A list of 15 websites that are either useful or entertaining. This is the second edition of a series of articles.
The following is a continuance of my previous article,
“15 Ridiculously Useful Websites.” The response to that article was overwhelming. The comments left by those who read it made one thing very clear: the list was incomplete. Although I did not initially write the article with the intention of listing the 15 best sites on the web, that is how my message came across – my fault. I have decided to respond to your comments with a series of follow-on lists containing more useful and entertaining corners of the web. I hope you enjoy them:
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Musictheory
A grass roots website that contains lessons, trainers, as well as several other utilities.
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iLike
iLike is a music site where you can organize share and discover new music. There is an iLike side bar available for Windows Media Player as well as iTunes. You can even upload your own music to the site if you would like to.
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Youtube
This is an obvious one. Watch videos of just about anything for free.
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Freedocumentaries
This is an awesome catalog of documentaries about many different subjects. You can browse the films by region, theme, or title. The videos are free and are accompanied by a brief description, comments, and sometimes a link to a related page.
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Buzzillions
Product reviews by consumers who have been verified by the retailer they purchased the item from. You can search for specific items or go through a preference-based menu to find products and reviews that are lined up with your intentions/interests/user level.
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Craigslist
No matter what you need, chances are, you can probably find it here.
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Farecast
Farecast provides predictions and trend analysis for airfares and hotel fees. In their own words, “Know When to Buy™: Our airfare prediction shows if fares are rising or dropping. Based on the prediction, we provide a recommendation to buy now or buy later. Know Where to Stay™: Our Rate Key™ indicates whether or not today’s rate for a specific hotel is a deal. It compares an individual hotel’s current rate found to its observed historical rates.”
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Download
Offers a central location to find free downloads for subjects ranging from antivirus/firewall to audio/video & gaming software.
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Pixalo
A great photography site that helps photographers no matter their skill level. It has a community forum were you can get equipment reviews and answers to your questions. The site also offers a free members gallery where you can upload your own photos.
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Rutomail
This site is full of links to other sites. The links are organized into various categories including business, lifestyle, and Internet, etc…
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Gyminee
A fitness website that allows you to set goals, track your progress, monitor and plan nutrition, and even invite or find new friends to coordinate with.
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Roughguides
A pretty good travel website that provides many different ways of researching destinations.
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Bugmenot
Type in a website that requires a username and password; Bugmenot provides you with a name and password to use…free. Useful for big websites, not really for obscure ones.
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Wikipedia
Another seemingly obvious site…A user-dependant research site. Wikipedia is very adaptive in that you can cruise through a subject by clicking on embedded links to visit related articles and topics. This allows the researcher to see the topic from many different perspectives.
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IMDB
Seriously, this is one of the most comprehensive movie information databases on the net. It is very, very thorough.
October 21st, 2007 at 4:46 am
lol, don’t expect this one to get viewed like crazy, like ur previous article did! Remember, greediness is foolishness!
October 21st, 2007 at 6:54 am
There is another great site out there that you might not be aware of called Airfarewatchdog.com.
These guys search thousands of airfares by hand every day to come up with the best possible deals. They cover all of the discount carriers as well as specials listed only on airline websites. Plus you can sign up for a daily newsletter which let’s you know about the best fares from your city.
Worth checking out…
October 21st, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I second airfare watchdog. They have fares that farecast doesn’t, such as on Southwest, the largest US carrier by passengers flown. You can’t call yourself an airfare site and not have the largest airline! Plus watchdog has Skybus and JetBlue fares; Orbitz has kicked Jetblue out.
October 21st, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Dude, Google is always number one.
You can find all those sites on Google! lol.
October 21st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Wow, YouTube, Craigslist, IMDB, and Wikipedia seem pretty cool. Thanks for telling me about them.
October 21st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Thanks…this is arguably the best 15 that anyone can come up with.
October 21st, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Checkout this one, all major news web sites headlines on one page, it is kind a simple news aggregator!
http://news.theusefulinfo.com
October 21st, 2007 at 4:15 pm
A site I discovered some time ago. Identify almost any file and suggest how to deal with it.
http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx
October 21st, 2007 at 4:22 pm
IMDB, like Wikipedia, features user-contributed content. Thus, both have comprehensive coverage, but can be targets of vandalism and impartial contribution/editing.
October 21st, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Nice list. I use Traineo.com instead of Gyminee. I’d also like to recommend http://wordsy.com. It’s like digg for readers.
