The internet is a huge place with billions of websites separating 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 Useful Websites everyone should know about 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.
1. Privnote
First up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Privnote. 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 a note, then just copy and paste the link into your email or instant messenger.
2. Down For Everyone Or Just Me
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Down for Everyone or Just Me 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. Within this case, let’s go to 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.
3. Down Detector
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Down Detector. 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.
4. Pixlr
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Pixlr. If you want to edit pictures online for free without having to download or learn a program like photoshop, 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. Pixlr ‘E’ is for those of you that require more advanced tools with most of the world’s population online.
5. Namechk
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Namechk. It can be difficult to come up with an original username or web domain that isn’t already taken on namechk. 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 and see if we can use it. Type the Name and those that are green are still available. Let’s scroll down to the username section, as you can see here, it’s still available for more than a couple dozen sites.
6. Have I Been Pwned
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Have I Been Pwned. With all of the data breaches over the past several years, odds are likely that you’ve had your data compromised. Have I been pwned helps to find out if your accounts have been compromised. Enter your email address. In this example, let’s type a name; 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.
7. CleanPNG
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is CleanPNG. 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.
8. Instructables
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Instructables. 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 including Viking, Batman or you could build your very own CNC plasma cutting system.
9. Fast
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Fast. If you no longer trust the internet Speed test sites, that have associations with the internet providers, which many people see as a major conflict fast, is for you. It was created by Netflix to keep 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.
10. Screenshot Guru
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Screenshot Guru. If you want to capture a high-resolution image of an entire webpage, not just the portion, that’s visible checkout 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, and then select screen capture when it’s done right. Click on the image and select save the image to save it, where you wanted.
11. Alternative 2
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Alternative 2, 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 Software, let’s scroll down, a bit you’ll find some here that are free with additional information about each program.
12. Pixabay
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Pixabay is a fantastic resource for with more than a million and a half royalty-free images, illustrations, vectors, 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.
13. Manualslib
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Manualslib. If you’re like me, and have misplaced or accidentally thrown out the manuals to some of the products you own. Manualslib can be a lifesaver. 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.
14. HOWLONGTOBEAT
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is HOWLONGTOBEAT. Whether you have a busy schedule or extra free time, the amount of time you commit to 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, Search for your game, Let’s go with Doom Eternal click on it. This page will give you all the glorious details regarding the length of time to complete that game.
15. Tvchart
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Tvchart. 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.
16. Virustotal
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Virustotal should be in your bookmarks already, it individually scans files on your computer or websites. 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, you should avoid going to that website or remove the file in question from your computer, this is a bad result and you should avoid visiting it.
17. Supercook
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is 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.
18. Eat This Much
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Eat This Much. If you have heart disease, high blood pressure, type, 2, diabetes, or maybe you’re feeling just a little bit porky, eating 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 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.
19. PDF Escape
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is PDF Escape. 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.
20. Statista
Next up in Useful Website everyone should know about is Statista. 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 a 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.
These were my list of Useful Websites everyone should know about. Hope you like it.