Before we move on and discuss the featured Internet tools to stop big brother from snooping on you, let's first discuss a few things not to do, so to prevent anyone from collecting personal information about you. In the right hands, your personal information is as valuable as gold that can be bought and sold over and over again, but in the wrong hands your personal information can be used to assume your identity and trash your upstanding reputation.

On the Internet, there are hundreds of survey companies that offer to pay you or give you products, just for filling out their surveys. Don't do it, before carefully considering the tradeoff.

You will be asked to give your name, address, phone number, age, income, and much more before you even begin filling out the survey and this information is usually shared, traded or sold to marketing and advertising agencies or private individuals willing to pay for the information about you. This can and usually does lead to unwanted spam, potential scams and even late-evening dinnertime telemarketing sales calls to your home or cell phone. Plus, Big Brother (government agencies) can potentially demand information brokers to release any personal information about you with or without cause and without you knowing about it.

Here is your chance to start taking steps to stop the snoops wanting to spy on you. These useful Internet tools will not provide absolute protection from all snoops, but it will surely make their jobs much more difficult - the way that it sure be.

Hoax Busters

The Internet is chalk full of email hoaxes and Internet scams that are designed to steal your personal information, so to be used to make the scammers lots of money at your expense. Use this website to keep informed of the latest Internet hoaxes and scams, so that you can avoid becoming the next victim of identity theft.

Email Encryption

Each time any of us write and send an email over the Internet there is a real chance that someone other than the person that we intended to receive it has read our private communication. The standard email programs that most Internet Providers offer their users are not as fully protected from prying eyes as they could be. This website provides an excellent blog that teaches you how-to encrypt your email, so that most snoops are unable to read your private communications without your permission.

MintEmail

Never share your personal email address with anyone that you do not know or with any website that does not have a comprehensive privacy policy. It's just not worth sharing your personal email address, so that you can signup for a newsletter, social network or join some other Internet club. Use MintEmail to get a four-hour temporary email address and some other really cool features that you can use to join, use or receive information from the Internet. This type of email address is utterly worthless to information brokers and identity thieves.

Numbr.com

Sometimes we discover something that we really want to participate in on the Internet, but in order to signup, we are required to give our phone number. Unlike an email address, our phone number can be used to deliver telemarketing phone calls all times of the day or night, and even the worse part is that it can be used to identify where you live by using certain Internet tools. Numbr.com offers free disposable phone numbers that can be setup to expire whenever you need them to, but still receive real phone calls from those people that you are expecting to call and not expose your personal information over-the-Internet.

National Do Not Call Registry

Send a message to all telemarketers in the United States of America that you do not want to receive their telemarketing phone calls by having your phone number added to the National Do Not Call Registry.

Stop Cell Phone Spam

Put a stop to cell phone spam and unwanted cell phone text messages sent by marketing and advertising agencies wanting you to buy their products and services. This is an excellent blog from the Michigan Attorney General that explains in some detail how to go about eliminating the cell phone spam and take your privacy back.

Green Dimes

One of the easiest ways that identity thieves can use to collect personal information about their next potential victim is by stealing mail from the mailbox. We receive credit card offers, insurance discount offers and many other unwanted special offers through the mail and in the wrong hands this junk mail can be the beginning of one heck of a good time at your expense. Use GreenDimes to put a stop to junk mail by doing it yourself or by signing up for the premium service ($20.00) and have an experienced GreenDimes representative take care of the problem for you, if you do not have the time to do it yourself.

Catalog Choice

Help save the natural resources and the environment by simply putting a stop to unwanted paper catalogs that you no longer want to receive in your mailbox. Millions of trees can be saved and your privacy can be yours once again.

Avast!

 

Stop potential viruses and worms from activating and opening backdoors for hackers to snoop around and potentially steal your private personal information that you have stored away on your computer's harddrive. Avast! Is one of the best and easiest antivirus programs available on the Internet and it's 100% free for home users to use.

ZoneAlarm

The Internet would be much more secure if everyone using it would install a reliable firewall on his or her computer. Many times viruses and worms are spread from an effected computer to other computers that it comes in contact with and hackers can more easily gain access to an unprotected computer than they could if trying to access a computer with a firewall. Protect yourself and others that you come in contact with on the Worldwide Web by downloading and installing a firewall that will better protect your private information that you have stored on your computer and possibly prevent damaging viruses and worms from being planted on your computer's hard drive by a sneaky hacker.

 

Let's face it: every person who uses the Internet uses it for a variety of different reasons, from listening to music to playing games to shopping for that perfect gift. The Internet has changed the way that the world communicates.

There are as many different ways to discover new websites and information, as there are clever webmasters and corporations wanting to make retrieving these resources that you want to locate. This article makes it possible to bookmark one resource that directly links to ten other useful websites without adding to the clutter that happens after bookmarking single websites that you like.

1. Google Tools

   The amazing talent that Google Corporation has employed continues to rollout more user friendly applications to make exploring the Internet easier, faster and safer than ever before. Here visitors will find an array of free applications from personal finance tools to web search and everything in-between.

2. Yahoo! Babel Fish

   Don't be lost in translation ever again, because with Yahoo! Babel Fish users can translate words, phrases or complete paragraphs up to 150 words at a time from one language to another language quite easily. Just a few of the languages that Yahoo! Babel Fish is able to translate to and from are: English, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and more.

3. Indy Mogul Blog

   This is a fantastic blog to visit if you are an inspiring filmmaker or a seasoned filmmaker that is looking to save some money on producing some cool special effects to your next movie. What makes this such an unique website is that the producers spin a wheel to determine the budget that can be used to produce special effects that visitors suggest, and then after the special effect has been produce it is posted on the site with step-by-step instruction via video.

4. Radio Locator

   So, you enjoy listening or discovering new music from artists around the world, but demand more choices to select from, then look no further. Radio-locater search engine serves up 2,500 audio-streaming Internet radio stations around the world and more than 10,000 radio related web pages where new music is bursting from its seams.

5. What's On When

   For the world traveler this is a comprehensive travel website for locating important information about the places that you are to visiting. Retrieve schedules to events and tours available in the cities or countries that you are traveling to or thumb through travel guides to learn valuable details of the places that you will be visiting. So be prepared before you arrive at your favorite destinations and have more fun.

6. Instructables

   Are you bored? Don't be when you visit Instructables, because at this site there are plenty of cool projects that you can learn how to do yourself or entertain your children. Users submit there favorite pet projects along with instructions how-to recreate the projects yourself. Truly, you could spend days on this site and not scrape the tip of the iceberg of what this website has to offer to you.

7. SeatGuru

   This is the perfect website for travelers who are planning to fly anytime soon. Visitors can obtain detailed seating information regarding the next airplane that they will be boarding and valuable travel tips to make your next trip or vacation less hassle-free or compare prices of airfare, hotels or vacation flights before you pay one red cent.

