66 Most Useful Websites Everyone Should Know!

0:00 [Music] Over the years, we've shown hundreds of websites that we think could be useful to people in their lives. Recently, a viewer of our channel offered an excellent suggestion that we do a video of all those we've mentioned in the past that we'd still highly recommend using today. So, coming up in this compilation, I'll show you more than 50 websites in alphabetical order that we think are the most useful. Let's get started. Alternative two 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. Next up is Be Funky, which is a photo editor that is very similar to Pikmonkey that I showed you in one of the previous

0:58 videos. To get started, select photo editor. You have the option to upload one of your photos or use one of theirs. I'll select one of theirs for now. Along the lefth hand side, you'll see several tools to enhance your photo. With most of these by selecting one of the tools, you simply just have to move the slider and then select the check mark. They also have a collage maker and a designer tool with several templates. Bleeping computer is a computer help site for users of all skill levels to get the latest security news along with resources for answering security and other technical questions. They also offer removal guides for the latest viruses. They're also well known for their forums with many active users to get help with your technical issues. So, the next time you're having problems with your system, check out Bleeping Computer. There will be times when you can't easily get the answers you need from a textbook or the internet.

2:01 Brainley is a social learning community for students where you can get help in almost every subject. Those include math history physics geography and several others. Here's how it works. You could either type in your question here at the top or below you could select ask your question. Type your question in the open box, then pick your subject and then select ask your question. If you're the helpful type, you can assist others by answering their questions as well. The next time you need help getting a question answered, you should try out Brainly. Now for something completely different. Broadcastify lets you listen to live audio streams from police, fire, and EMS departments along with many other types of scanners in locations around the world. It's easy to use. Click on listen. Select the drop down arrow and select your country. There are many to choose from. I'll go with the United States. Now, select your specific region

2:58 to find the feeds that you're looking for. I'm in Louisiana, so I'll select that and Orleans Parish. Scroll down the page and select the play button next to the feed that you'd like to listen to. I'll go with New Orleans Police Department. A new window will open playing the live audio from the source you selected. If you shop on Amazon, Camel Camel Camel is a tracker that monitors the price of millions of products on the shopping site. Even though I don't shop on Amazon all of the time, it's still useful to determine the right time to buy, especially when shopping for computer parts. In the search bar, you can enter keywords to find your product or the URL from the Amazon product page. You will now have the opportunity to create a price alert with your desired price. If you scroll down, you can check the price history chart and history. For example, this item has dropped nearly $500 in the last 6 months. Can you run it? Before buying a

4:04 video game for your PC, check out this site, especially if you're running on an older computer to see if a particular game will run on your system. This is useful to avoid paying for a game that you can't play since most refund policies are not that great. Let me show you how to use it. First, search for a game you're interested in buying. So, I'll select Fallout 4. Then find Fallout 4 on the list. Then select can you run it. Right now I'm showing you this site on a work computer, so it doesn't have top-notch gaming specs. For the game Fallout 4, it will list below the minimum and recommended requirements. Now select can you run it again. Now it wants you to download an applet which is completely safe and well trusted. So download it on your system and follow the instructions on this page so you can run it to scan your system hardware. You'll only need to do this the first time on the site. Now go back to the homepage for can you run it. We'll do

5:03 the same search as earlier. So Fallout 4. Find it on the list. Select can you run it. Now on my work computer, it says Fallout 4 meets the minimum requirements, but it doesn't meet the recommended requirements. Clean PNG is another great resource for creatives looking for free, high-quality, transparent images for their website, brochure, or anything else. At this time, they have more than a million images with no background, all of which are free and no account sign up is required. If you're looking for a particular type of image, type it into the search box and hit enter. Click the image that fits your needs. Then, to save it to your computer, click free download below the image. If you're just starting out learning how to code, Code Academy is great for learning the basic concepts. They offer several courses, including JavaScript, Python, and even Ruby. To start a course, just select which one you want to learn. It will give you interactive step-by-step

