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Websites That Actually Solve Problems: You'll Want To Bookmark These
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items A running list of the websites I turn to again and again—plus a few hidden gems worth bookmarking. This covers reverse image search, photo editing, flight tracking, PDF tools, and digging up old books or historical records, along with sites for gener...
I turn to this one when I need to figure out where an image actually came from. Upload a photo or paste an image URL, and it finds matching versions across the web—so you can track down the original or earliest known use, spot modified or edited copi...
TinEye Reverse Image Search
My go-to whenever I need to do something with a PDF and don't want to open a full desktop program for it. It handles pretty much everything—editing, compressing oversized files, converting to and from Word or images, merging multiple PDFs into one, s...
Smallpdf
This is the one I reach for anytime I need to do something with a PDF and don't want to open a full desktop program for it. Smallpdf handles pretty much everything—editing, compressing oversized files, converting to and from Word or images, merging m...
Internet Archive - Wayback Machine
For original source material instead of someone else's summary of history, this is where I go. It has millions of free digitized items online—photographs, maps, old newspapers, books, manuscripts, recordings, films, and other documents—and you can se...
Library of Congress
When I want to actually see what's happening in the air, not just check a flight number and a status, this is what I pull up. It shows planes moving on a live map in real time, and you can look up specific flights, airports, airlines, or aircraft. It...
Flightradar24
To see how a place actually looked before now, not just read about it, this is the tool I reach for. It pulls together historical maps from libraries, archives, and map collections worldwide, so you can search a location and find old maps of towns, c...
OldMapsOnline
A massive stash of free ebooks—over 79,000 of them—mostly older titles whose U.S. copyrights have expired, so you can legally read or download the whole thing for free. Works on a computer, phone, tablet, or ereader, and you can search by author, tit...
Project Gutenberg
My default for basically anything I don't know how to do yet or don't have time to figure out myself. It answers questions, researches topics, breaks down complicated ideas, brainstorms, writes, analyzes information, and helps organize projects. I us...
ChatGPT
For basically all my writing and document work, since everything saves automatically and lives in one place instead of scattered across random files. Google Docs lets you write and format documents right in your browser, collaborate with other people...
Google Docs: Online Document & PDF Editor
Anytime information needs structure instead of just existing as a wall of text, this is where it goes—lists, expense tracking, project management, sorting data, or building out tables and charts. Google Sheets works right in your browser, saves every...
Google Sheets: Online Spreadsheets
When you need actual Photoshop-level tools but don't want to install or pay for Photoshop, this runs entirely in your browser and still handles layers, masks, filters, background removal, resizing, and retouching. Photopea opens and edits PSD files d...
Photopea
For researching something and wanting a straight answer with the sources right there instead of ten open tabs, Perplexity searches the web and uses AI to summarize what it finds, linking back to where the information came from. Good for comparing inf...
Perplexity
For exploring art and history without leaving your browser, this pulls together over 100,000 artworks, virtual museum experiences, historical photographs, cultural archives, 360-degree tours, and interactive exhibits from institutions around the worl...
Google Arts & Culture
When you need an AI-generated image fast and don't want to create another account just to get it, this one lets you generate art, illustrations, backgrounds, and graphics straight from a text prompt with no sign-up required. No subscription and no da...
AI Image Generator (free, no sign-up, unlimited)
For checking whether an email address has been caught up in a known data breach, you enter the address and it shows you whether it's turned up in a reported breach and which services were involved. Useful for old accounts or emails you haven't though...
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