My Favorite tech/software blogs
Martin from Ghacks posted a curious post called “Blog Feed Dependencies“. The idea was to list his top 10 tech blogs and to get these blogs to post a similar story with linkbacks to his original posting. In theory the idea (if I understand it correctly) is to facilitate the creation of some sort network of tech blogs connected by linkbacks to each other.
I’m not sure about the reality vs. the theory, though, but I figure posting a list of my top 10 blogs is a good idea, so here goes. If your blog is listed here do think about posting a “top 10 tech blogs” postings and linking back to this article.
My top 10 (actually 11) tech/software blogs in ALPHABETICAL order (note that only blogs were considered).
- Appaholic: He’s an Appaholic. He also has some cool freeware reviews
- Confessions of a Freeware Junky Detailed reviews of freeware programs
- CyberNET News: prolific output combined with great software discoveries.
- DonationCoder: Excellent forum for everything related to software. Excellent donationware software to be had as well.
- Download Squad: an essential and enjoyable, read.
- Ghacks: Interesting blog for tech and freeware news and reviews.
- Jonathan’s tool bar and grill: Jonathan writes about software in detail and with a lotta love.
- LifeHacker: This blog is what techies would write if they (a) aspired to be cool, and (b) were obsessed with GTD (the Getting Things Done methodology).
- MakeUseOf: what you get when you combine good content with an apparent affinity for making lists.
- Mashable: web 2.0 galore. An essential news source.
- SimpleHelp: This blog has tech and software news and reviews. Features occasional software comparisons that are very detailed and well thought out.
Let me know if you have a cool blog that should be here.
Samer –
Wow thanks I’m honored to be included in your list
I’ve actually been an RSS subscriber to freewaregenius.com for a while now, and I didn’t expect to see my site in this post at all. A couple of your favs are also high in my list – LifeHacker, MakeUseOf and Appaholic. I’m off to check out some of the others now
Samer- Like everyone else, I have limited time, especially for blogs. But I’m always sure to be signed up to your feed. Keep up the excellent work!
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Dustin Puryear
Author, “Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers”
http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices
Nice list, Samer! I just added two of the above to my list of feeds in Google Reader.
There were a few feeds on there that I wasn’t subscribed to, so thanks a ton for the list. And we appreciate being mentioned there as well!
Thanks for the Google App RSS Reader option. I was able to add freewaregenius to my
Hey Samer – thanks for the plug (again!) – I will make sure to do a similar post, although I never hesitate to link back to FreewareGenius, as you probably figured out!
Also, I am checking out a few of those other links down the list. As always, your services are appreciated.
Rob
Hello Samer,
I use “stumbleupon” and that is what brought me here to enjoy your great sight. What I like about you is that you explain things so easy even a non-techie like me can understand. ” I added your site to “stumbleupon” I LIKE IT! Thanks for sharing so much information….I enjoyed your site so much I forgot what I signed on to do this evening..lol. I hope you enjoyed your trip to Jordan. Maybe you can help me with a cooking question if you don’t mind. I bought something at a middle eastern market called ZATTAR SHAMI…it was a mixture of spices to add to meat. I mixed it with ground beef is that how you use it? I love to try new recipes and the jar didn’t have instructions on it. It came from Jordan. Enough from “motor mouth”. I never know how to end a reply…Again thanks for your site it’s so COOL!
Hi Mama Geri,
I’m really glad you like the site. This is the first time I’m giving culinary tips on Freewaregenius, but Zatar happens to be one of my favorite foods.
Zatar is a mixture of spices that is usually eaten as is with olive oil and bread (and maybe some white cheese or tomato). You can sprinkle it on Humus or Labneh (a spreadable type of youghurt) or whatever you fancy. Its not typically cooked in anything except Manaquish (or manaish/manakeesh/manaesh), which is simply a dough covered in Olive oil and zatar and baked. Having said so I might confess that I’ve occaisionally put it in chilli.
Now I think I’m going to check to see if culinarygenius.com is available
I have ADHD I get bored easy
lol. I surf a lot of sites. gHack is one of my favs as well as LifeHacker, BlackViper, AnalogX, Daily Cup of Tech,
Digital Inspiration, Downloadsquad, “Kellys – Korner” Think Geek, Hacked Gadgets, HackaDay, SCI-FI Blog-Tech, WikiHow, WikiHow_’Hacks’, Evil Mad Scientist, PopURL, Dutch Jewel, and many many more.
I used to like Lifehacker but it is starting to become a little too life tippy for me. I like DownloadSquad more now. An well of course my own site http://www.noheat.com which is like Lifehacker pre “how to pluck your eyebrows in a car”. Nice list btw I have added a few of them to my already huge RSS feed list.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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