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As Seen On Screen - A great range of clothes that will definitely get you noticed. Esquire USA - Online version of the men's magazine. Advices on how to wear a tie and buy a suit, to how to drink wine and go on holiday as a traveller, not a tourist. Fashion Net - This site is packed full of luscious links, including latest online magazines, fashion and designers sites. Fashion UK - Advice on how to prevent that 'so last season' feeling, current and archived news & features, designers interviews, profiles, catwalk reports, competitions and calendar of art, fashion and design events. Handbag - This site is for women who not only care about fashion, but also have a life away from the bedroom mirror. Jimmy Choo - is famous the world over for its stylish, must-have designer shoes. Koodos - This online fashion store is the perfect place to pick up a sales bargain without going near the high-street. It sells a wide selection of designer clothes and accessories from the likes of Chloe, Diesel and Gucci at amazing discounts of between 30 and 70 per cent. Nappy Head - A unique and fun selection of baby clothes that any stylish tot would be proud to be seen in. Business Debtline is designed to help any business which has cashflow or debt problems. Debt Management - Abacus offers UK Debt Advice, Consolidation loans & Management programmes. Bad Credit Loans - Abacus help UK residents who have been refused a loan elsewhere. Better Money Skills is for everyone who wants to manage their money better, from understanding credit and interest to setting a budget, choosing the best financial options and coping with financial problems. Candid Money is an independent, free and impartial website, dedicated to helping you better understand and look after your money. There's no price comparison nor paid links, just lots of honest information and tools. CNNfn - Financial network of CNN. Consumer Credit Counselling Service - Worried about debt? CCCS can provide you with free confidential advice and support. Forbes - Forbes financial magazine Fortune - Fortune financial magazine Money Advice Service - If you’re looking for free, clear, unbiased advice to help you manage your money, you’re in the right place. This is a FREE friendly resource that provides guides to mortgages, pensions, retirement options and more. You can also compare the latest products from financial providers. Money Help UK - Are you in debt and not sure what to do? Do you have a question about credit or debt that you’ve always wanted to ask? Do you need free advice to help you with a difficult situation? MoneyHelp UK is a weekly radio show about money, credit and debt hosted by Myvesta UK Chairman Steve Rhode. MoneyMadeClear - This website from The Financial Services Authority (FSA), gives information about financial products and services. It’s teeming with crystal-clear, easy-to-understand advice on those tricky money problems we all face, from mortgages to equity release, pensions to investments. Especially good is the Insurance section, where you’ll find a five-point checklist that will help you face those intimidating claims forms with confidence. Once you’ve swotted up on the info, head to the Useful Tools section and try out the various calculators and money checks. The Financial Healthcheck is the place to start. MoneyMagpie - This website from TV presenter and journalist Jasmine Birtles offers news and advice on finance issues. Personal finance includes savings and investments, earning extra cash and how to run a business. There’s also information on green and ethical living, plus seven-step guides to getting out of debt and teaching your kids the value of money. This website is a great resource for anyone confused about cash or struggling with savings, as it makes complicated issues easy to understand. MoneyWise - Personal finance magazine Moneywise has relaunched its online home to offer consumers more detailed money news and analysis. Of particular interest is a new video channel that addresses the controversial issue of bank charges and reveals how you can avoid and claim back unfair fees. Money Online - You can read articles, look up companies, get stock quotes, etc. Money Saving Expert - Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert is a 34-year-old ultra specialised journalist. He's in constant media demand, including his own ITV1 series 'Make Me Rich', regular Radio 2 phone-in and his 'Money Diet' book is a bestseller. MoneySaving is about cutting bills not cutting back. It's about being a sassy consumer. Companies try to screw us for profits. MoneySaving shows you how to screw them back. Nasdaq - Nasdaq exchange National Debtline - The helpline that provides FREE CONFIDENTIAL and INDEPENDENT ADVICE on how to deal with debt problems. The Economist - Want to now what is happening in finance World? Check this website. The Motley Fool - This is possibly the best money site on the web. Regular email updates with the very latest loan, credit card, insurance, mortgage, ISA and pension information. The Wall Street Journal - The Bible of financial world. WebFN is the first 24/7 worldwide financial news and information station on the Web. WLW Online - search engine for over 280,000 businesses in 13 European countries