8. Bubbl.us

   Bubbl.us is a unique website that offers a free web application that you brainstorm online and create colorful mind maps outlining your brainstorming sessions. This could be an excellent tool for budding inventors, filmmakers or artists looking for new ways to collaborate with other talent people on the Internet, so to bring out the genius of an idea. Just be careful whom you share your ideas with and be sure to apply for a copyright, trademark or patent before showing your idea(s) in public.

9. Digg

   One of the biggest and most active Internet resources online, Digg offers visitors and members an excellent way to discover more of the web through user generated content submissions. Do you want to know what the hottest news stories or greatest websites that is that are creating a buzz on the Internet, then Digg is a must visit type of web destination.
   

10. Triond

    Triond is an online publisher that operates several different websites that are stocked with entertaining, interesting, useful and helpful articles, videos, and photos that are published by some of the most talented writers, photographers and artists on the web. If you want to learn more about the web or the world, then checkout this site for sure.

1. Remote Pet Feeding & Viewing Camera Kit

   
   
   Forget to feed your pet today, before you rushed out the front door and off to work or school? Don't worry again, because the innovated use of both the Internet and a USB automatic pet feeder with pc camera takes the worry out of your day. Jump onto the Internet and access your remote access account, then with a click on your mouse, let the automatic pet feeder do the rest.

2. Levitating Buddha and Lamp Shade

   
   
   Just when you think that you have seen everything, then comes along not one, but two extremely innovative levitating products by Crealev, a company based in the Netherlands. The levitating Buddha and levitating Lamp Shade are floating masterpieces of technology and design that will leave any geeks friends scratching their heads in disbelief.

3. USB Memory Watch

   If James Bond were on a secret mission to retrieve some valuable computer data to save the world, then you can be sure that he would want to be wearing the USB Memory Watch to covertly store the electronic computer data in its 2GB storage unit. The watch allows the user to securely store all of their MP3s files and images for easy transportation.

4. The Mandylion Password Manager

   For most computer users and especially Internet surfers trying to keep up with all of the passwords that we must rely on in our daily Internet life can be a challenge. Now, your password management can be as easy as 1-2-3 and as secure as the US military's password protection. The Mandylion Password Manager can securely manage up to 50 logins, safe combinations, security codes, ECT up to 14 characters in length. In addition, it can generate cryptographically strong passwords and it complies with all DoD, Govt. & Industry Password Security Policies.

5. X-UFO: Four-Motor Remote Control UFO

   
   
   I can only imagine just how many geeks would be tugging their mother or spouse's arm as they beg to own one of these awesome R/C UFOs. Fly the UFO with expert precision through your own flight course or blast-off and soar up to 300 feet away. The X-UFO received the 2005 Award for Technology for its innovative design and concept. This is an amazing toy that any geek would dig.

6. AquaMaker AM10

   This is a state-of-the-art water-generating machine that produces water from the air that we breath. The AM10 water purification system consistently delivers high-quality, great-tasting water by removing the harmful substances, taste, odor and particles that is commonly found in drinking water.

7. Illuminated Shower Head

   This great little shower gadget turns up the mood by colorfully illuminating the watercolor spraying from the showerhead. The Illuminating Shower Head from Kzlidea changes colors with the temperature of the water. It will change to blue when the temperature ranges between 33-41 C, changing to purple in the 24-45 C degree range, then to red at 45 C degrees range and it will remain the normal clear white color if the temperature stays above 32 degrees.

8. The Pin Clock

   Do you remember the toy that is a clear plastic box with hundreds of polished metal pins and when you would press your hand on one side of the pins, then you could see the impression of your hand on the otherside as the pins pushed forward in the box? Well, this clock uses the same concept, but instead of seeing your hand impression, this clock generates the impression of the daily time. It is really not that important that the clock doesn't have any other functions besides tell the time, because anyone owning this clock is doing so, because of its novelty.

9. Squid Soap

   
   
   This is the first soap that I ever have seen that teaches people how to properly wash their hands each time it is used. This is no ordinary soap, because this soap leaves an ink spot that will not come off until after washing for 15-20 seconds as is recommended by doctors.

10. Ice N' Go: Portable Backyard Ice Skating Rink

    For a mere $700.00 anyone can now create the perfect outdoor winter activity area for anybody itching to lace up some ice skates and edge their way to some real winter fun. The Portable Ice Rink comes in various sizes all the way up to 37' W x 63' L and requires 2 to 3 days to freeze in freezing temperatures. This is the perfect outdoor gadget for the winter outdoor sports geek.

11. Aquatic Pod Suite

    Imagine yourself accompanied by your closest family and friends enjoying a warm summer's day on the lake, just soaking up some rays or barbequing burgers and all of the fixings on your very own Aquatic Pod Suite. For a small geek's fortune ($91,100) this 150 Square Foot self-contained floating circular suite is fully loaded for your outdoor water enjoyment. It comes equipped with Central air conditioning system, desalination unit, mini-bar, and audio-video system with a Bose stereo, king-size bed, toilet and shower and much more.

12. The Hover Mower

    The HoverMower is the perfect answer to uneven lawns that are usually quite difficult to mow with a traditional lawn mower. Why? Because, it floats on a cushion of air and has no wheels, so mowing in any direction is fast and easy. The HoverMower can cut steep slopes, lake banks, and sand traps and hard to mow areas that have awkward angles even if the grass is wet. This is a really cool lawn gadget!

13. Tangent Quattro WiFi Alarm Radio

    If you enjoy listening to Internet radio rather than traditional radio, then the Tangent Quattro WiFi Alarm Radio is the answer to waking up to your choice of over 6000 Internet radio stations. Just connect to your wireless network and tune-in to your favorite radio programs and music, so that you are awakened to the sounds that you enjoy.

14. E-Cigarette

    The E-Cigarette is an alternative “Anti Cigarette Nicotine Replacement Therapy” that is designed to help smokers quit the unhealthy, nasty smoking habit. The E-Cigarette is inhaled and the user will exhale smoke and receive a nicotine fix in the process, but without inhaling harmful tar and carcinogenic found in real cigarettes. Now wait, you haven't heard the best part. You do not light up this cigarette, because it is an electronic gadget with its own built-in power source for safety. The E-Cigarette (5) cartridges that are included in the stop smoking system delivers 400 tobacco flavored, nicotine mouthfuls (Aprox 30 cigarettes) gradually reducing the nicotine doses with each cartridge smoked.

15. Flying Stick Camera

    
    
    This gadget jarred an old childhood memory of playing with a flying toy called the Whirly-Bird, but the one that I played with wasn't as cool as this one is. The Flying Stick has a built-in camera that snaps photographs as it twirls through the air. Currently, just a concept prototype with possibly military and mainstream market potential. That is, if the price isn't too high.

16. USB Wireless Missile Launcher

    Futuristic warfare hasn't ever been this sweet, as this USB remote control wireless missile launcher clearly demonstrates. Invite up to 3 other friends over with their laptops and prepare for battle. This awesome missile launcher can be controlled up to 15 feet away while rotating 360 degrees around and about 45 degrees up and down. Once your target moves within 10 feet of the launcher quickly give the order to fire and let them have it. Missile launching sound effects could be used to create a diversion allowing you to take the target out, before you are taken out first.

