Days Out Savings

If you’re planning on a day out in London or the south of England, check www.daysoutguide.co.uk, where you can find many 2 for 1 offers on tickets for attractions such as Madame Tussaud's, the London Dungeons and the London Aquarium. All you need to benefit from these offers is a valid railcard.

Nutritionally Sound

Nutriprofile.com is a free online service for anyone who wishes to improve their diet. You simply fill in a questionnaire, which takes about 20 minutes, and you get a report back within 24 hours telling you where you have deficiencies in your diet. And most of us could do with a little help it seems, as research has shown that on average, Brits only consume two and a half portions of fruit and veg a day.

What’s In A Brand?

A company is often only as successful as its brand. But what exactly does a brand mean? www.brandtags.net gets right to the heart of the matter.

Much in the same way as word association works, when you log on you’re asked to type the first word you think of when you see a famous brand logo.

Then another logo appears and so on. The fun part comes from trawling through the extensive list of brands to find out which words other people have used to describe them.

You’ve Got The Look

Women’s fashion and lifestyle magazine Look has unveiled its new website www.look.co.uk.

On first impressions you might think that the team gave the wardrobe such a thorough cleaning out that there isn’t much left to look at. But after a bit of browsing you’ll find there’s actually quite a lot of content to discover, from beauty and fashion tips to celebrity style.

The homepage features new fashion accessories in the ‘New Today’ section, which is updated daily and lets you purchase all items through the site.

Scream For Salad Cream

Salad cream, it’s one of those things you either love or hate. And if you belong to the former group, check out www.saladcream.com.

his bright and sunny site features a selection of online-exclusive video recipes in which celebrity chef Dan Green prepares a variety of dishes using the mayonnaise substitute.

These include spaghetti nicoise, beef steak wrap and roasted vegetable ciabatta, with the option to send in your own recipes if you think you can do tastier and win up to £30.

Mans Best friend

Its with a sad heart that I have to announce that my dog of seven years old had to be rather unexpectedly put to sleep this week and this in turn has caused a lot of family upset as 24hrs earlier the dog was fine as I walked her on her evening walk.

Unfortunately for the last 3 years she has been having the odd epileptic seizure and this was controlled by medication from the vet but this week she had a massive seizure and it just wouldn't stop no matter what the vets did and so she had to be put to sleep.

This has caused quite a lot of upset and meant a little time away from work

See here for more pics of her in the studio with me on the air http://ukradiojock.blogspot.com/2007/03/now-and-again-i-will-bring-my-dog-with.html

Eco-Shopping

There’s a real boom in green shopping at the moment and www.ecostaurus.com is a one-stop shop for environmentally-friendly products. It sells a variety of eco-items for the home and office as well as a selection of organic skincare products. Pick of the bunch has to be The Tumbleweed Pet Poo Converter, a worm farm that turns dog droppings into food for worms, whose ‘castings’ can then be converted into fertiliser for your garden. Or how about an eco-stapler, which works like a stapler but without using staples?

Weddings With A Difference

Planning a wedding is one of the most stressful things you can ever embark on, but www.somethingdifferentweddings.co.uk could make the process a lot easier. This site rolls a host of services and products into one handy place. Whether you’re in need of bridal fashion advice, need to hire a flash wedding car or you’re searching for a bespoke photographer, the site is a great source of ideas.

Site Launcher

This tool links your most frequently visited web pages to a simple hotkey launcher in Firefox.
Once downloaded, you can access a dashboard with links from the top of your browser window.

The plugin comes with some commonly used sites already hotkeyed, but you are free to change these if you want. Find out more at www.donesmart.com/sitelauncher

One Riot

www.oneriot.com is the site to look at. It’s a search engine that helps you find your way to all the content people are talking about daily.

Oneriot.com keeps the finger on the pulse of popular culture by trawling the links people post on Twitter, Digg and other social sharing sites.

You can search in the usual way, or if you just want to browse the current trends, take a look at the links underneath the search box.

The site also has some interesting applications under the Apps link, including search toolbars for your MySpace and Facebook account

Game Crawler

www.gamecrawler.co.uk is the site you want to look at. This handy site finds you the best bargains on video games by comparing the prices of thousands of titles.
Game Crawler covers a wide range of leading retailers, including Amazon, Game.co.uk and HMV.com. The presentation of results is clear and concise, so you can instantly see the biggest savings and where to find them, and then click straight through to the store to make your purchase. Game Crawler also offers a useful Price Watch tool, which emails you as soon as a game becomes available for a price you’re willing to pay.

Slow It Down

As you get older, life seems to speed up. But do you ever wonder what you really do with your time? www.wheredidthetimego.com attempts to answer this question. Simply type your details into this website and it’ll tell you exactly how much time you’ve wasted doing mundane yet essential tasks in your lifetime, like eating, sleeping and photocopying!

Speciality Foods

www.hardtofindfoods.co.uk offers a large range of speciality and gourmet foods that you probably won’t find on the shelves of your local supermarket. The list of foods includes products from around the world, and you can fill your cupboards with speciality herbs and spices, oils, vinegars, pickles and preservatives. So whatever you’re looking for, let this website find it for you!

Pozzitive

This promo site for production company Pozzitive Television describes itself as an “online encyclopaedia of British comedy”.

www.pozzitive.co.uk is the address. While it’s too focused on its own ‘talent’ to justify that claim, there’s still plenty of interesting content to browse.

This includes behind-the-scenes photos from Pozzitive TV shows like Coogan’s Run and Dinnerladies, extracts from radio programmes like the 99p Challenge and an online store selling DVDs and videos of popular series. Design-wise, the perpetually rolling photos and links prove distracting rather than enticing, but it’s worth a visit.

