Sites I visit frequently

MaximumPC.com is formerly known as boot, is an American magazine published by Future US, and focuses on modern day PC hardware. Most content in the magazine is projected to a less business-oriented audience than many other magazines. The magazine is focused more so on home-related computing, and the relation of modern hardware toward modern software and gaming but has recently shifted focus to include consumer electronics such as digital cameras and cell phones.

Mashable.com is an Internet news blog, started by Pete Cashmore in July 2005. With a reported 7+ million monthly pageviews and an Alexa ranking just over 400, it ranks as one of the largest blogs on the Internet. It regularly writes about YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter, MySpace, Apple and startups, but it also reports on less high-profile social networking and social media sites.

PCMag.com provides reviews and previews of the latest hardware and software for the information technology professional. Articles are written by leading experts such as John C. Dvorak, whose regular column and Inside Track feature are among the magazine’s most popular attractions.

Lifehacker.com is an advertising-supported weblog about life hacks and software which launched on January 31, 2005. The site is owned by Gawker Media and covers Microsoft Windows, Mac, and Linux programs as well as time-saving tips and tricks. The staff updates the site about 18 times each weekday, with reduced updates on weekends. The Lifehacker motto is “Tips and downloads for getting things done.”

Tumblr.com is a blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users are able to “follow” other users and see their posts together on their dashboard. Users can like or reblog other blogs on the site. The service emphasizes customizability and ease
of use.

YouTube.com is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos.

Seesmic.com is a web application being developed by French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur. Starting out life as a video blogging website, its original aim was to make video uploading from webcams easier to promote online video conversations. Seesmic made its debut at the Demo tech conference where it was called the “Twitter of video”.

Digg.com is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site’s cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most Dugg stories appear on the front page. Digg’s popularity has prompted the creation of other social networking sites with story submission and voting systems.

Lifehack.org - this site dedicated to lifehacks. The phrase describes any hacks, tips and tricks that get things done quickly by automating, increase productivity and organizing. This site is built around this theme. This blog is endorsed by many major newspapers and publishers, and it is rated in the #100 most popular blog in the blogosphere by Technorati. It is a frequently updated blog, which provides news and articles which able you to get things done in a faster pace.

MakeUseOf.com is a booming daily blog that features cool websites, computer tips, and downloads that make you more productive. The aim of MakeUseOf is to guide you through the web and tell you about hot websites that you have never heard of, free alternatives to popular software programs, and all kinds of “how to” tips for Windows, Mac and Linux computer users.

Superfundo.org is a web source for movie torrents.

Gosugamers.net is a gaming community with focus on high quality news, coverage and events. With more than 50,000 visitors a day, GosuGamers cover the brilliant real time strategy games StarCraft, WarCraft and DotA.

Facebook.com is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

Twitter.com is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

Blip.fm is a music recommendation and streaming site. Users post short messages on what music they are listening to at the moment, the site then turns them into streaming links using Imeem. Blip is essentially “Twitter for Music.” It allows you to suggest music and share your thoughts about it with a network of contacts. No file uploads are necessary. Just search for the song you have in mind and Blip will grab it from Imeem. Your followers (”listeners”) can hear full versions of the songs you post using Imeem’s player widget.

Istorya.net is a bulletin board system with the largest online community in Cebu and the Visayas. Posts in English and Cebuano.

UrbanDictionary.com is a collection of interesting and humorous definitions of terms. The idea behind the Urban Dictionary is simple: users create terms and define them; then other users come along and vote on the validity of the term and how it’s defined. The result is a collective dictionary with various terms for loads of slang words and expressions, including those hot off the street. Some of the terms are vulgar, but most aren’t. And there are loads of new terms to discover. It is fun to poke around and see what kind of freestyle language is happening throughout the (mostly US) English-speaking world.

OneManga.com offers a selection of manga for online reading. Hosts titles scanlated by various groups as well as unique projects of lesser known titles.

MangaSpoiler.com - read your favorite manga spoiler and download latest scanlations online. From Naruto manga, Bleach manga, One Piece manga and many other mangas.

Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. It became available on April 13, 2006, and exited the beta stage in July 2009. While users are not required to have a Gmail account, they are required to have a Google Account in order to use the software.