11 Cool Websites Everyone Should Know 2019!

11 Cool Websites Everyone Should Know 2019!

Ah yes websites.There are at least a thousand of them but which ones are the best?Obviously I cant really answer that but I can at least tell you about some that youshould definitely know about.In this video Ive got 11 cool websites that range from being extremely useful to justpure fun.Youve probably heard of some of them but I doubt all of them so you should at leastget something out of this.And the links will be in the description.Quickly before we begin Im just gonna give a 2 second shout out to my Twitter and InstagramI try to post cool stuff on those if youre interested both are just @ThioJoe.Anyway lets get started.Number one this website is definitely in the extremely useful catagory.Its called "VirusTotal" and you may have heard me mention it before.

Its actually owned by Google now and what it does is lets you upload any file andit will be scanned with pretty much every virus scanner software out there which isover 60 of them.This obviously cant replace having antivirus software on your computer because it onlyscans individual files but its great if you come across something suspicious.Maybe you download something and your antivirus software says its fine but you want to besure.Or maybe your antivirus says its a virus but you think it could be a false alarm.In both cases you can use VirusTotal to compare it to all the other antiviruses to get a betteridea.Like if every antivirus says its fine except for a few those are probably a false positive.But if a pretty good chunk of them say its a virus better play it safe.Also they even have a feature to search websites as well.

So if someone sends you a link youre not too sure about you can check it out.Of course common sense is the best defense so dont rely on it completely if its abrand new phishing site or something I dont know if it would detect it.Next up we have a quick one thats just for fun.Its called "Windows 93" which emulates a theoretical version of Windows that wouldhave been from 1993.Its not exactly historically accurate in fact its mostly just humorous but is actuallysurprisingly complex.It has an internet themed Wolfenstein game a drawing program like paint even Half Life3 which apparently never finishes loading.You can also start a virtual machine which runs Windows 93 inside Windows 93.

There is obviously a ton of stuff you can do to waste time on here so Id better notget too far into it you can just explore it yourself.Alright number 3 is another important one called "HaveIBeenPwned".It seems like all the time now we hear about a new website getting hacked and passwordsbeing leaked but how are you supposed to know if YOUR data has been leaked.Well thats the point of this site.You just type in your email address and it will tell your email address along with yourpassword and potentially other info was included in any breaches in its database.

That way you know to not only change your password on that site but also never usethat same password again.Thats because hackers frequently use leaked databases to try email and password combinationson a bunch of sites.If you used 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 notificationif your email has been found in any future breaches going forward.And chances are you will eventually.Just look at the one from Adobe in 2013 where over 150 MILLION accounts were leaked.Youll obviously want to immediately know if it happens to you.Number 4 we have a site called "10 minute mail" which generates a temporary email addressfor you that expires in 10 minutes.

This is great if you come across a website that requires you to sign up for an accountto use but you know youll probably never use it again and dont want to give awayyour real email.Now you can just sign up with a throwaway email address get whatever you need fromthe site and leave.Another use might be if you arent sure whether a site is junk or not.You can sign up with a temporary email and if it turns out to be legit you can justmake a real account or change to your real email.If the site ends up being useless you wont have to worry about getting on any new spamlist from it.Onto number 5 this one is great and is so simple.Its called "DownForEveryoneOrJustMe" or the short version is just isup.me and allthis site does is tells you if any website you type in is currently up or down.Im its happened to you a million times you try to go to a site and it either takesforever to load or wont load at all and youre wondering if the problem is on yourend or not.Not really much more to say about it...If the website is up it will tell you its just you and if it really is down it willsay its not just you.Definitely a handy one to remember.Ok next up number 6 this one is pretty well known I think which is "GetHuman".

This website is for any time you call customer service for any company and you just cantseem to talk to a real person.With this you type in a company and it will tell you exactly what steps to take to getconnected to a human customer support agent assuming its possible.For example if we try Sony it tells us the phone number to call and then what numbersto press that will put you through to someone.In this case you press 5 then zero then zero.For companys or websites that have basically no way to talk to someone like YouTube itwill at least have some instructions for how to fix common problems.They also apparently have a paid service where they will literally call the company on yourbehalf but Ive never tried that particular service myself.Alright next we have an interesting little site called "Which Book" and the point isto help you find a book you might want to read or several.On the left of the page there are a bunch of criteria sliders you can use to describewhat youd like.So maybe you want one thats really happy but also really disturbing which would bea weird combination and we can see it actually has quite a few possible recomendations.There is a limit of four slider criteria at once I guess because otherwise it would justbe too specific or innacurate.Theres also a button to add more settings like a specific type of plot setting orcharacter.Overall its just a cool site you might want to check out.Number 8 PixaBay.This is an awesome stock photo website except every single one of the pictures are royaltyfree.Specifically the pictures are all released under Creative Commons Zero meaning theyare released into the public domain.And there are a surprising number of stock photos on here right now over a million.Thats nowhere near some of the paid stock photos sites that might have over 100 millionbut hey you really cant complain.There are still a ton of really cool high quality images on here that you can use foranything from desktop wallpaper to being put in YouTube videos.Youre also able to filter for specific types of images like actual photos or vector graphicsor ones that have transparent backgrounds.And yes I very often get a lot of pictures from here and use them in videos.It might be difficult to find images about really specific topics but for the most partyou can usually find at least something you can work with.Moving on number 9 is a site called "JustWatch" where you can type in any movie or TV showyou want to watch and it will tell you what streaming services have it.And as you can see it supports pretty much every streaming service out there or at least the most popular ones.Lets do an example like for game of thrones.Under Watch Now it shows you services that you can stream it on assuming you subscribe to it as well as other services that let you just buy episodes outright and how manyseasons those sites have.In this case it looks like they all have six seasons but you want to double checkbecause even though it says Fandango and Microsoft have 7 seasons if you actually go to themthey just have the option to pre-order season 7 and you cant actually watch it yet.As I said it also works for movies so if we type in something like "Dr Strange" rightin the results we can see that its streamable on netflix and most of the other servicesallow you to either rent or buy the movie since Google play is listed under both.I should mention that the results will definitely vary by country but at least it seems likeit also supports a lot of European based streaming services as well so it should work no matterwhere you live.Alright almost near the end number 10 is Product Hunt which is a really cool websiteto find out about brand new products that have just been released or announced.These might be physical products apps or services on websites.New products are posted every day and a lot of them are from random startups youve neverheard of but youll also see people posting stuff released by major companies like Appleor Google and usually before theyre widely advertised.Of course you can filter through different catagories to see the most popular recentstuff as well.So I think this is a neat site worth checking out every few days or so to see the beststuff that you might have missed.Ok finally number 11 we have If This Then That also known as IFTTT.This website basically connects the APIs of a ton of different websites and services alltogether to interact however you want.For example you could make it so any time you get a new Twitter follower your smart light bulbs blink.Or any time you post a photo on instagram it automatically posts it to facebook as well.The possibilities are pretty much endless you could even do weird pointless stuff likeany time you upload a video on YouTube it turns up your thermostat or something.Completely ridiculous but you get the idea.The one thing I will say though is unfortunately its not always super reliable so you shouldntuse it for anything important.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 its still pretty darn useful.So I guess thats it a bunch of cool websites that I think youll find pretty cool andmaybe you knew most of them but you can always send this to friends and let them know aboutthese too.If you have any awesome sites I didn't talk about let me know in the comments I will probably do another one of these eventually.