lodge uses techniques for managing young peoples behaviour, based principally on reinforcement and reward, avoiding punitive measures in reaction to negative behaviour(s), so that young people can learn from their mistakes and from the modeling of staff and the adults around them. 24. Independence . Trinity Lodge provides a living environment and operational culture which encourages the development of self-confidence and which allows young people appropriate opportunities to take some calculated risks, in their learning journey. . At Trinity Lodge, each young person is able to access and record in their own personal file. . Trinity Lodge will implement an independent living skills programme, for young people to use in their learning journey toward the maximum appropriate independence. . Trinity Lodge works in partnership with leaving care services of placing Local Authorities, to ensure access to support systems for young people leaving the homes service. . The provision of clear information about how to complain is available to all young people at all times. . All young people have access to an independent advocacy service including the provision of a free-phone telephone service 11.5 Choice . Each young person is encouraged to personalise their own bedroom within reason. . New residents of Trinity Lodge, (following initial settling-in) will each be encouraged to re-design the décor of their own room, for which a budget allocation is made. . Young people are actively encouraged to share and influence (appropriate to age) the day-to-day routines and practices within the home through a variety of means, including attending residents meetings. . Young people are encouraged to exercise their own religious and cultural preferences. . Young people are actively encouraged to partake in a wide variety of leisure activities. 25. Rights . Trinity Lodge supports, promotes and complies with the European Convention on the Rights of the Young person (copy available at the home). . Trinity Lodge Provides a safe physical environment. . Trinity Lodge actively promotes social learning, so that all young people can learn to understand their rights and responsibilities within the home, within the community and toward others . All young people are made aware of how they should expect staff to behave, and what they should do if this is not their experience. . All young people are provided with guidance, which informs them how to influence decisions about their future. . All young people are provided with information about the independent advocacy service and of how they can pursue a complaint (both formal and informal). 11.6 Fulfillment . The use of care planning and reviews (LAC system) at Trinity Lodge, will be used to track developments for each young person and ensure that service provision most appropriately meets health, education and social needs in order to maximize the future life chances for each young person. . Trinity Lodge will actively promote family contact, as appropriate and agreed in the Care Plan for each young person. . Each young person will be given the opportunity to actively engage in, and influence the planning and delivery of services for them. . Trinity Lodge plan to develop a multi-agency steering group, with parents/people with parental responsibility and young people (resident) representatives within the next 6 months of operation. This will focus on general developments of the service provision. . Led by the staff group, Trinity Lodge will strive to ensure that each young person has the opportunity to engage fully in their local community. Health protection and promotion The arrangement to protect and promote the health of young people accommodated at Trinity Lodge . 26. Given the importance of ensuring that a young persons health is adequately monitored whilst living at Trinity Lodge, the key worker will ensure the compilation of a full health history (which is recorded on the LAC documentation), including details of vaccinations, serious illnesses and episodes of hospitalisation. This will form the basis of their personal health record, which they will complete and retain throughout the time they spend in care. Any gaps or further information required will be requested from parents/carer or the young persons GP. 27. As part of the admission process, the key worker will ensure, in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that each young person is registered with a local GP. 28. The key worker will also ensure, again in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that arrangements are in place for each young person to visit a dentist once every six months, or more often if necessary, and that they are encouraged to attend. 29. The key worker will also ensure, again in partnership with those with parental responsibility, that arrangements are in place for each young person to visit an optician once every twelve months, or more frequently if necessary, and that they are encouraged to attend. 30. Where a young person has a medical condition that necessitates regular medication, decisions about who will be responsible for administering this will be taken after consultation with the GP and those with parental responsibility. Medications kept at Trinity Lodge will always be stored in a locked receptacle and labeled for each young person and is for that young person to use ONLY. When working towards independence - self administration by a young person of their own medication is a skill they need to learn - this will be negotiated and a risk assessment carried out to help assess the situation. 31. All care staff at Trinity Lodge, share a common responsibility to promote the health and welfare of all accommodated young people. To this end, they have a responsibility for talking to young people in an age appropriate manner, about things which may adversely effect their health: Typically this may include personal hygiene, diet, smoking, alcohol, drug and solvent misuse and general health. 