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PC Mag’s Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites

Jason Bean — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:34:35 +0000

Part of uncovering great and interesting sites is to take advantage of finding them no matter where they come from on the web right?

PC Magazine has an article where they are highlighting The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites.

The editors have broken down their list into the following categories:

Apps and Services
Fun and Games
Health and Science
Info, Search, and Reference
Lifestyle
Money and Real Estate
Music
News
Photo
Shopping
Social Networking
Technology
Travel and Maps

Every single category is loaded with great, helpful and interesting websites. I’d love to hear what some of your favorites are in each category. Which ones are you using? Which ones should I be immediately saving to my list of bookmarks for future and repeated use?

One thing I’ve been looking for on the article though is a link to a zip file of all the sites that you can quickly load into your favorites. They used to do that on previous articles didn’t they? Or was that PC World’s version of their lists?

Uncover an undiscovered website of your own with PC Magazine.

UPDATE: Here’s the link to download the ZIP file with all the sites.

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New Redesign of iGoogle

Jason Bean — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:51:09 +0000

I noticed earlier today that iGoogle has gone through another slight redesign. Maybe you could consider it a little bit more than a slight redesign though since some of the basic navigation has been switched around.

As you can see from the image above, the navigation and links are now listed in a sidebar on the left-hand side of the page, with each component on the page listed below each page name. Quite a bit different from how the original tabs were displayed at the top of the page as shown below.

I like the new layout though. Not really sure why, maybe it’s just because happy with the almost expected sidebar navigation with most sites.

What do you think? Like the new changes or not?

Uncover yourself a new homepage at:

www.igoogle.com

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PC Magazine’s Top 101 Websites of 2006

Jason Bean — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:48:00 +0000

PC Magazine has released their collection of the Top 101 Websites for 2006. They always do a pretty good job with this list, and although not many websites surprise me, or are ones I haven’t heard of, they always seem to remind me of some websites that are great and I’d just forgotten about.

One of the things they do that I enjoy is they organize them into different groups and categories like:

Apps – PC & Mobile
Business & Finance
Careers
Computing
Consumer Electronics & Photography
Health
Information, Search & Reference
Lifestyle, Entertainment & Fun
News
Oddities & Gaming
Shopping
Travel

They also put all the sites together and make them available as a single download file that will install all of them in your favorites. A handy resource if you’re like me and pretty much keep every great site you’ve come across.

Although they included some blogs in the various categories, I’m kind of surprised they didn’t have a separate category. That may be a good thing though, after all a blog is still a legitimate website.

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Keeping Track of All These Cool Sites

Jason Bean — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:07:37 +0000

You keep finding all those great sites and hopefully are enjoying the ones we highlight here on Uncover the Internet. But you may be asking, “But what do I do with all those favorites and bookmarks?”

This post will focus on the various bookmarking and social linking sites that are available on the web to categorize, organize and evangelize your favorites. It comes down to personal preference in the end, but here’s the majority of the popular ones for getting started.

Thanks to Paul Drago at Performancing.com for the list of sites. You can get more of his opinions and details at the Performancing site here and here.

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