PostSecret is a blog that people can send their deepest darkest secrets to anonymously on a postcard. You can use all your artistic talents to share your sorrow, heartbreak, anger, love, despair, hurt or any other feeling with the world. This site can make you laugh or cry. Sometimes the mood is uplifting and other times it’s depressing, but whatever the feeling, it definitely gets you thinking. Postsecret is updated with new secrets every Sunday.

Final word: Once you’ve been touched by a secret or really relate to one that’s been sent in, you’re hooked!

Once a word reminiscent of kiwis and other strange exotic fruit, the term “wiki” has now widely become loosely synonymous with “mucho mas informaciones” in Spanish. One popular example of this type of online collaborative content gathering is wikipedia.org; anyone can contribute, and as such, information is collected and compiled at an astonishing rate (hence the term “wiki”, which actually means “rápido” in Spanish).

Now to get to the point. Similar to wikipedia in the wiki-esque sense, discogs.com presents arguably the most complete online music catalogue in existence. Primarily a knowledge database, it also serves as a music market place and online community for contributing members (vinyl records as well as cd’s and cassettes can be bought and sold, members can communicate directly to other members, happiness abounds). Membership is free and only required for contributors or for people who have so many vinyl records at home that their insurance company requires them to catalogue their entire volume (this is done very easily through the site as most titles have already been contributed and your list when completed can be easily converted to an excel spreadsheet, for the real pros). Otherwise, feel free to search for your favourite group or artist and see exactly when your favourite EP was released in Japan and even memorize the catalogue number for those Friday night trivia games with your friends and family.

Final Word: Fun stuff !

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Vlite.net is by nuhi, the creator of the popular nlite which allows people to customize their Windows 2000, 2003, and XP installs. Vlite allows users to customize Vista by letting them decide which components to install and which to leave out. Theres a long list of parts which can be removed and consequently shrink Vista to beable to comfortably fit on a CD-R.

I’ve been experimenting with Vlite and managed to keep Vista’s prettiness with the functionaly I need while making the install CD under 700MB (under 4 gigs installed). Not only does Vlite make the install faster but it allows the Vista to be run well on lower end computer who dont have at least 1 gig of ram. Read the forums to see how some people are running vista on 256MB of ram.
I will provide a screen shot of what I removed a little bit later. I have 1 gig of ram and a dual core CPU, Vista flies.

Final Word: This rocks! There’s so much crap preinstalled on Vista. This lets you decide what stay and what goes.

Digg.com has been around for about 2 years. It has over 1 million users. The concept is user driven news. Someone submits an article, picture set or website and the community votes one what they like. The top stories end up on the homepage. People can browse the top stories in the past 24 hours, week, month or year.

I browse this site constantly at work to pass time. Articles tend to be very techie because the people who sign up to vote on stories are typically male IT geeks. The site founder and his close friend host a podcast called Diggnation which review the top stories of the week with humor.

Final Word: A great place to waste time. News voted by the people for the people. Something worth checking on a daily bases.

TheRegister.co.uk features up to date hardcore international IT news. Clean articles that get to the point. If your an IT junkie this site will keep you informed. Not for the average internet surfer.

Buddy of mine swears by this site. He works in the IT industry.

Final Word: Up to date IT news. Loads of great content, useful if you’re tech navy.