32. With the approval of those with parental responsibility (for those under 16), staff will provide age appropriate information and seek to deal with issues which arise for each young person from their developing sexuality. Typically, this may involve the provision of education and guidance in respect of sexual activity, contraception, promiscuity, sexuality, HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted diseases. Appropriate literature from the Health Education Department of the Health Authority may be made available. 33. All health checks, health appointments and medications (including non-prescribed) are recorded on individual medical records held at the home, which clearly identify (with a photograph) each young person. 34. All staff are conversant with first-aid requirements. Trinity Lodge will work towards all members of staff completing basic training in First aid. 35. Specialist therapeutic and counseling services are available from the Health service 36. Young people aged 16 years and over can give their consent to medical treatment. Young people below this age may also give consent depending on their capacity to understand the treatment. It is for the doctor to decide whether the young person is capable of giving informed consent. Young people who are of an age and understanding to withhold informed consent CANNOT be medically examined or treated without their consent. This can be over ridden by someone with parental responsibility. 37. In accordance with government LAC 94(4) guidance, all young people are actively discouraged from smoking. Smoking is not permitted within the building at Trinity Lodge. Only young persons aged 16 years and over may be permitted to smoke and then only outside of the home, away from other young people. Staff are not allowed to smoke in front of the young people at any time, or to provide any assistance for young people to smoke. Education and promotion of education This section should be read in conjunction with information regarding Trinity Lodge School within which facility it is our intention to provide bespoke, on-site educational facilities. We are currently undergoing the registration process and already provide part-time on site tutoring from a specialist teacher to meet the needs of our residents who have already been excluded from school. Arrangements for the education and promotion of education for young people accommodated including facilities for private study. 1. Education, in all of its forms, is one of the cornerstones of personal growth and development. All young people will be actively encouraged to partake in educational opportunities appropriate to their need(s). 13.2 Trinity Lodge is determined to support young peoples education by the widest means possible. This support should also, in all cases, be available from all members of the partnership of care and/or any other appropriate person. This might include, Social Worker, social inclusion officer, School/College, Special Needs service, Educational Psychologist,       ");
array_files[87]=new Array(0,1,"./trinitylodge/staffing.htm","2009-03-04","5K","Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children    ","",""," Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children & Trinity Lodge Special School 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 e-mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Enabling Young Lives Staffing We employ a stringent recruitment procedure and are proud of our development programme at Trinity Lodge. Our staff compliment comprises a far reaching and diverse range of skills which enable us to meet the individual needs of Children in an innovative and productive fashion. As well as statutory qualifications, our team possess a variety of complimentary qualifications and relevant experience between them. They bring with them a combination of knowledge and understanding of children that adds to the resources in place for delivering effective care. The team have undergone specialist training in Behaviour Management and Learning Disabilities which adds dimension and depth to the teams capability. All staff continually receive updated professional training in relevant areas to improve care standards and practice. ...All staff continually receive updated professional training in relevant areas to improve care standards and practice The dynamics of the staff team are continually assessed and as a team we have weekly meetings to discuss all aspects of care delivery. Regular supervision and appraisal provides support and development of the staff team. Teacher - Anne Jackson Anne has her Certificate of Education (Cert.ED), Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and has thirty years teaching experience in many Essex and East London schools. During this time Anne has specialised in working with pupils with special needs and who display very challenging behaviour. Anne has used her extensive experience to achieve great success with students working on a 1 to 1 basis and in small group sessions. Psychiatric support - Dr. Chandrarajan Dr. Chandrarajan is a respected psychiatrist within Essex, specialising in working with Children with Learning Disabilities. He currently holds a weekly surgery at Trinity Lodge, enabling the residents to receive individualised on site support and he carries additional responsibility instructing and supporting the team in the development of positive behaviour management. Registered Provider as a Childrens Home(CLD) under the Care Standards Act 2000 Certificate No. H000000093, Service No. 0000015478     ");
