Twelve Unique Digital Productivity Tools
Copy Special Characters with Copycare
Copycare is a free web-based tool to have bookmarked that makes finding, copying, and pasting special characters a lot easier than using the character math on your computer or having to remember Unicode codes. Various categories include letters, punctuation, math, numbers, currency, symbols, hieroglyphs, arrows, and emoji. These can be used with Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Simply click or tap on any character and it’s copied to your clipboard. Then paste it wherever you need it. In the upper right, if you click the information icon, it will show you each character’s Unicode code point and HTML entity for reference.
Digital Archiving Service
Permanent Access with Archive.tday
Archive.tday creates a copy of a web page that maintains the accessibility of that site with the live links even if the original page is deleted or changed. After it’s done its thing, it will be saved online if you ever need to go back to it. This is more useful than taking a screenshot or PDF. And unlike sites like the Wayback Machine, most links are still accessible to click into. This is great for citing sources that may have been edited or deleted, like somebody’s drunk blog post, a real estate listing, price list, job offer, or anything else that you can think of.
Car Size Comparison
Comparing Vehicle Dimensions and Specs
If you’re in the market to buy a new vehicle, Carized is great to compare vehicle dimensions and specs. It’ll show you the length, height, wheelbase, ground clearance, number of seats, cargo space, and all sorts of other stuff. There are multiple viewpoints to compare the vehicles, front, side, and the rear. To begin, select two vehicles. Just about every manufacturer is listed. It’s easier to go to the top and enter it.
Visual and Data Driven Comparisons
Check out Car Size for accurate visual and data-driven comparisons. Jotty’s Malware Scan is a completely free online service that enables you to scan up to five files no larger than 250 megabytes each to have those files scanned using multiple antivirus engines such as Bit Defender, Avast, Trend Micro, and many others. It’s similar to Virus Total, but with less false positives. There’s a browse button to search your computer for the files, or you can just drag and drop them into the box.
Free Malware Scanner
Multi Engine File Scanning with Jotty
Up to three files can be scanned at once. This is also useful with email attachments to make sure that they’re safe to open. Just drag that attachment into the box prior to opening it. Just bear in mind, this is not 100% foolproof. It’s just an added layer of security. If you’re looking to get into better shape, Muscle Wiki is a free platform designed to help users find and perform workouts for virtually any muscle. On their homepage, there’s an interactive muscle map. On the right, there are toggles to switch from male to female. Advanced will show you more targeted muscles, and there’s a toggle to help with individual joints. Selecting a muscle will bring up targeted workouts with video demos, text instructions, and difficulty ratings for each exercise.
Health and Personality Tools
16 Personalities Assessment
16 Personalities is a free online personality assessment to find out what makes you tick, exploring 16 distinct personality types. It covers what really drives, inspires, and worries each personality type. To begin, select take a test at the top. It is currently available in more than 30 languages. Completing it will take about 7 to 10 minutes. When it’s done, it will show personality traits, a career path with some insights that might be useful, and strengths and weaknesses. 16 Personalities is free to use. If you want to take a deeper dive into your personality with enhanced insights tailored for you, they have add-ons that start at a one-time cost of $9.
Typing Skills and News Significance
Accessing Sourced Articles
No AI overviews, often with incorrect information. Just the names of the articles and the site that published them. When you click on the title for an article, it will show similar articles below, or you can click on source for the article you clicked on, and it will take you directly to the website. For creatives on a budget, Mixkit is a free high-quality asset library offering thousands of stock video clips, stock music, sound effects, and video templates to use in projects at no cost. Mixkit is made possible from the folks at Invato, which is a paid service offering assets for creatives. To find what you’re looking for, go to the search bar.
Creative Assets and Tech News
Mixkit Free Stock Library
The default is videos. Clicking the drop-down menu, you can also select music, sound effects, templates, and icons. A search for workout videos returns more than 700 free workout videos, all of which are in HD, with some available in 4K. With videos, there is a choice of which resolution to download. Mixkit’s stock video free license is quite generous. All videos can be used in both commercial and non-commercial projects. Attribution is not required, but is appreciated.
Tech URLs Aggregator
Tech URLs is similar to another website called Tech beam. And tech URLs is a minimalistic tech news aggregator that collects tech headlines from the top 20 to 30 tech sources, including Hacker News, Wired, The Verge, TechCrunch, and many others. The layout is clean, and for the most part, the articles are up to date with some exceptions. Just the Recipe is a fantastic no-nonsense website extractor and organizer designed to give you what matters the most, the ingredients and instructions. No life stories, ads, pop-ups, and other stuff. On the typical recipe page, there are tons of ads, unneeded images, and excessive verbiage. Just copy the URL from any recipe web page and paste it into the box. It’s also available on iOS and Android. Selecting get recipe produces a clean, clutter-free page with just the ingredients and directions.
Recipe Organization and Wallpapers
Just the Recipe Extractor
On the free tier of Just the Recipe, up to 20 recipes can be saved in a cookbook. There is a premium plan for just $2 per month or $15 per year that allows saving unlimited recipes plus additional features. If you cook a lot, it’s totally worth upgrading.
Walt Pick Wallpaper Gallery
Walt Pick is a free wallpaper website and mobile app offering a massive collection of HD, 4K, and 8K images for desktop computers and smartphones. Right now, there are more than 100,000 wallpapers across various categories, including nature, tech, anime, abstract, cityscapes, animals, and many others. Prior to downloading, if you want a different resolution than the default, you can choose from Ultra HD, Apple, Android device, and widescreen. When done, just click or tap on download. For high-quality backgrounds, check out the wallsp.com website. On mobile, they have apps for both iOS and Android. Read More