I think it’s neat how safari’s autocomplete works, when you start typing it lists sites descending from the order you visited them in, so I’ve been finding I only have to type one or two letters and then hit down to go to the sites I want. I thought it would be an interesting post to list the letter shortcuts for the sites I visit most frequently:
A is for apple.com - geeky but true, their tech news and trailers are enough to keep me coming back. amazon.com deserves mentioning too, for selling anything you want, like a yacht.
B is for boingboing.net, which is one of the best tech-and-other-quirkiness blogs in the business.
C is for craigslist.org, for finding you a sketchy job, sketchy stuff, or meeting fun but possibly sketchy people. And cnet.com is great for hardware reviews and prices.
D is for digg.com. Community driven tech news. I can’t. stop. visiting. this. site.
E is for ebay.com to check prices on that Roland Handsonic 15 I’ve always wanted.
F is for fark.com. Community driven funny news. I’ve recently gotten over my fark addition a little. A little.
G is for gizmodo.com, to track your gadget obsessions. And google.com, duh.
H is for hedonistica.com. Hedo has some of the freshest and most entertaining videos on the web.
I is for imdb.com, which I actually have as a right-click-search plugin in safari (using saft). Who is Sam Lloyd? If you had saft, one right click would tell you!
J is for justdropped.com, a fun way to both pick up just-dropped domain names and critique our culture at the same time.
K is for kloth.net, which (geekily) has a good whois service for domain names.
L is for lifehacker.com. Which I don’t visit enough. But it has links to computer apps to help you stop procrastinating. Which is why you should go procrastinate and surf her blog.
M is a tough one. The one I visit the most is milkandcookies.com, which has a friendlier user base than hedonistica and more TV content.
M is also for makezine.com/blog, an overwhelmingly frequently updated DIY site showing all sorts of cool projects people have made. I visit this site every day too.
M takes me to mail.yahoo.com, for obvious reasons, but I will also give a shout out to macosxhints. And damn you all teenagers, fine, M also takes you to myspace. maps.google.com is good too…Ok, what the hell is up with M?
N is for news.google.com, for computer generated, generally unbiased news.
O is for oreillynet.com. Though I don’t use O that much.
P is for, if I want to plug myself, problemstosolve.com. I go to paypal a lot too, but penny-arcade.com is probably the coolest P, it’s an awesome (and geeky) web comic.
Q is for quicktime.com, though that’s just a redirect. Give me a break, this is Q.
R is for rawstory.com, for keeping news real and alternative. It’s a way better retort to drudgereport.com than drudgeretort.com. And it’s run by John Byrne, whom I remember from Oberlin.
S is for sourceforge.net. Ok this list is getting incredibly dorky, but open source software can benefit anyone. Just type a few terms into the search and see what you get. Oh, you didn’t know there was a free print-to-PDF app for XP? Yeah, I thought so. A lot of geeks also like slashdot.com for tech news.
T is for Technorati.com, it keeps track of millions of more blogs for you to waste your time on…T also stand sfor a site that begins with “torrent” and ends with “spy”…
U is for…um, us3.php.net. Wait that’s not fun or generally useful to the public at all. Boo. How about utorrent.com, a small bittorrent client for windows?
V is for video.google.com. I guess. Youtube is better but google video doesn’t limit the length of videos.
W is for woot.com, a site that has an interesting business model for only selling one product a day, at a usually huge discounted bulk rate. Mostly tech stuff and gadgets. Wikipedia.org is also obvioulsy worth mentioning. I search for anything I don’t know plus the word wikipedia on my cell phone to read that wikipedia entry on my phone when I’m bored and when I want to learn stuff.
X is for xubuntu.org, for a lighter version of the popular Ubuntu Linux desktop using a Xfce desktop environment. Great for older machines! If you don’t think you’ll go there a lot though you could try xanga.com/home.aspx?user=anth0nyc which has mildly amusing photos. Hey, what else did you expect from X?
Y is for…you’re still here? No, Y is for youtube.com, whose videos will entertain you faster than yahoo.com will, though yahoo’s actually useful.
Z is for zombo.com, it’s old but it’s probably the most entrepreneurial site to come out of the dot com bust! zzounds.com is good for all you musicians out there looking for cheap gear. And zmag.org, actually called znet, is good for catching up on your Chomsky and Albert reading.