array_files[88]=new Array(0,1,"./trinitylodge/sexeducation.htm","2009-03-04","3K","Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children    ","",""," Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children & Trinity Lodge Special School 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 e-mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Enabling Young Lives SEX EDUCATION The teaching of sex and relationship education is vital to developing and maintaining emotional and physical health. We understand the sensitivity around this subject and Trinity Lodge believes that this is a life-long learning process concerning sex, sexuality, sexual health, emotions and relationships. We aim to teach this part of the curriculum to include strong moral values including the importance of the family. This should lead towards a fuller understanding for young people of sexuality, as appropriate. Registered Provider as a Childrens Home(CLD) under the Care Standards Act 2000 Certificate No. H000000093, Service No. 0000015478     ");
array_files[89]=new Array(0,8,"./trinitylodge/scheduleofchargestrinity.doc","2009-03-04","33K","scheduleofchargestrinity.doc    ","",""," |Service Item |Included |Extra Cost | |24 hour board and care |( | | |Waking night staff |( | | |Food including lunch at school |( | | |Special dietary needs |( | | |Clothing on admission |( | | |Monthly clothing allowance (£60 per |( | | |month) | | | |Replacement of clothing (normal wear|( | | |& tear) | | | |School uniform |( | | |Sports clothing for general |( | | |activities | | | |Individual sports equipment |( | | |School books & equipment |( | | |Bibles & religious needs |( | | |Prayer mats |( | | |Hobby materials |( | | |Hobbies tuition costs |( | | |Pocket money (£ 7 to £10 per week) |( | | |Birthday/festive presents |( | | |Telephone calls to family members |( | | |and SSD | | | |Telephone calls to others (up to |( | | |£3.00 per wk) | | | |Toiletries |( | | |Hair care (cutting and products) |( | | |Skin care products |( | | |General day to day travel/transport |( | | |Recreational outings |( | | |General leisure activities (£7 per |( | | |day of activity) | | | |Holidays in the UK arranged by |( | | |Trinity Lodge | | | |Holidays outside the UK | |( | |School transport costs (bus/train |( | | |fares) | | | |Supervised travel to and from school|( | | |School outings and visits |( | | |Travel cost to and from home/family |( | | |(within a 10 mile radius) | | | |Staff travel to attend review |( | | |meetings | | | |Staff costs and time attending |( | | |review meetings | | | |Court attendance costs (staff & |( | | |young people) | | | |Supervised home visits |( | | |Reasonable escort duties |( | | |Additional home tuition |( | | |Additional programmes/work |( | | |assistance | | | |Written progress report |( | | |Fees for medical examination |( | | |Dental treatment |( | | |Medical supplies/prescription drugs |( | | |Opticians fee |( | | |Spectacles (frames & lenses) |( | | |Psychological assessment |( | | |Psychological treatment |( | | |Psychiatric assessment |( | | |Counselling |( | | |Additional Supervision (£14.00 per | |( | |hour) | | | |Appropriate adult work in local area|( | | |Appropriate adult work outside local|( | | |area | | | |Collection from absconding |( | | |Weekly rate (basic care) | | |Including Education |£2100 | | | | |Including 1:1 provision |£3500 | Annual - Christmas/Festive day presents - £50.00 Birthday presents - £50.00 All children will have a nominated bank account into which the following amounts are paid weekly from the above fees: Clothing allowance £ 15.00 Pocket money £ 10.00 Activities £ 25.00 Toiletries £ 7.00 £ 57.00 (£247 per month) An additional £10 per week activity money is made available through the petty cash system ----------------------- Trinity Lodge Schedule of service and charges     ");
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array_files[91]=new Array(0,1,"./trinitylodge/religiouseducation.htm","2009-03-04","2K","Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children    ","",""," Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children & Trinity Lodge Special School 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 e-mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Enabling Young Lives RELIGIOUS EDUCATION We teach Religious Education on a non-denominational basis and involve all pupils regardless of their religion. Projects on the individual religions, through Literacy, will take place throughout the school year. Registered Provider as a Childrens Home(CLD) under the Care Standards Act 2000 Certificate No. H000000093, Service No. 0000015478     ");
array_files[92]=new Array(0,1,"./trinitylodge/pullquotes.htm","2009-03-04","4K","Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children    ","",""," Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children & Trinity Lodge Special School 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 e-mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Enabling Young Lives Aim The aim of Trinity Lodge is to provide a supportive and safe environment where the children/young people can feel free to express their needs and work to their strengths to achieve their full potential within a community based setting, ensuring personal development in line with professionally supported care planning processes. ...Our home is child orientated and centred on the needs of the young people for whom we provide care We endeavour to enable the young person to maximise their personal potential and develop their learning techniques whilst providing systematic experiences that are matched with their learning objectives and positive quantifiable outcomes. Our home is child orientated and centred on the needs of the young people for whom we provide care. Trinity Lodge provides an environment where children and young people can grow towards being happy, well rounded, emotionally secure individuals with a sense belonging within Trinity Lodge and the community at large. We create a proactive environment to inspire young people to develop positive attitudes about themselves, to increase their self esteem in a real sense and assist in coping with their disability. Registered Provider as a Childrens Home(CLD) under the Care Standards Act 2000 Certificate No. H000000093, Service No. 0000015478     ");
