SEO has essentially destroyed search engines, what are some very useful websites that you might not get given by Google?
This To That tells you what type of adhesive to use to glue different materials together. It’s handy for Halloween when suddenly you need to figure out how to attach vinyl to styrofoam or something (hot glue)
Useless in every country except one though. Never heard of these brands
A small instance of USDefaultism, but I appriciate OP’s thought.
Seems to be Canadian, not US
I agree it would be better if the site included brands from other countries too, but it can still be used as a starting point. I’m sure you could Google the item and figure out the equivalent where you’re from.
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.
“bedtime story” 🤣🤣🤣
SCP-7311 🥺
FYI: Ninite has largely been superseded by Chocolatey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.
idk, it’s just one line to install every program you need and has a LOT more selection.
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.
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 :(
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
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.
I like the last one. Have you read about the penis tree?
What
What tree?
WAIT! Is the SCP wiki the inspiration for Control?
Definitely
Want to know something about published science fiction or fantasy? Forget Goodreads or Wikipedia bibliographies, the ISFDB has ridiculously comprehensive details about every book, author or magazine I’ve looked up.
Google will give you ISFDB results if you search for an author or title plus “isfdb” but it’s not nearly as high in the rankings as it should be.
Awesome!! Hadn’t seen this before.
I think this goes on some list I’ve started of old-style fecking awesome web pages that represent exactly what us old timers are talking about when we say the internet has lost something vital. No frills, community driven, information rich and dense web page producing long lasting value. Just compare this to some recipe page with flocks of ads.
This site will show you how to tackle any stain.
This wording always has me imagining beefy American footballers tackling stained carpets.
Sadly, today I was greeted with this message: We have discontinued our stain solution website.
How much does the “textile world” change? How does a method of cleaning fabric become outdated? I have so many questions!
An email service that uses addresses like yourname-appname@port87.com to organize all your email into a folder for every app/service.
You can also make these addresses screen senders before their email goes through, for something like yourname-friends@port87.com.
You can mark them as public and they’ll be included in a list if someone emails the bare address (yourname@port87.com), so you can share your bare address all over the internet without getting spam.
(Full disclosure: I created and operate this service.)
So, you can do this with gmail already. What’s your pitch on why someone should use Port87 instead of Gmail (besides the obvious Google is evil, etc.)?
A lot of services have stopped accepting + addresses as valid, or even stripping them before saving. So at least for a while, - addresses could be more useful
For nerds like us there’s a cool article at https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-addresses.html that covers this in detail.
You can also do it with Protonmail. myname@protonmail.com turns into myname+service@protonmail.com
I think outlook also accepts it.
Personally I just bought a domain and have a catch all that redirects everything to my email.
Was that hard to setup? Do you need to pay for server hosting or anything? That sounds pretty useful.
If all you want is to receive emails and forward them to another email (like Gmail), it’s straightforward and free. If you want to send using your domain, you usually have to pay someone or spend a bunch of time learning how to set up a mail server on your own and how to get your mails out of people’s spam box. Or you have to find an easy-to-use workaround (I know there is one for Gmail but it’s a bit annoying to set up and use)
Here are the steps to setting up a catch-all using Cloudflare:
- Get a domain (they are actually pretty cheap)
- Add the domain to Cloudflare. (If you bought the domain from Cloudflare, this is already done. And Cloudflare is among the cheapest places to buy domains so I recommend it.)
- Open the site in the Cloudflare web dashboard and open the tab called “email”
- Add a destination email and enable catch-all.
you can also just buy your own domain and set it up your gmail/whatever as the catchall, then use appname@mydomain.com
It’s not Google. I’m sold.
It is trivial to strip +xyz from all of the email addresses in a list.
Same for -xyz…
Buy a domain, set up a catch-all and use servicename@yourdomain. Boom.
If you read the website they have a workaround. Email sent to the bare address will Be denied and receive an automated response.
Where is the pricing?
I don’t have it on the promotional site right now, but here’s the breakdown:
- Receive unlimited mail, 500MB storage: Free
- Send unlimited mail*: $1/month
- 2GB extra: $2/month
- 10GB extra: $6/month
- 20GB extra: $10/month
- 100GB extra: $20/month
- 1TB extra: $40/month
There are upcoming features that I haven’t done the market research and cost analysis for yet to determine pricing, but these are the features that are still in development:
- Native mobile app (right now it’s a PWA): Free
- IMAP/SMTP/CardDAV for third party clients and to import/export/sync: Undetermined price
- Custom domain with unlimited addresses: Undetermined price
- Additional users for you custom domain: Undetermined price
* The reason for charging $1/month to send email is so that spammers won’t use my service to send spam. A spammer is very unlikely to divulge their real payment information.
That sounds reasonable! Though personally, I definitely wouldn’t use an e-mail service without IMAP support.
I feel you. Technically, the service is in a public beta test, only because I don’t have all the features complete yet.
I have the IMAP spec printed out in a binder at my desk. I have to write the server myself because of how Port87 works (I can’t just use an off-the-shelf server, like Dovecot). But I’m working hard to get IMAP support out soon! :)
PS: also, once I do write it, the IMAP server will be open source, just like the CardDAV server I’m working on.
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!
No problem! So many resources on that site.
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 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. -_-
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!
also win+; for emoji!
https://www.desmos.com/calculator is what I use every time I have to plot any graph
just tried it, Windows/Meta + Period also works on KDE Plasma 5. 😀
If you need a bed or bedding, https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/ collects and distills online reviews from everywhere about it.
If you need earbuds, http://www.scarbir.com/ does similar.
If you need earbuds, http://www.scarbir.com/ does similar.
This guy is gold! I’ve bought a few pairs of cheap headphones after reading his comparisons and reviews, and all have been spot on! He tests on both iPhone and Android, and he explains the differences in sound quality if very approachable and concise ways. When I need headphones again, his site is my no 1 stop.
Also for earbuds, Crinacle
Figures out what the font is from an uploaded image. I’ve used it multiple times.
There’s also WhatFont add on/browser extension that lets you highlight text on a website and it’ll tell you what font it is!
I always use https://whatthefont.com/ although mostly cos the name’s funny which makes it easy to remember. Any idea which is better?
Idk how obscure it is but Paul’s Online Math Notes https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ are the best math guide I’ve ever had. It got me through an engineering degree
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I thought *Ffmpeg * meant something else
Good Lord I’ve used ffmpeg for years to convert my videos and just realized today it’s name could be a naughty search word in adult sites
That M is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this scenario
Depending on the size of the peg it might not be a good idea to heavy lift for a while.
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Tried neal.fun based on your recommendation and its been keeping me amazed all day!! Thank you!
Neal.fun is neat. Something that I was looking for. Thank you
Sharedrop seems a bit dead. Consider pairdrop.net as an alternative.
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Holy shit. In 5 minutes of using Kagi, it’s so nice. Thanks
privacyguides.org has a ton of awesome tips on how to navigate technology these days without becoming a walking data point for everything you have contact with.
It’s basically an interactive Python session using a Python interpreter compiled to WebAssembly and which then runs locally on your device via your browser without having to install anything on your end.
It’s very cool to check some calculation out very quickly on your phone or tablet.
Or if you want a full local Jupyterlab experience using the same WebAssembly tech: https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/_static/lab/index.html (based on the JupyterLite project: https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite)
This is super helpful!
http://remove.bg is a website that makes removing backgrounds from photos or artwork a lot easier! I think it uses A.I or something, it’s been super helpful for me a couple times.
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).