6:05 instructions. Codeame is for you programmers out there looking to improve your skills in a fun and interesting way. It lets you code a browserbased game with more than 25 languages to choose from. You can also create multiplayer games that you can play with your friends. When you're ready, select get started. It will first ask you to sign up or you can continue without an account by selecting the X. When you first start out, it will give you a basic tutorial. Just follow the steps. This one lets you know that solo and multiplayer coding games are turnbased. Select a programming language. I'll go with C++. And in this step, it wants me to copy and paste this code into the editor. It shows you to enter the code here. So, I'll paste it. Then I'll select got it to move to the next step. And this next step wants me to run the code by selecting play test case. And you can watch your code in action. I'll leave the rest of this for you to discover on your own. Coding game

7:11 is a cool way to learn the basics of programming. SiMath is a math problem solver with steps to show your work which can help you to learn certain concepts. It's simple to use. You could either enter in a problem or choose one of the many topics. If you select the virtual keyboard icon, you can find symbols that you may not have on your physical keyboard. Now, I'll enter in a problem to show you how it works. Once you have your problem entered, select solve. It will now show you all the steps that are needed to solve your problem. They do offer a premium version called SiMath Plus, which is not needed, but does contain many useful features. One of those features will show you why a step is taken, which can be helpful in the learning process. Simath also has an app for iOS and Android. Designer is an easytouse graphic design website that lets you create your own designs. They have thousands of templates to help you create posters, banners, social media posts, along with

8:17 several other categories of templates. Designer includes many features, including millions of images and thousands of vector art, stickers, and backgrounds. To start out, just pick which type of design that you want to create. If you scroll down the page, you'll see that you have many options. Just select the type of design that you want to create. You could choose to start from blank. Choose one of the featured templates or select see more and then from the list just select a template that works for you and then follow the instructions. It's that simple. Down detector is a site I keep bookmarked for those times to check a particular service like my cable company, cell provider, streaming service, or any other online service to find out if they're having an outage or some other problem. To use it, just enter the name of the service in the search box. I'll go with Xbox Live. At the top of the page, you'll see the status, which in this case indicates

9:14 there are no current problems. Below that is a graph of reported issues over the last 24 hours. Looks like yesterday was a bad day. If you scroll down, there's a live outage map that you can click into. And to the right of that, you can see the most reported problems. And if you scroll down a little bit more, you can view the comments from other users. Duolingo is a learning platform where you can take easy to follow courses to learn a new language. They currently offer 23 languages for you to choose from. In addition to their website, you can also sync your progress with their iOS or Android app. They make it easy to get started. Once you select get started, select the language that you want to learn. Choose a daily goal anywhere between 5 to 20 minutes per day. then select set goal. It will then ask if you're new to the language or if you already know some of that language. I'll select start at the basics. Now that your course has begun,

10:14 just read and follow the instructions. If you want to learn a new language, try out Duolingo. 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 2,00. 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. Eosia is a search engine that plants trees with its ad revenue. Eosia's search results are powered by Bing and their own search algorithms. When you do a search, the results look very similar to other search engines. 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 with a goal of

11:16 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. Free Code Camp is a nonprofit coding site for those of you that want to become computer programmers. Just like the many other programming sites I've mentioned in the past, this site offers lessons in several skills, including HTML 5, JavaScript, Node.js, and many others. And if you need help, they have a useful forum to get help from other developers. So if you want to learn how to code for free, Free Code Camp is another great resource. Staying in the computer programming category, Geeks for Geeks is another great resource. There is so much to learn on this site from the basics of algorithms and data structures to programming languages along with several other categories on their site. Before you go to an interview with the prospective company, you may want to

12:12 check out their interview experiences section to find out how others fared during the interview process with many companies including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others. Geeks for Geeks is truly a computer science portal for geeks. Get link info takes those shortened links from web pages to let you see the original URL and determines whether a website contains malicious software or is a fishing site using Google safe browsing. When you're on a website with a shortened link, for example, this site has a bit. link, copy it and then paste it on the get link info site. Then do your search. You'll get a link information page that looks like this with the title and description, the address of the URL hiding behind that shortened link along with information letting you know if those links are safe. Get Link Info is now my go-to site for unmasking shortened links. Google actually has a useful site called Google Fonts, which is a collection of fonts you can download and use on

