Lifehacker’s High Five topics are an awesome resource, when it’s readers vote for the top five of various tech categories. I’m already using a lot of the most popular apps, but I’ve also learned about a lot of alternatives and discovered some real gems. And now I’m going to double check each of these one by one to make sure that I am in fact using the latest and greatest.
Below are some of their most popular High Five topics of 2009.
- Five Best Netbooks
- Five Best Malware Removal Tools
- Best Home Server Software
- Five Best Linux Distributions
- Five Best Wallpaper Sites
- Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools
- Six Best Video Editing Applications
- Five Best Web Browsers
- Six Best MP3 Tagging Tools
- Five Best Antivirus Applications
- Five Best Live CDs
- Five Best Disk Defragmenters
- Five Best Portable Applications
- Five Best Instant Messengers
- Five Best Free System Restore Tools
- Five Best People-Search Engines
- Five Best System Tray Applications
- Five Best Online Backup Tools
- Five Best PDF Readers
- Five Best Video Players
- Five Best Windows Task Manager Alternatives
- Six Best Portable Operating Systems
- Five Best Portable Apps Suites
- Five Best Virtual-Desktop Managers
- Five Best Application Docks
- Five Best Software Update Tools
- Five Best Alternative File Copiers