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This to That: Glue Advice Site
Tool · thistothat.com · Issue #125
This to That is a long-running glue advice site, with copyright dating to 1999.
Summary
This to That is a long-running glue advice site, with copyright dating to 1999. Visitors choose the material on each side of a join, from ceramic, fabric and glass to wood, vinyl and Styrofoam, and get guidance on which glue suits that pairing. The site also has trivia, news, a monthly glue feature and a French version.
Brush Ninja: Browser Animation and Drawing Tools
Tool · brush.ninja · Issue #124
Brush Ninja is a browser-based set of creative tools, best known for an animated GIF maker, along with a stop-motion animator, a drawing app, a photo collage maker and a comic maker.
Summary
Brush Ninja is a browser-based set of creative tools, best known for an animated GIF maker, along with a stop-motion animator, a drawing app, a photo collage maker and a comic maker. It also offers classroom resources such as teacher guides and lesson plans, plus browser games. Made by Binary Moon, the tools are free to use in a browser, while some features require a membership.
Microsoft Designer: Quick Graphic Design App
Tool · designer.microsoft.com · Issue #123
Microsoft Designer is a graphic design app for creating social media posts, invitations, digital postcards and other graphics, starting from an idea.
Summary
Microsoft Designer is a graphic design app for creating social media posts, invitations, digital postcards and other graphics, starting from an idea. The page presents it as a way to produce polished designs quickly, and it is published by Microsoft.
Timestripe: Goal Planning App
Tool · timestripe.com · Issue #122
Timestripe is a goal-planning app built around Horizons, a system with flexible time frames for linking daily tasks to long-term goals.
Summary
Timestripe is a goal-planning app built around Horizons, a system with flexible time frames for linking daily tasks to long-term goals. Other features include calendar time-blocking, shareable boards, Climbs step-by-step programs for areas such as fitness, finance and career, rich-text notes, and recurring goals. Apps are listed for iOS and Android, and the company is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
Caffeine Calculator: Safe Daily Limits by Body Weight
Tool · caffeineinformer.com · Issue #120
Caffeine Informer's calculator estimates how much of a caffeinated drink a person can have based on body weight, and at what amount it could be dangerous.
Summary
Caffeine Informer's calculator estimates how much of a caffeinated drink a person can have based on body weight, and at what amount it could be dangerous. Users enter a drink and their weight in pounds or kilos. The page cites health authorities recommending no more than 200 mg of caffeine in a single dose for adults, with lower limits for children and teens. Caffeine in food is excluded.
Kee: Link Page Styled as a Phone Home Screen
Tool · kee.so · Issue #118
Kee is a website builder for a personal link page styled as a phone home screen, in Apple, Android or Windows themes.
Summary
Kee is a website builder for a personal link page styled as a phone home screen, in Apple, Android or Windows themes. Social links, URLs, photos, videos, podcasts, products and services can appear as app-style icons or widgets, reached through a custom short link such as kee.so/you. The page presents it as a way to share links from one place.
Guidde: AI Tool for Turning Workflows Into Guides
Tool · guidde.com · Issue #116
Guidde is an AI platform that records a software workflow with a browser extension, desktop or mobile app, then generates a video guide with a written script, voiceover and captions.
Summary
Guidde is an AI platform that records a software workflow with a browser extension, desktop or mobile app, then generates a video guide with a written script, voiceover and captions. Users can edit scripts and audio, translate guides into 50+ languages, and share or export them. The page aims it at onboarding, support and training teams, and says sign-up needs no credit card, with pricing on a separate page.
f.lux: Screen Color That Follows the Time of Day
Tool · justgetflux.com · Issue #114
f.lux is a desktop program that shifts a display's color toward warm tones at night and to daylight tones during the day, adjusted to the user's location and indoor lighting.
Summary
f.lux is a desktop program that shifts a display's color toward warm tones at night and to daylight tones during the day, adjusted to the user's location and indoor lighting. The page lists it as free on macOS and Linux and free for personal use on Windows, with separate corporate and site licenses. It can also sync with Hue smart lights.
TimeInZone: Compare Times Across Time Zones
Tool · timeinzone.com · Issue #113
TimeInZone is a simple web app for comparing times across several time zones.
Summary
TimeInZone is a simple web app for comparing times across several time zones. It is aimed at planning meeting times across multiple time zones.
Letsrecast: Article-to-Audio App (Shut Down)
Tool · letsrecast.ai · Issue #111
Letsrecast, which turned articles into audio, has shut down, and its farewell page thanks users.
