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[Elite_is_salty]

Hi hi!

 

So, simple/useful thread hehe

 

Post websites you find useful for the benefit of your fellow HAWKEN players!

 

 

1- http://giveawayoftheday.com/

A free software every day. There's some really useful stuff there and it comes in handy. If you have the time to download every software daily you'd end up with a huge treasure of software!

 

2- https://www.mathway.com/

Solve any sort of math problem. Really helpful for a student.

 

3- http://onlineclock.net/

Might come in handy :)

 

4- http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

To make you feel better (or worse) about your internetz.

 

5- http://www.canistream.it/

If you need to stream a movie without time wasting.

 

6- http://devdocs.io/cpp/

My personal favorite. I can't even ...

 

6- http://www.w3schools.com/

Best references/tutorials for all web-development related things. Absolute gold!

 

7- http://ideone.com/

Online compiler for all relevant programming languages. Not too shabby tbh.

 

8- http://www.downloadmoreram.com

The best website on the internet. I think it's better than a melee mech in HAWKEN.

 

 

 

Post yours below for a change to get ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!

[Lioot]

www.9gag.com for uber time wasting

[ticklemyiguana]

www.wolframalpha.com

 

However during college, I found the most useful site to be www.stumbleupon.com

 

I hate homework, but I enjoy learning and stuff. As such, my stumbleupon preferences are quite broad, ranging from nanotechnology, astronomy and particle physics to literature and roman history, with a fair helping of time wasting nonsense as well. I developed a strategy of sorts that ensured that if I decided to procrastinate on homework, it would be time well spent. (At this point I'd used the site for over a year, and my preferences were pretty refined.)

 

If I decided I wanted to use the internet, it would be through this, and I could browse as long as I wanted, but I had to read through all the content (unless it was something stupid) - meaning that if I reached the end of a page of jokes, and the next thing on was an article on heuristics and confirmation bias, I would have to either read the entire thing and treat it as a study, or do my homework.

 

Well. I walked out of school with a 2.5 GPA or something like that (I think it was 2.72), but the stuff I've learned just by being interested in the world has let me do pretty well for myself.

 

Oh, and for the actual homework:

 

https://www.youtube....ser/khanacademy

Edited by ticklemyiguana, 12 June 2015 - 06:53 PM.

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https://howsecureismypassword.net/-- Security checking (in a non-secure way)
http://www.openssh.com/-- SSH and SFTP
http://youtube.com/-- A lot of videos on the Internet are available here!!
http://openstaxcollege.org/-- Textbooks and learning materials available online (legally)
http://cygwin.com/-- DLL-API and toolset functionally similar or identical to Linux versions (or common programs available for POSIX-compliant or similar systems) that enables some cross-platform flexibility

Edited by WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, 12 June 2015 - 07:39 PM.

[LoC_TR]

news for nerds and stuff that matters

[Trigary]

Google for googling: https://www.google.com

[Loglino]

6- http://devdocs.io/cpp/

My personal favorite. I can't even ...

 

6- http://www.w3schools.com/

Best references/tutorials for all web-development related things. Absolute gold!

 

I knew there was something wrong here.

[LaurenEmily]

https://community.pl...ou-find-useful/This one

 

Oh and also: https://www.google.com

[reVelske]

And I was waiting to see how long it takes for someone to post google, didn't even take more than 5 posts!

 

http://random.org/, for the indecisive ones among us.

Edited by reVelske, 12 June 2015 - 08:50 PM.

[Elite_is_salty]

I knew there was something wrong here.

 

what?

[Trigary]

Oh and also: https://www.google.com

 

Oh yeah, just go and ignore my shiny post

[MacTep_6oT]

and for the trivia enthusiast: http://www.imgur.com

Edited by ?????? ???, 12 June 2015 - 09:31 PM.

[Elite_is_salty]

 

http://openstaxcollege.org/-- Textbooks and learning materials available online (legally)
 

 

Thank you so much for this!

[Draigun]

BlurBusters - Pretty neat site that many monitor enthusiasts can relate to.

 

UFO Test - Related to BlurBusters; vast array of tools to offer deeper insight into your monitor and its specifications.

 

Lagom.nl - Monitor calibration toolset set to today's standards. Useful for when you want to improve the quality of the panel, as seen by your eyes.

 

NOAA GOES - If you know what to look for, you can actually trust this more than your local weather station. For those in Europe, see here. East Asia map is located here.

 

da whois - Domain & IP information lookup, traceroute, blacklist status, GeoIP, etc..

 

Hummingbird - Anime.

 

MapCrunch - Fun stuff, can browse the entire world through Google Maps.

 

IPViking Live - Real-time map that shows Internet threats from around the world.

 

Steam Status - Is Steam down, or not? Check the status of it here.

 

WTF Japan - WTF Japan?

 

Crypo - I've used this site for various encryption methods from time to time, pretty useful since it's centralized.

 

FinchVPN - Very solid, fast, and reliable VPN.

 

Midomi - This is quite possibly a trick that not many know, but you can use this site to find out any song playing on your desktop (through a Twitch stream, commercial, YT video that doesn't tell you about the song, etc etc.). Essentially, you need to record your Stereo Mix, and enable it as the default device. Then, Midomi should recognize that audio stream, and thus, will record it to look it up through its vast database. Been using it for over a year now, and I'd say it has an 80% success rate. From what I've seen, the database is comprised largely of songs contained in Amazon's music library.

 

 

Also, damnit Elite, I was going to suggest DownloadMoreRAM.

Edited by Draigun, 12 June 2015 - 11:56 PM.

