Useful and Amazing Websites Everyone should Know!

Websites are all around the world. As of 2020 there are more than 1.5 billion websites in the world. And in this post we are going to see some of the best websites in the world that is very much useful and Everyone should know it.

1.VIRUS TOTAL

                   It's actually owned by Google now, and what it does is let's you upload any file, and it will be scanned with pretty much every virus scanner software out there, which is over 60 of them. This obviously can't replace having antivirus software on your computer because it only scans individual files, but it's great if you come across something suspicious. Maybe you download something and your antivirus software says it's fine, but you want to be sure. Or maybe your antivirus says it's a virus, but you think it could be a false alarm.

In both cases, you can use VirusTotal to compare it to all the other antiviruses to get a better idea. Like if every antivirus says it's fine except for a few, those are probably a false positive. But if a pretty good chunk of them say it's a virus, better play it safe. Also, they even have a feature to search websites as well. So if someone sends you a link you're not too sure about, you can check it out.

Of course common sense is the best defense, so don't rely on it completely, if it's a brand new phishing site or something I don't know if it would detect it.

Click here to visit Virus Total.

2.WINDOWS 93

              Next up we have a quick one that's just for fun. It's called "Windows 93", which emulates a theoretical version of Windows that would have been from 1993. It's not exactly historically accurate, in fact it's mostly just humorous, but is actually surprisingly complex. It has an internet themed Wolfenstein game,a drawing program like paint, even Half Life 3, which apparently never finishes loading. You can also start a virtual machine, which runs Windows 93, inside Windows 93. There is obviously a ton of stuff you can do to waste time on here, so I'd better not get too far into it, you can just explore it yourself.

Click here to visit WINDOWS 93.

3:Have I Been Pwned

            It seems like all the time now, we hear about a new website getting hacked and passwords being leaked, but how are you supposed to know if YOUR data has been leaked.

        Well that's the point of this site.You just type in your email address, and it will tell your email address, along with your password and potentially other info, was included in any breaches in it's database. That way, you know to not only change your password on that site, but also never use that same password again. That's because hackers frequently use leaked databases to try email and password combinations on a bunch of sites.

       If you used the same password on multiple websites, they can easily get in. Another really important feature of this site is you can sign up to receive an email notification if your email has been found in any future breaches going forward. 

Click here to visit HAVE I BEEN PAWNED

4.10 MINUTE MAIL

         We have a site called "10 minute mail", which generates a temporary email address for you that expires in 10 minutes. This is great if you come across a website that requires you to sign up for an account to use, but you know you'll probably never use it again, and don't want to give away your real email.

        Now you can just sign up with a throwaway email address, get whatever you need from the site, and leave. Another use might be if you aren't sure whether a site is junk or not. You can sign up with a temporary email, and if it turns out to be legit, you can just make a real account or change to your real email.

         If the site ends up being useless, you won't have to worry about getting on any new spam list from it.

Click here to visit 10 MINUTE MAIL

5.Down For Everyone Or Just Me

                 This website is great and is so simple. The short version is just isup.me, and all this site does is tells you if any website you type, is currently up or down.

                 You try to go to a site, and it either takes forever to load, or won't load at all, and you're wondering if the problem is on your end or not. Not really much more to say about it... If the website is up, it will tell you it's just you, and if it really is down, it will say it's not just you.

Click here to visit DOWN FOR EVERYONE OR JUST ME

6.GetHuman

        This website is for any time you call customer service for any company, and you just can't seem to talk to a real person. With this, you type in a company, and it will tell you exactly what steps to take to get connected to a human customer support agent, assuming it's possible. For example, if we try Sony, it tells us the phone number to call, and then what numbers to press that will put you through to someone.

           For companys or websites that have basically no way to talk to someone, like YouTube, it will at least have some instructions for how to fix common problems. 

           They also apparently have a paid service where they will literally call the company on your behalf, but I've never tried that particular service myself.

Click here to visit GET HUMAN.

7.Which Book 

            Alright, next we have an interesting little site called "Which Book", and the point is to help you find a book you might want to read, or several.

           On the left of the page there are a bunch of criteria sliders you can use to describe what you'd like. So maybe you want one that's really happy, but also really disturbing, which would be a weird combination, and we can see it actually has quite a few possible recommendations. There is a limit of four slider criteria at once, I guess because otherwise it would just be too specific or inaccurate. There's also a button to add more settings like a specific type of plot, setting, or character.

           Overall it's just a cool site you might want to check out.

Click here to visit WHICH BOOK

8.PIXABAY

           This is an awesome stock photo website, except every single one of the pictures are royalty free. Specifically the pictures are all released under Creative Commons Zero, meaning they are released into the public domain. And there are a surprising number of stock photos on here, right now over a million. That's nowhere near some of the paid stock photos sites that might have over 100 million, but hey you really can't complain. There are still a ton of really cool, high quality images on here that you can use for anything from desktop wallpaper, to being put in YouTube videos.

          You're also able to filter for specific types of images, like actual photos, or vector graphics, or ones that have transparent backgrounds. And yes, I very often get a lot of pictures from here and use them in videos. It might be difficult to find images about really specific topics, but for the most part,you can usually find at least something you can work with.

Click here to visit PIXABAY

9.JUST WATCH

          You can type in any movie or TV show you want to watch, and it will tell you what streaming services have it. And as you can see it supports pretty much every streaming service out there, or at least the most popular ones.

Click here to visit JUST WATCH.

10.Product Hunt

             Product Hunt is a really cool website to find out about brand new products that have just been released or announced. These might be physical products, apps, or services on websites. New products are posted every day, and a lot of them are from random startups you've never heard of, but you'll also see people posting stuff released by major companies like Apple or Google, and usually before they're widely advertised. Of course you can filter through different categories to see the most popular recent stuff as well.

             So I think this is a neat site worth checking out every few days or so, to see the best stuff that you might have missed.

Click  here to visit Product Hunt

11. If This Then

      This is also known as IFTTT. This website basically connects the APIs of a ton of different websites and services all together to interact however you want.

       For example, you could make it so any time you get a new Twitter follower, your smart lightbulbs blink. Or any time you post a photo on instagram, it automatically posts it to facebook as well. The possibilities are pretty much endless, you could even do weird pointless stuff like, any time you upload a video on YouTube, it turns up your thermostat or something. Completely ridiculous, but you get the idea. The one thing I will say though is unfortunately it's not always super reliable, so you shouldn't use it for anything important.

       Sometimes the triggers might be delayed for several minutes for no reason, or might not trigger at all sometimes.So just be aware of that. Still, even if it is kinda slow, it's still pretty darn useful.

Click here to visit IF THIS THEN

CONCLUSION:

           So I guess that's it a bunch of cool websites that I think you'll find pretty cool, and maybe you knew most of them, but you can always send this to friends and let them know about these too. If you have any awesome sites I didn't talk about, let me know in the comments, I'll probably do another one of these eventually.