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Howdy folks, Brett here.
The first website I have for you is Library Thing. Never before featured in any of our videos, it's now celebrating its 20th anniversary. If you're a fan of reading books, the site lets you share what you're reading and connect with millions of users with similar tastes. When you do a search for a book on Library Thing, it has reviews, discussions you can participate in, and other books that are recommended by the site and its members based on that book.
My Retro TVs is a cool free site if you're into nostalgia. It includes a ton of options to authentically simulate the vintage experience of channel surfing on TVs from the 1950s to the 2000s. I currently have it on my 8s TV. To the right of the TV, it has more than a dozen categories to choose from, including cartoons, comedy, dramas, etc., and you can even watch commercials from that decade. I'll leave them all checked. There's even channel up and channel down buttons to live the channel surfing experience. Hit the power button to let the fun begin.
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Creative Live is great for those of you wanting to pick up a new creative hobby or boost your creative career. The site broadcasts live classes by accomplished professionals in their field. While most of the classes are not free, they do have a good assortment of archived classes that are free. Some of the courses are taught by well-known people as well, including Damon John, who some of you will recognize from the TV series Shark Tank, and famous businessman Richard Branson.
Next up is Scream into the Void. If you're having a bad day, tired of school or work, or something is just bothering you, type something that you're irritated with and it will scream it aloud. After typing it, click on scream.
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Random recipe generator is great for those times you want to find new meals to cook. Your choices are anything, paleo, vegetarian, vegan, ketogenic, and Mediterranean. I'll go with Mediterranean. Enter the number of daily calories that you want to eat. I'll go with 2,000. Then the number of meals in the drop down. I'll go with three. When you're done with that, hit generate. Now, it just gave me three meals around the same number of calories entered.
You know those recipes online that have to give their entire backstory before getting to the actual recipe? If you just want to see the recipe without all of the filler, copy the URL. Go back to the random recipe generator here at the top. Select only the recipe. Paste that URL into the box. Then hit generate. It shows you the ingredients needed and the steps. It also lets you change the number of servings and adjust the amount of the ingredients needed for that recipe.
If you ever wanted to learn about cyber security, Try Hackme is an awesome site for all skill levels. It features interactive hands-on [music] labs that cover topics that include networking, ethical hacking, and many others. The road map to learning on here begins with the basic computer science skills, moving on to cyber security 101. Eventually, you'll learn advanced skills to become a security analyst, penetration tester, or security engineer. They also feature challenges of all levels to test your skills. Try Hackme uses the premium model. Most of the beginner courses and activities are free. To unlock additional content, those plans start at $10.50 per month.
A good movie to watch is one I first mentioned 8 years ago in another video. Since then, it has improved quite a bit. It's helpful in finding hidden gem movies and TV shows as well that the streaming algorithms may not show you. Everything recommended on here has at least a 7 out of 10 on IMDb and 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. By default, it shows all content from the various services. You can filter to just see the content from a specific streaming service. Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max, Paramount Plus, Apple TV, etc. Let's go with Peacock. If you go into [music] more filters here on the left, you can filter by the type of content, all movies, shows, [music] their staff rating, year, mood, category, and the last one is language. And there's six languages here to choose from. I should point out that on a good movie to watch for free, it only shows recommendations below 8.5. If you find the site to be useful, the pro [music] plan is $2 per month when paid annually to support their work. This gives you access to all of their recommendations, including those above 8.5.
Next up is Radio Spelled with 5's. It's a lot like another site I've recommended called Radio Garden, which has live stations around the world. Radio is not live, but instead the music tracks are curated by a community of DJs and producers for each country. Here at the bottom, you can choose a decade to listen to from the various decades from the 1900s up to now. At the top, you can filter by slow, fast, or weird songs, or select them all. To select another country, spin the globe, left clicking and dragging it with your mouse. Then, select your country. I'll go with France. Radio is premium. The free plan gives you limited access, and the premium plan is around $5 per month or around $50 per year.
If you're someone that enjoys playing with sand, you'll love This is Sand. Created by art students, their website and mobile apps enable you to create visual sand art on a digital canvas. Here's an example. When using a mouse, left click and drag the area you'd like to drop the sand. To change the color of the sand, click here in the upper right, then choose your color. Now I'll make what looks like a pyramid. Keeping the cursor in one place, dropping the sand. Let's try another color here. Whenever you're done, you want to save your project. Click on the check mark here in the upper left. I love this one.
Geek Prank provides funny, harmless simulation tools designed for playing pranks on friends, family, or co-workers. Here's a few. Crack screen simulates a broken monitor screen. There's a fake ransomware attack, a fake FBI warning for having illegal content on your computer, and there's a hacker typer simulator that just by hitting the keys on your keyboard makes people think that you're a hacker just like in the movies. In the upper right corner, there's also a Bitcoin miner, password cracker, and other stuff. Not to spoil the entire site, I'll let you discover the rest of these on your own.
Math for you is a useful site for students to easily solve mathematical problems related to basic maths, physics, chemistry, [music] algebra, and many others with more than 90 calculators. Unlike sites similar to this, it's 100% free, including the step-by-step solutions. In the box, enter what you'd like to solve. Hit the solve button, then select step-by-step solution.
I'll mention this one briefly. Mental Floss is a website some of you are familiar with. They publish articles daily with interesting facts and information about things [music] you didn't even know you wanted to know. Founded way back in 2001, they've been around for 25 years. You'll find articles on here about history, science, pop culture, and everything in between. The quizzes can be quite fun as well.
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