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Airin's Notes

Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Adblockers / Popupblockers
November 29, 2023

The best Adblocker I have found is uBlock Origin. It works in Chrome and Firefox, links are below. This also helps protect you against malware, as malicious ads are a common way that malware gets into a computer.
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

How to use it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-1YMSDmAM

Privacy Badger:
https://privacybadger.org/



Advanced topics:
Block Google/Youtube signin prompts
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/27/how-to-deal-with-googles-and-youtubes-aggressive-popups-before-you-continue-sign-in/



Keywords: pop up, ad block, spam, malware


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
AI Generated Content
November 30, 2023

NVIDIA - Generate Landscapes
http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/


keywords: Scenery, Nature, Graphics Card, Video, Terrain


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
AI Generators
November 28, 2023

AI Picture generator
https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream



Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Photo Generator, Picture, Realistic


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
AI Writing
November 28, 2023

AI writing service
https://beta.openai.com/playground


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Airfare/Flight Searching
December 1, 2023

Deal searching
http://matrix.itasoftware.com/

https://www.google.com/travel/flights

https://www.expedia.com/

https://www.kayak.com/


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Amazon - Subscribe and Save Deals
December 2, 2023

Filler items (cheap items to add to get to the 15% discount level)
https://www.mashupmom.com/20-cheap-amazon-subscribe-save-items-to-help-get-up-to-five/


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Artificial Intelligence: AI Links and Tools
November 29, 2023

Text generation
https://chat.openai.com/auth/login

Image generation
https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
https://stablediffusionweb.com/
https://www.midjourney.com/home/
https://www.craiyon.com/
https://clipdrop.co/stable-doodle

Some other things...
https://beta.openai.com/overview




Keywords: ChatGPT, DallE, Dall-e 2, Text Generation, OpenAI


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Bark - computer/device monitoring for parents
December 1, 2023

$5 - $14 per month
https://www.bark.us/#how


Keywords: Adult, Child, Children, Kids, protect, monitor


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Best Dashcam for the money
November 30, 2023

VIOFO A119 V3
https://www.amazon.com/VIOFO-Enhanced-Vision-Starvis-Parking/dp/B07SRQH4R7/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AnyhHl3_tE

Keywords: Record, Dash Cam, car, camera


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Big Number Calculator
December 2, 2023

https://defuse.ca/big-number-calculator.htm


Keywords: Large Numbers, Math, Multiplication, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Boise Area Electronics Recycling
November 30, 2023

Computers for Kids, Inc
https://www.cfkid.org/recycling
(208) 345-0346


PC Recyclers of Idaho
1260 E Watertower St, Meridian, ID 83642
(208) 658-1100


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Bookmarklets
November 28, 2023

Bookmarklets are simple little bookmarks, which you click and they do some action on the current webpage you have loaded. You need to create a new bookmark, and copy and paste the code into it. Then just click on the bookmark while you are on a website to use it.




Remove Paywall from websites, also induce an archive of the webpage if it hasn't been saved on https://archive.today


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Borrow an account to login to a website
November 30, 2023

http://bugmenot.com/



Keywords: Borrow, guest, anonymous, website, login, username, password


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Caldwell/Nampa/Boise/Meridian/Kuna/Middleton + Treasure Valley Internet Providers
November 30, 2023

Centurylink DSL+Fiber

Sparklight Cable Internet (formerly CableOne)

TDS Fiber - Certain areas only
https://tdsfiber.com/

Starlink - Satellite Service, $120 a month
https://www.starlink.com/

Rise Broadband
Advertisement shows $30 for 100Mbps
risebroadband.com

High Speed Idaho - Owned by my cousin
https://highspeedidaho.net/index.html


Keywords: ISP, Broadband, Internet, Modem


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Canary in the Coal Mine
December 1, 2023

Thinkst Canary offers this Canary Generator which can alert you when something happens, such as a URL being visited, or a special email address receiving an email.
https://canarytokens.org/generate