13:16 posters, flyers, websites, or anywhere else that you can think of. With so many websites charging for fonts, all of these on Google Fonts are completely free. To add a font style to your computer, select the plus icon next to the font that you want. Open the selection drawer at the bottom of the screen. Click on the download icon and save it to your preferred location. After saving, it will be saved as a zip folder. You will need to extract the folder and refer to your specific operating systems instructions for installing thoughts. Hackaday features articles each day about hardware and software hacks, mods, and do-it-yourself projects. The variety of projects is quite large. One that was featured recently was the touchscreen coffee table. Like most projects, they'll give you a description, details, they'll give you the files for download along with the components you'll need before you can start the project. Hackaday is a great site if you're looking for unique and interesting

14:18 projects. Hacksplaining was created to teach developers about security vulnerabilities. You can learn to hack on this site, too. Learning how to hack is one of the best ways to learn how to protect yourself from attacks. There are several lessons to choose from, including SQL injection, cross-sight scripting, clickjing, and many others. Some of the courses require that you sign up to get access. At this time, there is no cost to use this site. If you're a newer developer, Hackplaining is a website that you should know about. 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 poned. To find out if your accounts have been compromised, enter your email address. In this example, this account has been pawned 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

15:19 listed. Hibbrow is a non-traditional learning site designed for those people that have busy lives. The lessons are 5 minutes long, delivered over 10 days directly to your email inbox. They now have more than 300,000 learners with more than 200 courses available for you to choose from. Those categories include arts, business, tech, and coding along with several others. To begin, select a course. They'll provide a brief description of that course. And when you're ready, select start course. On this page, you'll need to enter in your email and then select start this course. After you do that, you'll now receive a new lesson in your email every day over the next 10 days. Only one course can be taken at a time. If you're a gamer, how long to beat is useful to find out how long it'll take to complete a video game. Whether you have a busy schedule or extra free time, it might be useful to know that information going in, knowing how much time you'll have to commit

16:19 playing that game. at the top. Do a search for your game. Halo Infinite is popular right now. Click into it. According to this, depending on your play style, it would take 10 and 1/2 hours to finish the main story and up to 25 and 1/2 hours if you're a completionist. If you scroll down the page, it'll give you additional information regarding the length of time to complete the game. That might be helpful. How Stuff Works, launched way back in 1998, is still useful for gathering all types of knowledge in various categories. They provide reliable articles with easy to understand explanations of how the world actually works. If you have a curious mind, how stuff works is a site you should check out. If you're like me and you prefer to do repairs yourself, iFixit is a website that you should have bookmarked. In addition to selling tools and parts, they also have free repair guides for many of today's popular electronic devices along with those

17:18 longforgotten. There are more than a dozen categories to choose from, including PC, camera, Mac, phone, and many others. After you have found your repair guide, it will show you the difficulty level, how many steps are involved, the time required, along with the tools needed to complete the job. Below that, you just need to complete the easy to follow step-by-step directions in order. In a segment coming up in this video, I'll be mentioning small PDF. I love PDF is very similar. You have more than a dozen options, including conversions, merging, and compressing of PDFs. It works exactly the same as small PDF. So, to save you some time, I'll skip the full demo for this one and just give you a brief overview on how to use it. Select what you want to do. I'll select convert word to PDF. Then you can select your file or you can just drag your file from a folder and drop it right on this page and then just wait for it to finish. I love PDF is a good option to go to if you've reached your

18:19 free limit with small PDF. If you're the crafty type, Instructibles 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're a PC gamer and want to get the best price on games, you should definitely check out is There Any Deal. The homepage will show you some bundle specials along with some other deals on games. Or you can do a search for the game that you want. So, I'll enter in here Grand Theft Auto and select Grand Theft Auto 5. And it looks like the best deal right now is at DL Gamer for $24. So, check out is there any deal to make sure you get the best deal if you're subscribed to multiple streaming services like Netflix, Disney Plus, Prime Video, and many others. Just watch. It's useful to find the streaming services with the movies and TV shows

