Links

News and info

Portuguese.
- Daily: Público || DN || Lusa || TSF || Collection at Sapo.
- Weekly: Expresso || Visão (magazine, updated daily)
- Traffic (by Estradas de Portugal): Lisbon || Portugal
- Weather: Meteorological Institute || CNN || Tempopt || UK Weather.
International: BBC || Reuters || Associated Press
Alternative: ZNet || Le Monde Diplomatique.

Going Out

Movies: times and venues at Cinecartaz || Tickets for Medeia theatres || Reviews at Cinema 2000 || Trailers
Gulbenkian Foundation: music, theatre, exhibits and two museums: Gulbenkian Museum and Modern Art Center.
CCB: Belém Cultural Center, with music, dance, exhibits, etc.
Museums: Museu de Arte Antiga (with a virtual visit) || Museu do Chiado (contemporary art) || other state Museums (from IPM)
Events: listings at Mimistry of Culture || Cultural Lisbon
Festivals &c: Fantasporto || Entrudanças || Monstra || SBSR || FMM Sines || Andanças || Cerveira || Avante || Música Viva || Cinema Francês || DocLisboa || European Film Festival (Estoril)

Language Resources

International
- Sensagent, mostly to and from French, but with a large variety.
- Ultralingua, mostly to and from English
- Pauker.at, to and from German.
- Foreignword. A collection of dictionnaries.
- Several online grammars.
- Online verb conjugator.
- Glossaries.
- A slang dictionary at Urban Dictionary.

Portuguese
- Priberam: Dictionary with spelling corrector, and grammar.
- Universal: several dictionaries and grammars.
- Elementos de Retórica

Tourism in Portugal

Virtual Portugal a full guide of the country.
Restaurants in Portugal.
Camping in Portugal.
Transportation in Lisbon: Metro, Carris (bus and tram), Transtejo (boat) and Fertagus (the "bridge train").
Transporlis — to know trasport to take to get from here to there in greater Lisbon.
Transportation in Portugal: CP (trains), TAP (planes), Rede Expressos, EVA, Rodoviária da Estremadura and Setubalense (buses).
You can get city maps at Mappy - just insert the names of city and country in the menu on the right.
Portuguese phonebook at 118 || Yellow pages at páginas amarelas.
Folk music in Portugal: Pedexumbo

Travelling abroad

Compared fares at Open Jet (cheap fares for Europe) || Air One Travel || Fare Beater || ETN
Planes: Terminal A || RyanAir || Buzz || EasyJet || Virgin || Monarch || Niki
Trains: Portugal || Spain || France || UK || Italy || Germany.
Subways: Subway maps
Road maps and itineraries: Mappy || Michelin || Maps on us || Map Quest || Google maps
The Universal Currency Converter

Search engines

Global: Google || All the web || Yahoo!.
Reference: Wikipedia || Answers.com || Creative Commons
Specialized: Videos at You Tube || Films at IMDB || Artists at MySpace
Portugal: Altavista.pt, SAPO || Brasil: Cadê || España: Terra || France: Voilà || Deutschland: Fireball

Computer Languages and Codes

W3 schools: tutorials about internet related codes.
UNIX 101: Basic UNIX from the UIC tutorial.
UIC Computing Help Page.
Download from Version Tracker or Source Forge.
Free icons -- the list at Google.
The EuroLinux petition, about sofware patents, and the Any Browser campaign.

LaTex

TeX and LaTex for Mac: Source Code with Beginner's Guide.
Interfaces with OS X at TexShop and iTexmac
powerdot – don't forget to download xkeyval too.
For windows: MikTex
Tex and LaTex: Online help || Latex help at the Emerson Center || A few tricks
Latex software for Mac: Version Tracker || Mac Tools || UK Tex archive
LaTex manuals (pdf format): a manual in English || A manual in Portuguese
The TeX Google directory

HTML

HTML tutorials etc: UIUC || EchoEcho || HTML by example || WWW Consortium || How to Create a Website || html goodies.
Lists of HTML entities (special characters).
Webmaster World - a forum about html authoring || The HTML Google directory

Books, CDs, etc.

Portuguese: FNAC || Webboom || MediaBooks ||Byblos
Maths: Escolar Editora
International:
- New and used: Amazon.com in the USA, the UK, France and Germany || Internet Bookshop (UK) || La Librairie (FR) || Sebos Online (BR)
- Mostly used: BookFinder || Bibliofind || Abe|| Powell's bookstore || Thrift Books || Priceminister
Free online books

Humor

Jokes from rec.humor.funny — Random Joke.
Portugal no seu melhor.
Bruno Bozzeto's animations.
The onion - America's finest news source.

For a Rainy Day

Send someone an e-card: Hallmark || ICQ Friendship Cards || Blue Mountain || Yahoo!.
Online sudoku
Try to escape!
xeron.org, with games, flash applications, etc.
Make it jump!
Do you share your birthday with anyone famous? Any mathematicians? Did something important happen on your birthday?
On what day were you born in the Islamic or Jewish calendars?
An interesting clock

If you found a broken or wrong link, please contact me by e-mail: pedro (at) ptmat.fc.ul.pt