Lets 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, 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 PicMonkey, to get started, select photo editor, you have the option to upload one of your photos or use one of theirs.
Along the left 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 forms 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, brainly is a social learning community for students where you can get help in almost every subject.
Those include maths, history, physics, geography, and several others, here’s how it works, you could either type in your question 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, so the next time you need help getting a question answered you should try out brainly.
If you shop on Amazon, camel camel camel is a Tracker that monitors the price of millions of products on the shopping side, even though I don’t shop on Amazon all the time it’s still useful to determine the right time to buy, especially when shopping for computer parts.
On 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.
You can you run it, before buying a 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.
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 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, codecademy 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 instructions coding game is for you programmers out there looking to improve your skills in a fun and interesting way it lets you code a browser-based 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.
Cymath is 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 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 cymath 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 cymath also has an app for IOS and Android.
Designer is an easy to use 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 several other categories of templates.
Designer includes many features including millions of images and thousands of vector, art stickers, and backgrounds, 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 can 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 Internet company, mobile provider, streaming service, or any other online service.
To find out they’re having an outage or some other problem to use it is 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 there are no current problems.
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.
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.
Select the number of calories, leave it on two thousand, and for the number of meals you plan to eat in a day, then click on generate, scroll down a bit, you’ll now see a meal plan based on the information you entered.
Ecosia is a search engine that plants trees with its ad Revenue, ecosia’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 is 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.
Free Code Camp is a non-profit 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 the site offers lessons and several skills including HTML5 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 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 phishing site, using Google safe browsing.
When you’re on a website with a shortened link, copy it and then paste it on the get link info site, then do your search, you’ll get a link information page 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 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 system’s instructions for installing fonts.
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, hack a day is a great site if you’re looking for unique and interesting projects.
Haxplaining was created to teach developers about security vulnerabilities you could 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-site scripting, click jacking, 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 haxplaing 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 pwned to find out if your accounts have been compromised, enter your email address, 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.
Highbrow is a non-traditional learning site designed for those people that have busy lives, the lessons are five 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 encoding 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 it’s 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 playing that game.
At the top do a search for your game, Halo infant is popular right now, click into it according to this depending on your play style it would take 10 and a half hours to finish the main story and up to 25 and a half hours if you’re a completionist.
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, I fix it is a website that you should have bookmarked, in addition to selling tools and parts they also have pre-repair guides for many of today’s popular electronic devices along with those long forgotten.
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.
I love PDF, you have more than a dozen options including conversions merging and compressing of PDFs it works exactly the same as small PDF.
Select what you want to do I’ll select convert word to PDF and 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 free limit with small PDF.
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’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. 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 that you want to watch.
In the search box, at the upper right type the name of the movie or TV show you’re looking for then select the season let’s go find season one 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.
Up next is Khan Academy it was founded way back in 2006 and is perhaps one of the best educational websites, on Khan 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 minus 2 equals four and then hit enter and we’ll solve for x and it shows you right here that x equals six with a brief interpretation of the steps.
Mathway is free, but will cost 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 on-screen prompts memrise is free to use with no advertising and they also have an IOS and Android app.
When setting up a new Windows PC Ninite 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, when you’re done making your selections, click on get your nanite, I won’t be running this again just find the location you saved it to and run it to install the programs you selected keep your programs up to date, just go back to the location where you save 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 noisily claims to improve focus and boost your productivity you can choose from random, productivity, or relaxed sound effects, they also have an app on IOS and Android, there’s also an extension for Chrome.
Online convert is an easy to use 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 down 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 bitrate 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.
Openculture 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 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 part picker this is a great site for you do-it-yourself computer builders let’s first take a look at startup 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.
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 in the upper left hand corne, 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 home page 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.
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 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, PicMonkey 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.
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 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 includes the absolute Basics to crop resize and includes filters and effects Pixlr e is for those of you that require more advanced tools.
Print friendly, we’ve all been on the website and have wanted to print out an article or tutorial, but most of the time the ads and pictures make the printout a mess this site makes the printouts more printer friendly.
First you want to select a URL that you want to print out, copy and paste that URL on print friendly, select print preview, 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 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 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 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, just put in a generic start and destination for the trip, you can take 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.
You can save your trip by clicking right here on save your trip once your trip is saved it can be synced to the roadtrippers iOS or Android app for turn-by-turn navigation before you head out on your next road trip you should definitely check out this site.
Scratch is a free visual programming language and online community for children, it was developed by the MIT media lab for kids ages 8 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 the tutorial, 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.
Small PDF 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 will work on all operating systems including Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Solo Learn 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.
Foundation is a music studio in the cloud with many features including recording effects virtual instruments and over 700 free loops and sounds.
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
If you’re someone that doesn’t like to waste food, or you just don’t feel like going to the shops, supercook is a handy recipe search engine that lets you search by ingredients you already have in your pantry or fridge.
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.
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 internet after being analyzed the terms of service are assigned a grade.
With an a grade, 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 home page you’ll see a summary of the terms of service and a grade assigned to some of the most well-known companies.
Typing.com, 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 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 meaning of a word or phrase type it in the search box.
A popular one you’ll see in the comments section on many social sites is okay Boomer, the top voted definition will be listed at the top followed by others submitted by users.
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 risky, you should avoid going to that website or remove the filing question from your computer.
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 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 multi-monitor, if you’re a PC Gamer this is a site you should bookmark for help with your gaming monitor.
WolframAlpha is a 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 wolframalpha, select the categories listed, and it will show you various examples, when simply just looking for answers well from alpha, is the source I go to First.
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