October 21st, 2007 at 6:14 pm
About Wikipedia: You might want to mention the Reference Desk, where you can ask a question of Wikipedia editors. They’re only volunteers, but there are a lot of them…they add up to an unreasonably wide knowledge base, and they quite often can get you answers within a day.
For instance, I didn’t know the term “cargo cult”, but I knew a little bit about what it meant. I described what I knew, and someone gave me the term…something search engines just couldn’t have done for me.
October 21st, 2007 at 6:21 pm
I’ve spend entire weeks of my life at http://tones.wolfram.com/
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:23 am
Interesting article. Thanks for the information.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:23 am
http://popurls.com ‘nough said
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:05 am
All fine, except CNET’s Download.com
that site is a travesty, and nothing but garbage and low quality demos
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:51 am
Garrett – If I wanted to suggest a website to you – how can I do that?
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:15 am
probably some celebrity photos for fun? http://reallyglam.com !
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Great list… and as a member at Pixalo I can definitely say it deserves it’s place!
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:11 pm
You can definitely discount commenter no. 1. Good job. Thanks.
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
You can definitely discount commenter no. 1. Good job. Thanks.
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I already had. Some people(as I have found recently) just need to be negative. If you have nothing positive to say….Anyhow, thanks for the compliment and interest.
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:46 pm
I already had. Some people(as I have found recently) just need to be negative. If you have nothing positive to say….Anyhow, thanks for the compliment and interest.
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:27 am
garret santos is the best he rules his work is great i use the websites alot thanks man whats your email address want to send you some of my work so you can see if its good
October 26th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
I liked craigslist. It has been better than ebay for me so far!
October 28th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Youtube is freakin awesome
November 1st, 2007 at 7:22 pm
You lost all credibility by using Wikipedia in this list…
November 1st, 2007 at 10:48 pm
You know…I get chastised for not including it by some and ridiculed when I do by others…what are you gonna do? I guess I’ll just have to deal with it.
November 10th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Mr. Santos,
I happened upon your site, and found it to be very informative. I enjoyed the links.
I have a question. I am not an experienced web builder by any means, but I can figure things out, mostly by research. I built a web site, from MS Word. Now, I’m ready to get software to build it again, but I want to make sure the software for the new site is compatible with Mozilla, Firefox and IE. I dont know if I’m using the proper language, but I think you can figure out what I’m trying to say. If you could help me and let me know what is the best site builder for my needs, (flash included) I can purchase it and pull myself out of the dark ages.
Thanks for your help.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:08 am
This was not a very interesting list. Most of these sites people already know because they’re the most useful and/or popular in their category. The ones that people don’t know are they ones they don’t need.
Maybe an article like “15 Unreasonably Useful Websites You Probably Didn’t Know” would make more sense.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
hmmnn…another good one. Informative. Keep posting and thanks for sharing.
Heart.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:47 am
I keep trying to leave a comment but it doesn’t go thru. I think
I discovered what the problem is.
I like your blog. Any site that give me info I like.
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
what about Listgasm.com ?
Definitely an up and comer
January 27th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
i don’t like this list very much. Some sites aren’t very good at what they do and others are overrated. Look more thoroughly.
for a more comprehensive list, look through pressd.wordpress.com
July 1st, 2008 at 9:51 am
This is a really interesting list! Though, I definitely prefer http://www.viewpoints.com over Buzzillions. Like Buzzillions, it is a consumer reviews website, but it also has this really great consumer atmosphere. It’s like the Facebook or MySpace of consumer reviews.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
You seem to like giving websites,
most of them are very useful too,
thanks. Good Job.
Feel free to take a peek at my articles
and photos I think you’ll like them.
-=Koyin=-
August 1st, 2008 at 3:21 am
hey people !!!!!!!!!!
i will add a 16th site
hope u like that . this is a new site called as https://livewithnews.com
speciallity of this site is that u can read the latest news of very news website over here
hope u like it
October 14th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Superb collection. Keep up the good work dude. i found this site today which had some useful sites too. http://cli.gs/65S9sR
January 17th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Watch craigslist, I got arrested because someone sent me a scam check and I am still getting my life together after that its a shame people do things like this but its another story for me.
Be cause I had no idea that it was a scam check, and after spending 5 days in jail and eating cheese, damn you guys have no idea what you can make your life a living hell.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:18 am
yes, i still also recommend Wikipedia especially the Simple English Wikipedia and other Wikipedia services:
http://linkbee.com/C7JUL
thanks for sharing these sites!