Since I’m doing laundry, I decided to make a list about the things I love and use quite frequently. Who knows, you might like some of these.

Disclaimer: I’m mainly a Mac user with a PC laptop dual-booting Linux and Windows XP. The total amount of time I spend using my laptop on an average week is close to 0 minutes unless I’m traveling.

‘Geeky’

  • iMac - Excellent computer with a magnificent Operating System (Mac OS X Leopard)
  • iPhone 3G - I’m in love. As a friend put it: “… it really changed my life.”
  • Lifehacker.com- Updates way too frequently, but it has quality content.

Social Networks (with some other stuff)

  • Last.fm (music) - the current beta version is pretty awesome, I discover pretty neat music through the ‘neighbor stations’
  • Facebook(real social network) - The only social network that I keep up with. Although MySpace is removing a lot of the ‘clutter’ it has, I find that Facebook is the only social network with a rather clean user interface.
  • Flickr (photography) - Although I hate the new limitations of limited accounts, a PRO account is only $24.95 a year and has amazing benefits. Unlimited photo uploads? I love you.
  • Twitter - simple and sweet.

Search Engines

  • Scour.com (yes, that is indeed a referral link) - Although in Beta and doesn’t support searches with ’special characters’ such as… whatever is not commonly used in English, it’s still a pretty good search engine with relevant results and it pays you for searching (in the long run). Don’t use the image search though, it has no ‘filter’.
  • Google.com (I can’t really get over it)

Financial Tools

  • Mint.com - I’m still surprised this is free. I love it.

Movie Ratings

Online Stores

  • Amazon- I love it, and Amazon Prime is fantastic.

E-mail service

Blogs (not friend’s blogs)

Other ways I spend time online

Software
Torrent Download

  • Azureus

Media (Imaging, music, website creation, etc.)

  • iPhoto ‘08 - simple to use and pretty much everything the average user needs.
  • Photoshop - for more complex pimples.
  • iTunes - What can I say? I used it even before I had an iPod/iPhone/etc. It’s just great at organizing music/video libraries, and it’s free.
  • iWeb
  • VLC - the simplest, yet most powerful video player I’ve used. It plays pretty much anything.

Organizing Life and Staying in touch with friends

  • Apple Address Book
  • Apple Mail
  • iCal
  • iChat, Skype - both are excellent for instant messaging and video conference.
  • Google Calendar - love love love.

Media

  • Microsoft Office (one of the few good products from such company)
  • Google Documents

Web Browsers (Please do not use Internet Explorer, it has side effects such as… stupidity)

  • Safari
  • Firefox
Feel free to leave comments/suggestions.
-Omar
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