Amazing Websites You Never Knew Existed
There’s some amazingly useful websites online that people have never heard of. When I share these with my friends they’re like: “How did I not know about these sites before?”. Check them out below:
- CamelCamelCamel – Free Amazon Price Tracker. Tells you the price history of everything on Amazon. You can set up alerts to know when a product drops below a certain price.
- Mailbox Locator: Tells you the location of those USPS drop boxes (blue boxes) and postal centers near you.
- Can I stream it: Tells you if/where a movie is available for online streaming or rental.
- Flood Plain Search: Is your home located within a flood plain.
- Zip Code Map: Find the exact bounders of any zip code.
- FaxZero: Send a fax for free from your computer.
- Online Etymology Dictionary: Gives you the history and derivation of any word.
- Date to Date Calculator: Find how many days, months, years have passed between two dates.
- Ripe Tracker: Find out when your favorite fruit or veggies are at peak ripeness.
- Two Foods: compares the nutritional value of two separate foods side by side.
- Down for Everyone or Just Me: Tells you whether a site is down for everyone or if it’s your connection.
- Gutenbuerg Project: Offers 46,000 free ebooks. Non-profit project that puts classic books that are past copyright online and free for everyone to download.
- Missing Money: Find missing money that belongs to you such as forgotten bank accounts. I found two.
- PDFEscape: Edit a PDF online in your browser. Helpful when someone sends you a pdf form to fill out and send back via email. I usually have to do this a couple times per year.
- Readability: sometimes pages are noisy, or just plain hard to read. Readability is an app that will take an article and format it beautifully making it easy to read. I use it all the time for long articles.
- Screenr: Easy to make screencasts and share them.
- Account Killer: Shows you how to disable popular online social services.
- MyPermissions: Sometimes you use your Facebook, Twitter accounts as logins. This free app scans your social accounts letting you know who has permissions and lets you delete permissions easily.
I bet we missed a few amazing useful websites? Please tell us your favorites in the comments