Miscellaneous

"Irrigating (rinsing) the nose and sinuses with salt water (saline) or medicated rinses can be very helpful to lessen or prevent nasal blockage and nasal drainage, decrease inflammation
(swelling) and treat infection. There are many different types of irrigation devices, irrigation
solutions and techniques." 

"Sinusoidal Waves as Sound"

Unicode character codes and names for symbols used in Ancient Greek musical notation.

Personal blog, frequently discusses knitting, sewing, and books on fiber arts. Last updated 2015.

Crowd-sourced site of friendship bracelet examples, patterns, and tutorials.

"Over 1400 FREE patterns!"
Patterns, tips, and instructions for making beadie critters.

"Sheep & Stitch is more than just a site for knitting tutorials, patterns and inspiration. It’s based on a larger philosophy that everyone is a creator."
Contains a library of patterns, a blog, and knitting instructions.

"Here is my blog, all about knitting and crocheting colour into my home in the Oxfordshire countryside (a converted old brewery with a wonky tower). When I’m not busy with yarn, I’m a clinical psychologist and mother of small twins. I also write a quarterly column for Simply Knitting magazine."

Forum and gallery for fountain pen users and enthusiasts.

"A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic."

A searchable database of aromantic and asexual characters in prose fiction.

"A large collection of ASCII art drawings and other related ASCII art pictures."

"Your imagination has been captured by the roaring rockets from Heinlein's SPACE CADET or the Polaris from TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET. But are such rockets possible? How does one go about defining the performance of these atomic-powered cruisers?"

"This document gives some hints and equations that will allow back-of-the-envelope calculations on such matters. Though horribly simplistic, they are far better than just making up your figures."

"This site was mainly intended for science fiction authors who wanted a little scientific accuracy so they can write SF 'the way God and Heinlein intended' (Arlan Andrews's Law). The technical term is Hard Science Fiction."

Tool for Minecraft Java or Bedrock players to input world seeds and output the intended location of various world structures.

"The FreeSpace Wiki is designed to be a comprehensive source of data for the FreeSpace series of games, including information about the games themselves, the FreeSpace universe, and community activities such as modding and the Source Code Project. It also contains help with some of the more common problems, such as setting up multiplayer and obtaining the FreeSpace games, which can be quite difficult in stores."

"The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group: A Database of Synthetic Taxonomy", i.e. classification of plastic bread bag clips.

"The LGBTQIA+ Wiki is a resource of LGBTQIA+ terminology and labels used by various queer communities, as well as the questioning and/or curious. The wiki is designed to be a helpful resource for explaining identities both known and unknown."

"Here at Live Well Bake Often you’ll find hundreds of classic baked goods and desserts that I’ve created in my own kitchen. All of the recipes on my site are tested multiple times to ensure their accuracy. You’ll also find step-by-step instructions and as much detail as possible with each recipe because I want you to have 100% success when you make them. My hope is that Live Well Bake Often will be your ultimate resource for baking. I want you to feel completely confident when it comes to making any recipe on my site – even if you’ve never baked from scratch in your entire life."

Mecha and Anime fansite.

"Minecraft is a 3D sandbox adventure game developed by Mojang Studios where players can interact with a fully customizable three-dimensional world made of blocks and entities."

"You've landed at the MOGAI Wiki — An inclusive Wiki on Miraheze for every MOGAI identity, where anyone can edit."

"This wiki was made to catalog and organize MOGAI identities. Our goal is to provide an easier way to find the definitions, flags, and creators for niche identities which otherwise may be difficult to find. Check out the discover section below to start diving in and learn more about the wiki."

Searchable database of virtual environments from video games - navigable with a floating camera.

Descriptions of and links to queer comics.

"Rebrickable will look at your LEGO Collection and calculate what other LEGO Sets or MOCs you can build with your existing parts. If you are interested in a particular Set/MOC it can show you which parts you are missing and help you buy them."

"A powerful Magic: The Gathering card search".

"[To] help identify radio signals through example sounds and waterfall images."

"How long will your favorite food or beverage stay safe and tasty? What's the best way to store it? Get the answers for thousands of items!"

