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Top 100 Best and Most Useful Websites

well, in my opinion ;)

Here is a list of top best 100 websites that I think are most useful for anyone of us. There are different websites in this list, from how-to to rare old-school archives, science news, and entertainment places on the Web. I tried to select only websites with free content, easy to use and with friendly design. You are welcome to add them to your bookmarks. Enjoy!



1. Zeer
Gluten free food products choice of over 30,000+ food products, over 500 added or updated every week. Just type in the name of the product and you will be presented with a big list of alternatives.

2. World Hum
Great world travel database with reviews of multiple places on our planet.

3. Rate My Professors
The name says it all: find your college professor in a vast database and read what students think about him/her.




4. FFFFound!!!
FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user's tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!


5. Geni
Create your family tree and invite relatives to share. Search 70 million profiles. Discover your ancestors. Share photos, videos and more at Geni.com.



6. Mint
Free personal finance software to assist you to manage your money, financial planning, and budget planning tools. Achieve your financial goals with Mint.



7. Concreteloop
Black entertainment news, music, gossip, exclusive interviews and more! Come and get your daily dose!!




8. Nymbler
Nymbler is the smart baby name guide. Just choose a few names that appeal to you or let Nymbler offer ideas. Then press Find Names and Nymbler will start using its expert knowledge to brainstorm names tailored to fit your style.


9. Picnik
Photo editing made fun. Picnik makes your photos incredible with easy yet powerful editing tools. Tweak a picture, create a slideshow, try it free!



10. Wix
Create a free website with Wix.com. Make free web design in Flash website builder. Customize free Flash templates or make your own website.



11. Pixelgirl Presents
Free desktop wallpapers for any kind of IT device.






12. Urban Dictionary
Urban Dictionary is the dictionary you wrote. Define your world.





13. Cylinders Library
Digital collection of 6,000 cylinder records from 1895-1920s with downloadable and streaming audio held by the Department of Special Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara.

14. Penny Arcade
Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and gaming culture. It is among the most popular gaming webcomics currently online.




15. Hulu
A free online video service that offers hit TV shows including Family Guy, 30 Rock, etc. Their extensive library also includes blockbuster movies like In the Line of Fire. Start watching now. No registration or downloads required.


16. Someecards
Send free funny online greeting cards, ecards, postcards; egreetings for pretty much any occasion: Birthday, Weddings, Workplace, Thank You cards, Invitations, Anniversary ecards and much more.

17. Carbonrally
Carbonrally - Climate change community focused on fun competitive challenges. Team up to reduce CO2 global warming.



18. Metaefficient
The guide to high efficient things: efficient products, efficient living, green products.






19. COLOURlovers
Find design inspiration with thousands of palettes and color schemes to fall in love with. Influence color trends by rating, commenting and sharing.


20. Digital Vaults
Digitized National Archives. Everything from Elvis Presley “Hair today, gone tomorrow” letter to Buffalo Bill’s reports and rare old-school pictures.


21. Free Rice
Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple game that increases your knowledge.




22. Hypebeast
Online Magazine for Fashion and Culture. Unique goods.






23. Lifehacker
Lifehacker tips and downloads for getting things done. Hack the life!






24. Kiva
Make a loan to an entrepreneur across the globe for as little as $25. Kiva is the world's first online lending platform connecting online lenders to entrepreneurs across the globe.


25. Nibbledish
Amazing Recipes. Delicious Food. Beautiful Photography. Created and rated by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world. Nibbledish is your gastronomic hub where every visit will bring inspiration and a rumbling belly...


26. Petfinder
Pet adoption: adopt a homeless pet (dog or cat) or pets from animal shelters. Petfinder has helped with more than 13 million pet adoptions since 1995.


27. WikiSky
Interactive Sky Map. Interesting sky objects database.






28. Money Saving Expert
Martin Lewis’s free site saves you money. Beat the system on credit cards, shopping, special offers, mortgages, council tax, interest rate payments, freebies, loans, loopholes, best buys. Compare, read, discuss and be a Money Expert.



29. Gas Buddy
GasBuddy lets you search for Gas Prices by city, state, zip code, with listings for all cities in the USA and Canada. Updated in real-time, with national average price for gasoline, current trends, and mapping tools.

30. BrainPOP
Educational cartoons.






31. AskPhilosophers
This site puts the talents and knowledge of philosophers at the service of the general public. Send in a question that you think might be related to philosophy and we will do our best to respond to it.

32. Lulu
This website lets you publish and sell print-on-demand books and e-books, online music and images, custom calendars and books. Free self-publishing.




33. Oodle
Post free ads and search millions of free classifieds ads for used cars, jobs, apartments, real estate, pets, tickets and more.




34. DocStock
Docstoc is a community for people to find and share professional documents. Find free legal documents and free business documents.




