What is the most useful website you know?
What is the most useful website you know?
I'm always eager to find new amazing sites i've never heard of, which ones would you recommend?
https://search.marginalia.nu/ is a great little search engine for research. It favors results that would most likely be buried in the larger engines, excellent for finding lesser known sources.
Also the “random” button is a lot of fun, and fairly nostalgic if you remember the late 90s-early 00s web. Lots of geocities style personal websites still out there apparently.
The (only?) travel website with no bs
wikivoyage.orgPhotopea.com, a free online Photoshop alternative
Photopea is just amazing and has a lot more depth than people realize. I just wish it wouldn't struggle so much with high resolution pictures! Sadly it gets pretty sluggish at resolutions higher than 4k.
It's browser based which means there's no bare metal CPU or GPU calls in can make. It all has to go through the browsers interpreter. That massively limits it's potential.
Every Noise At Once: Recommend this website to find new music that suits your tastes. Play around with the options at the top, best way to see what they do.
LibGen.is for books
I use Firefox with temporary containers and a combination of DDG & Google to get around paywalls.
- Once you have temporary containers installed in Firefox, find an article that's behind a paywall. I read the Financial Times, for example.
- Copy the title of a story.
- Open a new tab.
- Search the story title in DDG using the g! at the end. For example, "Xi sees ‘progress’ in China-US ties at meeting with Blinken g!"
- Find the story and click on it. Enjoy your read.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome or download this
It's uses ChatGPT to work out which news stories are the most significant so it can show only the important ones. It's great and has been my main source of world news since I started using it a few weeks ago.