Summary
Letsrecast, which turned articles into audio, has shut down, and its farewell page thanks users. The newsletter described the app at the time as handling up to 20,000 words per article.
Legend: Productivity App for Deep Work
Tool · legendapp.com · Issue #110
Legend combines documents, notes, to-do lists, emails, files and projects in one interface.
Summary
Legend combines documents, notes, to-do lists, emails, files and projects in one interface. Filtered panes surface urgent tasks across projects, and the app supports Markdown documents, an outliner and an agenda view. Sync runs in real time across devices with client-side AES-256 encryption. The free tier includes 10 panes and unlimited documents, and paid plans start at $5 a month.
Deepnotes: Infinite Canvas Note-Taking
Tool · deepnotes.app · Issue #110
Deepnotes is an open source, end-to-end encrypted infinite canvas for notes, with nested containers and real-time collaboration.
Summary
Deepnotes is an open source, end-to-end encrypted infinite canvas for notes, with nested containers and real-time collaboration. It is used for mind maps, diagrams, kanban boards, flashcards and study material. The Basic plan is free at $0 a month with a 50-page limit for personal use, and the Pro plan costs $4.99 a month.
Lightpad: Calendar With a Spatial Timeline
Tool · lightpad.ai · Issue #109
Lightpad is a planning calendar built around Timeflow, a view that lays out days, weeks, months and hours in one consistent format.
Summary
Lightpad is a planning calendar built around Timeflow, a view that lays out days, weeks, months and hours in one consistent format. It syncs with Google Calendar, supports tags with custom colors, and has a notes mode with a focus setting. It works offline as a progressive web app, and its base plan is free, with paid plans listed on a separate pricing page.
CubeTrek: GPS Track Viewer With 3D Terrain
Tool · cubetrek.com · Issue #106
CubeTrek is a web app for viewing and managing GPS tracks over realistic 3D terrain, aimed at skiing, mountaineering, mountain biking and trail running.
Summary
CubeTrek is a web app for viewing and managing GPS tracks over realistic 3D terrain, aimed at skiing, mountaineering, mountain biking and trail running. It offers replay mode, dashboard statistics, matching of repeated routes and import of GPX and FIT files, with sync to Garmin Connect, Polar Flow and Coros. The code is open source under GPL v2, and replay mode is limited by quotas.
Workout.lol: Workout Routine Builder
Tool · workout.lol · Issue #105
Workout.lol is a small web app that builds a workout routine from the equipment you have and the muscles you want to train.
Summary
Workout.lol is a small web app that builds a workout routine from the equipment you have and the muscles you want to train. The page calls it the easiest way to create a workout routine. Its listed creator is the handle @wweb_dev.
Product Chart: Visual Product Comparison
Tool · productchart.com · Issue #101
Product Chart is an online tool that shows gadgets in visual charts, with categories such as 3D printers, solid state drives and flash drives.
Summary
Product Chart is an online tool that shows gadgets in visual charts, with categories such as 3D printers, solid state drives and flash drives. It also includes finders for touch screen laptops, laptops with matte screens and smartphones with removable batteries, plus a similar phone finder.
Eat This Much: Meal Planning App
Tool · eatthismuch.com · Issue #100
Eat This Much builds meal plans from food preferences, budget and schedule to help users reach diet and nutrition targets.
Summary
Eat This Much builds meal plans from food preferences, budget and schedule to help users reach diet and nutrition targets. Users can choose diets such as keto, vegan or Mediterranean and set calorie and macro goals. Grocery lists can be delivered through Instacart or AmazonFresh, and a virtual pantry lets the planner use foods you already have.
Numbr: Calculator and Notepad Combined
Tool · numbr.dev · Issue #99
Numbr is a web app that merges a calculator with a notepad, so numbers written in notes calculate alongside the text.
Summary
Numbr is a web app that merges a calculator with a notepad, so numbers written in notes calculate alongside the text. Anton Medvedev made it, and it draws on Soulver by Zac Cohan. It can be opened in the browser or installed as a Chrome extension.
Have I Been Pwned
Tool · haveibeenpwned.com · Issue #98
Have I Been Pwned is a data breach search service that shows whether an email address appears in known breaches.
Summary
Have I Been Pwned is a data breach search service that shows whether an email address appears in known breaches. It also offers domain monitoring for organizations, a Notify Me alert for future breaches, a password breach check and an API. It tracks over 1,000 breached websites.
MERLOT: Free Teaching and Learning Resources
Tool · merlot.org · Issue #97
MERLOT is an online platform of curated learning materials, exercises and tools, run as a community of educators, learners and researchers.
