- Hey, all, it's Aurelius. Hope you're doing well. In this video, you are going
to learn eight useful websites, whether you're a content creator, a business owner, a freelancer,
a teacher, a student, or if you're simply
looking for some cool tools to add to your toolbox. Let's start with the first website. This one's called Profile Pic Maker. All you need to do is grab
a profile pic of yours. I'm going to use this one for instance. Doesn't matter if you've got a background because what it will actually do is remove the background, and then it'll add some
background variations for you. In an instant, you've got a
tonne of profile pic designs to choose from. And now you can simply click on any, download it, and then upload it to whatever social media
profile of your choosing. Going back to the top, you're
given a few more options such as adjusting the photo,
rotating it, scaling it. Then, you can also edit
the background colour, and also adjusting the shadow style. So you can say no shadow or one of these other variations. Next up, do you need assets
for your social media content? Well, Mixkit got you covered. They've got a tonne of stock videos, stock music, sound effects,
video templates, and more. So let's say you're making a YouTube video and you're looking for
some nature stock videos. You can simply click on Nature or do a quick search
for that at the top bar. Here are the results. The top bar is always
the sponsored videos, so scroll below and these are the ones
that you can download and freely use on your YouTube videos. This one here, White
sand beach and palm trees looks pretty cool. So if you click that, you can then click on Download Free Video. It is entirely safe to use. If you go to their licence page, and for instance, if we click on the Stock
video Free Licence, you can see that videos
under the Free licence can be used in YouTube
videos, social media posts, online marketing ads, and much more. Attribution and crediting is not required, but it's always appreciated. This next website is great if you want book recommendations. It's called Good Books. And if you go to goodbooks.io, you'll land on this page, and you can see some of the
featured authors or people. Hovering over books,
you'll see categories. And also on the right, Featured books. Let's click on "The Courage
to Be Disliked," for example. You'll be given a summary
of what that book's about, and then you can purchase
it on Amazon or Apple Books. But scrolling down is
where it's most useful. You can see recommendations for "The Courage to Be Disliked." Some of these authors,
creators, influencers. Further down, you'll see
similar recommendations. So if you like that book, then these are some books
that you may also like. So if you want some ideas and some more books on that subject, then take a look down below. My favourite page on Good
Books is the Top 100 page. And as suggested, it's the top 100 books of all time. If you go here, you can see
what books you can read next, or get some ideas for
a future read of yours. How are you liking these websites so far? Let me know by giving this
video a quick thumbs up, and let's move on to the next one. Next up, this tool is going to help you see the different time
zones of your team members. So if you work with a remote team or if you work with others online, then this is going to come handy. Or you can see the different
time zones of different places. Let me demonstrate. It's called There. And it is at the moment
only available on macOS, however, I will show you and I'll turn at website that
does pretty much the same job. On the Mac, you can click
on the There app at the top, and right here, this is
my time right now, Sydney. And I've got my team members right here. So Meralde's from the Philippines, I've got Justin who's in the US, and I've got Shaun in London, Paula from Lisbon, Portugal. Also, my designer, Sem,
who's in Jakarta, Indonesia. What you can also do is add places. So let's say Eastern time, Pacific time, you can add those all in. So by clicking on Add, you can select between adding
a person or adding a place. Let's say you wanna add a person. You add their first name, last name, and then add the city of where
they are actually situated. Upload a photo of them, or you can go and grab
that photo from Twitter. The alternate, if you do
not wanna instal There, is a website called Timezone.io. If we click on Live demo, you can see what it looks
like and how it works. Here's a team and the different time zones of where they are actually situated. So rather than having to go to Google to search up what time it is at a certain location, simply use Timezone.io or There to see what time it is in an instant. This next website is called Diffchecker. In other words, difference checker. If you ever wanna compare
between two files, let's say you've got one
text file and another, and then you wanna see
what the difference is, let's say one of your
team members made a change and you do not know what that change is, simply use Diffchecker. I'm going to upload two
different PDF files, and then you can see
what the differences are. Here are my two PDF files. I've got an article and
then an updated article. I'll upload the original article first, drag and drop it to the first box. And next, I'll upload the updated version. Now that it's uploaded, I'll
click on Find difference. Scroll below, and then you'll
see what the difference is. I intentionally added Diffchecker to these areas and sections
right here so you can see it. One of its powerful options
is the images comparison. So what you can do is compare
between two different images. I probably don't have the best example, but what I'm going to do is
add two different images. So one is right here and
then another right here. And right there, what you can do is drag, and then you can see
what the difference is. So rather than having two
images open side by side, you can simply use Diffchecker
in the images section, and then drag, and then see the comparison. What you can also do is change the fade, so you can fade it out. A couple more options and views, you can go to Split and
then see it side by side, which is the traditional way. And you can also go to Difference, which shows kind of the negative. And another one, depending on
the type of work that you do is File details. You may wanna see what the
height and the width is, the file type, the size. You can see there are
differences right here. But the Slider view of you pretty cool, so just for fun, if you ever wanted to, you can find a doppelganger
picture and then upload it, and then seeing side by side
what the differences are. This next one is going
to help you generate website mockups instantly. It's called Screely. All you need to do is grab a screenshot, take a screenshot of any website, drag and drop it to the centre, and in an instant, that screenshot has been turned into this kind of web browser mockup. There are a few customization options here such as the window. If you want that address bar to show, as you can see, there it is. Or you can have no window. It's up to you of you
want that clean look. You can also adjust the window style to regular, darken, or outline. Changing the colour of the
background is really easy. Click on Colour, choosing
from the palette right here or from the bottom, and selecting a different colour. Once you're done with your mockup, simply click on Download. And now you can feature
this on your portfolio, on your website, or social media. Moving on, this website is
called Copy Paste Character. And when you go to the website, what you can do is simply copy, and there's the HTML code right there. Or we can simply copy, let's say this character, and I'm just going to do a
quick copy on my keyboard, open my text editor and paste it in. And there we go. Rather than being limited
to just using emojis, you can choose from dozens
and dozens of characters and then use it on social
media, in your captions, your descriptions, or wherever else where you wanna add these
fun little characters. All right, last, but definitely
not least is called Copy.ai. If you go to Free Tools, you'll see a range of
generators that they offer such as a Free Bio Generator, Free Email Subject Line Generator, we've got free Instagram
Caption Generator, Content Idea Generator. Let's click on that. It's going to ask you two questions. What is your niche and what
topic do you want ideas about? I've gone ahead and
entered digital marketing and Facebook Ads. I'll click on Create Copy. And now it's generated some content ideas such as Facebook Ads Best practises, Three Things to Consider When Choosing a Facebook Ads agency, and much more. So if you're ever stuck when
it comes to content ideas, you can use the Content
Idea Generator specifically to generate some content ideas. Take a look at a few more examples. You've got TikTok Content Ideas, Free Product Name Generator, Free Business Name Generator, and a Free Slogan Generator. And there you have it. Those are the eight useful websites. Let me know the comments below which of these is your favourite. I'd love to know. In the meantime, do give this video a quick thumbs up. And if you enjoy this video, watch this one right here.
