SEO has essentially destroyed search engines, what are some very useful websites that you might not get given by Google?
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The first and foremost thing that comes to mind is the wayback machine. It lets you archive and immortalize any moment in a website’s history.
Though I may be cheating a little here because it’s actually a toolbar, another obscure, highly useful “website” is the Hypothesis toolbar. It adds a comment section to any webpage merely by existing.
Do the comments come from only other Hypothesis users?
On Hypothesis, only someone else logged into Hypothesis can comment, if that’s what you mean. If you notice someone on there with the name ThisInstrumentalBreak, that’s me (you may notice me having used it to comment on this thread).
A good selection of internet radio stations that has been around for many many years
Good opportunity to specifically recommend radioparadise.com - been supporting them for a very, very long time.
This site lets you identify flags by color, shape, charges etc.
Jesus Christ that’s a lot of ads
Does it have a lot of them? I have a blocker so I didn’t know.
Opening it through an app with no blocker, yeah it’s a lot and very obtrusive too
I use Blokada on my phone. Works out pretty well for me, and they may service more than mobile devices.
Adaway if you dont like the turn they took with blokada 4 or 5, cant remember
Radio Garden - Listen to hundreds of radios around the globe (with a pretty interface to find your favorite radio station). Having lived in several countries, I have a list of radio stations I grew to like, and now I can have easy access to all of them.
Free Media Heck Yeah. The largest collection of Free stuff on the Internet
This is amazing. I am in love with this site already. Thanks for sharing!
Figures out what the font is from an uploaded image. I’ve used it multiple times.
I always use https://whatthefont.com/ although mostly cos the name’s funny which makes it easy to remember. Any idea which is better?
When I watch movies or TV shows, I constantly wonder how old an actor or actress is during the filming of it:
3d models of the human body, I use this a lot to troubleshoot which muscle I’m having tension/tightness in:
ty for the human bio link! that will be great for sculpting
🙇🙇🙇 thank you for the human.bio link! I’m amazed this is free. What a gift.
You might be able to find this website on Google, but if you are in the US, this can help you get the freshest produce. I use it all the time. https://snaped.fns.usda.gov/resources/nutrition-education-materials/seasonal-produce-guide
Huh. Apples are always in season.
I did some searching and it turns out some apples survive up to a year in a controlled atmosphere, so they are fresh year round. Pretty nuts.
Yeah that seems a bit strange
https://favicon.io/favicon-converter/ - Convert an image to a favicon file in many formats.
https://ninite.com/ - Easiest way to set up a new Windows PC with the latest common applications without toolbars, prompts, or anything like that. Not necessarily obscure but I like to peddle it.
https://www.printablepaper.net/ - Need a check register? Graph paper? Lined paper? College ruled or wide ruled? Dot paper? Calendars? If it’s on paper, chances are you can find it and print it here.
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ - Need a good bedtime story? This site is best read right before falling asleep.
I like the last one. Have you read about the penis tree?
What tree?
What
https://realfavicongenerator.net/
It’s very magical in that it creates a favicon for a website for nearly all major platforms and includes the manifests. You literally drag and drop and you got a pro configuration for free.
It’s great for developing for mobile apps, web, and PWAs all at once.
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ - Need a good bedtime story? This site is best read right before falling asleep.
my favourite place to generate nightmares
WAIT! Is the SCP wiki the inspiration for Control?
Definitely
FYI: Ninite has largely been superseded by Chocolatey
Chocolatey isn’t really made for the DIYer setting up their computer for a one-off install - for that I always recommend Ninite. Chocolatey is useful for enterprises and advanced DIYers though.
Ninite has like 20 programs to choose from, whereas Chocolatey has official and community repositories which are enabled by default and contain (as of writing this) 9872 programs. You don’t need to be a master hacker to use chocolatey. It’s literally one powershell command to install it, and then:
> choco install libreofficeAnd to update existing programs (something which ninite can’t do)
> choco updateI agree that Ninite might be useful for your 64yr old grandma who only uses Google Chrome and gets the spooks when she sees the command-line, but chocolatey is the go-to tool if you’ve got any needs more advanced than that.
idk, it’s just one line to install every program you need and has a LOT more selection.
Another FYI:
wingetis usable if you wish to use a native solution. It has its shortcomings over choco, but usable.Winget is the best thing added to the windows ecosystem in a long time. I just wish it worked out of the box on Server :(
Though isnt chocolatey a paid service? Ninite is free…
Nope, you can use chocolatey completely for free, even if you’re an enterprise! In fact, the choco CLI is FOSS.
They do offer a special “business plan”, which has special features for IT departments which they could find very handy due to their special needs when handling thousands of software updates at a time. But you as an individual probably have no need for those paid features, so you can use it for free :)
I’ve used it for free for years
“bedtime story” 🤣🤣🤣
SCP-7311 🥺
For those in school:
https://www.desmos.com/scientific - badass scientific calculator. Desmos has a mobile app as well.
https://www.madeintext.com/subscript-generator/ - Helpful for typing out shit like: Na₂HPO₄ + H⁺ → NaH₂PO₄ + Na⁺
Also Windows Key + Period will open up a menu with a shit on of emojis and special characters, for things like that → arrow.
^note that it’s got tabs on both the top and bottom of the menu
Man, this made me remember that the win+period -window used to have a search bar in it. Loved it. Then suddenly I guess Microsoft thought that it was too convenient because it vanished.
It simply uses the text field you use it in as the search bar, you can just start typing and get results.
Oh wait really! Shit I need to try it out, thanks!
It still -kind of- does, it’s just not super intuitive anymore. Open the menu, select the tab, then just start typing your search. The text you type will appear in the text field you were typing in before opening the win+. menu, but as you type it’ll filter the emojis and symbols down to the ones that match your input, and then replace your input when you click one.
Really should just have a search bar. -_-
just tried it, Windows/Meta + Period also works on KDE Plasma 5. 😀
also win+; for emoji!
https://www.desmos.com/calculator is what I use every time I have to plot any graph
Bonus points is you can host yourself with docker. It has a bunch of handy tools for computer related projects.
What does it mean to host oneself? Is that like being a guest in your own house?
You can set it up on your computer to run as a local website. You access it by going to your local computer IP address followed by the port it’s on.
I set mine to run on port 8084.
192.168.1.10:8084
If I put that into my browser it loads the website directly from the computer I’m hosting it from.
For Windows, you can use devtoys for an offline version of this https://devtoys.app/
I love this!
This is awesome!
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