Asda - Whizz round virtual aisles - the site handily remembers favourites for speedier return visits. All Recipes is an American website with a good selection of recipes. The ingredients can be scaled up or down depending on how many people you're cooking for and All Recipes also provides nutritional information for those on a diet. The site does use the American cups measurement system, which a lot of the rest of the world also uses. For the record, one cup equals half a pint or eight ounces. Atkins Diet - Unlike other weight-loss programs, Atkins allows you to eat satisfying amounts of delicious, nutrient-dense foods and customise the program to your individual needs and tastes. Authentic Wine and Food website aims to take the pain out of a buying decent food and wine. They stock only the finest selections of produce from producers who care about - food. Who produce it in the old traditional ways? Small producers who will not compromise quality for price. So, bring Authentic Wine & Food to your table. BBC Food recipe generator lets you specify up to three ingredients you have in the fridge or wish to cook with and will find recipes that include them. BBC Good Food - The online home of the BBC’s Good Food magazine has been revamped to make it even tastier. It’s brimming with cooking tips and advice, as well as an impressive array of recipes, ranging from All American cookies to Zabaglione trifle. Each of these is accompanied by a mouth-watering image, and can be commented on, rated, printed, and saved in an online binder. There’s also information on local and seasonal cooking and a category devoted to wine. Break Eggs - A cheerful American website with some saucy, speedy and scrumptious dishes. British Asparagus – According to this site, the way to a girl’s heart is through asparagus. The site sports a tasty green design and reveals the UK farms that let you pick your own spears. Burger King Therapy Centre - This site tries to educate customers and lighten the load of a burger flipper's lot by sharing the highs and lows of the job. Chop Stix - A good introductory guide to the world of Chinese cooking, looks at all things Chinese and is an excellent guide to food. The site will take you through the basics, looking at ingredients that you'll need and looks at Chinese dining etiquette too. The recipes themselves are well presented and easy to follow. A search engine can find Chinese recipes on the web and has over 4000 indexed. Choosing Food on Internet - Choosing Food provides a gateway to food retailers in Britain and Ireland which have an Internet presence. Click2Cook - The concept behind this new cooking site is Indian cuisine made easy, featuring recipes for Indian dishes. Click2Cook is organised into categories including Vegetable, Chicken, Rice, Pulses and Desserts, all stuffed with tasty meal ideas. Each entry includes details of preparation time and spiciness, along with concise instructions. Cookery Online - A fun site for cooks of all levels. Cooking by Numbers - Don't know what to cook? Then tick what you have in your fridge or cupboard on this site to get menu ideas and how to cook them. Cooking with Cobia - Find out more about the fish that's set to revolutionise the way we eat. Described rather oddly as the 'first fish of the 21st century', cobia is already popular in South East Asia and is now swimming into our kitchens. The white fish's eponymous website explains all you need to know about cobia, which is sourced from Vietnam 'with the utmost care for both the welfare of the fish and the environment.' After watching the video tutorial about how to prepare cobia, you can try recipes including Thai Cobia Soup and Cobia Kebabs. There's also a potted history of the fish and information about where you can buy it. Cooking.com - Get some inspiration from this tasty site, with frequently changing recipes, and a searchable database for your favourite ingredients. Culinary Arts College is a non-profit site dedicated to elevating American cuisine by encouraging a new generation of chefs to attend a culinary arts college. Curry Guide Net - Indian restaurant guide Discovery Foods - If you’re a fajita fan or a taco aficionado, you’ll love this Mexican cooking site. It offers a range of tasty meal ideas that span everything from a Huevos