19:19 that you want to watch. In the search box here on the upper right, type the name of the movie or TV show you're looking for. Let's go with Line of Duty. Select it. Then select the season. Let's go find season 1. With the best price filter selected, the top row shows you where that content is available from the various streaming services. And in the row below where you can rent or buy, Just watch is now available for you to use in dozens of countries. Some of you may be familiar with Camel Camel Camel. In some ways, Keepa is a lot more useful for price tracking on Amazon. You can select deals. It will find you some of the biggest discounts on Amazon right now. The search function is also useful. I'll do a generic search here for camera. I'll select one of the cameras listed here. Now, you'll see a price history graph which shows you the pricing over time. It shows the Amazon price, new, used, and warehouse deals. If you just want to see the Amazon price, just select new,

20:23 used, and warehouse deals. All that's left is Amazon. You can see at its peak, it was selling for $119.95, and the lowest it's ever sold for is $88. Up next is Con Academy. It was founded way back in 2006 and is perhaps one of the best educational websites. On Conhan Academy, students learn at their own pace in several categories, including math, computing, science, and engineering, and many others. In addition to the various courses listed, they even offer test prep for college entrance exams, including the SAT. Of all the math solvers on the internet, Mathway just may be the best. You can get help in several categories including basic math, algebra, calculus, and many others. It's really simple to use. You just enter in your problem here at the bottom. I'll show you how that works. We'll do x - 2 = 4 and then hit enter. And we'll solve for x. And it shows you right here that x= 6 with a brief interpretation of the steps. Mathway is free, but will cost

21:33 you extra for the step-by-step solutions. If you're still in school and need help with your math problems, Mathway just may be the site for you. Memorize. If you're looking to learn another language, this is another great site with tutorials to help you out. They feature more than 300 courses, including French, Japanese, Haitian, and many others. To get started, just select a course, then select start learning, then just follow the onscreen prompts. Memorize is free to use with no advertising, and they also have an iOS and Android app. When setting up a new Windows PC, Nite is an awesome package manager that lets you install multiple programs all at once without any extra junk like toolbars. Here's how it works. Select the programs listed that you would like to install that they have available. I'll go with Handbreak, Blender, Shareex, and Glary in utilities. When you're done making your selections, click on get your NIE. I won't be running this again. Just find the

22:42 location you saved it to and run it to install the programs you selected. To keep your programs up to date, just go back to the location where you saved the installer and run it again. It will then update those programs. If you're like me and can't stand absolute silence when working or reading, this, as the name suggests, will create some noise for you. Noisely claims to improve focus and boost your productivity. You can choose from random, productivity, or relax sound effects, or select one or more of the options below. I'll show you how it works. I'll select thunderstorm right here and water stream. You can increase or decrease the volume by moving the

23:29 sliders. They also have an app on iOS and Android. There's also an extension for Chrome. Online Convert is an easytouse file converter that will take just about any media file on your computer, no larger than 100 megabytes, and convert it from one format to another. Here is how it works. If I wanted to convert an audio file from MP3 to AAC, I would select the drop-own box for audio converter and select convert to AAC. On the next screen, select browse. Find your file and select open. There are optional settings listed below for changing the audio bit rate and others. When you're ready, select convert file. Depending on your file, it may take a minute or two. Once it's done, you can save that converted file to your computer. Open Culture offers free cultural and educational media. Here you can find free online courses, movies, audiobooks, ebooks along with other free stuff. In their online courses section, you can find more than 1300 courses from some of the world's leading