Summary
MERLOT is an online platform of curated learning materials, exercises and tools, run as a community of educators, learners and researchers. It lists about 110,428 resources by discipline, along with peer reviews, a Content Builder for multi-page websites and a way for members to submit their own materials. The page says joining, creating and submitting materials are free.
Boring Report
Tool · boringreport.org · Issue #96
Boring Report is an AI-generated news app for iOS, Android and desktop, with the tagline News by AI, Information Without the Noise.
Summary
Boring Report is an AI-generated news app for iOS, Android and desktop, with the tagline News by AI, Information Without the Noise. Kuba describes it as stripping the frills and clickbait from news articles. The page shows mostly app metadata and does not explain features in detail or say whether the app is free.
Edit Photo
Tool · edit.photo · Issue #95
Edit.photo is a free browser-based photo editor created by Pintura Labs as a demo of its commercial editor, Pintura.
Summary
Edit.photo is a free browser-based photo editor created by Pintura Labs as a demo of its commercial editor, Pintura. The page says it has no ads, pop-ups, cookies, accounts or tracking, and that photos are edited locally rather than uploaded. It supports JPEG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC and GIF, and purchases of Pintura licenses fund the service.
50 Hacks
Tool · 50hacks.co · Issue #93
50 Hacks is a crowdsourced site, created by Marc Lou, that collects productivity tips.
Summary
50 Hacks is a crowdsourced site, created by Marc Lou, that collects productivity tips. Anyone can submit a hack without an account, and visitors upvote and comment, so the community ranks the tips in Hot, New and Top views. Writing, voting and browsing appear free. The site also carries paid advertising and promotes an unrelated coding course.
Super Agent
Tool · super-agent.com · Issue #92
Superagent is a browser extension and web service, credited to the company ocd.pt, that handles cookie consent pop-ups automatically.
Summary
Superagent is a browser extension and web service, credited to the company ocd.pt, that handles cookie consent pop-ups automatically. Users set their cookie choices once, and the service applies them across websites, notifies them of actions it takes and warns when a site ignores their preferences. Extensions are listed for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge and Opera. The page.
Soundiiz
Tool · soundiiz.com · Issue #91
Soundiiz is a web and mobile service for moving playlists and favorites between music streaming services, and it can keep selected playlists synced.
Summary
Soundiiz is a web and mobile service for moving playlists and favorites between music streaming services, and it can keep selected playlists synced. The page lists 48 supported services, including Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL and Deezer. The free version transfers playlists one at a time with a 200-track cap per playlist, and batch transfers need a paid plan. The page.
StillTasty
Tool · stilltasty.com · Issue #90
StillTasty is a shelf-life reference site, run by StillTasty LLC, that shows how long thousands of foods and drinks keep.
Summary
StillTasty is a shelf-life reference site, run by StillTasty LLC, that shows how long thousands of foods and drinks keep. Its Keep It or Toss It search gives storage timelines for specific items. It also has browsable food categories, Q&A and articles such as how to thaw a turkey. The page.
Touch Pianist
Tool · touchpianist.com · Issue #90
Touch Pianist, built by Batuhan Bozkurt, is a musical toy that lets people play classical pieces by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Satie and Debussy by tapping along with the rhythm.
Summary
Touch Pianist, built by Batuhan Bozkurt, is a musical toy that lets people play classical pieces by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Satie and Debussy by tapping along with the rhythm. It works with a keyboard or touchscreen, and tapping speed sets the playback speed. The apps are free on Android and iOS.
Optic Weather
Tool · opticweather.com · Issue #88
Optic Weather is a weather website with a live forecast, alerts and maps, plus guides on outdoor planning, phone setup and travel.
Summary
Optic Weather is a weather website with a live forecast, alerts and maps, plus guides on outdoor planning, phone setup and travel. It also offers tools such as a severe thunderstorm probability estimator and temperature converters, along with quizzes and phone wallpapers.
Spark
Tool · sparkmailapp.com · Issue #86
Spark Mail is a cross-platform email app designed to show important messages first.
Summary
Spark Mail is a cross-platform email app designed to show important messages first. Its features include Priority, Smart Inbox, Gatekeeper for unwanted senders, Send Later and an AI assistant that finds and summarizes email. It works with Gmail, Outlook, iCloud and IMAP accounts. The page offers a free download and a paid Buy now option, without listing which features are free.
Use the keyboard
Tool · usethekeyboard.com · Issue #85
UseTheKeyboard is a reference site that lists keyboard shortcuts for Mac apps, Windows programs and websites.
