11 Cool Websites Everyone Should Know

Websites!!! There are at least a thousand of them but which ones are the best, obviously I can’t really answer that but I can at least tell you about some that you should definitely know about. In this blog post, I got 11 cool websites that range from being extremely useful to just pure fun. You probably heard of some of them but I doubt all of them, so you should at least get something out of this.

#1: VirusTotal [virustotal.com]

It is actually owned by Google now and what it does is let you upload any file and it will be scan 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 is great if you come across something suspicious, maybe you download something and your antivirus software says it is fine, but you want to be sure or maybe your antivirus says it is a virus but you think it could be a false alarm. In both cases, you can use virus total to compare it with all the other antiviruses out there to get a better idea. Also, they even have a feature to search websites as well, so if someone sends you a link that you are not too sure about, you can check it out. Of course, common sense is the best defense! So don’t rely on it completely.

#2: Windows 93 [windows93.net]

This website emulates a theoretical version of windows that would have been from 1993. It is not exactly historically accurate, in fact, it is mostly just humorous but it is actually surprisingly complex. There is obviously a ton of stuff you can do to waste time on it, so I better not get too far into it, you can just explore it yourself.

#3: have I been pwned? [haveibeenpwned.com]

It seems like all the time we hear of a new website being hacked and passwords being leaked, but how are you supposed to know if your data has been leaked. Well, that is the point of this site. You just type in your email address and it will tell you if your email address along with your password and any other potential info was included in any breaches in any of the databases they have, that way you know not only to change your password on that site but also never use that same again. That is because hackers frequently use leak databases to try email and password combinations on a bunch of sites. So, if you use 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 and chances are, you will eventually!

#4: 10 Minute Mail [10minutemail.net]

This website generates a temporal email address for you that expires in 10 minutes. This is great if you come across websites that require you to sign up for an account to use it but you will probably never use it again and you don’t want to give away your real email. Now, you can just sign up with a throwaway email address, get what you need from the website and leave. Another use might be if you are not sure whether a site is junk or not, you can sign up with a temporal email and if it turns out to be legit, you can make a real account or change to your real email. On the other hand, if the site ends up being useless, you won’t have to worry about getting on any news spam list from it.

#5: Down For Everyone Or Just Me? [downforeveryoneorjustme.com]

All this site does is tells you if any website you type in is currently up or down. Am sure its happen to you a million times, you try to go to a site and it either takes forever to load or won’t load at all and you are wondering if the problem is on your end or not and there is not really much more to say about what it does – if the website is up, it will just tell you “it’s just you!” and if it’s down, it will say “it’s just not you!”. Definitely, a handy one to remember.

#6: GetHuman [gethuman.com]

This website is for any time that you call customer service for any company and you just can’t seem to talk with a real person. With this, you just type in the company and it will tell you exactly what steps to take to get connected to a human customer service agent assuming it is possible. For companies or websites that have basically no way to talk to someone like YouTube, it will at least have some instructions on how to fix some common problems and they also apparently have a paid service where they will literally call the company on your behave.

#7: whichbook [openingthebook.com/whichbook]

Which book helps you find the book you might want to read or several. On the left of the website, there are bunch of criteria sliders that you can use to describe what you like. There is a limit of 4 slider criteria at once.

#8: Pixabay [pixabay.com]

This is an awesome stock photo site except for every single one of the pictures on this site are royalty free. Specifically, the pictures are all released under a creative common CC0 license meaning they are released into the public domain.

#9: JustWatch [justwatch.com]

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

#10: Product Hunt [producthunt.com]

It is a really cool website to find out about brand new products that have just been released or announced. This 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 probably never heard of but you will also see people posting stuff released by major companies like Apple or Google. So I think this is a pretty neat site worth checking out every few days or so to see the best stuff you might have missed.

#11: IFTTT [ifttt.com]

This website basically connects the API’s of a ton of different websites and services together to interact however you want. For example, you can make it so every time you get a twitter following, you smart lights bulb blink or anytime you post a photo on Instagram, it automatically posts it on Facebook as well. The possibilities are pretty much endless. The one thing I will say though is, unfortunately, it is not always super reliable, so you shouldn’t use it for anything important like 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 is still pretty damn useful.

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

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