24:41 universities, including Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, and many others. If you're looking for free courses and other media, Open Culture is another great site to check out. Here's another great website from the folks at the Internet Archive. Open Library offers more than 250,000 free ebooks that can be borrowed in either PDF, EPUB, or online form. Best of all, it is all completely legal. PC Particker. This is a great site for you do-it-yourself computer builders. Let's first take a look at start a system build. This is great for creating a parts list for your system build. First, you choose a CPU. Automatic compatibility limits parts known to be compatible with other parts already selected. Prices are constantly being updated from dozens of retailers to make sure you're getting the best prices. So, if we select this Intel Core i57600, looks like the best price here is from Outlet PC for $228.49. So, if we select add for this part, the part should be from Outlet PC

25:47 and it is. And then you just work your way down the list. If you happen to choose a part that's not compatible, you would get a warning up here in the upper leftand corner. PC Part Picker also has user created build guides. If you've never built your own PC, they're a great resource. Also, check out their forums for more ideas and to get partless feedback from other users. Next up is PDF Drive. This is for those of you that were requesting another source to download ebooks. On their homepage, you'll see a list of books that are trending. At the top, you could do a search or you could select one of the several categories listed on the right to browse their selection. I'll select technology and you'll see several books that are listed. If you select one of the ebooks, it will open a new page where you can preview and download the PDF. On this page, you'll also see a listing of similar books that may be of interest to you. PDF drive is free to

26:44 use with no ads or download limits. Sometimes you just want to quickly edit a photo without having to learn a complicated image editing program like Photoshop. Pikmonkey makes it real simple. Select edit a photo. To select an image from your computer, select open and then select computer. You also have the options for my hub and Facebook. And they do have templates on here, too. There are a ton of editing options here in the left pane. I'll do a quick demonstration with the stock photo here. So to crop it, select crop, select the size. When done, hit apply. Change the exposure. Go down to the brightness slider. Let's darken it a little bit. Let's add a little highlights. So let's reduce that, too. Click apply. Then select colors. We'll change the saturation a little bit here. and lower the temperature. Select apply. When you're done saving your image, select save and then save to my computer. Pixabay is a fantastic resource for creatives with more than a

27:58 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 want to edit pictures online for free without having to download or learn a program like Photoshop or Pixler just might be what you're looking for. It now comes in two flavors, Pixler X and Pixel E. Pixel X includes the absolute basics to crop, resize, and includes filters and effects. Pixel E is for those of you that require more advanced tools. Print friendly. We've all been on a website and have wanted to print out an article or tutorial, but most of the time the ads and pictures make the print out a mess. This site makes the printouts more printer friendly. First, you want to select a URL that you want to print out. I'll select an article from a popular local news site. Copy and paste that URL right here on Print Friendly. Select print

29:00 preview. As you can see, that article looks a lot cleaner now. When you're ready to print, select print to send it to your printer, or you can create a PDF or email it. So, check out this site if you want cleaner printouts. Up next is Privote. For those times you need to send confidential information to a co-orker, family member, or friends, this 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. Some of you may be familiar with free ebook sites like Open Library. Project Gutenberg is very similar. In fact, it's the oldest digital library on the internet. It has over 53,000 free ebooks available in different formats, including HTML, EPUB, Kindle, and others. It won't have the newest blockbusters, but with any luck, you may just be able to find something to read on this

30:02 site. Road Trippers lets you plan your route for a road trip to help you discover landmarks, attractions, and places off the beaten path worldwide. Here's how it works. I'll just put in a generic start and destination for the trip. So, we'll start off in New Orleans, ending in Dallas, Texas, and I'll tick on attractions, natural wonders, and weird stuff. And then hit go. And just like with any other mapping software, you can zoom in and zoom out to see things a little bit closer. Now, let's check out some of the places on the way on our trip. You'll see there's the National Hansen's Disease Museum. Uh there's Frog Racing near Crowley and and so on and so forth. You can save your trip by clicking right here on save your trip. Once your trip is saved, it can be synced to the Road Trippers iOS or Android app for turnbyturn navigation. Before you head out on your next road trip, you should definitely check out this site. Scratch is a free visual

