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Personal & professional - things that I think more people should know about, in no particular order.

 

Web Sites
 www.accountingweb.co.ukIndustry news and opinion.... 

www.trustedreviews.com

TrustedReviews - Good quality, well written technology reviews on all things gadgety...

www.freeagentcentral.com

FreeAgent Central - On-line bookkeeping application for sole-traders and contractors - It's what I use!

 

 www.explorerview.com

 Very nice file-viewer tool.  Better than QuickView Plus

 http://taxcalc.com

Acorah Software - rapidly growing personal tax software plus an interesting little MLR tracking program - also where my friend Anne works!

 www.xero.com

Xero - On-line bookkeeping for SME's from New Zealand- growing rapidly and possibly the shape of things to come?

 www.geni.com

On-line family-tree application that involves the whole family - plus a really handy birthday/anniversary reminder system!

 www.icaew.com/index.cfm?route=110103

 ICAEW IT Faculty

 www.tkb.co.uk

Simon Hurst (IT Faculty) helps on all things techy for accountants - with a particular focus on Microsoft Office

www.winsupersite.com 

WinSuperSite - Coverage/Reviews/Previews on all things Windows

 www.invu.net

Document management for small and mid-sized firms.  INVU are growing by leaps and bounds.
 www.zhornsoftware.co.ukProduces a free program called 'Stickies' that lets you create on-screen post-it notes - with lots of nice little features - REALLY useful!

 www.myob.com

Now a part of Wolters Kluwer/CCH. They have quite a good Document management product, I understand....
www.dilbert.com

Dilbert

 

Blogs
www.accmanpro.comDennis Howlett - never knowingly underopinionated..... ;-)
www.zdnet.co.ukRupert Goodwins - comment on IT & engineering topics

 http://scobleizer.com

Robert Scoble - uber-blogger on all things Internetty
 http://headrush.typepad.com

Kathy Sierra - Sadly not blogging any more after being on the recieving end of some nasty cyber-bullying.  She talks about business issues (and IT in particular) with real clarity and freshness.

 

One example of her many diagramatic illustrations...

 

 http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01Steve Clayton - a geek's view from inside Microsoft UK 

 http://takingstock.accountancyage.com

Taking Stock - Gossipy accountancy Blog
www.stephenfry.com/blogSteven Fry - no introduction needed...

 

Restaurants
www.thevanillapod.co.ukThe Vanilla Pod, Marlow
www.thebombaybicycleclub.co.uk

The Bombay Bicycle Club, South London

A completely differernt kind of Indian food