Summary
UseTheKeyboard is a reference site that lists keyboard shortcuts for Mac apps, Windows programs and websites. It covers about 90 programs, including Figma, VS Code and Notion, and has a search box. Visitors can suggest new pages through a GitHub issue. The page credits @aschmelyun and appears to be free.
ColorWise: Find Colors That Suit You
Tool · colorwise.me · Issue #82
ColorWise is a web tool for finding colors that suit a person's coloring.
Summary
ColorWise is a web tool for finding colors that suit a person's coloring. It offers a free color analysis to identify a personal palette, plus virtual draping, outfit recoloring, photo color palettes and capsule wardrobe palettes.
Clear mode removes TikTok on-screen text
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #77
Press and hold the screen, then choose clear mode
Summary
Press and hold a TikTok video, then choose clear mode to remove the on-screen text and overlays along the bottom.
The speaker shares a TikTok feature: press and hold the screen, then choose Clear Mode to hide the on-screen text and icons along the sides and bottom of a video. The speaker says it makes watching content easier, since some of the bottom text was hard to read.
Key points- Press and hold the screen, then choose clear mode
- The bottom captions and overlays that block reading are removed
Track This: Firefox Anti-Tracking Tool
Tool · trackthis.link · Issue #77
Track This, from Firefox (Mozilla), is a web tool described as a new kind of Incognito.
Summary
Track This, from Firefox (Mozilla), is a web tool described as a new kind of Incognito. It opens many tabs to make trackers think you are someone else. You choose an alter ego profile from four options: Hypebeast, Filthy Rich, Doomsday and Influencer.
Google Admin Toolbox Screen Recorder
Tool · toolbox.googleapps.com · Issue #73
A browser-based screen and audio recorder from Google's Admin Toolbox, a set of troubleshooting utilities for Google Workspace administrators.
Summary
A browser-based screen and audio recorder from Google's Admin Toolbox, a set of troubleshooting utilities for Google Workspace administrators. Recording starts and stops with buttons, and audio capture is optional. Media is processed in the browser and not sent to Google or other remote services. It works on desktop and laptop devices, and screen and tab audio capture requires Chrome or a Chromium browser. It is described as free.
TypeLit: Typing Practice With Classic Literature
Tool · typelit.io · Issue #70
TypeLit is a typing-practice website that uses classic literature as practice text, with material from Project Gutenberg and Wikipedia.
Summary
TypeLit is a typing-practice website that uses classic literature as practice text, with material from Project Gutenberg and Wikipedia. Built by a solo web developer from Vancouver, it offers a typing test, a State of Typing report, and a $5 monthly premium tier that adds file import, custom text, themes and extra fonts. The site is available in English and eight other languages.
Ninite: Install Many Free Windows Programs at Once
Tool · ninite.com · Issue #68
Ninite is a free Windows tool that installs or updates many programs in one go.
Summary
Ninite is a free Windows tool that installs or updates many programs in one go. You pick apps from a catalog and it fetches each from the publisher's official site, without toolbars or extra software. It checks signatures or hashes and skips apps that are already current. Paid options are Nintune for Intune users, at $1 per machine per year, and Ninite Pro.
Quillbot: AI Writing and Paraphrasing Tools
Tool · quillbot.com · Issue #58
Quillbot is a suite of AI writing tools from Learneo, Inc., including a paraphraser for rewording text, a grammar checker, summarizer, translator and citation generator.
Summary
Quillbot is a suite of AI writing tools from Learneo, Inc., including a paraphraser for rewording text, a grammar checker, summarizer, translator and citation generator. It also covers a plagiarism checker, AI image and presentation creators, and PDF tools. Sign-up is free, and a Premium upgrade is offered.
Terms of Service; Didn't Read
Tool · tosdr.org · Issue #56
ToS;DR is a volunteer project that summarizes website terms of service and privacy policies.
Summary
ToS;DR is a volunteer project that summarizes website terms of service and privacy policies. Contributors flag key points as good, neutral, bad or blocker, and each service receives a grade from A (treats users fairly) to E (raises very serious concerns). The project began in June 2012 and offers a public API and a donate link.
Omni Calculator
Tool · omnicalculator.com · Issue #54
Omni Calculator is a site with 3,938 free calculators across categories such as math, finance, physics, health, conversion and everyday life.
Summary
Omni Calculator is a site with 3,938 free calculators across categories such as math, finance, physics, health, conversion and everyday life. Its homepage pitches the tools as fast and easy for finance, business and health questions. The company has been featured in outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times, Forbes and Nature.
