Geeky Farewell to 2008

The year has come and gone, 2009 is on a stampede to get here.  Most blogs are littered with posts of reminiscing, regrets, thougths, and goals for 2009.
However, i’m going to share with you 10 geek things (applications, sites, network services)  that 2008 has brought me (g33k joy! woot!!)

1. Discovering Twitter.com

I’ve found twitter to be exceptionally inspiring, interesting, a fast paced technological grapevine to keep up with ever changing media innovations, peeks in to peoples thoughts, and its AWESOME for networking with those who share like interests.

2. Exploring WordPress

Moving to wordpress at the close of 2007 was a change, followed by tons of learning my way around wordpress.  WordPress has an easy to use interface that takes some adjustment. In my opinion it attracts a more elite readership as compared to blogger.com

3. TinyUrls

Its a web service that provies short links to rediret LONG URLs. It’s really nifty when sharing links on twitter or via email and prevents link breaks

4. Digg

Digg is a platform for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by their users. Read more

5. WordWeb

WordWeb is an international English dictionary and thesaurus program for Microsoft Windows. Its a must if you’re always looking up words, writing documents, or reading online. It sits in your tray. Its on my list of must haves. Download it here

6. Scribd.com

Scribd is a document sharing website. It currently houses over 350,000 documents. Its fabulous when you’re in need of latest white papers or ipapers and reading material that’s most relevant to your search online. Easily downloadable with a registered account. Its a sure fire way to source information, booklets and documents online.

7.  ebookshare.net

It is a great website for ebook torrents. It contains  a variety of literary platfroms for your every interest.  IT magazines, programming ebooks,  magazines… all freely downloadable with a Torrent client i.e utorrent or bittorrent

8.  Filebook.net

Books that are more literary orientated. Novels, handbooks, technical handbooks, andddddd….. check for the dummies series

8. Current online Game addiction:
Prime Suspects by Big Fish Games

If you like puzzles, searches and looking for clues. Play here online or download. Seems to work best in Internet explorer.

9. Life hacker

Lifehacker.com is a brilliant guide to getting things done. There’s something for everyone and it’s a brilliant way to boot procrastination

10. Zen Habits

Life skills and everyday rushes, we live in a hive like existence, waiting on free time, and life equilibrium. Zen habits is an awesome site with pointers to simple productivity, how to focus on the things that are important. Posts are presented in a simplistic manner that leaves you thinking ‘aha, why didn’t i think of that?’  Definitely a must read in our quests to reach Lifestyle Zen