This is the site for the Association for PC Users Groups.  If you’re familiar with user groups, you’ll quickly recognize the value of this umbrella organization which provides a variety of services to user groups worldwide.  If you’re not familiar with user groups, then this site is a great place to find one near you that you can attend to learn more about personal computers, help others (and be helped), and discover how to best benefit from the digital revolution.

This site lets you save any web page that you would like to refer back to later as convenient “bookmarks” on your own readily accessible web page, but its real value resides in the fact that it tracks what everyone is bookmarking and then provides a list of the most commonly bookmarked pages hour by hour.  That then provides an amazing look at a wide variety of information, tips, how-tos, freebies, videos, tutorials, and other goodies, although most are the kind that only a geek can love.

If you care at all about politics and the state of the world, then this is probably the best place on the web to read the views of pundits and columnists across the entire spectrum of political thought.  Updated several times a day with lists of column titles and their authors, it provides all the reading a political junkie could want while also supporting the casual observer’s desire to read selectively.

A valuable tool in anyone’s financial arsenal, think of an online PayPal account as a combination money market, checking, and merchant account.  Although it’s not federally insured and it takes a bit of research to decide which account best fits your needs, a Paypal account let’s you pay for most online purchases, accept payments from others (including credit card payments), earn a competitive rate of return on deposits, download your online buying and selling activity into Quicken or other financial tracking software, and much more.

This site is a digital consumer’s best friend, providing a wealth of valuable information, product reviews, technological opinion, ratings, and downloads.  Spend an hour just exploring it – you’ll probably be glad you did.

The pre-eminent shopping site.  What started as an auction site for collectors has now become the ultimate global marketplace, where you can buy almost anything you want, new or used, often at prices that are hard to believe.  Just pay close attention to the seller’s Feedback rating when buying, and be sure you have good feedback yourself before trying to sell anything important.