video & animation

• veed.io
  look. if you were an adobe afficionado or a final cut maestro, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. it’s a online video solution. you probably shouldn’t cut your entry into hollywood with it.

• jitter
  here’s to the powerpoint warriors. to the selfcontainend linkedin riders. make an animation with jitter, cherry to your cake.

• sketch
  another boring zoom meeting? your doodles are now a full fledged avengers squad with personae? with sketch you can animate them. take that, company forecast.

• streamable
  cut my video into pieces, it is my last resort. but do it open source, gif-able, please. okay, buttercup.

voice & audio

• getsubly.org
  another fact that floors me. how fucking complicated are subtitles? allegedly we have ultra smart AIs that drive cars, but can’t build subtitles? here, getsubly tries it.
  

• vocalremover
  the punchline talks about powerful ai algorithms. do you even need more? and it does what it says. with. powerful. ai. algorithms.

• descript
  i am flabbergasted. like everyday. the fact that it still a work of wonders to edit videos consumes me. descript tries to change that. please go and look at it. it’s smart.
  

• podcastle
  again. subtitles. agaaaaain. it works.

• uberduck
  now we’re talking. like literally. with a large set of voices. it’s not perfect, it just does it. yoda voice

• speak
  same as uberduck, without the fuzz.

• youdj
  yes. we know it. what could have been. you and the 1210s. you and the epicness of the last office party - thanks to your spotify. (and the fact that you’ve defended the aux cable with your life!). please go ahead and become a dj. we all need a bit of midlife crisis.

• onlinesequencer
  after you’ve perfected your dj mastery, it’s time to create your own beat. your own rythm. your audio trademark. (works even during that boring zoom call).

• who sampled
  the be and end all to music knowledge. you want to become even more annoying, beyond your fast wikipedia skills? here you go, a dictionary of all samples. good luck.

graphic & image

• canva
  i dont know. if you haven’t heard about canva, i am honestly suprised you’ve found your way here. canva probably the biggest threat to average joe / jane photoshop.

• pexels, unsplash & pixabay
  you dont know pexel, pixabay and unsplash either? still struggeling to get your powerpoint with power to the point? here are the images you need. for free. no questions asked. (also, stock video).

• pixelhunter
  you have your cute doggo picture fresh off canva? cool, here’s to multiply across. all. your. socialmedia. with one click.

• socialsizes
  same as pixelhunter, only for offline usage. so for the conspiracy theorist among thee, put on your tinfoils and off you go.

• mockuphone
  so you’ve multiplied your pictures? but for that vc funds, they tell you to create a mockup? here. dont fizzle with photoshop.

• cleanup.pictures
  working from home? asked to deliver as selfie? forgot to remove the trash? here’s to clean that up.

• mega creator
  it calls itself mega creator. who doesnt want to have mega creator in the skills section of their resumes? its kinda photoshop meets stock images from hell.

• removebg
  remember the trashcan in the background of your selfie? well, if your whole flat is the trashcan, its best to remove the whole background. i am not judging.

• cleanpng
  i don’t know google, where have you gone wrong? you claim that you are really smart. but still, your image search delivers fake pngs. who got time for that? here’s a better idea - a clean png database.

• excalidraw
  there are people in this world that really love diagrams and flowcharts - and then there a designers. for everyone in between, excalidraw is worth a look.

• photopea
  i don’t know. someone built a clone of photoshop in the browser. it also eats .psd files. is nothing sacred anymore?

• noun project
  the web should be more democratic. i still dont get why i have to image search logos, icons and shit. probably because i didnt know of the noun project. whats next? the verb mission?

• lofi generator
  okay, you#re late to the party, and discovered lofi music. you want to play with the cool kids? here’s for that slack profile pic of yours.

• fotoforensics
  bit shady. but again, if you ever wanted to know, if karen really was in italy last fall, heres a way to dig around.

• adobe color
  build color palettes. have your kid building color palettes. dont forget the red wine as palette cleanser for your palettes. be that myagi of palettes.

• palettable
  same as adobe. only simpler. could be a funny effect during your next zoom call.

• coolers
  color palettes seem to be a thing. probably a kink.

• ai art
  what could we do with ai if ai would do real world applications? i dont know. for know, i am trying to get myself in the louvre as classical painting.

