It’s that classic newspaper puzzle where you try to unscramble the letters. I’m going to strongly advise adblock such as uBlock on this one because without it, it seems to be broken. Overall, it’s a fun game to play and if you get stuck you could always use a Jumble Solver.
Just a quick preface, ad block such as uBlock is strongly advised for this one. This site streams cable channels such as HLN, Fox News, One America News, Weather Channel, CNN, and others. If you’re a cord cutter or on the road, it’s a great way to catch the latest propaganda and political bias when you don’t have cable.
If you live in the United States, you need this. This allows you to see the mail that is supposed to be delivered to your home before it actually gets delivered. That way, if something that was supposed to be there isn’t, you will know that it was lost in transit as opposed to having never been sent.
A lot of times you might want to check out a website, but they require an email address. There are a variety of these fake email sites around, but fake mail generator has a few different domains (the part after the @) to choose from. Naturally, you would never use this to receive any personal or sensitive information, but for a quick throw away, it will do in a pinch!
This is a good one! No ads and once it’s been loaded, it continues to work even without an internet connection. This is the classic Klondike variety. Honestly I prefer its intuitive interface more than the old Windows version. As long as your don’t clear your history, it even remembers where you were if you close your browser and come back later.
Basically, what it say’s on the tin. It allows you to generate tones of a specific waveform and frequency. Though cumbersome, you can even layer multiple tones by opening the site in additional tabs.
Recently some of the features that I loved about this site have become paywalled, but as an online weather site, Windy still has a pretty good set of free (albeit ad supported) features. Some of the features include wind maps, satellite, radar, temperature, waves, and more! It’s nice way to get an overview of the “big picture” to see what’s coming your way.
Flightradar24.com
At any given time, thousands of aircraft are flying all around the world, and believe it or not, their locations and itinerary are all freely out there for anybody to see. Flightradar24.com is one such site you can use to find out who is flying that helicopter over your house right now!
Like most sites these days, it’s ad supported. You can sign up for an account to pay for additional features to have an ad free experience.
You didn’t think I wasn’t going to include one of my own now did you? Rest assured, I’ve only got 3 sites at the moment, and you’re on one of them, so don’t expect me to be plugging my own stuff too often.
I created mBlip as a YouTube aggregator site. It checks for interesting new videos every hour. Sometimes it gets a little buggy, but when it does I just give it a lobotomy and restart it. The posts are self-populating. Other than wiping its memory when it goes off the rails, mBlip automagically puts up new content as it finds it. It’s going on 7 years, and I visit it most every day. It does have a sister site called EVsoup that is basically mBlip, but mostly limited to the topic of electric vehicles.
I don’t run any ads on it, don’t make a dime off it, but the videos are embedded from YouTube, so it’s a safe bet that google is able to track you through it.
So that’s it for week 1 of “Better Things”.
So what did you think? Leave a comment below and let me know if you have any ideas for improvements.
(Just no links.)
Home of Z̼̚a̞̘ͪḷ͈͂gͯͪǒ (Zalgo) and Fancy Font Generator, qwerty.dev is a very simple site that allows visitors to input their own text to generate decorative unicode versions of their text. Sadly WordPress won’t let me demonstrate the fancy fonts here, but they do seem to work in various forums and chat rooms.
The site looks like it might have trackers, but not really any ads to speak of. Of course I always use uBlock (#not-an-ad-just-a-fan), so your mileage may vary.
