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To compliment my iPhone. 

Bose Mobile On-ear Headset

The noise-isolation makes it easier to ignore people without having to raise the music volume. Love it.

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

• Metacritic
• Rotten Tomatoes

Online Stores

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

E-mail service

• Gmail - is simply my favorite.

Blogs (not friend’s blogs)

• Dooce
• Post Secret
• The Sartorialist

Other ways I spend time online

• YouTube

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

I usually don’t agree with Microsoft, and I really don’t like most of their products much, however, this sounds good to me.

Microsoft Launches Office Subscription Service