Keywords: Alert, Monitoring, Monitored, Warning, Siren


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Colorize or resize images
December 2, 2023

Colorize old Black and white or greyscale images, and other neat things:
https://deepai.org/ai-image-processing
https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/colorizer
https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/torch-srgan


keywords: B+W, Sepia, Kodak, Photographs, Pictures, Slides


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Cool Website Tools
December 2, 2023

https://tools.erralert.com/

This page has some basic tools I find useful
Some tools include:
Random - Generate random text/passwords.
Sync - Lets you simply copy a file or text from mobile to desktop and vice-versa.
Textify - Find and replace text, including multiline Find and Replace.


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
COVID Links
December 2, 2023

Best song about Covid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5azNpTwVk8

https://coronavirus.idaho.gov/

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

https://www.bing.com/covid

https://covid19.healthdata.org/global

https://bibbase.org/other/covid-19

https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Credit Freezing and Locking
November 29, 2023

Links:
https://www.equifax.com/personal/products/credit/credit-lock-alert/
https://www.transunion.com/credit-freeze
https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html
https://www.innovis.com/personal/securityFreeze

Keywords: Credit Card, Credit, Loan, Borrow, Privacy, Identity theft, Freeze, Lock


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Deals
December 1, 2023

Cell Phone Service
https://www.t-mobile.com/news/offers/new-connect-by-t-mobile-plans - T-Mobile $10 per month, 1GB, 1000 min/SMS
https://www.visible.com/get/389mjN - Visible by Verizon, $25 monthly unlimited including hotspot


Find deals on other things:
https://slickdeals.net/


Keywords: Slickdeals


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Earthquakes
November 30, 2023

USA
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=21.61658,-130.16602&extent=52.02546,-59.85352

Big Island of Hawaii
https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hawaiian-volcano-observatory/earthquakes
https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/maps


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Extract Pictures from websites
November 30, 2023

https://extract.pics/


Keywords: jpg, png, images, download


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Find people online
November 30, 2023

https://thatsthem.com/

https://www.mylife.com/

Keywords: White Pages, people lookup, address, phone, email


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Free Fonts
December 2, 2023

https://cooltext.com/Fonts


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Hardware and tools - Ordering Links
November 30, 2023

Tyvek Suit
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BZWQJT8K/

Balaclava
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B095KNM1LQ/



Keywords: amazon Ordering Links, supplies


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Homer
December 1, 2023

Yes, your name is here


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Idaho Durable Power of Attorney
November 27, 2023

https://sos.idaho.gov/hcdr/LivingWill_DurablePowerOfAttorney.pdf


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Idaho Transportation Projects - Highway and Freeway
December 1, 2023

https://itdprojects.org/

keywords: Idaho, Boise, Caldwell, Nampa, Meridian, Donnelly, Cascade, construction, traffic, closure, closed


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Link Shorteners
November 29, 2023

Grabify - Create a short url that also grabs information from the recipient, such as IP address
https://grabify.link/

Tinyurl
https://tinyurl.com/

Bitly
https://bitly.com/


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Linux Distros
November 27, 2023

Ubuntu Studio - Ubuntu Linux with lots of media creation tools. Video Editing, Photo Manipulation, Audio Authoring, etc
https://ubuntustudio.org/


Keywords: Linux, Ubuntu, Free, Edit, Audio, Graphics, PDF, Video, Movie, Picture, JPG, PNG, Photoshop, Graphics, Vector, Blender


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Maps - Satellite & Terrain
January 18, 2024

Topographical Profile (Use to check Wifi links, etc)
https://www.heywhatsthat.com/profiler.html


Current Satellite Map
https://zoom.earth/

Bing Maps
https://www.bing.com/maps

Google Maps
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.4969943,-116.3690901,103794m/data=!3m1!1e3

Google Maps Location Hist...<Too long, click to read the rest>


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Mars Perseverance Rover
November 30, 2023

Landed successfully on 2/18/2021.