Rancheros breakfast to a Jambalaya. Each recipe features a heat rating and at-a-glance information about cooking and preparation times, and can be rated and commented on. Dorling Kindersley - Established in 1974, DK publishes bestselling, award-winning and visually stunning reference books for adults and children. From travel guides and activity books, through to food, history, film and much more, DK makes ideas come to life! EatSomewhere is the website that dishes up details for restaurants across the UK served with a complimentary side order of cuisine guides, which combine to create a satisfying experience. This site provides a refreshing alternative to most restaurant sites because it not only offers you a comprehensive UK restaurant directory, but allows you to use this restaurant directory to locate your ideal UK restaurant. eDiets - as is says on their About page - "the largest subscription-based online diet, fitness and counseling network". Expert Village - Search thousands of how-to and instructional videos from renowned experts at ExpertVillage.com. The front page lists new featured videos each day - submitted mostly by users - and 12 different categories are featured lower down the page. You can link to individual videos or embed them in a blog or website, bookmark them on Expert Village or at social bookmarkmg sites like del.icio.us or reddit (http://reddit.com), and you can also designate experts as favourites, meaning you can group videos by presenter. Fish2Fork - If you love seafood but worry about the world's depleting fish stocks, this site can help you decide where to eat. Fish2Fork has been launched by the people behind the documentary The End of the Line to review restaurants based on their commitment to sustainability. Ratings range from ‘5 blue fish', which means the chef ensures seafood is sourced from certified fisheries to ‘5 red fish' for eateries that serve endangered species such as bluefin tuna. You can search for a restaurant by area or name and submit your own review. Food Lovers Britain - Whet your appetite with this website that offers lots of recipes and lists the best places to eat. The recipe search is especially clever, letting you narrow your hunt for tasty dishes by ingredients, time of year, and meal occasion such as lunch, picnic or party. The site also features a wide range of eateries included in the search on the homepage – found in the drop-down menu – ranging from greasy spoon cafés to swanky gastro pubs. FoodTube - The internet is fantastic resource for recipes but sometimes it can be difficult to follow the instructions. FoodTube, with its wide variety of well-organised cooking videos, provides a solution. There is also a forum, so there is a chance to ask questions of the regular contributors. FoodTV.co.uk - This beautifully-presented resource is stuffed with recipes and full-length food programmes. However, it’s the shorter videos that really impress – these are so expertly delivered as to make them as essential in your kitchen as a chopping board. This site offers thousands of hours of professional food video content. Whether you enjoy cooking meals at home, trying international cuisine while on holiday, or need easy tips to quickly get meals on the table, FoodTV.co.uk has compelling and relevant content for you. Fratelli Camisa - Try them for a European flavour festive sweet treat such as a panettone. Great Little Ideas - Discover recipes to make with ingredients you already have in your cupboard. This Premier Foods site aims to make family meals more exciting by suggesting new things to do with everyday ingredients. Just select a main ingredient from the menu on the homepage (bacon, jam or gravy, for example), along with the occasion and any brand you already have, for a selection of easy but tasty recipes. Many of these feature videos, and all can be rated, shared and printed. You can browse more than 250 recipes by keyword and view healthy-eating ideas and quick fixes. Harmony Cuisine is a family business and was inspired by their own experiences of living with the effects of Crohn's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Their aim is to empower people with these long-term conditions to find the knowledge they need to eat appropriate foods, as well as providing the food itself in a way that is appetising and suitable for their condition. Huge Cheese Direct - If you love cheeses, this is the site to pay a visit. Jamie Oliver - Website that contains plenty of Jamie's sense of style. Julian Graves is the UK's largest independent specialist snacks and ingredients retailer, with a network of nearly 300 outlets nationwide. When Delia Smith or Nigella Lawson commands the country to seek out black cherries, porcini mushrooms or whole peel caps, Julian Graves is the one retailer