10. BBC News My favourite news channel which helps me to keep in touch with the rest of the world through a simple RSS feed. The BBC is required by its charter to be free from both political and commercial influence and is supposed to be quite objective. This has been questioned both by government and anti establishment groups. But for me, BBC avoids the dramatization of other (mainly United States) media groups and provides an objective account of events happening around the world.
9. How Stuff Works
I have learnt a lot from this website. With simple stepwise well illustrated articles, this site provides information about every thing from lock picking to liquid cooled PCs. Impress your friends with your knowledge about some thing simple like …. Christmas!
8. Merriam-Webster
Excellent web based dictionary and thesaurus tool. Can dramatically improve your communication ability in English , especially if you are a non native speaker.
7. Digg!
So addictive, Digg is defined by wikipedia as a community-based news article popularity website which combines social book marking, blogging and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. Unfortunately some users have a great following and their contributions naturally gets "digged" up.
The demography of the digg users tend to be very liberal... some might find it a bit disheartening!
6. Ebay I have bought a lot of things cheap from the Ebay including a car. Have not had a bad experience (yet!). Saves a lot of money, you don’t have to leave the comfort of your living room to go shopping and with spark plugs to virginity on sale, you will most likely find what you are looking for! Make sure you don't bid for some thing you really do not need.
5. Live Science Touted as a website which brings you groundbreaking developments in science, space, technology, health, and the environment, livescience.com is a very informative website which keeps you up-to-date in the rapidly evolving scientific fields.
4. Newscientist Another popular science website. Full access needs subscription, but provides a wealth of articles on new scientific developments.
3. Del.icio.us Developed in 2003, Delicious is social book marking site for storing and sharing web book marks. Delicious uses a tag based, non-hierarchical key word categorization. Some people prefer Stumbleupon which is fairly similar. I am yet to start using it, but I am sure I will soon.
2. Wikipedia
what more can I say. She knows everything; what she doesn't know you can tell her and most of the time she listens.
1. Google Accounts
All the privacy concerns aside, Google accounts provides a convenient way to organize your life with email, online notebook, document, spreadsheet, Picasa web album, Google reader, Maps, Google Scholar Etc. I cannot live without that!
Sunday, 16 March 2008
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