35. Upcoming
Upcoming events in your city. Stay informed.






36. Cocktail Builder
Discover drinks you can mix from ingredients in your bar.






37. Technorati
Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati indexed 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.




38. Hairmixer
Give yourself a free virtual makeover. Try hundreds of new virtual hairstyles including hair recoloring, short hairstyles, long hairstyles and the hottest celebrity hair styles. Share you new look with friends or print out and take to your favorite stylist. Create your free hair makeover now.

39. Comiqs
Create and share your comic-style stories!






40. My Heritage
Create your family tree and discover your family history. Free genealogy software. Get automatic Smart Matches on 400 million profiles and share photos.




41. Revolution Health
Revolution Health offers trusted health information, expert advice, drug and treatment information, doctor ratings, and a strong community to help you and your family with health issues. Visit Revolution Health as your one-stop resource for all your health needs.

42. Juicecaster
Take videos, pictures, picture messaging from your mobile phone, Blackberry or iPhone an post them for free to your JuiceCaster Media Box, and share them on your favorite personal pages like MySpace, Friendster, Xanga, Blogger, and more.

43. MothersClick
MothersClick is the world's first social network created exclusively for active moms and their groups. Find conversations, reviews, photos, advice and more.




44. G.ho.st
G.ho.st is your complete Virtual Computer (VC) in the browser, running the Global Hosted Operating SysTem from Ghost Inc.



45. SimplyFired
Got fired? Submit Your story and vote for other people stories!





46. Care2
Care2 is the largest online community for healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare.




47. BackpackIt
Backpack is a personal and small business information management, intranet, and to do list organizer.





48. DonorsChoose
DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy to help students in need through school donations.




49. Zillow
Zillow provides free real estate information. Search homes for sale, home prices, home values, recently sold homes, mortgage rates, and more.




50. Threadless
New graphic t-shirts released weekly. Awesome new designs submitted and rated by the Threadless community.




51. Etsy
Buy and sell handmade or vintage items, art and supplies on Etsy, the world's most vibrant handmade marketplace. Share stories through millions of items from around the world.

52. Istats
iStats helps keep you motivated by tracking your progress in activities of any kind. Share your results with your friends!




53. Kayak
Find and book cheap airline tickets, hotel rooms, vacations and rental cars with Kayak.com. Search hundreds of travel sites, compare results, and buy direct.




54. VisualComplexity
VisualComplexity.com is a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. Everything from NYC Subway Map Redesign to Twitter Social Network Analysis visualized.

55. YourMinis
Yourminis.com allows you to customize and grab widgets for your blog, website, and now...desktop! Their widgets let you do great things like watch youtube videos, browse flickr photos, read news and rss feeds, listen to MP3 music, check the weather and much, much more. You can also quickly build widgets, syndicate them and then measure their success.

56. BreathingEarth.net
A visual real-time simulation that displays the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, birth rates, and death rates of every country in the world.




57. Yahoo Pipes
Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.




58. MoodStream
Moodstream is a brainstorming site is a flood of videos, images and music from Getty Images. It connects with your audio and visual sense by providing you with different footage, images and audio. As you watch and listen you are exposed to different images which can stimulate your mind and help you think of new concepts. Moodstream has 6 preset moods and you can use the wheel to change the moodstream: inspire, stabilize, simplify, intensify, refresh and excite. Users have control over the moodstream by adjusting transitions, amount of color, and type of music.

59. LawBidding
LawBidding.com is a free, easy-to-use website, which is making it more efficient and less expensive for individuals and businesses to find legal help.




60. Water Life
The interactive story of the last great supply of fresh drinking water on Earth.




61. KeywordBerry
The system gives webmasters the chance to know which ones are the most important keywords in relation to diverse SEO aspects. You will have the chance to see different bar graphs and data table forms that will give you a clear image about your site’s most used tags. If you want to know how recurrent certain words are on your site, this site will give you that valuable information.




62. Sports Scholarship
Plenty of useful information for student-athletes who want to play college sports and get scholarship dollars to help cut their costs.




63. ZoomTemplate
Looking for templates for your blog could be an annoying task due to the fact that there are so many options out there to actually choose from. In addition to that, sometimes you do not have enough time to search for these templates and you end up having a mediocre one that does not reflect your personality or spirit. Those times might as well be gone as this solution will help you to find free blogger templates straightaway.




64. DesignBump
DesignBump is a place for users to share, save, vote on, and discover the best design related links from around the web.




65. ChartsBin
ChartsBin.com is simple and interactive way of showing historical statistical data to chart or graph. It is focused on building the most exciting and engaging destination for statisticians, and computer scientists in the world.






66. Aviary
Aviary is a wonderful website that provides you with image editor, vector editor and crazy photo effects.




67. iLounge
Worldwide news, information, reviews, a discussion forum, and tips and tricks for all iPods and iPhones.





