EZgif has all sorts of useful tools
Those 3 are the ones I use most often, but there’s loads more.
I make most of my memes at picfont. They offer a ton of fonts to use, but you can also use yr own.
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Related to your “Add text to gifs one”
I use imgflip for getting templates and putting on text. I usually just generate a private one and cut and paste.
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I’ve got several, in no particular order:
Two sites for combining emojis:
Two sites for sharing large files with end-to-end encryption and auto-expiring links:
Website that tells you if a site that won’t load is down or if the problem is on your end:
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Time zone converter:
Tells you the right type of glue to use depending on what you’re sticking to what:
Audio examples of almost every musical genre and subgenre:
https://everynoise.com/
Simulate the experience of channel-surfing TV for any decade from the 1950s to 2000s:
Old Mac software archive:
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/
Relaxing pixel art landscapes:
http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
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Posted this in the food thread, but figure it should be here for posterity as well. Conversion of various measures of foods to the equivalent weight.
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Strips out all the bloat from modern sites and works great on a phone. May get a security warning since it doesn’t use https. Pretty sure it was posted on BB originally.
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I read all your posts in the voice of Telly Savalas.
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Who loves you, baby?
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Can anyone recommend a safe reliable VPN?
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If you aren’t able to install a photoshop-like program for whatever reason i recommend using the browser based editor Pixlr. It’s free, supports transparencies, layers, etc. and looks like they’ve added other features like animating, etc but i haven’t messed with it
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Depends. Are you looking for something paid or free? I don’t need to use one often enough to justify the cost so i use a free one. The one i use works for me, it is Hide.me. Looking at a review/comment on a Reddit thread gave me confidence that they’re trustworthy (for the free tier), though for the paid tier they say that it is pricey so there might be better alternatives price-wise.
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Proton VPN is based out of Switzerland, has a reasonable free tier and a couple of options for paid tiers, and has gone non-profit.
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I’ve been a Mullvad user for almost 10 years, and cannot recommend them highly enough. It’s not the cheapest (far from the most expensive, but their security/privacy has been tested and proven by law enforcement, they are the provider that powers Mozilla’s VPN, and they offer a wide array of anonymous payment options.
I particularly appreciate that accounts are simply random strings - no identifying info or passwords - which makes it easy to dispose of them each payment cycle and move to a new one to prevent fingerprinting. They also don’t do any sort of referral/pyramid scheme sort of program, or affiliates/influencer program, which is always a massively positive indicator to me.
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The Mushroom Color Atlas is a phenomenal guide about dying different materials using mushrooms. But it’s so incredibly beautiful and helpful, zooming into materials and methods in breathtaking detail! Obviously a labor of love. I genuinely gasped when I clicked on a color tile, seeing how much information each one has. (I don’t know how “handy dandy” this is for anyone who isn’t making their own textiles at home, but I couldn’t find a better thread for this 
)
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They got blocked by X Twitter. There are various random installs of it, but I don’t know any URLs offhand.
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Sometimes, those of us with a linguistic bent need to give a pronunciation. To that end,
https://r12a.github.io/pickers/ipa/
Sometimes you’ve been presented with an IPA pronunciation and need to figure out what it should actually sound like. To that end,
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Thanks for the tips. I will look into them.
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