What's new or surprising in science, technology, business, society, and opportunities | |
ONE MINUTE SITE TOUR
Bargain hunting streetRx - latest street prices for prescription drugs GoodRx helps you shop for drugs and get discounts Compare Health Services Near You MVNO News (phone stuff)
5 sites to compare prices online RetailMeNot: Coupon Codes, Coupons, Promo Codes, Discounts mySupermarket - Compare Prices BestSeekers - Product Guides and Reviews GetHuman.com Find Best Customer Support Phone Number & Contact Info 13 Hacks to Improve Your Google Search Wolfram|Alpha (32 Tricks You Can Do With Wolfram Alpha) Niice. A search engine with taste. Chat online from a free phone number Search Hacker News and Reddit Comments Search for trends in the dialogue of mass media Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool TotalCalc - Dozens of different calculators Find Music From TV and Movies | Tunefind Precision Bitmap To Vector Conversion Online Easiest, fastest software updates/installs Translate business jargon into plain English Text to speech | Multilingual | Natural voices | Talkify Web surfing for the blind ANYWHERE Change.org · The world’s platform for change
Free images/editing Pixabay is the best I know of, with a decent sized selection, and minimal attribution requirements. Guide to Free Online Image Collections Flickr Search: modifiable images Unsplash Free (do whatever you want) hi-resolution photos.
Present yourself/ideas Movie-making for everyone | Plotagon Create personalized speaking avatars UJAM: Anyone can make music here GoAnimate - Easily make cartoons/animations Cast yourself as a cartoon character HowTo: Free and Huge custom poster for your wall Block Posters - Create large wall posters from any image for free! Find Similar or Opposite words at WordHippo Tip of My Tongue Find that word that you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember. Duotrope's Digest: free writers' resource listing A Newbie's Guide to Publishing How to make your own Amazon Kindle ebook in just hours CHEAT SHEET KBoards (originally Kindleboards.com) Preview text in different fonts Cool Text: Logo and Graphics Generator Analyze and identify fake reviews Write Congress in under 2 minutes Is your browser safe against tracking? Monitor the Web for interesting new content Inventables: Hardware Store for Designers WeirdStuff - surplus computer wares McMaster-Carr industrial and commercial parts Just Delete Me | Web Service Account Deletion Help TVTimes.me - Cable TV alternative! Japanese anime subtitled and not can be watched for free and minimum hassles at Animes TV. Crunchyroll.com can be pretty good too, but you'll sit through lots more ads, and might have to pay to see certain new content as fast as it's released. Watch cartoons online is another free alternative. The Digital Comic Museum Free and Public Domain Comic Books Channelchooser.com is a hodge podge of TV content. Project Free TV has its fans online, but to try it you must set up an account. FILMON looks to be a pretty good online TV option... once you figure out it's user interface.
Cord Cutter Central links to many cable TV channel web sites, where you may be able to watch a sampling or more of a particular channel's shows and films. RabbitEars.Info offers news on broadcast TV changes. Documentary Heaven | Watch Free Documentaries Online
My 90's TV! emulates a television set filled with content from the 1990s. No Excuse: Learn anything, free How to live well on very, very little Repair Manuals for Every Thing - iFixit Retrevo | Search for over 500,000 product manuals |
FRANTIC updates!(usually updated at minimum a couple times daily, seven days a week)
Daily updates(business days only; e.g., often excluding weekends, holidays, and certain other special occasions)
Usually updated only randomly or occasionally
Miscellaneous sweepstakes news sites of varying frequency (also check the caveats described below)CAUTION! Keep in mind that entering many sweeps will definitely increase your junk e-mail, win or lose. You also need to be wary and read the rules carefully before entering many such contests-- because sometimes there's Gotchas! in the fine print which would put you off the game if you were aware of them. For instance, that highly touted $10,000 prize might only be awarded in the form of a credit at Harry's House of Ceramic Shoe Collectibles-- and so of little value to many folks. At the other end of the scale are sweeps with huge non-cash prizes of super-expensive cars and homes, which could effectively bankrupt many winners who try to claim them, with enormous income tax bills. To make it worse, the homes are usually located 3000 miles away from where the winner would want to live, or the car is totally impractical for normal driving (a Rolls Royce or Lamborghini Countach for example), and the income tax bite on the prize's value alone may be about the same as what you'll be able to sell it for on the street. Heck, sometimes auto prizes incur tax penalties equal to that of a brand new model off the dealer lot, but there's no new car warranty to go with it! Yeah, some winners might manage to sell off such assets, pay the taxes, and still end up with a little profit on the side. But I bet you most won't. So keep in mind folks that minimum 20-25% tax bite on prizes, and the principle that cold cash is much easier to deal with than overpriced real estate or luxury autos. One last good reason to carefully read the rules of contests before entering them: quite a few sites take months to take down entry pages after a sweepstakes has ended, still collecting personal info from poor saps who are unaware their entries are no good. There should be a law stopping this, but apparently there's not. So if you're too dumb or lazy to read the rules, you're going to be an automatic loser in lots of sweeps the very moment you click the last button for entry. The BBB Consumer News and Opinion Blog might help you steer clear of some sweep and contest scams.
Keeping all the above in mind, here's some miscellaneous links you can try, if you wish:
| New Sweepstakes & Contests | SweepstakesToday.com | Sweepstakes Lovers | Sweeties Sweepstakes | Online-Sweepstakes.com Cash | New Sweepstakes | Sweepstakes Advantage | Infinite Sweepstakes | contestgirl.com | | Lottery Results | | PCH Search & Win | Lastly, this Mega Millions Lottery Simulator should be visited on occasion just to remind us all of the extreme odds against us in large lotteries.
Miscellaneous links currently under evaluation for long-term inclusion in this page (presented in random order)
|
Copyright © 2018 by J.R. Mooneyham. All rights reserved. |