17. Air Mattress

    
    
    For the geeks that want the most futuristic sleeping arrangements available, then you need not look any further, because this bed levitates 16 inches above the floor using magnetic fields. The sleek, simplistic design and the $1.5 million dollar price tag probably make this the most expensive bed you'll ever own.

18. Iwavecube Personal Microwave

    This is one very cool cooking appliance that is often taken for granted until you need are somewhere without one nearby. Microwaves can be found in nearly 90 % of US households, but they are usually way to big and heavy to move once you have it where you want it. The Iwavecube measures a mere 10.5”x12”x10” making it the first portable personal microwave that I personally have ever seen. Take it to work or dorm room or wherever there is a electrical outlet, and then heat your lunch or just a bag of popcorn whenever the mood strikes.

19. Aptera's Super-MPG Electric Typ-1h

    Let's face reality for a minute. Oil and gas prices are rising and fully electric power cars are too expensive and not practical to drive more than 120 miles on a single charge, but the Aptera Typ-1h boasts that it will hit 300 mpg with its eco-friendly hybrid electric gasoline Aptera Super-MPG Electric Typ-1h car. Checkout the cool test drive video to watch a comprehensive demonstration of the Aptera Typ-e1 and prepared to be amazed.

20. Real Fireplace Illuminational Heater

    Much of the world experience frigid cold conditions in the wintertime and since electric and natural gas prices are soaring through the roof. More people are purchasing portable electric heaters to heat their environments to save some money on their utility bill. The Real Fireplace not only heats the area, but also has a built-in flatscreen display of virtual wood burning. Own a real fireplace without the dirty mess to cleanup. Available in Japan for just 25,800 yen ($242) and if you ask really nice the company may be willing to ship via FedEx, but you'll never know until you try.

21. Projection Mobile Phone

    
    
    Just when we think that we have seen it all in cell phone technology, and then comes along an innovative improvement that leaves you almost speechless. The Projection Mobile Phone uses an USB cable to connect to a user's computer, and then projects an image of the computer screen on any flat wall when the phone is laid flat down and open. The future is coming! The future is coming!! This is currently only a cell phone concept, but could hit the market, if the market demand is great enough.

22. Tarati Touchless Cellphone

    This is probably the most innovative cell phone that I have ever seen and I have seen plenty researching for this article. The Tarati Touchless Cellphone looks like something that warped right out of a science fiction movie, but it is real. Users poke their finger through the number holes and a light built into the number slots record the number chosen. Its design is sleek and simple which makes this my number one choice for future cell phone purchases.

23. iMono 80-in-1 High Speed Card Reader

    This is a great little gadget that is sure to please any geek or nerd that uses other electronic gadgets and digital cameras. It seems that just about every new gadget are either coming with built-in memory or are using memory cards and these memory cards create a dilemma, because not all computers come with latest card reader size reader slots. The iMono 80-in-1 High Speed Card Reader not only has just about every size card reader size memory card slots, but this little gadget boosts the transfer data at lightening speed.

24. Creative Videophone

    Now, I can see where this cool gadget would find a market with business professionals, because of its videophone feature, but it may be a hard sell to reach any further. With a 7-inch LCD screen and 16.7 million colors to display and a TI DaVinci chipset and a built-in 76-degree wide VGA camera, this videophone allows users to work hassle-free for up to 2 hours.

25. Uber Orbs

    Not all cool gadgets need to be a high-tech, Urbergeek innovative technology to peek a geek's interest. The Uber Orbs is a fine example of this. Made from powerful magnets and actually having no other use other than pulling them apart and tossing them into the air in close proximity of one another and watching them or better yet, hearing them create an unusual sound as they crash back together again. Probably good for a stress reliever or for younger geeks and nerds it would make for a nice toy.

26. USB PC Central Locking

    If you own a laptop computer, then you have surely worried at times that if you leave your pc unattended for even a minute, then it could possibly fall prey to an unwanted guest. With the USB PC Central Locking device, a user simply plugs it into the USB port and when you move more than 2 meters away from your pc the locking gadget secures the pc by locking it, so no one can access it without your permission. The user carries a remote and it communicates with the USB PC Central Locking device each time the user moves away or moves within the 2-meter lockout range.

27. Wi-Fi Hot Spot Detector

    
    
    Wireless PC users will love this Wi-Fi Hot Spot Detector, because it allows the user to locate Wi-Fi hot spots without the need to boot up the PC and start roaming for a Wi-Fi signal. Its small compact design makes this useful gadget compact enough to attach to a keyring to carry around.

28. Chocolate Portable HDD

    Now, this is a Hard Drive with a new attitude and a fresh design. Surrounding a central touchscreen hub are 16 modular flash drives, this portable HDD gives new meaning organization. This gadget allows users to view and organize those important files that you want to secure with care.

29. Radia Circular Cell Phone by Michael Laut

    
    
    Well, I don't even know where to start with this unusually unique concept cell phone. So, let me begin with its circular shape, and then next lets jump right over to its very cool touch-display and its brushed aluminum outer rim with built-in microphone that extends 180-degrees around its perimeter, which actually leaves me speechless beyond this point.

30. Nokia 888 Concept Phone

    Do you remember playing with a toy bracelet that had a thin flexible metal band that was covered with a cheap fabric partly used to prevent the metal from injuring the user and partly used to make the bracelet appealing to own? Well, this phone is flexible and bendy and a fully functional cell phone that you can wear as a bracelet or bend into different shapes if it pleases you to do so.

31. The Slide and Negative To Digital Picture Converter

    This is a neat gadget to use if your family is anything like mine, then you probably have a box filled with old family slides and negatives of family reunions and baby pictures, but do not have a projector to look through them. Converting your slides and negatives into a portable digital version is made easy with “The Slide and Negative To Picture Converter”, so you can invite your family and friends over and remember the good ol' days again.

32. NEC Tag Concept Phone

    Here's another bendable cell phone, but NEC manufactures this one. It uses a shape-memorizing rubber-like material that allows the user to easily change the phone's shape at will. Users can wear this phone like a bracelet or just simply bend it to see what shapes that you can make. It is a functional cell phone that is my opinion would be nearly impossible to drop and break, but anything can be broken if the conditions are ripe for it to break.

33. LawnBott LB3500

    Excuse me, I had to pinch myself, because this is the lawn mower I always wished I had when I was a teenager. The LawnBott LB3500 reminds me of a mars rover instead of any lawn mower that I have ever seen. The company claims “it can comfortably handle 1 acre of grass straight out of the box and nearly 3 acres with a full compliment of lithium ion batteries.” It works on its own traveling back and forth and around corners until it is finished cutting the lawn area. It is so smart that it automatically calculates when the job is completed. Power-up and let the LawnBott LB3500 do all of the hard work, while you sit and relax sipping on a glass on cold iced tea.