68. DaFont
Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.




69. Pando
Use your existing email address to send and receive large files. Pando bypasses email attachment limits and is absolutely free.




70. IMDB
The biggest, best, most award-winning movie site on the planet.






71. GoodReads
See what your friends are reading. Keep track of what you've read and organize your book lists into shelves. Join a book club to discuss your favorite books. A better way to find good books to read!

72. TypeRacer
The online typing competition, TypeRacer, is a multiplayer typing game where you race others by typing quotes from popular books, movies, and songs.




73. Radio-Locator
Radio-Locator is the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. They claim to have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.

74. LivePlasma
Liveplasma is a new way to broaden your cultural horizons according to your taste in music and movies.




75. Wonder How To
Wonder How To is your guide to free how to videos on the Web. Search, Browse and Discover the best how to videos across the web using the largest how to video index on the web. Watch the best online video instructions, tutorials, & How-Tos for free. Have your own how to videos? Submit them to share with the world.




76. Eggcorns
This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.




77. Instructables
Instructables is the Biggest How To and DIY community where people make and share inspiring, entertaining, and useful projects, recipes, and hacks.




78. Gamespot
GameSpot is the world's largest source for PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, GameCube, PSP, DS, GBA, PS2, PlayStation 3, and Xbox video game news, cheats, reviews and more!

79. Newsmap
Currently, the internet presents a highly disorganized collage of information. Newsmap visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Newsmap provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.

80. When Is?
Dates of Religious and Civil Holidays Around the World.






81. RhymeZone
A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works and thousands of quotations and poems.

82. NationMaster
Country comparisons using graphs, maps. Huge database of world statistics. Reference site contains country statistics, maps, flags, graphs and pie charts.




83. The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool provides premium investing advice and market-beating stock research whether you have $250 to invest or tens of thousands of dollars.




84. Wikipedia
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The giant of all encyclopedias. Enough said.




85. PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

86. HowStuffWorks
HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations.






87. XE
Free currency rates, tools, and analysis using the most accurate data. Other services include XE Trade money transfers, XE Datafeed, XE Travel, and more!




88. HomeForExchange
Home For Exchange - Offers home exchange services including vacation home exchange, home swapping, vacation home swapping, holiday home exchange, international home exchange, senior home exchange, real estate exchange, house exchange, vacation house exchange, house swapping, vacation house swapping, holiday house exchange, international house exchange and senior house exchange for free holiday accommodation worldwide.

89. SkyScanner
Skyscanner searches over 600 airlines on 200,000 routes to 5000 airports. Find cheap flights, compare low cost, budget deals and airline tickets – book direct, no fees.




90. Uncyclopedia
Uncyclopedia is a website that parodies Wikipedia. Originally an English-language wiki, the project currently spans over 50 languages. The English version has over 25,000 pages of content. Various different styles of humor are used as a vehicle for parody, from sophisticated satire to the apparently random. Like Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia has guidelines regarding what is and is not acceptable content and these guidelines have become progressively more strict as the site expands over time. Its logo, a hollow potato named Sophia after the Gnostic deity, serves as a spoof of Wikipedia's globe logo.

91. Need2Know
This website, contains advice on relationships, student life, money troubles, travel and leisure, plus a wide range of tips and resources to help you on exams, gain work experience.

92. Design Tools
Design tools like Armstrong's Design A Room allow the user to visualize flooring styles in a large selection of rooms.




93. Ringsurf
Make your own community of websites of similar interests and concerns as you! This community service will help more visitors find you quickly and easily by using the RingSurf Viewer which lets you navigate easily between sites in your community.

94. Bubbl.us
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application for brainstorming online. It allows users to create colourful mind maps online, share and work with friends, embed your mind map in your blog or website, email and print your mind map and of course, save your mind map as an image!

95. GiftGen
Hundreds of gift ideas to suit all budgets and occasions. Just select a price and age range. GiftGen will then suggest present ideas and provide links to suggested webstores.




96. Engadget
Engadget is a multilingual technology weblog and podcast about consumer electronics. It currently has nine separate websites, all operating simultaneously with each having its own staff, which cover technology news in different parts of the world in their respective languages. Engadget won a 2007 Weblog Award for tech sites.

97. KickAssTorrents
A great torrents website. Search and download new TV shows, TV series, movies, mp3, music and PC/PS2/PSP/Wii/Xbox games absolutely for free.




98. eHow
A practical guide of how to do just about everything!






99. ScienceDaily
The site aggregates the very best coverage everything, from fossils to space exploration, from diseases to climate change, and every nano-particle in between.




100. Academic Earth
Academic Earth offers free access to video courses and academic lectures from leading colleges and universities.




Finally we've got to the end of this list. ))) I hope you liked some of these websites and added them to your bookmarks. If you liked the list then I encourage you to vote up for it, comment, bookmark it, or/and follow me on Twitter: Slava Rybalka. I promise to follow you back.


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