array_files[93]=new Array(0,1,"./trinitylodge/pullquote.htm","2009-03-04","4K","Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children    ","",""," Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children & Trinity Lodge Special School 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 e-mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Enabling Young Lives Principles of the Service Our care and support practices are based around the principles of six key values: Fulfilment Choice Dignity Privacy Rights Independence Trinity lodge will ensure that all residents whilst in the care of the home are safeguarded and protected at all times and this will take precedence over all other factors. All residents admitted to the home will be given the help, support and opportunities needed to make their placement a success. We will maintain and develop a secure, harmonious and homely atmosphere for all the residents living here. Trinity lodge will recognize the requirements of residents and will establish as soon as possible a bond of trust that will enable the young people to voice their needs and problems. ...Fa avaiat Trinity receive areas at ... We will take account of the young persons cultural, religious and dietary needs and meet any special requirements deemed appropriate. The organisation is committed to the principle of equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice and thereby the principles of normalisation within learning disability service. Registered Provider as a Childrens Home(CLD) under the Care Standards Act 2000 Certificate No. H000000093, Service No. 0000015478     ");
array_files[94]=new Array(0,1,"./trinitylodge/principlesoftheservice.htm","2009-03-04","4K","Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children    ","",""," Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children Trinity Lodge Care Home for Children & Trinity Lodge Special School 8 Trinity Avenue Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503 e-mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Enabling Young Lives Principles of the Service Our care and support practices are based around the principles of six key values: Fulfilment Choice Dignity Privacy ...All residents admitted to the home will be given the help, support and opportunities needed to make their placement a success... Rights Independence Trinity lodge will ensure that all residents whilst in the care of the home are safeguarded and protected at all times and this will take precedence over all other factors. All residents admitted to the home will be given the help, support and opportunities needed to make their placement a success. We will maintain and develop a secure, harmonious and homely atmosphere for all the residents living here. Trinity lodge will recognize the requirements of residents and will establish as soon as possible a bond of trust that will enable the young people to voice their needs and problems. We will take account of the young persons cultural, religious and dietary needs and meet any special requirements deemed appropriate. The organisation is committed to the principle of equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice and thereby the principles of normalisation within learning disability service. Registered Provider as a Childrens Home(CLD) under the Care Standards Act 2000 Certificate No. H000000093, Service No. 0000015478     ");
array_files[95]=new Array(0,8,"./trinitylodge/placementagreementtrinity.doc","2009-03-04","133K","placementagreementtrinity.doc    ","",""," Trinity Lodge 8, Trinity Avenue, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 7PU Tel: 01702 434184, Fax: 01702 338503, E-mail: trinitylodge@ukonline.co.uk Placement Agreement |This contract is made on | |between | |the | | | | | | |and Trinity Lodge (Westcliff) ltd. | This agreement relates to the provision of residential care of young people between the ages of 12 and 18 years and whos needs and circumstances have been assessed by the Local authoritys Social Services Department and who would benefit from a placement at: Trinity Lodge This agreement will take effect from the above date when signed by the local authority and will continue until terminated by either party in accordance with clauses detailed in this agreement. Any matters relating to the operation of this agreement should be addressed to the Manager (Bill Farrow) of Trinity Lodge. The terms and conditions detailed below embody the complete agreement between the Local Authority and Trinity Lodge and supersede all other understandings and written agreements relating to the matters referred to and in relation to : |Name of Young Person| | Trinity Lodge will provide the service in accordance with the terms of this agreement. In consideration of the provision of the service by Trinity Lodge, the local authority will pay the price in accordance with provisions of this agreement. The Terms of Admission set out the general conditions of acceptance by Trinity Lodge and should be signed by a person in a position of financial responsibility. When countersigned by the Registered Manager of Trinity Lodge it will be returned upon acceptance of a placement. 