34. EZVision i-Theater

    Get ready for a movie experience of the 21st century with the EZVision i-theater that you wear like a pair of futuristic sunglasses. The EZVision i-theater allows the user to watch a movie or video of their choice, while simulating a 50-inch television screen and surround sound entertainment. Compatible with i-Pods makes this fantastic gadget a geek's dream come true. Now, only if it allowed users to play their favorite video games while wearing it that would have this clever gadget selling likes hotcakes.

35. Zero Gravity Wall Climber

    
    
    Remote controlled vehicles have just leaped into the twilight zone, because unless my eyes deceive me, this remote controlled Hummer is climbing walls. The Zero Gravity Hummer knows no boundaries; because when flat ground isn't exciting enough this vehicle will do what no other remote control has gone before - right up the wall. Yes, you heard right, but I suggest that don't let your kids catch wind of this, because I expect it would give a whole new meaning when you cry out “stop driving me up the wall”.

36. USBCell Batteries

    Stop wasting your good hard earned money on expensive AA batteries to only power your portable gadgets. The USBCell AA Batteries is the answer to your prayers. Simply recharge the batteries using the power of your computer by inserting the handy and well-hidden USB slot into your PC's USB port will allow the PC to recharge the batteries that can later be used to power a laptop or any electronic gadget that requires AA batteries to operate.

37. Clocky Runaway Alarm Clock

    
    
    For folks who have a difficult time waking up from a deep sleep. The Clocky is a unique alarm clock on the move. At first Clocky will sound just like any other alarm clock, but if you hit the snooze button to get a few minute more sleep, then Clocky will start to run away from you. You will have to get up and catch it, so to turn it off.

38. USB Pencil Sharpener

    Leave it to geeks to make something so simple, so complex. Combine a traditional pencil sharpener and build-in a USB port, so to enable yourself to sharpen pencils using the power of your PC. Cool, but not very practical.

39. Light Mat Illuminated Mouse Pad + 4 Ports Hub

    Light up your night with this very cool lighted USB illuminated mouse pad. It comes complete with 4 built-in USB ports hub, so that you can plug-in even more cool gadgets to play with. Perfect for lighting up a work area in poor lighting conditions.

40. BlackBerry Pearl (T-Mobile) Cell Phone

    
    
    The BlackBerry Pearl cell phone is smarter and has more innovative functionally than ever before. Take picture with its built-in 1.3 Megapixel camera. Send a private message using Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk. Watch videos or listen to MP3 music and still do everything that you are use to doing with the BlackBerry Pearl T-Mobile Cell Phone.

41. BodyGard Self-Powered Emergency Tool

    This is the ideal gadget for any geek that wants to carry the best technology into the wilderness. The BodyGard 12-in-1 Emergency Tool gives its user the advantage when the situation warrants it. Charge your cell phone or hit the panic button if danger lurks nearby. Activate the security alarm or use the signaling mirror to draw attention to your position, if you are lost. Use the digital radio to get the latest news and weather conditions or use the super-bright LED flashlight to light up your way. No batteries are needed, because with a few turns of the hand crank will generate the power that is needed to operate the BodyGard.

42. USB Drum Kit

    Get your beat on with this totally cool USB Drum kit. Complete with 6 pads for you to play around with, so that you obtain the tempo and the beat of your favorite songs. The software that is included with the USB Drum Kit will teach you how to drum like you've been playing all your life.

43. Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

    The Wi-Fi Detector Shirt is really quite impressive that actually has a unique feature to it. This T-shirt locates Wi-Fi Hot Spots and lights up the logo on the T-shirt while it displays a stronger signal by lighting up the logo on the front of the shirt. Never be without a Wi-Fi Hot Spot ever again when you sport this high tech t-shirt around town.

44. GhostRadar with Built-in Flash Drive

    Ghost hunters listen up, now you have a new gadget to use when those ghosts are playing hard to get. The GhostRadar lights up when a ghost is in your area. It reads usual magnetic waves and alerts you with flashing red lights and an audible alert. However, I am not exactly sure how useful the flash drive really is, so I am not reporting on it.

45. Lightcast

    
    
    Here's a nifty music gadget that reacts with a memorizing light show that is in sync with the music that is streamed through it. Watch the lights as they dance across the walls and ceiling whilst you play your favorite music through it. Plug in the your MP3 player, pc or nearly any other music source, and then sit back and relax to your favorite music transform into an amusing light show.

46. iKaraoke for iPod

    So, here's your chance to be a star using your i-Pod as a portable karaoke machine. Simply attach the i-Karaoke microphone into your i-Pod and get your groove on. Sing along to your favorite music and entertain your friends and guests just like the star that you are.

47. Sonic Grenade

    I just love things that make loud sounds and this sonic grenade is just what the doctor ordered for those of us that especially like to play practical jokes on our friends and family. Pull the pin and toss in a crowded room and the sonic grenade will unleash a sonic noise that surely will grab the attention of anyone standing nearby. Simply re-attach the pin to deactivate the device. Oh, yeah, be prepare to run really fast, because some folks, just don't like to be surprised and may want to toss you instead of the sonic grenade.

48. Q BBQ

    
    
    Grill a thick ribeye steak or just some hotdogs, but do it using the Q BBQ for a futuristic grilling experience. Just check it out for yourself, because there are just too many details to include in this article.

49. Logitech Wireless Music System

    The awesome Logitech Wireless Music System enables users to broadcast their favorite tunes that are stored on the PC wirelessly throughout the entire house or office. Connect the USB cable to a free USB port on your computer, and then select your choice of music to be broadcasted and sit back and relax to the crystal-clear digital audio and control the music system with the handy remote control.

50. Atari Keychains

    This is probably the most ingénues video game gadget that I have seen in a very long time. No you see are not deceiving you, it really is a miniaturized Atari controller with built-in classic Atari video games that where very popular in the 1980's. Simply plug your Atari controller keychain into your television and play your favorite Atari video games. This is awesome.

As it already has been pointed out there isn't any silver bullet solution to stopping all of the spam that we receive, but there are ways to stopping most of it. Depending how bad a person wants to put an end to the problem these websites will help solve at least most of the problems that spammers inundate us with. Read on and use the tools provided here in this article and start living nearly a spam-free life, now.

1. Spaml

Using a disposal email address when filling out membership forms to your favorite website or forum will allow you to keep your real email address both personal and private from prying eyes. This is a fantastic and easy to use disposable email address proxy that generates its users a temporary email address, so to receive confirmation emails without having to give out your real email address to total strangers. This is not the type of email address that spammers want to bother with, because they are only good for one-time and then afterwards are disposed of.

2. Audit My PC

This website offers webmasters and businesses a free anti-spammers solution that will turn the spammers' world upside-down and inside out in just one-click of the mouse. Spammers often use Spam-Bots to search the web for email addresses to add to their databases, so to send out more spam. The Audit My Pc solution feeds these Spam-bots with fake email addresses that will make the spammers' email lists worthless and cause the spammers to have to clean out their databases and start over from the beginning.