31:06 programming language and online community for children. It was developed by the MIT Media Lab for kids ages eight and up. Scratch is often used to teach coding, computer science, and help with computational thinking. They have a lot of tutorials to help you or your child get started. Just select a tutorial. I'll select make music. Then just follow the directions along the right side of the page. Scratch is completely free and it's a great learning resource for children. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked for software that will convert a PDF into a Word document or vice versa. If you have Microsoft Word or the paid version of Adobe Acrobat, this process is easy. If you don't, it can be a hassle. Thankfully, Small PDF makes it easy. They have several tools listed on the screen that should help you out, including PDF to Word, Word to PDF, PDF compression, JPEG to PDF, and many others. And since all of the work is done in the cloud, all these tools

32:06 will work on all operating systems, including Windows, Mac, and Linux. Let me show you how it works. I'm going to take this LG manual, which is in a PDF format, and convert it into a Word document. So on this screen, I'll select PDF to Word. You can select choose file to find the file on your computer, or you can drag a PDF from a folder and just drop it in here, which is what I'll do. So, let me drag it over and drop it. You just have to wait for the file to get converted, which in some cases can take a minute or two. When it's done, you have the option to save the file to Google Drive, Dropbox, or download the file. As you all know, airplanes are getting more cramped as airlines try to pack in more flyers to increase their revenues. Seat Guru features more detailed aircraft seat maps, seat reviews, and a color-coded system to help identify the best and worst seats. To find seat maps, first select your airline. I will go with Delta, which is

33:05 one of my least favorite airlines. The flight number is 1970. Select the date of your flight, then select find seat map. On any of the flights listed, select view map. If you move your mouse over each seat, it'll give you more detailed information. Along the right side, you get seating details by class of seating, traveler photos of that plane, in-flight amenities, an overview of that plane, and my favorite section, featured user comments, which will show their seat number along with their personal experience in that seat. SoloLearn is our top recommendation for beginners that want to learn the absolute basics of programming. In addition to their website, you can also learn on the go with their Android and iOS apps with tutorials for Python, JavaScript, Ruby, HTML, CSS, and many others. Once you select a course, just follow the instructions and work at your own pace. Soundation is a music studio in the cloud with many features, including recording, effects, virtual instruments,

34:08 and over 700 free loops and sounds. Instead of just talking about it, let's jump in and I'll briefly show you how it works. Select launch the studio. What's great about this is you don't have to have any music experience at all. You'll notice your audio channels are here on the left. If you need more, you just hit the plus sign down here. There are sliders so you can adjust the volume for each channel. And there are several effects that you can choose from. Over on the right side in the library tab, all of these sounds are free. And you can pay extra to get premium sounds. I'm going to show you a quick example on how to use it here. So, I'm going to select electronica 125. Now, I'll select kick and just click and drag it over to an audio channel. To extend the time, just grab a corner, click and drag. Let's hear how that

35:00 sounds. Now, let's add clap. Click and drag it. Extend it out. And let's hear that. That sounds pretty cool. Now, let's add a snare. And hear that. That's not too bad. I would suggest playing around with this for a while, experimenting with the free sounds to make some really cool music. to learn how to use Foundation. They have how-tos and videos to get you started. I've only used the free account so far. If you need more features, they do offer paid versions starting at $4.99 per month. If you're someone that doesn't like to waste food or you just don't feel like going to the grocery store, Super Cook is a handy recipe search

35:52 engine that lets you search by ingredients you already have in your pantry or fridge. To use it, select the ingredients you already have in your home on the left. Let's go with garlic, butter, sour cream. Scroll down the list. Flour, sugar, banana. Scroll down some more, cheddar, and bacon. When you're done, you'll see all the available recipes based on the ingredients you selected here on the right. 10-minute mail. The site is great when you don't want to use your real email address. It gives you a throwaway temporary email address that will expire in 10 minutes. This is especially useful on sites that require email address validation or any other purpose. For example, this website requires an email address to download their software. I'll just enter in the one I copied from 10-minute mail and paste it here. The emails will now show up here on the 10-minute mail site until they expire. Tiny PNG is the site I use to compress