that will meet their needs. Kelly Turkeys - Check them for a fresh good quality turkeys. They are member of a Traditional Farmfresh Turkey Association (TFTA). Keltic Seafare specialises in diver-caught scallops and langoustines and will deliver fish and shellfish to your door the day after it is caught. Label Anglais - For a tasty turkey, try S J Frederick & Sons, a family-run poultry farm in Essex favoured by Gordon Ramsey. Their free-range chickens and turkeys are farmed in accordance with the code of conduct set down by the Traditional Farmfresh Turkey Association (TFTA). Lobster - For the finer things in life, fish no further - lobsters, caviar and champagne to wash it down. Love Chicken - Promoting the notion that a single bird can provide three meals for your family, Love Chicken provides recipes for everything from chicken soup and casserole to curry and risotto. These can be rated, shared and commented on and you can also click through to the YouTube channel to view video recipes. Love That Wine is the brainchild of wine expert Angela Mount and already covers 10,000 wines available on UK shelves. You can search for a specific wine by supermarket, colour, country, price, grape and food type. Once you’ve registered, contributing a review is easy and you can win a £50 Virgin Wines voucher if you’re crowned reviewer of the month. With its friendly tone and simple navigation, this site certainly has a lovely bouquet. LoveFood - This tasty-looking site provides a feast of food news, recipes and advice. Lovefood's well-written articles are presented in an appealing manner that includes high-quality photos and videos and plenty of useful information. There are interviews with top chefs, reports on independent food producers and instructions for making everything from ‘barley and bits salad with honey'd goat's cheese toast' to pigeon pie. Lunched - Great recipes, useful tips and conversion tables plus a simple and easy-to-use design. Mangiare Bene - means 'eat well' and you will with more than 1,600 clearly laid-out, mouth-watering recipes from one of the most visited cookery sites in Italy. Martin's Seafresh comes highly recommended by Delia Smith for their seafood selection such as smoked salmon or dressed crab. Matching Food & Wine website tell you which booze to serve with which meal. The site is split into free and paid-for sections, with the former including a Match of the Week (such as scrambled eggs and champagne), book reviews and tips on entertaining. Whether it's a bottle of wine, a beer, a cocktail, a coffee or simply a delicious soft drink Fiona Beckett got pairings to suit every palate and occasion. Meals for You - There is a database of more than 10,000 recipes, and lots of cooking advice at this well-presented site. Mom's Cooking - Check this site for food from Czech Republic, France and India. Naked Wines is a group of 20,000 normal wine drinkers who sponsor 25 winemakers to make us delicious wines. It is a completely new way of buying wine, where everyone wins !!! Neal's Yard Dairy offers a large selection of cheeses, including many British cheeses. Perricone Diet - Both Kim Cattrall and Julia Roberts place the credit for their glowing skin and slender figures at the feet of US skincare guru Dr Nicholas Perricone. His ‘anti-wrinkle’ diet is touted as the next big thing. Place To Eat - Fed up of cooking over Christmas, this site provides a list of loads of eating places all around the country - from fancy French restaurants to takeaways. Qype - Consumer-review website Qype, which covers everything from beauty salons in London to coffee shops in Barrow-in-Furness, has been spruced up. The layout is now so bursting with information that it seems confusing at first but the fresh, attractive colour scheme helps you find your way around.
Recipe Source - One of the best
recipe resources on the web.
Recipes4Us - Discover an
international flavour with this range of recipes. Simply
Food
- A great website for recipes and cooking tips. And if your cooking is not up to
scratch, it even lists cookery schools and restaurants. Simply
Organic - Excellent range of organic groceries.
Strada -
Italian restaurant chain Strada has cooked up a
tasty website to tempt hungry web surfers with its traditional
pizzas, pastas and risottos. As well as viewing
and downloading the current menu, you can quickly find
your nearest Strada by choosing one of 65 locations
– there are more than 20 restaurants in London alone. They use only
the finest and freshest ingredients such as
single vineyard extra virgin
olive oil, prosciutto and
Buffalo mozzarella to provide exactly the kind of
rustic, traditional dishes you would expect to find
travelling around Italy's regions.
Taste
- An excellent site for food lovers, featuring the best places to eat in the
UK.
