101 Most Useful Sites
Entertainment

Play Smarter GameCenter's World of Cheats
If you want to take unfair advantage of the office network Quake champ, head to GameCenter's World of Cheats for the cheat codes for Quake and lots of other computer games. Cheat codes are the secret, cryptic commands that you can type in to most games to make playing them easier. This is one of the few legal sites that'll help you blast your friends to bits.

Get Custom TV Listings Gist TV
Make better use of your prime couch time by consulting Gist TV's detailed broadcast listings. Enter your ZIP code for local listings, then customize away by category (movies, soaps, comedy, sci-fi) and preferred channels. Also good: TV Guide Online [www.tvguide.com].

View the Best of the Tube TV Ultra
"Kill Your Television," the bumper sticker admonishes. If you'd like to cut back on TV rather than going cold turkey, visit TV Ultra, the site that finds the one best show on TV every day. Their slogan is "We hate TV...but there's usually one show on television every day worth watching." Check in daily to get a description of the chosen show, plus links to related Web sites. If that's too much trouble, sign up for the TV Ultra e-mail list. Think of all the extra time you'll have for Web surfing if you watch only one TV show a day!

Buy Concert Tickets Ticketmaster Online
Patronizing Ticketmaster Online saves you the hassle of last-minute dealings with sleazy scalpers (and besides, doing the latter will never set a good example for the kids). Search this reputable source by event name or by location, and check out the seating charts so you'll know in advance how lousy-or, if you've got the dough, how good-your seats are.

Find Out Which Band Is Playing Where-and When Pollstar
Are the Rolling Stones coming to town? Well, if there's a large enough supply of his blood type at the local hospitals, then Keith and the boys will play. Find out when and where at Pollstar, your searchable guide to music acts on tour.

Track Down Tunes MP3 Search
Tired of the same old songs? Get some new ones in the popular MP3 format and you can play them on your PC. It couldn't be easier with Lycos's comprehensive new MP3 Search feature. Just plug in an artist or a song name and you'll get back links to the appropriate files, sorted by download reliability. Of course, downloading free music files is tricky in terms of copyright issues, but many labels see this form of music as a new opportunity, not a threat. Once you've downloaded some free tunes, spend the cash you saved on some new speakers.

Read Movie Reviews from the Experts Movie Review Query Engine
Before you shell out the cash for that new "five-star" movie, get some smart opinions at the Movie Review Query Engine. Search by title to find links to reviews from famous critics (including Y-Life's own Roger Ebert), and peruse the views of other surfers.

Resolve Movie and TV Debates Internet Movie Database
Did Dick York replace Dick Sargent on Bewitched, or was it the other way around? Solve the bet you have with your smart-aleck friend by using the Internet Movie Database. The beauty of this reference is its ease of use: Just enter the title of a movie or TV show and the IMDb spits out the entire cast list. Click on an actor's name and you get his or her filmography. How cool is that? And, in case you're wondering, Dick Sargent replaced Dick York.

Purchase Movie Tickets MovieLink
In such cities as New York, ordering your movie tickets by phone or the Web has become de rigueur. Elsewhere, it is-or soon will be-simply a timesaving alternative to waiting in line outside your local movie theater when the next blockbuster makes it to town. Check in with MovieLink first to avoid the rush.

Tune In to Web Broadcasts RealNetworks RealGuide
Thousands of Web sites feature streaming multimedia (aka tunes and videos on your PC). But it's just a sea of links without the RealNetworks RealGuide to point you to the best live and archived interviews, film, TV, and music audio/video clips available via the RealPlayer G2 and RealJukebox software (download required). Search by artist name, browse by category (News, Music, Money, and Shopping), peruse highlights, or go straight to the Star Wars clips.