3. Anti-spam Techniques

Wikipedia offers a wide range of subjects and topics on just about anything that a person can imagine or would be interested in. This is an excellent article about anti-spam techniques that the average person could use to start stopping spam. The more that a person understands about spam and how spammers work, then the better chance they have turning the tables on the spammers that consistently make the Internet experience a living hell.

4. Arachnoid

Since learning as much as possible about how spammers work and how they collect our email addresses this website offers an impressive look inside the world of spamming. It offers additional solutions to prevent and protect your computer from spammers.

5. SpamCop.net

If you could report unsolicited email to an organization, so to stop spammers from sending you anymore-unwanted email, would you use it? SpamCop is an organization that allows private Internet citizens to report unsolicited email (spam) to and they will do the rest for you. This is a great little Internet tool that will surely cause some headaches for those anonymous spammers bugging us on a daily basis.

6. ASSP

ASSP has developed a nifty piece of anti-spam software that is easy to install, use and is free to use for personal use. It works with the SMTP server and stops spam in its tracks, before it can be dropped into your email inbox. There are so many features regarding this anti-spam software that this brief description just doesn't do it any justice. Visit the website and read the benefits for yourself and you'll agree with this statement.

7. MyTrashMail.com

Here is another Internet tool that webmasters and bloggers can use to protect your computers from spammers. This website provides users with a little piece of code that can be cut and paste to any web page and when spam-bots invade your personal space they are comforted with hundreds of fake email addresses that they carry back to the spammers' spam email database, thus rendering the spammers' email list worthless.

8. BlackMail

According to BlackMail their Free Anti-Spam Software is “a highly configurable SMTP mail filter that runs at a system level as a proxy to your existing mailer.” The computer program selectively rejects bogus or spam email during receipt and will block unwanted mail relaying, if your mailer is unable to do so on its own. This is an outstanding spam filter that checks against spam sites, spam keywords, RBL (Real-time Blackhole List) and much, much more.

9. MailWasher

MailWasher is an excellent email receiving and filtering program that allows its users to check and manage emails before downloading them into their computer. The email received will be stored on the Internet instead of being delivered directly into your computer hard drive. Users can choose to block, bounce, black list or receive the email that they receive with this easy to use anti-spam Internet tool. I have been using this program for years and I can personally testify that this is an excellent email and anti-spam tool to use. It is Free and fun to use.

10. Grisoft Free AVG Anti-Spam Software

Grisoft, the makers of AVG anti-virus and AVG Anti-Rootkit Free has done it again by developing probably one of the finest anti-spyware programs called AVG Anti-Spyware Free Edition 7.5. This computer program scans your hard drive for spyware, malware and eliminates most spam instantly. This software is completely free to download and use for personal use only. I use it daily and it is honestly the best program of its kind that I have found, tested and used.

11. Virtu-Software “Spam”

Spam is not only a headache to receive and dispose of at times, but much of these unwanted, unsolicited emails contain promises of fortune, fake PayPal and eBay notices and other types of Spam scams that cost the world billions of dollars in losses every year. This website offers its visitors an opportunity to avoid becoming the next Spam Scam victim and gives its users the tools to spot and avoid the spammers' scam traps that they have set for the unsuspecting Internet user.

The more knowledgeable that the average Internet user becomes, then the less opportunity that the spammers will have to sending out their bulk spam to the world. While there isn't any foolproof way of stopping all spam at least there are tools and a wealth of information available on the web to save us time and money that these spammers are costing our businesses and personal incomes.

Today. Right now! We can take the power back from those spammers that have been consistently causing us to curse every time we open our email Inbox, just to be comforted with every sort of spam possible. The power is yours, so use it wisely.

Understanding Social Bookmarking Services So You Too Can Build A Successful Internet Marketing Network

In this lesson, we will be discussing the importance of friendship on the Internet and in social networks more specifically. While the Internet can be dangerous and scary at times there is a right way and a wrong way to finding and making friends on the Internet without putting yourself in a dangerous situation. We are discussing making friends on the Internet as an additional way to build a successful marketing network and not for any other purpose such as dating or hanging out at the local café.

Step One: Join a Social Bookmarking Network

One of the most valuable lessons that I could teach anyone, is to join at least one social bookmarking network such as one of the following:

1. StumbleUpon

   One of the biggest and most active social bookmarking websites on the Internet with a very friendly community that enjoys light and humorous articles, websites and photos. For me, poetry does not do well on this site, but for some poets, StumbleUpon is the best place to win over new fans of poetry.

2. Digg

   The biggest and most active bookmarking community on the Internet with millions of page views and tens of thousands of new Internet content being shared 24/7 amongst the millions of members. This is the best place to bookmark more serious topics and subjects for the community to read, vote and leave comments on.

3. Shoutwire

   If political and religious websites, photos, articles and topics are your type of thing, then I have found that this is the best social bookmarking community for this sort of thing. Like with other social bookmarking websites this community enjoys other types of bookmarks besides political and religious subjects. You can submit just about any type of bookmark, but the two already mentioned above are the best performing on this site.

4. Faves

   This is the best social bookmarking community to use, so to learn how to use a social bookmarking service. The community is smaller and moves at a slower pace than the other social bookmarking communities that we have already discussed, but is still a useful community to be part of.
   
   Light and humorous articles, websites, blogs and photos rule the day at Faves. Poetry does not do so well here.

5. Slashdot

   This is an excellent social bookmarking community that is heavily involved in anything tech or computers. There are a whole bunch of intelligent nerds and geeks that get their tech news from Slashdot and tech; computer and Internet blogs, websites and articles can do very well here in this community.

Once you have joined a social bookmarking community, then the next thing that you need to focus on is your personal profile page.

Step Two: Read The Terms and Conditions

Be sure to read carefully the Terms and Conditions and any rules that the social bookmarking service has made available to its community members. You do not want to break the rules and risk being banned from using the site and/or service. I know, none of us enjoys reading all of the legal stuff that these websites have for us to read, but it is necessary, so that we don't lose the right to use the service.

Step Three: Creating A Personal Profile Page

Nearly all social bookmarking services allow their members to create and build their own person profile page, so that their members have the chance to introduce themselves to the rest of the social bookmarking community in which they now belong to. With this in mind, it is extremely important to take your time and do this right, because this is your first chance to make a lasting good first impression on those visitors who have chose to visit your profile page.

It is not important to give your real name or location, but it is important to divulge a bit of personal information like your favorite hobbies, books, music and other pieces of personal information such as these things. The reason why this is so important is because it makes your friends and visitors feel like they are getting to know who you are, just like making a real world friend. The better your online friends get to know you, then the stronger and more successful your marketing network will be at the end.

When creating your personal profile page, be sure to include hyperlinks to your personal blogs, favorite articles, and website if you have one. This is an excellent opportunity to expand your marketing network to include other projects that you have going on at the time.

