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Aggregators

Google News: Scans thousands of news sites and presents headlines with photos for most-reported stories, users can also add sections of interest.
iGoogle: Google's personalized start page. Allows users to add dynamically updated content widgets to monitor multiple sites from one page.
PopURLs: Site combines content from multiple news, photo, video and social networking sites to enable users to keep up with the latest Web trends.

Honolulu Events

TGIF Weekend Calendar: Public events calendar from the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, includes costs and contact information.
UH Manoa Campus Events Calendar: Lists mostly free events held at the university, includes lectures, workshops and sports.

Diversions

BeeMP3: Searches the Internet for music MP3s. Input artist, title or album name then view file statistics and listen to stream before downloading.
Literati (Yahoo Games): Scrabble-like word game. Play with others on the Internet, customize rules and obtain a skill rating.
MadsVassarBlog: News, gossip and event listings from one of the most expensive colleges in the US. It is the next best thing to being there.
Pandora: Streaming music. Enter a song, artist or genre and listen to specified music and other songs chosen based on description of specified song and ratings.
TalkStreamLive: Directory of streaming Talk Radio Programs. Ranks shows by popularity and provides description and links to shows.
TV Listings (Yahoo): Localized TV Listings. Allows searching by program and description as well as listing grids for the next two weeks.

Networking

FaceBook Groups users using E-mail address domain. Add contact information, photos, microblog updates and specify friends with whom to share information.
MeetIn: Meet others, socialize and host events in real life using the Website to coordinate outings.

Shopping

Amazon Gift Central: Stumped for a gift idea? View best selling, most wished for, and most gifted items in many categories.
Consumerist: Blog with consumer advocacy and education-related posts. Owned by Consumers Union.
Dealighted: Searches multiple bargain sites and displays popular sales with user comments, ratings and links.
SalesCircular: Lists sales at bricks and mortar stores. Sorted by state and includes categories for most electronics and appliances.
Windows Live Cashback: Enter a product and find Websites that offer rebates through Microsoft.

Technology

Open Source Living: Evaluates free open source software and compiles a list of recommendations sorted by type of software.
LifeHacker Increasing personal effectiveness with technology is the focus of this blog, regularly updated and well written.

Utilities

EveryStockPhoto Search for photos that can be copied used in projects or advertising. Search by usage, resolution and other criteria.
GMail: Google's free E-mail services provides excellent spam filtering, lots of storage, chat integration and excellent search capability.
Google Documents: Create and save documents, spreadsheets and presentations from almost any compute with no software to install.

Video

Clicker: Aggregates professionally-made video content from around the Web.
Discovery Channel: Stream educational programing using the free downloadable player.
Hulu: Stream movies, television series and clips for free. Has lots of content from Fox and NBC in a easy to use interface.