1. Lifehacker

The ultimate tech lifestyle site. It describes itself as “self help for power users” and will help you achieve the most possible in your day, even if that is how to burn calories without doing anything.

2. Twitter

When I say ‘useful’, I obviously don’t mean useful. Twitter is good for three things: scaring egotistical celebrities, reaching your daily ‘wtf’ nirvana and exploiting those well meaning folk who are actually willing to answer all of your dumbass questions.

3. HowStuffWorks

A bit like lifehacker but a shade less geeky. Will help you find out, among many other things, how to draw an Elasmosaurus in 5 steps.

4. Google

Your portal to the three p’s of online bliss: poker, pills and porn. Also useful for knowing your life better than you, via this matrix of omniscient tools.

5. Instructables

At regular points in all of our lives, we forget why we drew up that ratio of DIY to just paying for it and, at that point, this site nearly makes everything ok. By ‘everything’, I mean the horrific apocalyptic act you’ve just committed on your kitchen, and by ‘ok’ I mean no-one’s going to die. This site is also useful if you just want to do cool stuff.

6. LocateTV

Lets you find out when tv shows, movies and celebrities are on in your area. Lots of features, including tv schedules for different genres- like all the horror movies on in the next week or two.

7. Wordsmith

Finds anagrams. The possibilities are endless.

8. Yelp

Top review site and a community that most sites would give their right arm for (listen up TS fans).

9. Kiva

For the ‘do-gooder’ techs amongst you, this is a scheme with a difference. Use your entrepreneurial skills to pick a project you feel would benefit from your investment. Lend whatever you’re comfortable with and watch your karma points rack up. Better still, you get the money back after a certain time. It’s like giving to charity but better.

10. Pipes

Lets you merge feeds and information from a massive variety of services, letting you create mashups and other data-based services. Hugely useful and makes you feel really smart and just that little bit better than everyone else in the world.