* You look at a movie trailer and think, “I have that font.“
*You google someone’s full name to get the goods on him/her. (This is courtesy of ajay.)
* You know you are a geek when you set up an automatic rerouting of your e-mail to your MMS celphone.
* You are a geek when you get sudden attacks of bittersweet nostalgic feelings when thinking about your long-lost old Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX-81, TRS-80 (or whatever hardware you were raised on), and use large amounts of money/time trying to track one down.
* You realize you never cook, eating only take-away pizza.

* You check your website/blog more than twice a day.
* You seriously consider devoting a web page to your computer. (Not the brand, mind you, but the actual computer itself)
* You have more e-mail addresses than you do pairs of shoes.
* You get depressed when you get less than 10 e-mail msgs a day.
* You have a roomfull of branded desktop PC’s at your disposal but you’re lusting after a Mac Mini.
* You start getting paranoid you aren’t getting all your e-mail. (If you have sent me e-mail, and there seems to be no life from me, try again.)
* Someone asks you what languages you know, and you reply English, French, Tagalog and C.
* Sleep and nightime are no longer irrevocably linked.
* You arrange to get e-mail access no matter where you go.
* You hear the word “Scuzzy” and the first thing you think of is not an adjective.
* You went to a high school where the only team with a winning record was the Chess team.
* You rig up elaborate mechanisms to do really basic tasks.
* You get REALLY excited when people from countries with limited access to the ‘net are frequent visitors to your pages.
* You don’t hand in final papers unless they’ve been formatted on a desktop publishing program.
* You write web pages about your web pages.
* You can remember your web address faster than your phone number.
* You’ll spend a long time customizing a computer you’ll use for one day to the absolute pinacle of comfort, but you won’t bother to spend two hours sewing up a skirt, and wear the damn thing sarong style.
* You do your best work after 11 p.m.
* You work in a building where you need a badge to move between floors.
* You can count the number of moderately good hacker/computer dude type films on one hand.
* You’ve bought one of those license plate holders on which you can have your URL embossed.
* You head straight past People and the always fabulous Cosmopolitan for this month’s Computer Shopper.
* You can track the geek gene through your family tree.
* Not only is your computer in the centre of your room, it’s set up so as allow ‘netting from your couch, as well as your desk chair.
* You arrange your jobs so you can telecommute.
* You organise your CDs, so the tops all face upward, alphabetically, or by record label (If you do more than one of these, you are an Anal-Retentive Geek).
* You carry blank recordable CDs or flashdrives to and from work.
* You plot to get your grandmother on E-mail.

AND last but not least . . .

* You think Hugh Jackman playing a hacker on Swordfish is the most ludicrous piece of casting ever made in Hollywood.

(List shamelessly lifted from Joke-Archives.com with a few modifications by moi.)

I got this link from From Weblogtools Collection: 30 Things you Didn’t Know You Could Do on the Internet.

I’ve sifted through the list for just the free and generally useful stuff and here’s what’s left:

Google Facelift - Google offers more than a dozen services, but most are hidden. The GoogleX interface makes all of Google’s goodies–such as Gmail, Froogle, Maps, and more–accessible via a nifty Mac OS X-like toolbar. Originally designed by a Google researcher, the toolbar disappeared shortly after being posted on the Google Labs site (most likely due to objections by Apple), but not before some plucky Netizens saved a copy for your use.

DeathClock - We all have to go sometime–and the DeathClock purports to tell you precisely when. Just plug in your birth date, gender, height, and weight; the site predicts the day of your demise based on average life expectancy, and even displays a ticker that counts down to the big day in seconds.

Mail2Web - get your POP mail from anywhere - You say your ISP doesn’t offer a Web interface for your e-mail inbox? Don’t fret. With Mail2Web you can access any POP3 or IMAP4 account, read and respond to messages, and attach up to 10MB of files from any Web-connected computer. And don’t worry, your mail will still be there ready to download when you get back to the office.

Tech Support Guy - If Windows is having another bad hair day, but you’re unwilling to spend $35 to be aggravated by Microsoft support, the Tech Support Guy can help. Post your question to the site’s two dozen forums or search more than 300,000 threads to find an answer. It’s not as fast as a call to tech support, but it can be more fruitful and less frustrating.

SpoofStick Home - That Web site may look just like your bank’s, but is it really? Find out by downloading Corestreet’s free Spoofstick applet. It displays the real domain of the site in your browser toolbar, regardless of what the address window says–an invaluable tool for fighting phishers. The toolbar is available for both IE 6.x and Firefox 1.x.

The WayBack Machine - Wonder what Yahoo looked like during the dot-com boom? Dial up the Wayback Machine, and you can view cached copies of popular Web sites dating back to 1996. For quick nostalgia trips, add a Wayback bookmarklet to your Firefox or Opera toolbar or Internet Explorer favorites; clicking the button will call up the archive of the site you’re viewing.

Anonymous Emailer - Maybe your boss has bad breath, or a close friend is in serious need of an ego trim. You can slip them a word in secret using Sharpmail’s anonymous e-mailer. You can send your message in plain text or HTML, or you can send an SMS message to someone’s cell phone. (But don’t even think about sending abusive or spammish mail, or Sharpmail will pull your free account.) Who knows? Maybe you’ll receive an anonymous message taking you to task for your passive-aggressive e-mail tendencies.

Surreal Quote Generator - Is your Web site a tad, well, dull? Ravenblack’s random surrealism generator will spark it right up. Just copy the site’s free HTML code to your home page template. Each time your page loads, it will display a different Dali-esque comment (”A saucepan a day keeps the banana away”). Words to live by.

Have fun!