Step Four: Setting Up Your Personal Profile Settings

Nearly every social bookmarking service allows their members the choice of making their bookmarks available to the public or to keep it private (only for personal use/viewing). If you are joining a social network partly due to building a Internet marketing social network, then it is extremely vital to make your bookmarks public, so that other members in the social bookmarking community can visit, read, vote and leave comments on the websites and articles that you have discovered or liked.

Step Five: Getting To Know Your Surroundings

Before you start getting bookmark crazy, you should first take time and explore the social bookmarking community that you have joined. Checkout what other members are discovering on the Internet and take the time to visit, read, vote and leave comments on other members' bookmarks. Explore the forums and groups that many of these social communities have setup for its members to enjoy and interact with each other in. Just get to know who and what other people are doing, so that you will be in the know (in the loop) always.

Step Six: Make New Friends

One of the single most important steps to building and maintaining a successful Internet marketing social network is to make as many friends as possible. Social networking is all about your friends and how many quality friends that you are able to make in the longrun.

One of the best ways to make friends in social networks is to invite anyone to be your friend that has left positive comments on any of your bookmarks that you have added and introduced to the social network(s) that you belong to. Just don't get disappointed if not all of the people that you have invited to be your friend choose to make you their friend in return. Some members of these social bookmarking communities are not interested in making friends, because they are rather using these bookmarking services to replace the traditional search engines, so to discover new and exciting places to visit on the Internet.

Another good way to make quality friends (the kind of friends that will be most likely to visit the articles, websites, videos, games and movies that you discover and bookmark) is to invite any member in the community that routinely bookmarks subjects and topics that are of interest to you. Just remember, not everyone will be interested in making friends, so invite as many members as you are able to, to be your friend. Especially, invite any member who is interested in the same things that you are interested in or write or blog about on the Internet.

Step Seven: Get Personal With Your Friends

It is one thing to invite and make new friends, but it is something else entirely to make new friends with a personal touch. After you have made a few new friends make sure to send each of them a private message, just to welcome them into your friend's network. This type of personal touch makes your new friends feel special and leaves a good impression on them about you.

Step Eight: It's Bookmarking Time!

Now, that you have joined a social bookmarking community, setup your personal profile page, explored your environment and made a few new friends, it is time to start bookmarking your favorite websites, blogs, articles, videos, music and photos. Yes, you can bookmark your own blogs, articles and websites, but don't stop there - bookmark all of the places that is of interest to you whether it's yours or somebody else's.

Try to avoid bookmarking anything or place that contains adult content that children should not see. The places and things that you choose to bookmark will either reflect positively or negatively on your social reputation.

Step Nine: Building and Maintaining A Positive Reputation

As we discussed before, the reputation that you develop on the Internet and especially in the social networks that you are participating in is very important not to screw up. Some people believe that they can have it both ways, but once you develop a good reputation, and then reverse course the other direction, just kiss everything that you worked for good-bye. People do not like peopling who are mean, nasty, crude, or bookmark anything that would generally be unsafe to visit. Be nice and show respect for everyone even those people whom not nice to you. Just ignore those people are disrespectful and move on with your good reputation still intact.

Step Ten: Create or Join A Group

Most of the social networks on the Internet offer tools to its members, so that they can create or join a community group to get to know other members better. The groups vary widely in topics and subjects, but joining or creating one for you is an excellent way to make more friends. The best thing is that these friends share many of the same interests that you have and are more likely to want to visit your blog, website or read an article that you have written.

Step Eleven: Be Helpful

It is very important to be friendly and respectful to everyone that you meet in these social networks no matter if the people that you meet are nice to you or not. Be helpful and help other new members find their way around the social community when they need some help. Always invite anyone that you helped to become your friend as you and that person have already something in common. You both have established communication with one another in the form of helping each other in a time of need. People do remember the kindness of others, even if they say nothing at the time.

This concludes the second article in the series of five Internet marketing articles that are being written, so to help anyone wanting to learn Internet marketing basics and techniques. Bookmark this article for easy reference and subscribe to Nelson Doyle's RSS Feed, so that you do not miss out on the future articles in this series.

The third article will be published in the next couple of days.

Whether or not, your blog becomes popular will also rely on the quality of your content and the overall presentation of the information that you designed your blog to share.

The following websites offer useful Internet tools to help bloggers customize the blog's look and excellent free marketing tools, so to help increase the blog's popularity on the Internet.

1. Blogicas

   Sometimes, less is really more and this website is a shining example of this way of thinking. Bloggers can find a small army of marketing tools to use to promote any blog to the masses on this website. This is a excellent website to find free blog and rss feed directories, free blog hosting, free blog templates and other free blog tools. I simply love the layout of this website, clean and uncluttered with the Internet tools in plain sight.

2. Site Ground

   This website was selected to be included on this list, because of an excellent assortment of articles written to teach the do's and don'ts of some of the most popular weblogs: Wordpress, bBlog, b2evolution, Nucleus and TextPattern. (Please, note that this is a commercial website that sells hosting solutions, but this site was only added to this list, because of the articles noted above).

3. PhotoShop Support

   Photoshop tutorials by Jennifer Apple offers her visitors an amazing range of easy to follow blog tutorials and other designing tips for bloggers developing their blog appearance from scratch. This is an extremely useful website/blog to learn new ways to jazz up your blog with ease.

4. Settlement Quotes

   Now, here is something fun for any blogger who would like to add a tad of entertainment value to their blog. This website offers a decent variety of quizzes, widgets, badges and gadgets for your blog.

5. Weblog Tools Collection

   This is a nice website to keep up-to-date on new WordPress software releases and obtain helpful blog tools to customize the blogs appearance and usability once presented to the visitors.

6. Vladimir Prelovac Online

   One of the best ways to drastically improve the popularity of a blog is to add a robust RSS feed to your blog. Do you not understand what a RSS feed is or does, then if not this blog will answer that question and give you some tips about how to get a RSS feed setup for use on your blog.

7. TopRank Online Marketing

   This neat website offers its visitors a useful set of Internet tools to make marketing your blog less time-consuming and these tools are free. Bloggers can easily submit their blogs to more than 80 blog and RSS directories, or study marketing tips and tactics and more. Remember, some times less is more and again this website illustrates that simplicity communicates with the audience better than complex blog design structures.

8. HubSpot

   This website helps bloggers and webmasters measure the marketing effectiveness of their blogs or websites on the Internet. The Website Grader is a free SEO tool that scores your blog or website on things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors, so to keep bloggers and webmasters in touch with their marketing efforts.

9. Marketing Leap

   This is a great website to use to check research your blog's search engine saturation, link popularity and keyword verification. Incorporate this Internet Blog Tool with the other marketing tools to strengthen the overall marketing value of your popularity campaign.

10. Online Marketing Blog

    This is an outstanding blog about “How to market your blog more effectively” and just for starters, it does an excellent job of listing 25 things you can to do promote your blog better and that is just for starters. Here is your chance to learn new marketing tips and start developing new marketing techniques that might give you the marketing edge in the future.