• pixelmap
  deconstruct maps until they are something completely different. an out of the box experience. you could sink hours in here, for little to no effect for your workflow. but otherwise, it wouldn’t be fun, would it?

stuff for life

• eat this much
  getting your eating habits together has never been easier. you are not bound to your subscription box, or you ‘years of pandemic’ tormented mindless imagination. this website is bringing your appetite back on the table.
  
  
• stain solutions by the university of illinois
  if you’re anything like me, you have spilled stuff. and you went to websites that told you how to fix it - spoiler alert: the spill is still there. chances are that will happen again. maybe, the university of illinois can help you (like for real, with propably any stain imaginable).
  
  
• what the f’ should you make for dinner?
  well, don’t ask me. let this website answer that for you.
  
  
• get human
  ever stuck on a computer loop when trying to reach a rep from a company? here’s to skipping the boring part. and to get a human on that damn phone!
  
  
• camel camel camel
  take that, amazon. with camel³, you have a transparent way on tracking amazon pricing. and get your hopes smashed by understanding that your last purchase wasn’t a sweet, sweet deal.
  
  
• explore livecams
  here’s a zoom call anyone can agree on. everyone shuts up and you can watch animals small to big, tiny to grown up, minding their own business. end of the story.
  
  
• plan your room
  if you find yurself looking at your livingspace or switching spaces, heres an online tetris simulator for your place.
  
  
• just the recipe
  okay karen, i get it. your trip to italy was lifechanging. right next to the tourist trap winery, you’ve found the tourist trap restaurant with that super handsome waitress. for a moment, you were questioning your sexuality. but minutes later, you fell in love with pasta carbonara. and ever since, you tried to recreate the dish. just skip the part. get down to business to the recipe.
  
  
• darebee
  cancel your gym membership and your app-subscription. here is everything you need, for free.
  
  

living digitally

• tinywow & ilovepdf.
  let’s be honest. you and me, we are average janes and joes. here’s the complete kit to survive corporate utopia. (and who in the living hell LOVES pdfs?)

• 12ft
  paywalls. paywalls all around me. if only i had a ladder. hmhm.

• have i been pwned?
  i don’t know, have you? hopefully not. but if you by accident clicked that link promising you a bitcoin fortune, here’s a way to find it out.
  
  
• virus total
  sure, “cutepicturesofbabydogs.exe” is probably exactly that. just if you want to make sure it’s virus free, go here please.
  
  
• urlscan
  remember the bitcoin promising link? here’s a way to check beforehand.
  
  
• discord communities
  so, yeah. heard about discord? its the 90s all over again, but now in cool. here are a few communities to break into.
  
  
• temp mail or 10minutemail
  funny story. it has become incredibly hard to register new mail aliases. just for that one annoying website? here you go. temporary mail accounts for the non-iOS folks.
  
  
• snapdrop
  airdrop for everybody. just hang around in the same wifi with your devices. end that whatsapp compressed shit.
  
  
• accountkiller
  you want to get rid of your onlyfans account? didn’t work out? thats okay. here is the step by step manual to break free of account chains young and old.
  
  
• redditbests
  ever wondered if there is another world than amazon reviews? well, reddit is a bit overwhelming? good news. they put an aggregator on the aggregator to find the best gadgets reddit has to offer.
  
  
• alternativto
  you need that quirky piece of software that probably ran the best on a sun microsystem from the late 80s? check out ‘alternative to’ in hoping to find a free / modern day aquivalent.
  
  
• switchingsoftware
  same as alternativeto. but better. with open source, privacy-conscious software. dang, there’s the sun microsystems system integrator piece again.
  
  
• smmry.com
  feed it your url. your long read. it eats it alive and spits out the nitty gritty.
  
  
• tl;dr papers
  take smmry.com and apply the magic sauce of GPT3, the be-and-end all artificial intelligence and you’ve got tl;dr-papers. well, technically. they’re under maintenance for a while now. (hope they’re doing fine)
  
  
• cheatography
  buzzfeed brought the listicle. buzzfeed also made cheatsheets popular (don’t quote me on that). here’s a library of cheatsheets. and ever expanding.
  
  
• class central certificates
  imagine going to harvard, stanford, cambridge and NYU all at the same time. from your couch. in your sweatpants. you go! you go!
  
  

• namechk
  ever thought of becoming someone else, albeit only virtually? here’s an easy way to check if “hannelore mcmolligang” is already taken.
  

• 16personalities
  you probably came across these weird four letter codes in your tinder-doomswipe. it’s from here. it’s something between tarot and real psychology. give or take.