Cool Stuff

My top 10 list of most useful computer stuff:

10. Google Earth - the ultimate view of the earth  

  9. Dropbox - got some big files to send to someone, share files between computers  

  8. My Yahoo - personal home page that contains all my stuff 

  7. Roku - best streaming media box for your TV

   6. cNet -  trusted source for technical information

  5. Flickr - best place to store and share photos

  4. Google Sites - create your own free website (like this one)

  3. Snopes - debunk latest scam or urban legend

  2. Google Apps - amazing collection of useful tools

  1. iPhone - smartphone that is a computer in your pocket

More cool stuff:

Google Maps - provides some map features not in Google Earth

Bing Maps - maps that are sometimes more detailed than Google

YouTube - the people's video website

Skype - free or low-cost phonecalls to anywhere in the world

Pandora - music just the way you like it

Netflix - movies by mail or streamed directly to your home

Spotify - like Pandora but you pick each song

Windows Live Essentials - suite of on-line MS applications

VLC Player - App that will allow you to play most all media

Office 365 - Microsoft Office suite in the cloud

Open Office - free MS office-like applications

Zoho - another free MS office-like applications

Midomi - if you can hum it, Midomi can identify the song

Hulu - major on-line video source

TV.com - another of the many video sources on th Web

Winamp - audio ap

Google Sites - create your own free website (like this one)

Google Translate - easily translate from almost any language to another

How Stuff Works - how stuff works

Do Not Track Me - for Chrome  for Firefox

Doodle - scheduling program

Dial a Human - talk to a real person not a robot

Get Human - same as previous

JoinMe - an app that will allow two computers to share screens on the internet

TeamViewer - same as JoinMe

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