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I’m personally fond of Aardvark, but maybe that’s because I’ve successfully used it to fish for my own post. Of course, there must be many more effective ways to “ask the internet”. Share your favourites in the comments.
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JessT
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 7:59 AMAnything PC-related: http://www.stackoverflow.com is where I go :)
Ron
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 8:54 AMYes Lifehacker – esp if looking for software
Products esp Electronic forums.whirlpool.com.au and productreviews.com.au
Mostly though good old google
Especially for Poison Ivy and such things
Matthew
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 6:18 PM+1 for the Whirlpool forums. That’s always my first port of call for electronics/gadgets questions.
Elias Boustani
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 7:04 PMIts whirlpool.net.au, not whirlpool.com.au… But yes, that is a very good site :)
Gary
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 8:57 AMstackoverflow.com is for programming questions but they have sister sites like superuser.com, askubuntu.com and webapps.stackexchange.com for ‘user end’ issues, and a whole bunch more in beta
area51.stackexchange.com, covering gaming, DIY, finance etc.
The answers get voted up and down, which affects the answerer’s ranking, so there’s very little cruft.
Rachel
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 10:06 AMAsk metafilter. The $5 sign up fee and heavy moderation means the answers you get are almost always on topic and really smart.
Lucas Cooper
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 5:36 PMStackoverflow is good for most PC question but serverfault.com is what I use for anything admin related. I use Aardvark for most real world issues because it is integrated with gmail/gtalk.
Also, IRC channels are a good place for computer stuff.
Last of all, I use 4chan for anything dubious…