This site is a celebration of Stormé DeLarverié and is a labour of love.

"This wiki is primarily used for documenting guidelines and rules for [Vocaloid Database]".

"The collaborative database for Vocaloid, UTAU and other singing synthesizers, with artists, discography, PVs and more."

"The online encyclopedia."

The Helen Keller Archival Collection at the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is the world’s largest repository of letters, speeches, press clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, architectural drawings, artifacts and audio-video materials relating to Helen Keller.

"The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network (LGBTQ-RAN) coordinates and supports the identification, collection and preservation of personal papers and organizational records from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender religious movements. To encourage scholarly research and historical study of these important movements for social change, LGBTQ-RAN disseminates information about these records and provides and facilitates access to them, using digital technology when possible.

"WarHistory.org seeks to be a go-to resource for unbiased documentation of all conflicts, providing context from every side, battle archives, conflict zones, weapons used, and key figures and groups involved."

"From the armies of ancient Rome and Greece, to the World Wars of the 20th Century and beyond, Warfare History Network’s in-depth articles feature detailed accounts of the battles, the soldiers, the weapons, and much more. In addition, our articles are illustrated with historic photos, paintings, drawings, and maps from museums and historic collections around the world. Our members are a community of serious readers of history that often join in the conversation in our article comments. Join us on a trip to the front lines."

Provides recipes based off ingredients that you have available. Recipes are submitted by users.

"Add your ingredients to get started... Every ingredient you add unlocks more recipes".
Site which tells you recipes you can make with the ingredients you have available.

A "fan-created archive of Jeopardy! games and players."

"This wiki focuses on the world's longest-running action, adventure and science-fantasy franchise, along with its spin-offs like Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class and several others."

"THE ALL DEVOURING POP-CULTURE WIKI" - Started by cataloging narrative devices in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, now is an ever-expanding catalogue of tropes in various forms of media -- and even in real life.

"[An] ongoing project to create a definitive database of information about Sailor Moon."

"A collection of profiles for fictional characters from genre media."

List of public or semi-public outlets. Includes contact information for contributing locations.

"Falling Fruit is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets. By quantifying this resource on an interactive map, we hope to facilitate intimate connections between people, food, and the natural organisms growing in our neighborhoods. Not just a free lunch! Foraging in the 21st century is an opportunity for urban exploration, to fight the scourge of stained sidewalks, and to reconnect with the botanical origins of food."

"Radio Garden invites you to explore live radio from around the world. By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined both connecting with distant cultures, as well as re-connecting with people from ‘home’ from thousands of miles away."

"Discover a world of immersive and customizable soundscapes that can enhance focus, relaxation, and sleep. Choose from noise generators, nature sounds and ambient music to create your perfect audio environment. Explore our vast library of interactive sound generators and find your audio haven!"

"Open a window somewhere in the world".

"Simply enter your desired frequency and press play. You will hear a pure tone sine wave sampled at a rate of 44.1kHz. The tone will continue until the stop button is pushed... The tone generator can play four different waveforms: Sine, Square, Sawtooth and Triangle."

"What can I use this tone generator for? Tuning instruments, science experiments (what’s the resonant frequency of this wineglass?), testing audio equipment (how low does my subwoofer go?), testing your hearing (what’s the highest frequency you can hear? are there frequencies you can hear in only one ear?)."

"Hello! You have found the fastest and right way to tune your guitar 🎸. The tuning will be done using the free online guitar tuner, working through a microphone on your device. This tuner is suitable for acoustic and for electric guitar."

"We purposely created this free online tool to be uncomplicated and user-friendly, because you don’t need any added stress in your life! Let’s take things step by step on how to efficiently use this height comparison tool. Stick around to get the scoop on the multiple scenarios and reasons you can utilize this tool!... Are you in the midst of remodeling your home, some new furniture you want to get your hands on, wanting to see which of your favorite fictional characters are the tallest, or shamelessly compare your height to your favorite celebrity? All these scenarios [and more] can be thoroughly accomplished with our handy dandy height comparison tool."