1. Agreement price and payment The contract includes the amount payable by the Local authority for the services detailed in this agreement. This may be supplemented by an additional service fee for additional services provided as detailed in the fee structure. The Local authority shall pay the Trinity Lodge fee for the young person placed in the way that this agreement provides. The young persons contribution (if applicable) will be collected by the Local authority and not subtracted from out invoice. In return for the Local authoritys prompt payment, Trinity Lodge shall provide the young person with care and residence to the satisfaction of an Authorised Officer. No additional charge shall be made to the Local authority or to any other third party, unless agreed by the Local authority for any costs which might reasonably be expected to be provided by Trinity Lodge in accordance with the fee structure as detailed in this agreement. Any variation in the level of care provided and/or price paid must be agreed in writing by an Authorised Officer of the Local authority with the exception of the price changes provided for by this agreement linked to inflation and other relevant factors. Either party may request a placement review meeting and consider what changes if any resulting from changes in the care needs of a referred young person need to be made. This may include services not covered by the agreed price as detailed in this agreement. Where this leads to a variation in the level of care provided and/or additional or reduced costs, this must be agreed in writing by the local authority and Trinity Lodge and an amendment made to this individual agreement. Trinity Lodge will review the agreed fees and charges for additional services annually and notify the Local authority of any change by 31st December each year, to take effect 1st April of the following year. Trinity Lodge reserves the right not to increase or decrease the agreed fee; however any increase in the agreed price or fees for additional services beyond Pan London agreed incremental rates will be subject to negotiation and justification. Trinity Lodge will calculate the charges on a daily basis from the date of this agreement to the day the young person leaves the home, subject to any notice periods as contained in the termination clauses of this agreement. Trinity Lodge will submit invoices monthly and in advance with any VAT separately identified and the Local authority will make payment within 21 days of receipt of an invoice. The Local authority agrees that should for any reason the payment for invoices are not received within this time period, Trinity Lodge may charge interest at a rate of £3.00 per day. The invoices submitted by Trinity Lodge will detail the name for each young person covered by that invoice, the period covered, details of any additional charges and the actual amount being invoiced. In the event of the temporary absence of a young person from care at Trinity Lodge, no alteration will be made to the fees charged; however should the absence exceed a continuous period of 21 days the provision for this young person will be reviewed as to whether the placement will continue subject to the termination clauses contained within the agreement. Trinity Lodge will not re-use any bed which is temporarily vacant but also being paid for by the Local authority. Subject to the termination clauses contained within this agreement, Trinity Lodge will refund to the Local authority any monies paid by the Local authority for period after the young person has left the home. In the event that a Local Authority reserves a place pending a referral or admission they will be charged at the current rate. The need for additional services will be determined by negotiation between Trinity Lodge and the Local authority whenever possible and prior to admission, then by subsequent reviews. It is often only after a young person has spent a little time at the home that it becomes possible to identify what additional services may be required. After a young person has settled in and begins to benefit from the caring environment at Trinity Lodge the need for some aspects of additional care could diminish. A subsequent review could therefore reveal a reduced need for additional services. This could involve a reduction in additional services offered and reduction in additional charges. Further placement reviews will be carried out at the request of either party to the other and will involve the consideration of the young persons needs and the necessity for or desirability of the provisions of the young person for additional staff, therapies and other services including additional clothing and equipment. Any additional services must be approved in advance by an authorised officer or in exceptional circumstances by the Local authoritys emergency duty team. Schedule of services and charges |Service Item |Included |Extra Cost | |24 hour supervised board and care |( | | |Waking nigh staff |( | | |Food including lunch at school |( | | |Special dietary needs |( | | |Clothing on admission | |( | |Monthly clothing allowance (£60 per |( | | |month) | | | |Replacement of clothing (normal wear|( | | |& tear) | | | |School uniform | |( | |Sports clothing for general |( | | |activities | | | |Individual sports equipment |( | | |School books & equipment |( | | |Bibles & religious needs |( | | |Prayer mats |( | | |Hobby materials |( | | |Hobbies tuition costs | |( | |Pocket money (£ 7 to £10 per week) |( | | |Birthday/festive presents |( | | |Telephone calls to family members |( | | |and SSD | | | |Telephone calls to others (up to |( | | |£3.00 per wk) | | | |Toiletries |( | | |Hair care (cutting and products) |( | | |Skin care products |( | | |General day to day travel/transport |( | | |Recreational outings |( | | |General leisure activities (£7 per |( | | |day of activity) | | | |Holidays in the UK arranged by |( | | |Trinit