[Rainbow_Sheep]

http://lmgtfy.com/

 

Useful for being a smartass

[Pure_Amazing]

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

 

I'm sure I don't need to explain its uses...

[Amidatelion]

I re-install an OS on basically a weekly basis so https://ninite.com/

 

Creates an all-in-one installer for many popular must-have programs and then installs them all.

[kasei]

https://chocolatey.org/
Basically apt-get for Windows

[Hek_naw]

You know, when someone makes that particular typo and you must definately correct them, you throw this link at their face:

 

http://d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/

[Zuurkern]

 

6- http://www.w3schools.com/

Best references/tutorials for all web-development related things. Absolute gold!

 

I prefer https://developer.mo.../en-US/docs/Web for documentation, it looks a bit cleaner and stuff.

 

http://caniuse.com/

 

http://www.smashingm...tag/web-design/

Edited by Zuurkern, 13 June 2015 - 03:59 AM.

[SparkyJJC]

http://stackoverflow.com/

A rather useful website if you have a problem with your code, you want to check if your code is efficient, or you simply want to know how to code something. You can search to see whether someone has asked the same question as you wanted to ask, or you can ask yourself.

Helped me on a number of occasions. 

[reVelske]

ITT: Devs post tech sites every amateur dev already know about and have used thousands of times.

Edited by reVelske, 13 June 2015 - 04:57 AM.

[Badtings]

Twitchfilm.com 

 

When you need to know what going on in the world of film... indie, international and superheroes (Hollywood). 

[Aelita]

http://www.blackle.com/

Edited by Aelita, 14 June 2015 - 03:29 AM.

[MomOw]

A quite old but still usefull website

 

http://perdu.com/

[Dedhed]

First, the always wonderful space simulation with lots of objects http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ many addons for which can be downloaded here http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ 

 

 

 

And yes, that's what it actually looks like when you zoom in on objects in the program. Every star of which you can seen in the pics being objects or group of objects. There's a ton. Relatively small download, though 

 

For science news in many - possibly all - fields updated daily

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/

 

For cool programs http://www.fourmilab.ch/

 

to view stars/constellations from different perspectives on Earth

 

http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

 

our solar system

 

http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/

 

our Earth and Moon

 

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/

 

for example

 

http://www.fourmilab...NASA500m-m.evif

 

note that you can click the image to pan and zoom in with a clickable "in" just below it. There are also many viewing options, just click one and "update"

Edited by Dedhed, 14 June 2015 - 05:13 AM.

[Neraste]

Chocolatey, a packages handler (like apt-get, yum, zypper... on Linux) for MS Windows: https://chocolatey.org/

 

LESS documentation, a CSS pre-language with awesome features: http://lesscss.org/(there is also SASS)

 

+1 for caniuse

 

Modern Fortran best practices, for people to stop coding in Fortran77:  http://www.fortran90...-practices.html

 

Codecrap, to laugh a lot and make you relax about your own coding style: http://codecrap.com/

[MomOw]

for news :

 

http://www.ggmania.com/

[reVelske]

http://www.tfwiki.net/

 

Easily one of the most hilariously written wiki in existence. (in a good way) Be sure to check out Wheelie's wiki page.

[crockrocket]

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned, but Reddit has a wide variety of content. There's a subreddit for whatever you're interested in (like Hawken)

[Magnolia1038]

For science (with Bearodactyls, cats, and Tesla): http://theoatmeal.com/

[Shoutaxeror]

Grooveshark. Oh, wait. Now I have to use deezer and youtube for most of my music streaming. It sucks

[crockrocket]

Grooveshark. Oh, wait. Now I have to use deezer and youtube for most of my music streaming. It sucks

I mean if you don't mind ads spotify and pandora are good (spotify is better). Also soundcloud has some pretty cool stuff.

 

Not sure about availability in Europe for spotify and pandora though. Might work, maybe not

Edited by (TDM)crockrocket, 20 June 2015 - 04:46 PM.

[Draigun]

Internet radio.

[Aregon]

For those times you just want to see f*cked up stuff: http://www.liveleak.com/

[Shoutaxeror]

I mean if you don't mind ads spotify and pandora are good (spotify is better). Also soundcloud has some pretty cool stuff.

 

Not sure about availability in Europe for spotify and pandora though. Might work, maybe not

 

Problem with spotify is that it's working with a software, and I don't know how to block ads with it. With Deezer, you only need a free account+adblock to listen to everything without ads. But both Deezer and Spotify lacks some releases.

 

And about Pandora (which I've never heard about before) : "We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S". fuzzy bunny censorship

 

Edit : And yeah, I forgot about Soundcloud and Bandcamp, both pretty solid music platforms which seems to be thought by musician for the love of music.

Edited by (KDR) Shoutaxeror, 28 June 2015 - 03:23 PM.

[BluetoothBoy]

http://soundcloud.com- Can't live without it.

 

http://colorpicker.com- Colors. Plus other colors that go well with those colors.

 

http://fiverr.com- For making some spare change.

 

http://docs.unity3d.com- Reference for the Unity game engine.

 

I don't really use any sites consistently other than SoundCloud though...

[Neraste]

Adobe Kuler, for nice color themes: https://color.adobe.com

[Aregon]

Problem with spotify is that it's working with a software, and I don't know how to block ads with it. With Deezer, you only need a free account+adblock to listen to everything without ads. But both Deezer and Spotify lacks some releases.

Really? I share premium with someone which is actually decently cheap (at least if you got like 2 weeks of playtime - all different songs) and haven`t encountered the ads thing that often, only long way back.

[BluetoothBoy]

Adobe Kuler, for nice color themes: https://color.adobe.com

Forgot to post this one! This is a great site. :D