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Glastonbury on your desktop

Website of the Day: Friday June 25th

>> Glastonbury on bbc.co.uk
By now Britain's music lovers have pitched their tents and are already enjoying the huge range of music on offer at Worthy Farm. BBC 2, BBC 3, Radio 1, 6 Music and Radio 4 are all covering different elements of this year’s festival, and this BBC site is your definitive guide to the weekend’s events in Pilton. For the first time ever, you’ll be able to watch the pick of the performances streamed live on the BBC site, plus there are versions of the site optimised for WAP and for PDAs. Of course you’ll also find full line-up details and TV & Radio schedules for all the BBC’s Glastonbury coverage.

Too many toasters?

Website of the Day: Thursday June 24th

>> The Alternative Wedding List
As more and more newly married couple find that they already have all the toasters or kettles they need, this is a very worthy alternative. Instead of asking your wedding guests to buy you a bunch of household items which will never get used, you create an online wedding list of charitable donations – A £30 gift might buy school meals for a year for a Mongolian child, a cataract operation for a child in Bangladesh or a training lecture for a cancer nurse. The site is non-profit, ensuring that the full value of your guests’ donations go to the selected charities

How to have your words spoken by a woman with a French accent!

Website of the Day: Wednesday June 23rd

>> The Interactive Multi Lingual Demo
Although this site doesn’t have much practical use it’s great fun! It’s a text-to-voice generator which lets you type in any text and hear it spoken back to you in a variety of accents. There are a range of American and British accents plus French, German and Latin-American.
Click on the following links to hear our customised Steve Wright in the Afternoon idents created by the site:
Rosa from Mexico | Reiner from Germany | Juliette from France

More Football!

Website of the Day: Monday June 21st

As England prepare to storm through to the quarter-finals of Euro 2004, here’s our second round-up of football sites recommended by listeners to Steve Wright in the Afternoon:

>> BBC Sport Virtual Replay
Thanks to Su Cummings of Newcastle Upon Tyne for recommending this fantastic feature from BBC Sport. Virtual Replay offers animated reconstructions of every goal in the tournament. You select which goal you want to view, and then choose from one of eight different camera angles. You can also view each goal from the viewpoint of specific players on the pitch, so you can relive Wayne Rooney’s goals from his position on the pitch, or from that of Beckham, Owen, Neville or several other players.

>> Up4theCup
Of all the sites nominated by Steve Wright in the Afternoon listeners, by far the most votes and recommendations were received for this tournament score prediction game. Unfortunately most of the people who voted for it failed to mention that the deadline for entering was the opening day of Euro 2004, which means that if (like me) you’ve not already registered, you’re too late!

>> Link Up Football
A new football directory, with links to hundreds of different football sites categorised into areas like news and results, kit, memorabilia, players, teams, fantasy leagues and many others.

>> What The Faro
Nominated by Alex McBeath. Just because Scotland missed out on making the journey to Portugal, they don’t have to miss out on the Euro 2004 frenzy – This excellent tongue-in-cheek site bills itself as “Scotland’s staying at home page during Euro 2004” – and features sections like Find Your 2nd Team” – a multiple choice quiz to find out if your subconsciously cheering for Sweden.

>> The Road To Lisbon
Recommended by listener Dean Lipscombe. This site from Adidas accompanies their current TV campaign featuring most of Europe’s finest players riding customised scooters down through Europe towards Lisbon. You can watch the full-length mini-film and interviews with the filmmakers and players, plus there’s a competition to win David Beckham’s scooter.

>> Full details of all football and Euro 2004 sites featured by Miles