You will find here variety of links with some commentary that I've gathered from various sources such as newspapers, books, TV, radio, magazines (e.g. ComputerActive, WebActive & WebUser my favourites), Internet and, of course, real-life news from my sources. 

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General News and Interesting Links

30^th Jul 10 Duty Free on Arrival - Buying duty-free goods before you board a plane means a lot more hand luggage to lug about. This site suggests you stock up on alcohol, perfume and other cheap products when you arrive at your airport and tells you exactly where you can do so. Just search for a country and select an airport to find out if duty-free shops are available on your arrival.

26^th Jul 10 5th Shelf site lets you compile your own virtual shelf of favourite albums, books and films, and browse the choices of other users. Sensibly, shelves are limited to the scale equivalent of five feet, so you don’t get show-offs dominating things, and you can create mini-shelves based on a single theme. Social elements let you share your shelf on Facebook, Twitter and WordPress and there’s an Ultimate Shelf that pools the most popular items.

20^th Jul 10 London Plaque Guide - Hundreds of blue plaques dotted around London to commemorate noteworthy and famous people can be discovered and explored on an interactive online Plaque Guide. There are 850 plaques in total around London and so far 230 of them have been plotted on the Plaque Guide map.

18^th Jul 10 Kurrently - This real-time search engine lets you find out what people are thinking and doing on Facebook and Twitter. Just type in any topic and click Search for an up-to-the-minute stream of results. Choose Fast or Slow to decide how quickly this feed updates and then sit back and soak up the chatter. Cleverly, Kurrently includes the links, photos and videos that people post, and even their profile pictures, within its results. The site has a Google-like, minimalist design that keeps things simple and using it can become strangely addictive.

15^th Jul 10 Master of Malt - Get your whisky from this top online malt store and buy much more besides. Its massive range of whiskies including champagne, liqueurs and spirits. Ingeniously, you can also buy 30ml samples of various malts to ‘try before you buy'. You can browse by region, style and distillery and the detailed information provided about each whisky; there's even an etymological look at the spelling of the word.

13^th Jul 10 The Times - Check redesigned The Times' new online home, which is excellent (the redesign has made the site look more like the newspaper, with headers taken directly from print). Pages are brimming with news, opinion and features, and there are innovative live interviews.

12^th Jul 10 CostCutter - Convenience store chain CostCutter offers on their website money-saving tips, advice about eating cheaply but healthily, and videos of the TV ads. With social-media links present and correct, this is a useful bookmark for when you're buying local.

10^th Jul 10 Footprint Travel Guides website provides information about a diverse range of countries, with particularly strong sections for Latin America and Asia, and sells PDFs of individual chapters from its books. There are useful tools that let you quickly find somewhere to sleep, eat and play in your chosen destination and a free iPhone app for getting travel advice on the move.

Music News and Useful Links

Musiq Trader - Musicians seeking second-hand instruments, sheet music, recordings and accessories will love this new website. This site also has information on learning to play and wealth of links to music-related sites.

Musicians Benevolent Fund is the music business's own charity - the largest in the UK, funded entirely by donations and bequests from music lovers and musicians. They provide help and support to musicians and their dependants and those in related occupations when illness, accident or old age bring stress or financial burdens.

Not sure what the name of a song is? Use your computer keyboard to tap the rhythm of the song. SongTapper.com will help you find the name of the song. Its fun, its easy, and thousands of daily visitors find it very helpful. All you have to do is tap the song rhythm and SongTapper does the rest. After tapping is complete you will see a list of matching songs. If yjey can't identify your song, you can teach their system by entering the song name.

Premier Promotions specialise in Event Management as well as marketing, promoting and introducing venues, tribute artists, cabaret acts and disco's. They are the 'introducing party' for tributes or disco's for your venue, or venue's for your event.

Click here to listen London's Radio Magic on 105.4 MHz

Click here to listen Digitally Imported - Electronic & Dance Music Radio 24/7

More Useful Links

BT Directory Enquiries

Calendar

Calculators

Dictionary

Free Music Software

Local Information

Maps

Quotations

Thesaurus

Translator

World Clock