Joe's Goals is a free online tool to help you keep track of your goals.

I think Joe's Goals is a brilliant idea - a simple tool that will help you organize your goals and can possibly even help you achieve your goals by keeping track of your successes (via your daily score) which encourages you to continue working towards your goal.

You also have the option to share your progress with your family and friends or to display a badge on your blog that shows your personal score.

Ian Smith, the founder/creator of Joe's Goals also has a blog called Joe's Blog.

We all lead busy lives so this is a very useful tool:

HassleMe "is a tool which nags you. It nags you via email about things you know you should be doing, but which you'll forget."

Kids Craft Weekly is a superb resource for parents of young children and it's free!

Amber Carvan, the editor of the newsletter, is a stay at home mother with two young kids and not only does Amber write the Kids Craft Weekly newsletter which is published every fortnight, (every two weeks instead of the original weekly schedule) she also shares a lot of wonderful, creative ideas on her site which includes printable project sheets as well as suggestions for putting together a useful crafting box.

The Cottage Smallholder is a charming blog about a "journey towards self sufficiency and beyond."

If you've ever felt the need to make a complaint about customer service, you may have wondered where to start. Now you can find free help at utellus.co.uk : "a new website where consumers can log on and register their complaint or positive feedback to an organisation."

There is a blog too.

(link via The Click at TimesOnline)

Easy Crafts 4 Fun is a fun new blog. The blog is by a full time working mom, Bev, who loves "to make all kinds of crafts" and to share her ideas. Her tag line on the blog is "one craft project, like one cookie, is never enough!"

If you are keen to learn ideas about how you can improve yourself and your life, you should read Donald Latumahina's excellent Life Optimizer blog. The blog offers practical advice and ideas on how to make life easier and how to "optimize" your life.

Mr. Latumahina believes:

...that every person has huge potential which is commonly “underdeveloped”, and because of that, I am also very interested in self-development. Unleashing the full potential of me and others has become my ultimate goal.

The Emigrate2 website is "the leading independent source of emigration information in the UK."

The comprehensive site provides information about visas , jobs and money, plus articles about lifestyle and leisure.

There is also a very impressive (10,125!) searchable database of emigration links.

The Viator Travel Blog offers "Travel inspiration, advice & recommendations."

It's always interesting and informative and certainly fulfills its intentions as stated on their "about" page:

It’s a place where we can discuss travel, discuss what’s new on Viator.com, answer your questions, and generally post and discuss news, features, wishlists and more about the world we live in. At Viator we believe that travel has the power to make the world a better place. This is our place on the web to share our passion and inspire all of us to make that next trip.

ReadingGroupGuides.com is a very useful website which is "built especially for reading groups, providing them with all they need to make their book club experience better than ever."

In addition to the very helpful guides which suggest points to discuss in specific books, there is also a very useful Advice & Ideas section about starting and running a reading group and choosing what to read. There are even recipes to consider making for your reading group.

Mrs Mad's Book-a-Rama is a wonderful resource for:

"All the best books for children and young adults, parents, teachers and librarians, with reviews and ratings, games, stories and jokes."

Trashionista is a fun and informative book blog that focuses on the more light hearted "female fiction" or "chicklit":

"Trashionista gets to grips with the wonderful world of female fiction. We take an unbiased look at beach reads, bestsellers, new releases and old favourites - and we actually read the books before writing about them. At Trashionista we don't believe that 'chick lit' is a dirty word - but if a book is trash, we'll let you know!"

BigGreenPurse is a site that suggests ways for American women to shop 'green'. The links on the site are for American products of course, but the idea to empower women by suggesting they spend their money on green products, is certainly something for everyone - everywhere - to aspire to.

The founder of the Big Green Purse site, Diane MacEachern, "is passionate about empowering women to use their marketplace clout to protect the environment."

Diane also has a blog, Diane's Big Green Purse, with the tagline, "Making our money matter for a greener, cleaner, safer world."

When I explored the BigGreenPurse site, I discovered they also have a link to a sister site called The World Women Want which "helps women, their children and their families live healthier, safer, more rewarding lives." It's a very good site too - although it also links to just American sites.

(BigGreenPurse link via an article in The Christian Science Monitor)

If you want to donate or raise funds for good causes, there is a very useful site called Justgiving:

"We provide fun and easy-to-use online fundraising tools to help ordinary people raise extraordinary amounts of money for the causes they care about."

There is a Justgiving blog too.

KartOO is a very useful meta-search engine: "As soon as you launch a search, Kartoo analyses your request, questions the most relevant engines, selects the best sites and places them on a map."

The results are presented on a 'map' of clusters. It's quite easy and fun to use. Try it and see for yourself.

FoodieView - The Recipe Search Engine:

"Because it makes searching and keeping the recipes that you want much simpler."

In addition to the very useful search engine, another nice feature on the site is your free Recipe Box so you are able to save recipes. You simply register at FoodieView - and you can also share your "recipe box" with your friends by giving them the URL.

There is a FoodieView Blog too although I notice it hasn't been updated for quite a while (the last post is dated November 13, 2006!)

ArtLex - Art Dictionary:

"You'll find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references."

Radiolovers.com "offer hundreds of vintage radio shows for you to listen to online in mp3 format, all for free."

The Man in Seat Sixty-One is Mark Smith. His very helpful site is all about travel by train or ship and provides up-to-date timetables, booking details, practical advice, useful tips, links and loads of other information.

It is such an impressive site that it's not surprising to learn that, "Seat61 has been fortunate enough to feature in newspapers, magazines and even on TV both in the UK and overseas."

The British Sitcom Guide is "an ever expanding online reference website for fans of UK situation comedy."

Mike Brockhurst's Walking Englishman web site is "The web site for information and reports on walking in England" with very useful maps, articles and beautiful photos. There is also a handy Walk Time Calculator.

Obsessed With Film is a fun blog with movie news, reviews and articles. Read the blog and "feed your film obsession".

justinguitar.com is a site where you can get free professional guitar lessons from Justin Sandercoe, "a London based guitarist, songwriter, performer, producer and educator who grew up in Tasmania (a little island off the South East coast of Australia) but has been based in London since 1996."

Watch Justin on this YouTube video for a guitar lesson and learn how to play "Trouble" by Coldplay. There are a lot more lessons on YouTube. Justin provides a useful list.

Kids Birthday Party Guide is a great resource for birthday party ideas! There are lots of fun ideas for birthday party themes, games, recipes and activities.

The First Post - The Online Daily Magazine

"The First Post is a free and independent daily online news magazine – a place to find out what the news means, a place to read about the issues of the day in short, sharp, informative articles."

In addition to the informative and entertaining articles, there are other features such as competitions, reviews (film, theatre and books) and a picture of the day.

Refdesk.com is "The Single Best Source For Facts"