Comments on: Open Thread: What are Your Essential Sites?

By: Frugal One

Frugal One — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:07:36 +0000

Taking a different twist here, I couldn't live without frugal and freebie type blogs. Tons of good freebies and frugal tips, ways to save money and get out of debt!!! I find that stuff very motivating! One of my favorite sites like this is Engineer a Debt Free Life at http://engineeradebtfreelife.blogspot.com Feel free to check it out!

By: Sav

Sav — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:31:41 +0000

Makes me very happy that there is no Facebook in this list of comments.

My tabs –
Google
South Park Studios
Mashable
RWW
Original Signal

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:32:13 +0000

twitter
gmail
greader
gdocs
diigo

By: Aaron Bassett

Aaron Bassett — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:56:00 +0000

iGoogle
gmail
torrentflux-b4rt on my mini-server at home
whatever client site am working on

that’s usually it :)

By: j. anderson

j. anderson — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:23:17 +0000

i have my FF set to open the following tabs in the morning:

- my 30Boxes calendar (which is also where i keep my to-do lists)
- Basecamp
- our NYPL Labs WP dashboard
- Google Reader
- Design-Feeds.net

a little while ago we posted to Labs about all the various apps we use here. this “essential sites” roundup is an excellent correlate!

By: Todd Andrews

Todd Andrews — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:47:57 +0000

I’ve always been wanting one site or application to rule them all. We have gotten close with some of these recent sites and services, but I’m still waiting for the day I can log into one site and have everything from emailing to bank accounts to note taking.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:03:25 +0000

1. Google Patents (much nicer than PTO.GOV)
2. SortMyList (of course ;0)
3: BackPackIt

By: Ramesh | The Geek Stuff

Ramesh | The Geek Stuff — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:42:48 +0000

My first tab is always iGoogle. Following are my three most used widgets on iGoogle:

1. Gmail
2. Google Docs
3. Google Reader

Ramesh
The Geek Stuff

By: Renata

Renata — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:40:36 +0000

wow! That’s hard to say, but:
webworkerdaily.com, smashingmagazine, 43things, del.icio.us, ta-da list, postcrossing, flickr, etc

By: Ellie

Ellie — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:41:29 +0000

I always have Gmail, Evernote and Google Reader open.

By: Troy Peterson

Troy Peterson — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:14:59 +0000

Definately use:

1. iGoogle.com
2. Gmail
3. Google Docs
4. Del.icio.us
5. Campaign Monitor
6. Technorati
7. Google Reader
8. Google Analytics
9. BaseCamp

By: Toni Marie

Toni Marie — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:47:23 +0000

Because it’s my business and volunteer central… Joomla.org’s forum. I am both a Joomla pro site developer and a project member.

I keep myself sane by reading dlisted.com (warning, super trashy blog) even though I’m too old to care about most of the “celebrities” that get trashed, and then for work I tend to keep up on smashingmagazine.com, alistapart.com and of course webworkerdaily

By: Ryan D.

Ryan D. — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:47:01 +0000

In order they stay in the tabs…

1. Gmail
2. Google Reader
3. Invoice Journal
4. Inspiration Folder
5. Sitepoint Forum
6. Google (Search)

Those stay open almost all the time in Firefox..if I’m browsing around and I know I will open a lot of sites I fire up Safari too.

By: Scott Blitstein

Scott Blitstein — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:44:16 +0000

By the middle of a typical day I have an astounding number of tabs open including generally:

gmail
google reader
gcal
batchbook
basecamp
backpack
toodledo
getclicky
WWD
last.fm (or finetune, or pandora)
client site or 2
ESPN fantasy baseball

Thank goodness for the faviconize FF extension to help keep things tidy.

By: Vitor - Eletrontech

Vitor - Eletrontech — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:14:54 +0000

For me Google, Google Reader e Google Docs for Daily use.
And Webmasters Tools and Google Analytics to control websites.

By: Devin Reams

Devin Reams — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:02:45 +0000

I keep these four open at all times:
– Gmail
– Google Calendar
– Highrise
– Remember the Milk

I open these very frequently (for social purposes):
– socialthing!
– Google Reader