I have been saving websites that I find interesting and useful in my drafts since a while back and thought i´d share them with you all. It´s everything from writing help to random fun sites. Some probably been shared before.
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Writing:
Creative Writing Prompts - a lot of prompts to help your writing
Writing Fix - a site where you can find a lot of help when it comes to writing
Plinky - another site to help you get inspiration for writing
The Story Starter - randomly generates story starters
Daydreaming On Paper - another site with a bunch of prompts
Polish My Writing - check your writing for spelling or grammatical errors.
Creativity Portal - The Imagination Prompt Generator from Creativity Portal automatically generates one prompt after another to get your creative juices flowing.
Grammar Monster - free English grammar lessons
Using English - A large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources
One Word - gives you one word and you have 60 seconds to write about it
750 Words - The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day.
Helpful:
Toasted Cheese -a online calender
Remember The Milk- a multi-platform to-do-list and reminder tool for organizing your life.
Just Paste It - A simple service for hosting samples of formatted text, at unique URLs, to be shared freely on the Internet. Lightweight, useful, and clean.
bubbl - create mind maps online
Background Burner - a easy way to make a picture transparent without using photoshop
Note.ly - make sticky notes online
CTRLQ - screenshot a webpage
Dictation - write emails, narrate essays and long documents in the browser without touching the keyboard.
Copy Paste Characters - copy and paste characters that aren´t on your keyboard
Codecademy - learn coding free online
My Fonts - quickly determine the font name from an image.
Marker.to - easily highlight the important parts of a web page for sharing
Photoshop:
CG textures - just a site with a whole bunch of textures
Myphotoshopbrushes - basically a whole lot of stuff you can get for making nice graphics on photoshop
Brusheezy - pretty much the same as myphotoshopbrushes
Qbrushes - another one
Fun and useful:
The Infinite Jukebox - lets you feed in a song, and it finds similar points throughout the music that it can use to generate an endless, on-the-fly remix of the song that goes for as long as you like.
Lifehacker - tips and tricks on how to live your life better
Midomi - lets you search by sound, humming the tune into your microphone and finding music that matches.
Zamzar - A great general file converter, allowing the conversion between many different image, audio, document, and video formats. Great for any application that supports only specific file types
Zero Dollar Movies - a collection of 15,000 movies that are available on YouTube for free. The site indexes only full-length films and no trailers, rentals or partial uploads.
Wolfram Alpha - gets answers directly without searching
Homestyler - design rooms from scratch
Hundred Zeros- lets you download free kindle books
Similar Sites - find sites that are similar to the ones you like
Unsplash- free high resolution photos
Safeweb - check emails and websites if they are safe to go on
Librophile - offers downloadable audio-books for free
Ted - just a site with a lot of videos and more with ideas worth spreading
Musicrecovery - an awesome app that enables you to personalize and adjust your playlists according to your mood with just a few clicks.
Sleep Cycle Power Nap [APP] - This app helps you avoid oversleeping by playing a gentle alarm when the appropriate length of time has passed
Sleep Talk Recorder [APP] - records all sounds during the night, you can check if you snore, talk or make any other sounds
Ambient Mixer - listen to relaxing music, ambient atmospheres and astonishing sound effects
Inspirational Picture Quotes - a site with a whole lot of inspiring quotes
But Does It Float - endlessly scrolling art site
Forgotify - finds songs from spotify that never been listened to and play them to give every song a chance to be heard
Pleated Jeans - a site with a huge amount of funny pictures , viral videos and more
Quotacle - search a movie and get quotes from it
The Nostalgia Machine - plug in the year you want to get nostalgic about, and the Machine spits back a grid of music videos — songs plucked from the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles list for that year
This Is Why I´m Broke - weird and fun stuff that are for purchase.
Big Think - offers us infinite data points—news stories, tweets, wikis, status updates, etc
Future Me - send a letter to your future self and track life’s triumphs and setbacks
Pixar Theory - explains all the pixar movies for you who have trouble understanding them
Vagenda Magazine - a magazine online for feminists
Foodawker - recipes from all over the world
My Colortopia - lets you upload a photo of a room to see what it would look like with a specific color
Twenty Two Words - curious, cute, comical and crazy. Funny, smart, amazing stories.
Faithit - change the world , share what matters
Karmatube - tells inspiring stories some collected in the first voice that hopes to multiply acts of kindness,
Gives Me Hope - anonymous entries from people who has interesting and inspiring anecdotes to share from their daily lives.
Stumbloupon - recommends webpages, photos and videos by your interest
Poemhunter - find poems online
White Whine - a collection if first -world problem for a laugh