36:58 images. This is useful if you're looking to reduce the amount of space being used up on your drives. If you're a website developer, the reduced size of your image files will make your web pages load quicker. It's almost impossible to see the difference in quality between the uncompressed and compressed images. It's really easy to use. At the top of the page, just find an image on your computer. You can actually select up to 20 images, no more than 5 megabytes each, and drop them right here. When it's done, it will show you how much your image was reduced in size. With Tiny PNG, you can download each compressed image individually, save to Dropbox, or download all if you compressed more than one image. Most people don't read terms and service agreements. We just click agree and move on. The website terms of service didn't read does the difficult work of analyzing and summarizing the terms and services and privacy policies of websites and services on the

37:58 internet. After being analyzed, the terms of service are assigned a grade with an Agrade having the best terms of service and on the opposite end an E-grade being the worst with the terms of service raising various serious concerns. On their homepage, you'll see a summary of the terms of service and a grade assigned to some of the most well-known companies. For example, it's no surprise Facebook and Amazon are given an Egrade. In their search box, you can do a search of any website or service in their database. As expected, Duck.Go has a fantastic terms of service and is given an A grade. Let's now pull up a summary of the terms of service when signing up for any service with Apple. With an A-grade, it's quite obvious that Apple's marketing does not match reality. And in fairness, Microsoft and Google are no better. Some of you out there are great at typing as long as it's on a smartphone. But when it comes to typing on a computer keyboard, you may need to

38:53 improve your skills. The hunt and peck method of typing is amusing to watch, but it's not the most efficient. This is where typing.com can help you out. There's a teacher section that can help to grade and track a student's progress. And if you're a student just wanting to get in some extra practice or an adult just wanting to get better at typing, select students. At the very top, you can log into the site if you'd like to save your progress. They offer typing tests that can earn you certificates that you can show off to other people. They also offer games to make learning typing more fun. Typing.com is completely free with unlimited use for both students and teachers. Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced online dictionary that will help you to find the definitions of slang words and phrases. If you're a parent or grandparent, this website might be useful for you to understand what your kids are saying. To find the

39:45 meaning of a word or phrase, type it in the search box. A popular one you'll see in the comment section on many social sites is okay boomer. The top voted definition will be listed at the top, followed by others submitted by users. Virus total 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. If you're someone that enjoys reading books, what should I read next is a site you should have bookmarked. It recommends books based on an analysis of

40:42 their database of real readers to give you suggestions of what you should read next. In the search box, enter the title of a book or an author. I'll go with The Shining, which is a book by Stephen King. Select it. In the new page that opens, it'll list books it thinks you might like based on your search query. Widescreen gaming forum. For those of you with widescreen, 4K, or multiple monitors, this site can make your gaming experience on PC even better. You can find your game from the games database listed in alphabetical order, so you can see if that game is supported for your monitor. And this site can also offer fixes or workarounds to get your game working perfectly on your gaming monitor. It also gives medals in various categories based on the level of support. So for Grand Theft Auto 5 gets a gold medal for widescreen support, gold for multimonitor. If you're a PC gamer, this is a site you should bookmark for help with your gaming monitor. Wolf from Alpha is a

41:41 computational knowledge engine that answers factual queries by computing the answers from externally sourced curated data. In other words, the founder refers to it as a fact search engine. Instead of pointing you to other web pages like the typical search engine, it returns answers instead. To find out the other types of queries you can do with Wolf from Alpha, select the categories listed and it will show you various examples. When simply just looking for answers, Wolf from Alpha is the source I go to first. For those of you yelling at your screen right now, why didn't they include YouTube? This one's for you. While there is a large amount of totally worthless content and channels that lower the overall intelligence quotient on the service, you can learn something as simple as boiling an egg. There's tutorials that will help you fix your car, and you can even learn how to build a house. Normally, we put the list of websites in the description of our

42:36 videos. Since this list was so massive, we ran out of room. So, here's a recap of all the sites mentioned in this video. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music]

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