Tesco - Mammoth site that offers everything
from baked beans to breakdown insurance.
The
British Cheese Board - Everything you ever wanted to know about cheese and
more. The
Diary Council - This site contains all the information about milk. The
Fruit Pages - Packed full of fruity facts and information to help persuade
you to eat more of the good stuff.
The Resourceful Cook
- Meal-planning may be a chore but many a busy family would go hungry if they
didn't properly calculate their weekly provisions. The
Resourceful Cook aims to remove some of the drudgery from putting
together meal plans. Specify how many people need to be fed, the
type of ingredients kept in your pantry and set a budget and
The Resourceful Cook will return a ready-made diary of dishes. The
results include a total price for all ingredients and, of course,
recipes.
Top
Secret Recipes - This fantastic site is based on one man's mission to reveal
the secret ingredients of many of our best-loved fast food favorites. The
Vegetarian Society of Great
Britain - This website is great resource if you doesn't
eat meat. It contains tips for tasty, healthy eating and how to
integrate your diet choices with those of your family. There are
also recipes, competitions, etc
Traditional Farmfresh Turkey
Association (TFTA)
Veganism - Veganism, the natural extension of vegetarianism, is an integral
component of a cruelty-free lifestyle. Living vegan provides numerous benefits
to animals' lives, to the environment, and to our own
health through a healthy diet and lifestyle.
Cosmopolitan
- The site is packed with beauty
hints and tips, latest fashion trends, health and fitness advice,
and plenty of news and gossip. FREE
DESKTOP
PUBLISHING
& WEB RESOURCE Computer
Arts - This website contains some useful design resources. Desktop
Publishing - All sorts of DTP resources.
DesktopPublishing.com
- The ultimate electronic publishing resource with free clipart and fonts. Developer
Shed - The Developer's Shed is a terrific site if you intend to publish your
work on the web. i-us
- Huge resource for anyone involved in DTP, Web Publishing or related areas. Jessops
- one of the leading UK photographic retailers, is first off the block to offer
an Internet-based photograph printing service. PageResource.com
- The web design resource has HTML and Java Script tutorials ... and more. ScreamDesign
- ScreamDesign is a resource for free images, backgrounds and other graphic
tools. Serif
- Resources and product updates from the makers of PagePlus and other titles. Web
Developer - A massive website reference with a regular circulated
email newsletter. Website
Garage - An excellent resource to test-drive your website prior to actually
publishing it.
AnyDay
- Online address book.
Breathe.com
- If you are in SMS (Short Message Service) visit this site
and seek out the text-messaging pages. CNET
Download.com
- Free downloads available in several different categories including; Business,
development tools, drivers, education, games and more. eFax
- eFax gives you a personal fax number that can be reached anytime and converts
all incoming faxes into email attachments.
Encarta
- Encarta Learning Zone with dictionary, encyclopedia and atlas.
Free-Programs.com
- another good source of freeware.
Freeware
Guide - check out Freeware Guide.
Freeware
Home
-
A top of the line site loaded with freeware and many other great resources.
Funk
& Wagnalls - is another excellent source of information.
Internet
Anagram Server - If you are in crosswords, check this link. MapQuest
- If you need to plot a driving route from here to there, check this link. McAfee
- Give your PC a free MOT with McAfee's online Clinic. Online
Favourites - Online Favourites keeps track of your online bookmarks.
Open Office
- A great alternative to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice now includes a full
database program in addition to word and a spreadsheet.
PC2Call
- free telephony (not good yet, but it's free). Project
Gutenberg - has the complete texts of around 2,600 books available for free
download, including many classics. RAC
- Another link for your driving routes. Rhymes
- If you are in rhymes, check out this Lycos's rhyming dictionary. Stroud's
Consumate Winsock Applications
ThinkFree
- ThinkFree's is very similar to Microsoft Office and is free and less than
10Mb.
Tucows
- very popular Freeware.
Voizmail.com
- To receive voice messages check this link.
Web
Address Book - Online address book.
WinFile
- Windows goodies.
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