Link to all pictures it has sent back.
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/

Links to more information
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Mavic Mini Drone App
December 1, 2023

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aryuthere.visionplus

Litchi for DJI Mavic / Phantom / Inspire / Spark



Add EXIF data to panorama file for 360, save this as a batch file, and point it to exiftool.exe:
@echo off
echo #1: %1
C:\Tools\Utils\exiftool.exe -ProjectionType="equirectangular" %1
timeout 2



Keywords: EXIF, Panorama, 360 Degree, Facebook


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Meeting & Videochat/Videoconference Solutions
November 30, 2023

Jitsi
https://meet.jit.si/

Google Meet
https://meet.google.com/

Microsoft Skype

Microsoft Teams

Zoom
https://www.zoom.us/


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
News Sites
January 20, 2024

https://ground.news/


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Online Generators
December 2, 2023

Headline Generator - Generate an image of a breaking news that you control
https://www.classtools.net/breakingnews/
https://breakyourownnews.com/


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Package Tracking
November 30, 2023

This site lets you track packages from most shipping services, including USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, and over 200 more.
https://t.17track.net/en



Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Photo Editing
December 1, 2023

Remove words/watermarks/imperfections from pictures:
https://theinpaint.com/


keywords: Edit, photo, picture, pictures, remove, artifact, text, glitch


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Picture Editing/Search/Validation
December 1, 2023

Remove people/objects from picture background:
https://cleanup.pictures/

Google Image Search
https://images.google.com/

Foto Forensics - Upload a picture and look for modifications to see if it was altered
https://fotoforensics.com/

Hinto - File Metadata viewer, for all file types including PDF and videos, and photos.
https://hintfo.com/


Keywords: Photo, picture, image, analyze, analysis, EXIF, metadata


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Privacy.com - Virtual Credit Cards
November 29, 2023
Privacy.com gives you the ability to generate virtual credit cards.

Features:
- The expiration is 6 years out, so you have a long time before you need to change it.
- Once a card is used, it can only ever be used by the same company, so if it is stolen, a different company can't even charge it.
- You can set limits per card. You can set a total spend amount for the life of the card, a limit per month, a limit per year, or a limit per transaction. Yo...<Too long, click to read the rest>

Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Scifi Books
December 1, 2023

As a teenager, I read a LOT of books, especially Science Fiction. I no longer have time to read with my eyes, but I listen to audiobooks.

My favorite Scifi book series starts with Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton.
His solo book Fallen Dragon is also quite good.

Other notable authors:
Ryk Brown
The Second Ship (The Rho Agenda Book 1) by Richard Phillips

Audiobook websites
Audible
Chirp - https://www.chirpbooks.com/home


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Statstics
December 2, 2023

https://www.internetlivestats.com/

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/


https://www.worldometers.info/


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Steve's best of the best
November 27, 2023

https://forums.grc.com/threads/my-favorite-utilities-gadgets-services.163/


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
US Goverment/DOD/Military/CAC
November 30, 2023

Tips for how to use your CAC on personal devices:
https://www.militarycac.com/index.htm


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Weather
December 2, 2023

Wind Map:
https://www.windfinder.com/#7/43.9493/-112.5110

https://www.windy.com/-Clouds-clouds?clouds,43.878,-112.456,7

https://darksky.net/forecast/43.5662,-116.2227/us12/en

https://maps.darksky.net/@temperature,39.000,-95.000,4


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Weather Details
December 1, 2023

https://weatherspark.com/y/2142/Average-Weather-in-Boise-Idaho-United-States-Year-Round



Keywords: Interesting Weather, Temperature, History, Average, Cloud


Category: Links 🠪 Interesting
Wordle
November 29, 2023

Wordle
https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

Wordle Word List:
https://www.wordunscrambler.net/word-list/wordle-word-list

Infinite Wordle:
https://gregcameron.com/infinite-wordle/

Quordle - 4 at a time:
https://www.quordle.com/#/

Cheating:
https://word.tips/wordle/





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