Disclaimer: The websites on this list are not affiliated in a business relationship with the author Nelson Doyle. The websites on this list are not paid advertisers and were selected by Nelson Doyle, because of their creative contributions to millions upon millions of bloggers worldwide.

So, who hasn't ever heard of MySpace by now? The last time I checked, there were over 112 million members interacting on the extremely popular social network owned by the leading search engine company Google. Not that's more cybercitizens than most countries and many nations combined. Now that is a huge cyberstate of differing personalities as proudly displayed throughout the millions and millions of MySpace member profile pages on the world's largest social network.

MySpace kindly resembles “King Arthur's Round Table”, because no matter who you are every new member starts out with a MySpace default profile page void of any personality and flare. In the beginning, everyone starts out equally and after that, it's up to the new member to creatively transform his or her profile page into something personal to him or her.

Since some members are more computer savvy or process a higher degree of creativity, many MySpace profile pages reflects the talent and hard work of these members. It is always entertaining to visit a profile page that employs fantastic background art and graphics. Coupled with interesting videos and music maybe followed with photos of people, places or things that is alien to other visiting members. All of this work translates into a very cool MySpace profile page.

The following list of websites are dedicated to provide quality and creative Internet tools and widgets to help make your MySpace profile page burst with personality and flare that will leave a good first impression on all who visit your MySpace profile page. Even if you already understand html, this list can make getting the job done a bit easier.

1. Freecodesource

   This is the perfect online source of MySpace customizing Internet tools of both the novice and the advance computer user. Here visitors can choose from a enormous collection of MySpace layouts, graphics, cursors and games that can be used to customize MySpace profile pages. Membership is free and turn-on your popup blocker, because I did encounter popup ads.

2. Pyzam

   This is a great website for anyone who has a MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster presence, because of its entertaining assortment of flash toys and games that can be used to add deeper and richer personality to any social network that they're involved in. These games and toys are 100% original and hand made by the talented designers at Pyzam.

3. Zoomza

   If you are shopping around looking for some of the hottest layouts, graphics, backgrounds and proxies, then this is the site for you. Choose from thousands of professional looking layouts and graphics to add to your MySpace profile pages. Registration is required

4. SnapLayout

   This is a great MySpace profile editor that makes customizing your profile page quicker and easier, then working with the default profile page that MySpace provides to new members. The drag and drop features that SnapLayout provides allows users to quick and easily change layouts, backgrounds, colors, patterns, and slideshows to their MySpace profile page. This is a wonderful tool for beginners especially.

5. Widgetbox

   Games, games and more games, this is a beautiful website with hundreds of flash video games to select from and add to a MySpace page or a blog. Widgetbox offers more than just video games, but also offers an array of other useful widgets that can make any MySpace page or blog even more interesting and keeping the visitors coming back for more.

6. MyGen 2.5

   This is probably one of the simplest MySpace profile generator Internet tools that I have seen. Its instructions are pretty much straightforward as all you have to do is select one of five tabs that represent, each of the five sections of your MySpace profile page and start editing it to your satisfaction. MyGen 2.5 will generate the MySpace code to be added to the MySpace account belonging to the user designing their profile page, once the user has finished editing. A very easy editing program to use whether you are a beginner or a pro.

7. Photobucket

   This handy website is fantastic for anyone who desires to have more storage space for their photos. Members can store their photos, share them with the world on the web or keep them private it the user chooses or cut and paste a little code and add them to their MySpace page, Facebook, blog or include a picture into an email. Membership is free and required to gain access to the sites full benefits and tools.

8. Flikzor

   This is an excellent website for anyone looking to add a little technology to their MySpace page or blog, so that they can send and receive video messages from their friends. Membership is free and required.

9. SNOCAP

   This is an outstanding opportunity for musicians to expand their marketing and distribution capabilities on the Internet. Members of SNOCAP are given the abilities to sell their own music on MySpace and beyond. You set the prices that your music sells for, and then SNOCAP collects the money for the songs purchase and they pay you. Members can easily monitor their sells and the musician owns their copyrights to their music. Basic membership is free.

10. Sploder

    You can never have enough games in the video game age and Sploder offers a unique collection of flash video games that users can add to their MySpace page, blog or even email to friends or family. The game quality here isn't the top of the line, but is more along the lines of many old DOS games, not pretty to look at, but fun to play. Membership is free and required.

Disclaimer: The websites on this list are not affiliated in a business relationship with the author Nelson Doyle. The websites on this list are not paid advertisers and were selected by Nelson Doyle, because of their creative contributions to millions upon millions of MySpace users and bloggers worldwide.

I am a huge fan of silly little widgets that are generally used to test a person's geekiness or learn “What are your chances of surviving a Zombie Apocalypse” and much more. If you share this passion for the strange and unusual that the Internet has to offer, then you'll surely find some widget listed in this article that will entertain the strange side of your personality.

These tests, quizzes and widgets are intended to be humorous and for entertainment purposes only.

1. Zombie Apocalypse

   “The apocalypse has begun, the dead are walking the earth, and you're knee-deep in zombies. What are your chances of survival?” as the test describes. Are you ready to realize your chances of survival against a Zombie plagued world? If you are, then here is your opportunity to learn your ultimate fate.

2. The 2007 Internet Quiz

   So, you are an Internet nerd that has spent countless hours polishing your blog, trolling social networks or battling dragons is some multi-player online vide game, but “ How much do you know about the Internet?” Take the 2007 Internet Quiz to discover what you really think that you know and what you don't.

3. Body Battery Calculator

   This widget is used to determine how much electricity does your body produce on any given day. The human body is thought to product enough electricity to substitute for a double-A battery, but your body may hold a more powerful electrical charge.

4. Morbid Birthday Facts

   Learn about the darker side of your birthday date with this morbid little widget. Not to spoil the fun on your special day, but with this Internet tool you can find out how many people died on the same day that you are celebrating.

5. The Booze Test

   Perfect for lovers of alcoholic beverages, as this quiz will test your knowledge of popular alcoholic drinks. How many beverages do you think that you can name correctly? This is your chance to let your booze knowledge shine.

6. Personal DNA

   Developed by a team of professional psychologists this test employs innovative answering techniques that allows for increased accuracy into your real personality. Learn new things about yourself and take the personality test, today.

7. Intelligence Test

   Now this is a tough test for anyone who desires a real challenge. In this test, the test taker must decipher a series of number and letter combinations, so to determine what they really mean. It is not a easy test, so beware.

8. Typing Test

   Do you know how fast you can type? If not, then this is a cool little widget to use to measure your wpm.

9. The Office Moron Test

   “If you're a worker, you hate the people you work with, and you know it. Anger lurks under your skin, ready to burst out at any moment and impale a temp or an advertising executive. And now you can become one of these assholes! Admit it, your life is complete” as the test developer describes the quiz. This is a fun test to take that isn't that long.

10. The Insulting Name Generator

    Need another reason to be bullied by your friends, and then use this Internet tool to generate insulting names to use when you are provoked or when you just feel like an ass.