Lets with Pets

Take a look at www.letswithpets.org.uk and you will see that This brilliantly named website, launched by the Dogs Trust, hopes to encourage landlords to accept tenants with pets.

Lets with Pets provides a wealth of information on renting privately as an animal owner, such as explaining how to get a reference for your pet and a general guide to pet care. While it’s great that this attractive site caters for pet owners, landlords and letting agents, it’s a shame there’s no forum for these parties to connect with each other directly.

Job Blues

It’s Monday morning and there’s nothing worse than starting your week by dragging yourself back into a job you can’t stand. Whether it’s the work, the environment, your boss or the hours, log on to www.careershifters.org, and say it’s time for a change! Here you can find help, advice and job vacancies, and who knows, you could find that perfect job.

Feeling Fabulous

If you’re a bit down and in need of an emotional boost, why not check out www.feeling-fab.com. This site promises to make you feel fabulous by helping you ‘change your life in just eight minutes’. It may sound like a tall order, but for a one-off fee of £10, you’ll get 24 eight-minute audio tracks that attempt to inspire you to feel good about yourself. And to make you feel even better, £1 from each subscription will be donated to the charity of your choice.

Exist For Eternity

If you like the thought of leaving something behind when you finally shuffle off this mortal coil, then www.posterity.com is a website for you. On here you can store your photos, thoughts and writings for eternity, so your ancestors can find out all about your life. The site is free to join and will stay online forever, accessible by password for anyone that wants to take a look.

Tuned In

Are you convinced you’re a great singer but other people think you’re tone deaf? Find out once and for all at www.bored.com/musictests. This site allows you to compare different pieces of music, and will then tell you how tone deaf you are. But don’t get too upset with your score as even the best musicians rarely get more than 80% correct!

Colour Quiz

If you love personality quizzes you might want to check out www.colorquiz.com, which claims that the type of colours you go for reveals a lot about your personality. Simply click on the blocks of colour in your order of preference and a detailed anaylisis of your personality will appear – although how it can tell that from coloured blocks we’ll never know!

Perfect Pick-Ups!

If your chat-up lines haven’t evolved past ‘do you come here often?’, it may be about time you got some help. Check out pickuphelp.com where a helpful list of pick-up lines can be found to come to your rescue. On the other hand, if chat-up lines aren’t your style, the website won’t fail to provide cringe-worthy content that’s guaranteed to give you a whole lunch break worth of entertainment!

Annoying Things

If for some reason you want to get on the wrong side of your friends, family and colleagues then it would be a good idea to look at bored.com/getannoyed. On this site there are thousands of ways to upset people, including becoming a mime, pushing all the elevator buttons and not wearing deodorant!

National Allotments Week

National Allotment Week begins today, and runs until 17th August. It’s a week to promote awareness and availability of allotments both locally and nationally, as well as showing the public and local authorities the strength of support and interest for the heritage of allotment culture. The National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners wants to encourage as many gardeners to support the drive as possible. To find out more visit www.nsalg.org.uk.

Junk Food

In this day and age where everyone is obsessed with healthy eating, admitting you like junk food once in a while can make you feel like a social outcast. But if you’re craving some naughty treats, check out www.junkfoodnews.net. Feast your eyes on the world’s largest smoothie, the longest hot dog in the world and a car made completely from cheddar cheese!

Organically Good

If you’re into organic produce, check out www.organicgarden.com, where you can find out information on how to grow your own or where to buy it. It gives practical advice for small-scale producers of organic foods, and even tasty recipes on what to do with all the fruit and veg you will harvest.

Backwards Talk

If you’ve ever wanted to know what the world sounds like backwards, try out www.talkbackwards.com. Here you can enter music tracks to see if there are subliminal messages hidden inside the lyrics when played backwards, or what amusing word occurs when your name is spelt the wrong way round. You can even upload your own voice to hear what you sound like when talking backwards.

Nagging Notes

www.passiveaggressivenotes.com is a site dedicated to all those ‘helpful’ notes, busybody emails and stroppy memos sent to ‘all’ in the workplace. From notes asking people not to use all the teabags, or emails about keeping desks tidy, they should raise a knowing smile in everyone who’s ever worked in an office or lived in communal housing. You can also submit your own example passive aggressive notes to make everyone else smile!

Dig Holes

Have you ever wondered where you would end up if you dug a tremendously huge hole through the centre if the earth? Well you can find out if you visit bored.com/digholes. Find any location on the planet and the website will calculate where you would end up. It’s wishful thinking, but it would certainly make Australia much easier to visit!

Food Fun

If you’ve got a taste for fine food (or you’re desperately bored) take a look at judgemylunch.com where you can view an array of some of the finest and some of the foulest food, and judge for yourself on a ranking system that goes from ‘yuk’ to ‘yum’. But be warned, the content of the website could make you very hungry!

TV Take

www.lowculture.co.uk is a British website that offers a different take on what’s happening on telly. From reality and talent shows like ‘X-Factor’ and ‘Big Brother’ to entertainment series like ‘Heroes’ and ‘Doctor Who’, this site offers a unique spin on proceedings. The message board also has various categories for users to participate in, including soaps and movie culture.

Park Life

It’s often said that being green begins in the home, but if you’re concerned about the state of the green spaces around your home, then go to www.greenstat.org.uk. This is an online forum allowing residents of areas across the UK the opportunity to comment on the state of their local park, and puts pressure on the authorities to do something about it.

Celebed Out

If you like watching how the mighty are fallen, and the glow of celebrity can quickly be tarnished, head over to www.avenue11.com. This entertainment website keeps abreast of celebrity ups and downs with an up-to-date news and gossip section, in addition to movies and music, where you can watch all the latest celeb clips and interviews.