Time.is
Tool · time.is · Issue #52
Time.is shows exact time from atomic clocks for any time zone, across more than 7 million locations.
Summary
Time.is shows exact time from atomic clocks for any time zone, across more than 7 million locations. Besides current time and sunrise and sunset, it lists daylight saving changes and links to tools such as a timer, countdown, calendar, week-number lookup and Unix time converter. It also offers an ad-free option alongside the standard site.
How to Bypass a Paywall
Read · bardeen.ai · Issue #47
A Bardeen blog post by Jason Gong listing 18 ways to get past article paywalls, including browser extensions, web archives such as the Wayback Machine and archive.ph, and reader modes.
Summary
A Bardeen blog post by Jason Gong listing 18 ways to get past article paywalls, including browser extensions, web archives such as the Wayback Machine and archive.ph, and reader modes. The author notes that paywalls are either soft or hard, and that bypass methods should be used only where permitted. Bypass Paywalls Clean is described as open source.
Paper Website: Build a Site from a Notebook
Tool · paperwebsite.com · Issue #45
Paper Website is a tool for starting a small blog by writing by hand on paper and publishing those notes online.
Summary
Paper Website is a tool for starting a small blog by writing by hand on paper and publishing those notes online. It presents pen and paper as a less distracting way to write, with the goal of reaching a wide audience.
Alfred makes Mac tasks faster
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #44
Alfred searches the web, Amazon, files and folders from one bar
Summary
Alfred is a Mac search tool that makes everyday computer tasks about three times faster than clicking through Finder.
The speaker recommends Alfred, a Mac app they install first on any new computer. It works like Spotlight on steroids, searching the web, Amazon, files, and folders, and opening URLs directly. The speaker says it makes their computer work about three times faster than clicking through Finder.
Key points- Alfred searches the web, Amazon, files and folders from one bar
- Typing a URL into Alfred is quicker than clicking through Finder and Safari
- The speaker says he installs Alfred first on every new Mac
Human Benchmark
Tool · humanbenchmark.com · Issue #34
Human Benchmark is a site of games and tests that measure reflexes, accuracy, and memory, letting you compare your results with other internet users.
Summary
Human Benchmark is a site of games and tests that measure reflexes, accuracy, and memory, letting you compare your results with other internet users. It is meant as entertainment for passing time.
Mailbrew
Tool · app.mailbrew.com · Issue #32
Mailbrew is a tool for building a digest that combines content from different services and newsletters into one summary.
Summary
Mailbrew is a tool for building a digest that combines content from different services and newsletters into one summary. The author recommends trying it.
TinyWow: Free Online PDF, Image, Video and Text Tools
Tool · tinywow.com · Issue #30
TinyWow is a website with online tools for PDFs, images, video, text, and files, including PDF merging and compression, background removal, video to GIF conversion, CSV to JSON, and a YouTube transcript generator.
Summary
TinyWow is a website with online tools for PDFs, images, video, text, and files, including PDF merging and compression, background removal, video to GIF conversion, CSV to JSON, and a YouTube transcript generator. The page presents the tools as free with no sign-up, and promotes a paid Premium tier that removes ads and CAPTCHAs. It says uploaded files are deleted after one hour.
What's Available Where on Netflix (uNoGS)
Tool · unogs.com · Issue #29
uNoGS is an unofficial Netflix search site for finding which titles are available in each country.
Summary
uNoGS is an unofficial Netflix search site for finding which titles are available in each country. It offers advanced search with filters for IMDb rating, year, type, audio, subtitles, and genre, plus top-250 lists. Users can submit titles the scrapers missed through a form or API so they are added to a chosen country's catalog.
PlayPhrase.me
Tool · playphrase.me · Issue #25
PlayPhrase.me lets you type a phrase and see the movie scenes where it appears, with the matching clip played back.
Summary
PlayPhrase.me lets you type a phrase and see the movie scenes where it appears, with the matching clip played back. The site describes its search across millions of movie clips as useful for language learning and cinema research.
Joplin
Tool · joplinapp.org · Issue #25
Joplin is an open source note-taking and to-do app by Laurent Cozic, available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and as a terminal app.
Summary
Joplin is an open source note-taking and to-do app by Laurent Cozic, available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and as a terminal app. Notes sync through Joplin Cloud, Dropbox, or OneDrive, can include images, PDFs, audio, and diagrams, and are protected with end-to-end encryption. A browser clipper saves web pages, and users can add plugins or choose Markdown or rich text editing.
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