20 Useful Websites Everyone Should Know!

the internet is a huge place with billions of websites separating out the useful from the needless can be difficult so coming up in the super sized edition in our useful website series i'll be showing you 20 websites in a variety of categories we think are the most useful all of which are bookmark worthy to make your online life easier and for fun i'll have a bonus site for you to check out near the end of this video let's get started first up is priv note for those times you need to send confidential information to a co-worker family member or friends the site lets you create notes that will automatically self-destruct after being read by the recipient here's how it works in the yellow box write your note when finished click on create note then just copy and paste the link into your email or instant messenger if you ever encounter a website that won't load it could be that the website is having an issue or the problem could be on your end on the site down for everyone or just me enter the website url that you're having issues with in this case let's go twitter.com hit enter or click the blue button on the right if the site is working fine you'll get the message it's just you and the site you entered is up [Music] similar to the previous site down detector works great to check a particular service like your cable company or streaming service to see if there's an outage or some other problem enter the name of the service in the box i'll use netflix in this example at the top you'll see the status which for the service has no problems below that is a timeline of the issues over the last 24 hours a live outage map that you can click into and to the right of that the most reported problems if you want to edit pictures online for free without having to download or learn a program like photoshop or pixlr just might be what you're looking for it now comes in two flavors pixlr x and pixlr e pixlr x includes the absolute basics to crop resize and includes filters and effects e is for those of you that require more advanced tools with most of the world's population online it can be difficult to come up with an original username or web domain that isn't already taken on namecheck it will let you know the name you're thinking of is available for dozens of web domains social platforms and other websites let's try one out here see if we can use it those that are green are still available it shows this one is available for most domains let's scroll down to the username section as you can see here it's still available for more than a couple dozen sites with all of the data breaches over the past several years odds are likely that you've had your data compromised on have i been pwned to find out if your accounts have been compromised enter your email address in this example this account has been pwned on 20 sites when you scroll down you can find the sites that had breaches compromising your data this would be a good time to change your login password for your email and each site listed when you need a free transparent image for your website brochure or anything else cleanpng has millions on their site with no backgrounds for you to choose from all are free and no account is required with unlimited downloads and more than 50 000 categories if you're the crafty type instructables is for you with various categories to choose from including workshop cooking outside circuits and many others examples of projects you could make include this viking batman mashup costume or you could build your very own cnc plasma cutting system if you no longer trust the internet speed test sites that have associations with the internet providers which many people see is a major conflict fast is for you it was created by netflix with the goal of keeping internet service providers honest with the speeds they promise unlike some of the other speed test sites fast also has a clean and simple interface with no ads if you want to capture a high resolution image of an entire webpage not just the portion that's visible check out screenshot guru in the empty box enter the entire url of the page you'd like to capture do the recaptcha i'm not a robot thing then select screen capture when it's done right click on the image and select save image as to save it where you wanted alternative 2 is one of our favorites when looking for alternatives to popular software just enter the name of the program in the search box let's go with photoshop and select it below the description in the alternatives tab there are 204 listed let's scroll down here a bit you'll find some here that are free with additional information about each program pixabay is a fantastic resource for creatives with more than a million and a half royalty-free images illustrations vector graphics videos and music in their collection all content on their site can be used for free for both commercial and non-commercial use with no attribution required if you're like me and have misplaced or accidentally thrown out the manuals to some of the products you own manual's lib can be a life saver it's completely free with more than 4 million manuals in their database the easiest way to find a manual is to get the model number and enter it into the search box select your product from the drop-down list you'll now see various guides and manuals included with that product click on the one you need in addition to viewing it on their site you have additional choices at the top including the option to download it to your computer whether you have a busy schedule or extra free time the amount of time you commit on playing a video game might be based on those two factors how long to beat will let you know how long it will take to complete a video game based on your play style here at the top do a search for your game let's go with doom eternal click into it this page will give you all the glorious details regarding the length of time to complete that game have you ever invested time watching a tv series to realize after finishing the last season that you wish you'd not wasted your time watching it to begin with tv chart can help let's do a quick search let's go with dexter and select it displaying a graph for each episode you can see that it began to take a nosedive in season 8 and completely fell off the cliff in its final episode hopefully with dexter being renewed they can make up for that terrible finale virustotal is one that should be in your bookmarks already it individually scans files on your computer or websites you plan to visit looking for malicious content like viruses and other malware to scan a file on your computer select the file tab and select choose file and then find the file on your computer if it says no engines detected this file this is a good result on the flip side when doing a file or website scan if you get a result that looks like this you should avoid going to that website or remove the file in question from your computer on a lighter note supercook is useful for those times you're stuck at home due to a hurricane or too lazy to go to the grocery store it helps you to find recipes for the ingredients you already have in your fridge or pantry on the left choose your ingredients from the various categories on the right you'll now see recipes using the ingredients you selected if you have heart disease high blood pressure type 2 diabetes or maybe you're feeling just a little bit porky eat this much might be able to help first choose your diet i'll leave it on anything select the number of calories i'll leave it on two thousand and for the number of meals you plan to eat in a day i'll change this one to three then click on generate let's scroll down here a bit you'll now see a meal plan based on the information you entered if you don't want to pay for adobe acrobat pro and you want to edit pdf files the pdf escape free online editor might be able to help it includes many tools for free including the ability to create a new form and you can even fill it out without the need to print it out first if you love looking at statistics in other words if you're a stat nerd statista is where you can find factual numbers on just about any topic we'll do a basic search go with web browser and select it on the next page you'll have so many links with data on this topic it just might blow your mind while some of the data is free to access most will require that you have a paid account now for the bonus website you're getting old the facts presented after filling in the form might be too shocking regarding the time passed since you were born in this example let's pretend this is britney spears filling in the form who also grew up here in louisiana who will first ask if this is for me or for a friend we'll leave it on this is for me her date of birth is december 2nd 1981 so enter the date first followed by the month and the year then click on go this page will show your age number of days old and two people equal to your age continue on down the page for more exciting facts thanks for watching links are in the description if you got something useful from this video give it a thumbs up if you know the useful site not mentioned let us know about it in the comments and if you haven't done so already subscribe and click the notification bell so you don't miss out on the latest in our website series another tech related stuff here on techumbo

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Length: 9min 55sec (595 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 13 2020