Fifteen Cool Websites You Need To Visit

Posted by on 06/28 at 07:46 AM Permalink
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All of us have our own personal favorite websites, and many of them may be the same favorites of many other people. However beyond the Youtube’s, CNN’s and Facebook’s of the world lay some other terrific websites. In this week’s Tech Tip, we’ll be looking at fifteen cool websites that are a must visit. Some you may know about, and others may be new to you, so without any further ado we present (in no particular order) the fifteen sites!

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    Posted by Jimmy the III  on  06/28  at  11:44 AM

  1. This weeks references to functional websites was the best tech tips Geeks has had in a long time, kudos!!!! Loved Pipl.com was able to find an old college lab partner in seconds, very helpful suggestion. Thnak you.

    2. Posted by Kevin  on  06/28  at  01:25 PM

  2. Another good site for iPod users is iLounge.com.  They’re very friendly to both PC and Mac users (no bashing).  And if you want to know how to do something with your iPod or you need help, it’s the place!

    3. Posted by Jim DeMian  on  06/28  at  02:10 PM

  3. Thanks for a nice list.  Appreciate it.  I’d look forward to seeing more lists like this.  Good work.

    Good luck.

    4. Posted by Joe  on  06/28  at  02:14 PM

  4. Maybe you should revise it to 14 Cool Websites after reading the following which was sent to me in a email last November.
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    For the past few years http://www.snopes.com <http://www.snopes.com> has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the ‘tell all final word’ on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com.  Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kinda makes you wonder what they were hiding.  Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that’s right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It’s just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby.

    David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the Website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation?  The reason for the questions - or skepticims - is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong.  Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the ‘true’ bottom of various issues.  I can personally vouch for that complaint.
    A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the internet, ‘supposedly’ the Mikkelson’s claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort ‘ever’ took place.

    I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud Gregg’s contact hone numbers - and Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big exec’s at State Farm in Illinois who would have been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg no one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the ‘final factual word’ on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!

    Then it has been learned the Mikkelson’s are jews - very Democratic (party) and extremely liberal.  As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the Mikkelson’s liberalism revealing itself in their website findings.. Gee, what a shock? So, I say this now to everyone who goes to www..snopes.com <http://www..snopes.com> to get what they think to be the bottom-line facts...’proceed with caution.’ Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself.  Plus, you can always google a subject and do the research yourself.  It now seems apparent that’s all the Mikkelson’s do. After all, I can personally vouch from my own experience for their ‘not’ fully looking into things.

    5. Posted by Bryan Lambert  on  06/29  at  11:00 AM

  5. Hi Joe,

    That is a very interesting e-mail, unfortunately it is not that accurate. 

    Here’s the snopes.com article in question:
    http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/chicken.asp

    Here’s the results of a political watchdog groups investigation into the allications in the e-mail (factcheck.org, a “nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters”
    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_snopescom_run_by_very_democratic_proprietors.html

    6. Posted by Cyril Paciullo  on  07/01  at  10:32 AM

  6. A really great website for any sports lover (or moderate follower) is Deadspin. There’s also Kissingsuzykolber and Withleather . . . the sites that take a comedic spin on the world of sports.

    Cyril Paciullo

    7. Posted by Dave  on  07/21  at  12:11 PM

  7. I find Pandora to be the most useful in that list. I always run it on my computer and even try to buy songs from iTunes through that site in order to support it.

    8. Posted by A rated windows  on  07/23  at  03:24 AM

  8. Good way of sharing interesting ideas with nice theme and concept.

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