Helpful!

helpful!

Just a bunch of Useful websites - Updated for 2023

Removed/checked all links to make sure everything is working (03/03/23). Hope they help!

Sejda - Free online PDF editor.

Supercook - Have ingredients but no idea what to make? Put them in here and it'll give you recipe ideas.

Still Tasty - Trying the above but unsure about whether that sauce in the fridge is still edible? Check here first.

Archive.ph - Paywall bypass. Like 12ft below but appears to work far better and across more sites in my testing. I'd recommend trying this one first as I had more success with it.

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

Where Is This - Want to know where a picture was taken, this site can help.

TOS/DR - Terms of service, didn't read. Gives you a summary of terms of service plus gives each site a privacy rating.

OneLook - Reverse dictionary for when you know the description of the word but can't for the life of you remember the actual word.

My Abandonware - Brilliant site for free, legal games. Has games from 1978 up to present day across pc and console. You'll be surprised by some of the games on there, some absolute gems.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

PatchMyPC - Alternative to ninite with over 300 app options to keep upto date. Free for home users.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

I Have No TV - A collection of documentaries for you to while away the time. Completely free.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Just Beam It - Peer to peer file transfer. Drop the file in on one end, click create link and send to whoever. Leave your pc on that page while they download. Because of how it works there are no file limits. It's genuinely amazing. Best file transfer system I have ever used.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

For even more useful sites, there is an expanded list that can be found here.

Does anyone have any free online resources for at least starting to teach yourself to code? I obviously have no illusions that I will become a badass tech bro from the get-go, but I wanna check if I am still as un-predisposed to it as I remember from my youth. In case there's an off-chance I am not too humanities-brained for that, after all. I love my current field, I love being an English major, but every day, I feel less and less respected or needed, especially when it comes to decent job offers, so I am growing desperate.

Evermore - The “Red Wine” Album

"I made you my temple, my mural, my sky Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life" (Taylor Swift, "tolerate it")

Evermore has always been the slight lean on needle for me when it comes to the sister albums, Folklore and Evermore. Not to say that Folklore is any less or is missing any component that’s not on Evermore; it’s how those components are implemented that makes the thin distinction for me.

There is comfort and closeness in Evermore, where you can sip on some coffee while reading the morning newsletter. Or you can be sitting near a desk, working while the lyrics float around your room and the dark shades swirl around your eyes. Perhaps as droplets fall onto the page as you take in the day that has passed. Shelving away the chronicles of films you lived to act day to day

It’s knowing what betrayal feels like after a long day of trying to make amends, learning how to move on without their side of the story, knowing when you’re the one who made the curtains fall inadvertently, standing up for yourself and others, remembering those from a faded recollection, learning how to grieve the person you cherish so much but feel unfulfilled with, and learning to try and open up again to others. It’s an album of self-reflection, an album that you can sit with and watch the world with autumn lighting on it.

Evermore is the cinnamon—the bitter mahogany carpenter life—streams into the ears nicely and hits the heart with a fluorescent wave of every emotion on the spectrum. And I, for one, love cinnamon. I also like to think Evermore is dark chocolate while Folklore is white/milk chocolate, and while I do love white/milk chocolate, dark chocolate takes my heart every time. The sweetness, sourness, and bitterness of Evermore make it so much more engaging for me. I love it, especially as an Evermore girlie.

All’s fair in love and poetry… New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out April 19 🤍

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📷: Beth Garrabrant

I made my poem into a short video for funzies!!!

I think I'm getting the hang on making videos, it's fun and time consuming :)

Characters that remind me of power and the color purple:

I hope it's not too saturated •o•