11. The Story Element Database

    This is the perfect Internet tool for writers experiencing a bad case of writer's block. Users can add their story ideas in the database and anyone can use the idea(s) in their stories royal-free.

12. The Horrible Affliction Test

    Imagine if you were stricken as a horrible, noxious affliction that no one would want to be near, and then which type of affliction would you are. Use this widget to find out.

13. The Crappy Little Elf Name Generator

    This is a great little widget to learn your elfish name. In addition, you can learn the elf name of your friends, family and enemies, if you wish.

14. The Compatibility Test

    What if you were to hook up with your best friend, would you be compatible with him/her? This test ask the questions that really matter, so that you don't take the leap into a pool of skin dissolving acid instead of a sea full of love and bliss.

15. The Cadaver Calculator

    So, you have dearly departed, so you have thought, but your loved ones have different plans for your remains. This entertaining Internet widget helps determine if your body is worth more dead or alive. How much money will your body bring in? Yes, it is morbid, but fun.

The websites and blogs on this list are not in any specific order, because I was unable to determine the order without the help of other geeks. I am always open to any suggestions left by my readers. Please feel free to leave your comments and suggestions in the comment area located at the bottom of this page.

1. Slashdot

   Slashdot is an informational news source where nerds get their daily dose of tech news. This site is loaded with interesting articles, interviews and topics that any nerd would want to read. Check it out.

2. Digg

   This is the largest bookmarking social network on the Internet, where its members are actively sharing new content that they find published on the web. By a show of votes by its members any new content is scrutinized and either promoted up the Digg ranks or Buried into the forgotten realm. Digg is addictive, so beware.

3. Hack n Mod

   This is website contains some of the coolest mod hacks that I have discovered so far. If you enjoy taking electronics apart and building something cooler out of its parts, then don't miss this one.

4. Alhack

   This website contains mod hacks, technology articles, video game news and much more. Although, the appearance of the website is clean and uncluttered, the number of entries within each category are few.
   
   

5. MetaCafe

   MetaCafe is much more than a mod hacking video site, but some very interesting mod hack video can be found here. MetaCafe serves up other types of video topics much like YouTube does.

6. iPhone Hacks

   This is a neat website for anyone interested in modifying their iPhone and reading the latest product news. It contains a very comprehensive library of articles, mod hacks and categories pertaining to the iPhone.

7. Online Stopwatch

   Ok, this is a silly little website that displays your choice of an online stopwatch, an online clock or online military time. That's about it, but still pretty geeky to build a website to get the time of day.

8. TechVat

   This is a comprehensive tech website where geeks can get all of the tech, gadget, video game, and Internet news they can handle. Other categories includes; Programming, Social Media, Apple and Tech Deals, for geeks that expect more.

9. Liquidice's Nintendo Wii Hacks

   Wow, this is a fantastic blog about everything Wii and Wii mod hacks. Learn new ways to modify your Wii, so your opponents won't see what's coming. A ton of great tips and tricks for anyone wanting to trick out their machines.

10. Atari Museum

    Remember owning an Atari video game console back in to 1980's, well if you don't then here's your chance to take a trip back into time. Learn everything that you ever wanted to know and more. Discover how to turn your Atari Flashback 2 console into a full fledge Atari 2600 and other mod hacks for the Atari video game console.

11. Mohacks

    This is a cool website that has some really neat mod hacks and to go even further, this site will show you how to build your very own High Altitude Balloon. Or, let the geek kid inside of you out when you build your own Silly String Shooter, while you nibble on the cotton candy that you made yourself. This site is Great!

12. Geek Culture

    Here's a cool place where geeks can be geeks. Connect with other geeks like you in the forums or comb through the AV2K comic section. Thinking about someone special to you, while pouring through the latest MacWorld Magazine, then why not send an geeky e-card and more.

13. WiiHacks Wii Community

    This website is dedicated to the Wii and serves its online community with a healthy dose of Wii hacks and an active Wii forum where players interact. Participate in a poll or share your Wii wisdom with a Wii apprentice (in otherwords, the person asking the question). Membership is free.

14. WOW UI

    This is a comprehensive website dedicated to World of Warcraft and offer plenty of hacks and mod hacks to keep the super fans busy for quite a long time.

15. Instructables

    If you are the type of geek who enjoys building things using your hands and mind, then this is a superb website for the Do-It-Yourself geeks. Learn about the crazy things that geeks are building and learn how to build them for you. Registration is free and required.

16. FixYa

    “FixYa provides free tech support and technical help for gadgets, electronic equipment and consumer products” and they store manuals and guides for over 500,000 products. FixYa may be able to save a person both time and money through teaching them how-to does the job themselves. There is an optional membership upgrade that has some costs associated with it, but it is only optional.

17. Hack A Day

    This is a great site to learn fun mod hacks or build your own pen size polonium detector, just say'in. Learn a new mod hack each and everyday. Cool site.

18. Lifehacker

    Lifehacker is an outstanding place to learn new tips and tricks for getting things done. Prepare yourself to learn new mod hacks or thumb through the tech articles or join the Lifehacker community and discover the rest. Membership is free.

19. Geekologie

    If cool futurist gadgets are your thing, then this website delivers the goods. Whether it is flying drones or plastic cars, Geekologie is a major geek site that you'll want to bookmark.

20. Chemical Elements

    Raise you hand if you remember the Periodic Table, because I sure didn't. This is one cool and confusing website even for a geek like me. Lookup the element or chemical that you desire and presto, pops out the info with charts and graphs and everything. This site would be useful for students.

21. BoardGameGeek

    BoardGameGeek is the biggest and most comprehensive database of board games, card games and print n' play games online. Members actively review games that they are playing or have played and shares ideas with the rest of the community. Anything about games that person needs to know about, then BoardGameGeek is the best place to find the information. Get full access when you join, membership is free.

22. Top Ten Sources

    This site offers interesting tech reviews, articles and online sources from programming to Paris Hilton. Top Ten Sources is not a website that is totally dedicated to all things geek, but has an excellent selection of geek related material.

23. Glass Gaint

    Can you count to 31 using only one hand? I can and you can learn how, too. This is a fun counting exercise using binary. Just think of how many beers you could win at the bar.

24. Innergeek

    Do you know how geeky you really are? Take the “Geek Test” and discover, just how geeky you really are. Warning: This test is rather long and takes about 15 minutes to complete depending on your reading speed. Believe me, this is not the same type of test as the ACT or SAT, it is much more straightforward than that. Just select the statements that best describes you and the things that you know and click on the “Check My Geekiness” and get your results instantly.

Special 25: Free Rice - Charity Where Geeks Can Make A Real Difference In The World.

For each word you get right, then Free Rice donates 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. Geeks are commonly known to be very smart individuals and just think how many people could be fed due to the intelligence of the geek community alone. Advertisers sponsor the Free Rice Program and players may at times be confronted with sponsored ads, but in my opinion, it is worth it in this case.

Read This Article for more information about the Free Rice Program.