Category «Recommended Web Sites»

Kijiji

If you are looking for a free classified service in your area, try Kijiji: Kijiji means “village” in Swahili. Kijiji helps you connect with your community. It’s free and easy to use. You can find everything you need from housing to furniture, from jobs to new friends and more. You can charge for things, or …

101 Fantastic Freebies

Late last year I linked a list of PC World where they had 101 Fabulous Freebies. The list has been updated: Once upon a time you actually had to pay for great software and services — hard to believe, but true. We revved up our cable modem and searched for the most intriguing free offerings …

Unbiased product reports, available at ProductWiki

I read about this on Download Squad… Want to get a total unbiased report on a new product you are thinking about purchasing? ProductWiki can help. ProductWiki is a product information site that is based off of a collaborative wiki format. The website is entirely maintained by visitors and users who share information or review …

100,000 free phone systems up for grabs

This is from a press release I received from 3CX: 3CX a developer of a software-based IP PBX for Windows, today announced that it will give away 100,000 free phone systems. Companies are encouraged to take advantage of this offer to experience first handedly the benefits of an IP PBX when compared with traditional proprietary …

GizmoSMS – Free SMS To Any Mobile Phone

Michael Robertson, the founder of MP3.com, is now involved in all sorts of other online pursuits. One of them is with VOIP. He has grouped several services under the Gizmo Project name, and the latest one is GizmoSMS. [GizmoSMS is] a web site that lets you send SMS messages to any mobile phone directly from …

TopTenREVIEWS

I’ve only glanced around this site, but it seems interesting. The site describes itself as follows: Have you ever spent hours online or at the store trying to figure out which product to buy? At TopTenREVIEWS, we help you cut through the clutter to find the product that’s best for you. We provide in-depth reviews, …

Have a tip, leave a tip with Tipstrs

I read about this on Download Squad: Do you have something to share? Maybe a little tip about something? A trick of some sort? Tipstrs wants you to leave it on their website and share it with the world. Tipstrs is pegged as a hybrid social bookmarking site. The whole idea behind the site lays …

The How-To Geek Windows Vista tips

The How-To Geek is a nice site that has tips for a variety of operating systems. There are currently 88 tips for Windows Vista. I haven’t tried Vista yet, so I can’t vouch for any of the tips, but they seem pretty straightforward. Check it out…

Shutdown Day

It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope? Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how …

Trivial Pursuit – Original Genus Edition Updates and Corrections

I read on Ken Jennings’ Blog about a site that reviews Trivial Pursuit questions and summarizes their accuracy. That final percentage in the lower-left corner of this table tells the amazing story… over 95% of Trivial Pursuit’s original questions are still accurate 25 years later! Impressive. If you are into trivia, you should definitely check …