Useful links
..to save time and/or make things easier.
Links
https://duckduckgo.com/ #search engine that is not profiling its users
https://www.wolframalpha.com/ #knowledge engine
https://gen.lib.rus.ec/ #download books for free
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html #date calculator
https://www.fakespot.com/ #fakespot spots, analyzes and identifies fake reviews
https://haveibeenpwned.com/ #checks if your email address has been compromised
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ #monitors the status of your favorite web sites
https://www.remove.bg/ #removes white color from picture
https://www.onlineocr.net/ #image to text converter
https://images.google.com/ #google search based on images
Browser Extensions
https://www.tampermonkey.net/ #userscript manager
Flash Video Downloader #download video and audio from many websites (except YouTube)
Invideo for Youtube #search inside text of Youtube Videos
SnapLinks #plugin that allows you to select and open multiple links at once
Camelizer #Amazon price tracker, price history charts, price watches, and price drop alerts
Wikiwand #Wikipedia with a great new look
Tools
GitHUB
https://github.com/
Total Commander
https://www.ghisler.com/
Excel/Pivot_Tables/SPSS
https://www.google.com/sheets/about/
Snipping Tool (basic windows feature)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027213/windows-10-open-snipping-tool-and-take-a-screenshot
Dropbox:
https://dropbox.com
Youtube video downloader py:
https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui
Google Maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/about/#!/
Google Translate:
https://translate.google.com/
Google - All features:
https://www.google.com/accessibility/products-features/
KeePass:
https://keepass.info/
Notepad++
https://notepad-plus-plus.org
Tricks
Google search for book:
intext:"[Title of Work]"+"[Author]" filetype:pdf #make sure you replace the [Title] & [Author]
Google Advanced Searching:
https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
Search for videos: #surprise: Bing is better in this aspect
https://www.bing.com/?scope=video&nr=1
Regex (regular expressions):
https://medium.com/factory-mind/regex-tutorial-a-simple-cheatsheet-by-examples-649dc1c3f285
Reading tricks
Reading tricks
#Google Feed on PC:
https://news.google.com/foryou
Read aloud on PC:
Read Aloud Chrome/Brave extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-aloud-a-text-to-spee/hdhinadidafjejdhmfkjgnolgimiaplp
or use Edge:
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/use-read-aloud-feature-microsoft-edge-windows-10/
for non webpages content you can use Windows10 Narrator
Android
you can ask google to read the page for you
https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-04-google-assistant-android-read-it.html
https://mashtips.com/how-to-read-webpages-aloud-on-android/
& to read anything saved to your device you can use MoonReader