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As the thread title says really, thought it would be interesting to share the first websites we visit each day. I'll start (no particular order) InfiniteMac (of course) BBC news Digg Engadget Eurogamer MacThemes InsanelyMac NetTuts Neowin…

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As the thread title says really, thought it would be interesting to share the first websites we visit each day.

I'll start (no particular order)

  1. InfiniteMac (of course)
  2. BBC news
  3. Digg
  4. Engadget
  5. Eurogamer
  6. MacThemes
  7. InsanelyMac
  8. NetTuts
  9. Neowin
  10. Ars Technica
  11. A List Apart

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Follow-up dispatches by @Voyn1x

Author Update #1 @Voyn1x 2008-09-18

Erm, Google isn't one of my first sites i visit :

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19 technical responses curated from 23 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @R0GUE 2008-09-18

I rarely visit sites in any particular order as I've consolidated all of my favourites into RSS feeds which I view using Google Reader. I'll then randomly visit sites with headlines or articles that grab my attention.

Field Note #2 @bhast2 2008-09-18

Apple is my home page
Apple developer site
Apple source site
Leo4all forum
insanelymac
infinitemac
random torrent sites (don't ask)
psp hacking sites
winmatrix
deviantart
macthemes and other random art sites
and than i just bounce around the net and chill in irc

Field Note #3 @Aydinz 2008-09-19

Myspace
Deviantart
UndergroundGUI
InfinitieMac
InsanelyMac
MacThemes
Aqua-Soft
GMail

then whatever else i need to do

Field Note #4 @Envying 2008-10-13

1. hot mail.com
2. ya hoo.com

My first two website back in 1996...

Field Note #5 @PingunZ 2008-10-14

InfiniteMac & Insanelymac news
Torrent sites
Stocks ( yahoo finance )
Macrumors
Facebook

Field Note #6 @nfoav8or 2008-10-15

AppleStart and AppleDevCentral (keeping up on my Mac news)
InfiniteMac
Tigerdirect and Newegg (to look for the great deals of the day)
Voodoo Google Code page (lately... to check on updates)
PCWizComputer.com
InsanelyMac and the osx86project wiki
a slew of Torrent sites... (green devil, BS, Vortex, The Bay)
and finally I browse world news at Reuters

(typical day recently)

Field Note #7 @Taisto 2008-10-15

hmm, i think the list should be like that :

gamespot.com/x360
infinitemac.com
website of my university
xboxlive.com

and i think that`s all...i sometimes read news on msn.
Oh, and there`s no order on that list. so there`s no more and less important site

BTW. Why all people are so obsessed with google ? This search engine isn`t so good...you get 500k hits, while only 3-4 sites are related to keyword...google has too much trash, that`s what i think.

Field Note #8 @TechnoLurker 2008-10-17

InfiniteMac
InsanelyMac
Leo4all
Kotaku
Joystiq

Typically, anyway.

Field Note #9 @R0GUE 2008-10-17

It's really nice see lots of <B being given to Infinite Mac :

Field Note #10 @SHS 2008-10-20

di gg.com
red dit.com
enga dget.com
slas hdot.org
gm ail.com (well, technically just my email on my cellphone.)
my space.com (another thing I do when I have free time and am idle.)

Field Note #11 @nfoav8or 2008-10-21 ↳ Re: @R0GUE
@R0GUEIt's really nice see lots of <B being given to Infinite Mac :

When you get to the point where InfiniteMac is another Utility in your back pocket for your personal Hacintosh, then ya just can't help but show love... then again, there are also those of us that like to help make it this kind of Utility. :

Field Note #12 @iPodAddict181 2008-11-10

1. Google & Gmail
2. InfiniteMac
3. Facebook
4. Engadget
5. TUAW
6. Digg
7. Current
8. AddictedBlogging.com (My blog, just to check if it's running)
9. PSD Tuts
10. Hong Kiat

Field Note #13 @jefflo 2008-12-06

My home page is nowd othis.com. Helps me get the work done.

Then it's probably Gmail.

Field Note #14 @zuz242 2008-12-06 ↳ Re: @jefflo

in my main win install i got firebird with 3 tabs at startup:
local router (fritz)
winfuture.de
wintotal.de

this gives my a nice tec news roundup

@jeffloMy home page is nowd othis.com. Helps me get the work done.

oops, i edited your skedule (nickerchen machen..?)

Field Note #15 @pαuℓzurrr. 2008-12-06

FOK!frontpage
RLSLOG.net
Brokenstones.me
Insanelymac.com
Infinitemac.com
diditleak.co.uk
HotNewHipHop.com
Gizmodo.com
Engadget.com
NZBsrus.com

That's about it

Field Note #16 @naquaada 2008-12-07

I don't think that there will be a regular order for web sites every day. I could imagine that these lists could only be the most often visited web sites. If you have more web sites which you want to watch every time, enter all your favourites as the default page. At least Flock and Firefox support this by dividing multiple sites with a | symbol, they'll be opened in multiple tabs.

In my case my Apple Mail decides which page is opened first - if there are forum notification mails available, they will open the default browser. Otherwise infinitemac is the homepage in my browsers. The first two pages I might open manually is ebay if I have auctions to watch, or Yahoo! if I have to search for something. No, I won't tell you about all these XxX sites I always visit next, the amount will crash the server's storage capability and the FBI will need more employees :

Has nobody some web based email account he's regularly using, something like this wasn't listed yet.

OT: Had someone ever running Win XP SP3 on an AMD K6 with 384 MB RAM? The company I'm actually working (HAVE TO work, grr) uses crappy machines like this... To make it a bit better, all computers are also showing 'Your copy of Windows may be stolen...'

Field Note #17 @PingunZ 2008-12-08 ↳ Re: @naquaada
@naquaadaOT: Had someone ever running Win XP SP3 on an AMD K6 with 384 MB RAM? The company I'm actually working (HAVE TO work, grr) uses crappy machines like this... To make it a bit better, all computers are also showing 'Your copy of Windows may be stolen...'

try nlite (nli teos.com/)

Field Note #18 @lanceomni 2008-12-08

The line up

Well I like to start the morning off with:
Digg
Woot
Newegg Daily Deals
Infinitemac
Then there is the lunch break:
Digg
Infinitemac
Insanely mac
Tomshardware
News site of the day (I rotate half a dozen news sites as I firmly believe in media bias)

Field Note #19 @oneshot 2008-12-09

I use the apple homepage of corse

2. Myspace
3. InfiniteMac
4. Deviant Art
5. PSPiso
6. The website with my math book online to do HW =)

Corroborated & Participated: @jamespiteri
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@R0GUEContributor22008-09-18 → 2008-10-17
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@nfoav8orContributor22008-10-15 → 2008-10-21
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@EnvyingContributor12008-10-13
@TaistoContributor12008-10-15
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@SHSContributor12008-10-20
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@jeffloContributor12008-12-06
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@naquaadaContributor12008-12-07
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