"Drafts, feedback, revisions … the creative process gets messy. With Ellipsus, you can write, edit, and collaborate in one place and let your creativity flow... Ellipsus is a modern text editor that handles haikus, manuscripts, and everything in between."

"Identifont was launched in November 2000 to provide designers with a tool to help them identify fonts or select the best fonts for their projects. Since then it has grown to become the largest independent directory of digital fonts on the Internet, with a number of unique tools for locating fonts for particular applications."

"Use these free online tools to fix text, convert text to HTML, remove line breaks, generate random words, and do many other tasks quickly with these web tools."

"Scan A.I.’s primary datasets to see if your images have potentially been trained on. Take action towards removing your images from being picked up by A.I. tools."

"Apply ArtShield’s robust invisible watermark to your images to help camouflage them against A.I. robot scrapers."

"View Exif Data is a tool for extracting the exif metadata that is embedded in photos taken with digital cameras and stored in JPEG format. Exif stands for "exchangeable image file format" and represents the metadata [that] is [embedded] in photos by digital camera manufacturers.

"Welcome to 3D Gif Maker, where you can easily make gifs from your images
Simply upload an image, pick an animation style, tweak the parameters, apply filters, and download a gif."
Add Text, Crop, Resize, Filter, Rotate, Reverse, Video to Gif, Glitch, Gif from Images, Obj File to Gif, Animation

Convert Image

Resize Image, Compress Image, Compress JPEG, Image Converter, Crop Image, Upscale

Resize Image

Resize, Crop, Mirror, Rotate, Compress, Convert, Pixelate, Black/White

Resize, Crop, Bulk resize, Compress, Convert, Watermark, Add Text, Black/White, Mirror/Flip

Resize, Crop, Compress, Convert, Bulk Resize, Meme Generator, Color Picker, Rotate, Flip, Enlarge

example

"Easily combine multiple PNG images into a single PDF file to catalog and share with others. No limit in file size, no registration, no watermark. This service automatically rotates, optimizes and scales down images, but keeping the original resolution."

"Edit PDF files for free. Fill & sign PDF"

"Check if a website or app is down for everyone or just you."

Searchable database of images of animals with their heads in different positions, has a manipulatable 3D animal skull reference tool.

"I made this tool to practice drawing heads at different angles - inspired by x6ud's tool for animal references. The photo dataset used is the FFHQ set."

"Find where images appear online."

"Search Engine Comparison... Select an engine every time you search".

"Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like. This instance of Gnod applies this to art. It will ask you which artists you like and then think about which other artists you might like too. When I set Gnod online its database was completely empty. Now it contains thousands of artists and quite some knowledge about who likes what. And Gnod learns more every day."
Does not contain actual art nor examples of artist' work.
(Note from Robin: I emailed the creator, Marek, to confirm that the various Gnod sites do not use LLMs/generative AI)

"The Product Chart mission: For every product type, provide a nice overview of what is available in the market, plus the filters to choose the perfect product."
The Product Chart contains Amazon affiliate links, but the tool does not require any purchases to function.
(Note from Robin: I emailed the creator, Marek, to confirm that the various Gnod sites do not use LLMs/generative AI)

"The Music-Map is part of Gnod, the Global Network of Discovery."
Uses a unique AI approach from the developer which predates LLMs. It maps existing similarities between music and artists to help find new music based on what you currently enjoy.
(Note from Robin: I emailed the creator, Marek, to confirm that the various Gnod sites do not use LLMs/generative AI)

"This reverse dictionary allows you to search for words by their definition."

"Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like. In this instance of Gnod all is about movies. Gnod is kind of a search engine for movies you don't know about. It will ask you which movies you like and then think about which other movies you might like too. When I set Gnod online its database was completely empty. Now it contains tens of thousands of movies and quite some knowledge about who likes what. And Gnod learns more every day. Enjoy!"

(Note from Robin: I emailed the creator, Marek, to confirm that the various Gnod sites do not use LLMs/generative AI)

"All of the paywall removers in one place... Simply enter the URL of the article and click the archive buttons to remove any paywall."

"Remove Paywall works by allowing users to search various internet archives. These archived pages do not require a login and prevent users from being tracked."