What free websites/applications do you recommend for mild convenience?
I also had sites I wanted to share: –Swiftread or spreeder, shows one word at a time to read pasted text –12ft ladder, paste sites into this and it’ll block ads –Invidious, ad free, viewcount free youtube experience & it doesnt play automatically when you click a video –localingual, interactive map of the world, you can listen to each country’s anthem and language
On my android phone, I have clipeus for when I want to completely clear my clipboard (don’t know if it actually clears everything or just the most recent item, though) and greentooth for when I am forced to use bluetooth. Greentooth turns off the bluetooth setting after a set amount of time after your connected bluetooth device is disconnected so you don’t have to.
Both apps were last updated on F-Droid 1 and 2 years ago respectively, so I cannot guarantee there aren’t any issues that make them safe compared to newer alternatives, but they work great for me.
Did one of your annoying nerdy friends hide some weird unicode in a message they sent to you? Copy/paste into this site to see exactly what dickery they’re up to:
You can reverse the way characters display with this unicode character. U+202E. Example. You can use this to make users think that a file has a different exnetion that it really has. Example: image.gnp.exe This example actually has the extension.exe so it is a executable but looks like it is a PNG.
Also, at an old workplace I put that in my username in our chat app and it completely screwed up the UI for people that were using terminal apps for chat as soon as my username appeared and I had to take it out.
You can also do things like use confusable characters to point someone at the wrong domain like pаypal.com.
Joplin is open source note taking to the bone and obsidian is still open but with some paid favors in the mix. Both have mobile and desktop clients for just about everything except a literal toaster.
Edit: lmao I am a kumquat, obsidian isn’t actually open source except for the plugins. So keep that in mind if you plan to use it.
I will also throw in syncthing. Open source, syncs files between devices it’s pretty freaking neato. Definitely a 10 out of 10 project for me.
Obsidian is sick. Its best if you know markdown (which is easy to learn). Instead of paying for Obsidian sync, I just use nextcloud to sync my obsidian vault across multiple devices.
Printfriendly. Edit any website down to the parts you want to save and convert them to PDF. I use it for trimming the cook’s life story out of recipes I want to save.
I have been hearing a lot of it here in Lemmy, I have been using Pocket Casts free version for so long, at this point I just want a Podcast app that has a queue list that survives account based (I mean if I wipe the app or reinstall it it will have the queue there in the exact second it was left) and the voice booster and silence trimming features, a quick look for that app doesn’t seem to have it though, and those features are what kept me from some other popular options like Apple Podcast, Spotify and Overcast (I currently use Android).
Just about any mobile restaurant app is worth downloading in my experience. Ordering ahead often lets you skip lines. And most apps these days have some sort of rewards programs. Even if I’m going to a place once, I usually download the app just to see what it offers.
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