Deposit Photos
Deposit Photos has a great Image catalog for all your needs.
If your looking for great stock photos or vector images - Deposit Photo is the way to go. You can find lots of great graphics and ideas.
These files aren't free, you need to buy a package to download the files. They often run a special promotional deal where you can download 100 files for $100. It's a great deal since the 100 credits don't expire.
If you're really into Deposit Photo, you can subscribe to their services - there's a monthly and a yearly plan.
From their Website
Depositphotos -- is a commercial platform that brings authors of high-quality licensed stock photos, graphics, vectors, and videos together with appreciative buyers. Thanks to the efforts of talented professionals from all over the globe and our world-class technical solutions, we were able to build a perfect place to marry business with creativity.
75+ million files. Clients in 192 countries. 24/7 support in 20 languages. It is possible only because we have a strong team located in New York, Milan, Kiev, Moscow and Warsaw.
You can find great Christmas graphics, images for invitations, infographic designs or graphics for blogs.
I have found that some designs from Creative Market are also available on Deposit Photo. Instead of paying $8, I paying $1 for virtually the same graphic design.
Get Started
Check out their site and search for images to see what they have in their library. See if it meets your image demands.
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Find the lowest price on any product on Amazon.com
camelcamelcamel is a great site to find out if your getting the best deal on a product on Amazon.com. Simply enter the product name or Amazon URL and it will display the product price history for any duration.
Website Description
Our free Amazon price tracker monitors millions of products and alerts you when prices drop, helping you decide when to buy.
The website will also display the current top Amazon price drops and the most popular products on Amazon.com.
This is a great site for anyone looking to get the best deal on Amazon.com
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Cool graphic letter generator
Spell with Flicker is a cool service where it searches Flickr for the letters of the word that you want to spell. This is pretty cool for a social media post to highlight a name or word.
If you don't like a particular letter simply click on it to get another design style.
How it All came about
Krazy Dad (jbum) made a note once using the letters from the One Letter group with the Flickr API. I decided to try making something similar as a way to learn Flickr's wonderful developer tools. Along the way, it got VERY popular. I still feel like it could be better, but it gets the job done. I have made the source code available for free. It's not coded very well, my first time parsing XML(ish) with PHP(4), and also my first time doing caching of remote resources (funny story, I had a bug in this script that bypassed the cache each time - when I got really popular, Flickr felt the strain, and temporarily disabled my API Key). I'm still thrilled with the response it has gotten, and welcome any suggestions or comments. You can reach me on my blog at metaatem.net, or email me at kastner@gmail.com.
Sample Designs
Here are some cool designs that you can create with Spell with Flickr.
Dummy Image Generator
Quick way to render Dummy Images for Projects
Sometimes you need a placeholder image for testing functionality or for as a template to build around. Dummy Image Generator is a great place to create a basic placeholder image.
Basic Concept
The URL generates the image. Which makes it easy to create images. You simply pass through the dimensions of the image and any color or text that you want to be displayed.
Five Samples
Here are a few links to practical Dummy Images
- Facebook Ad Size - perfect size for Facebook ads.
- Google Display Ad Size - Considering advertising on the Google Display Network? Use this as a starting point.
- 16:9 format for a standard Website - Good for displaying an image perfectly in any platform.
- Nice Slack image size - ideal size for Slack.
- Album Art size - quickly create an album art placeholder. Perfect when your sick of the default album art.
memegenerator.net
Easily Create Popular MEME
Meme are captioned photos that are intended to be funny. Usually two lines of text with a reaction image in the background.
Over the past few years, there has been a few photos that have become standard designs for memes.
One of the best places to quickly create a meme is memegenerator.net, they have all the popular meme images. You have the option of uploading your own photo.
Description from memegenerator.net
memegenerator.net is the first online meme generator. Browse the most popular memes on the internet, create your own meme or caption your favorite character like Y-U-No, Philosoraptor, Grumpy Cat, Foul Bachelore Frog, and more.
You can search the memegenerator.net database of creations done in the past.
Sample MEMEs
Here are some sample images created using the meme generator.net:
Photofunia
Add some cool effects to your photos
Photofunia is a really cool site to add some effects to any picture. If you want to add a bit of creativity to your otherwise boring photos.
Sketch, Pencil Drawing, and Watercolor are great effects to add to ordinary photos. They are great for social media profile photos. With photofun.com you can make it look awesome.
Description from their Website
Performing image editing and applying picture effects to any image is a time-consuming exercise that is fit only for an avid photoshop user. If you're looking for a quick and professional picture effects online service, then PhotoFunia is the solution you've been looking for.
With PhotoFunia you can edit photos online for free in a matter of seconds resulting in high-quality photo collages. Not only you can edit pics online for free you can also have much fun doing so, by sharing them with your family and friends. So what are you waiting for? Start editing pictures online with PhotoFunia for free today.
There are 568 effects that you can apply! Wow! That lots of cools ways to spice up a photo or message. You don't always need a photo too, there are plenty of designs where text is the key graphic element.
New designs are added every week! Check out the blog for updates. Download the iOS app to use pictures you take with your camera.
Sample Designs
Here is just a small sample of some of the cool things you can do with PhotoFun. Since the website is 100% free, I would highly encourage you to head over to photofunia.com and check out some cool designs.
hotsheet.com
Great site to find the best places on the internet.
HotSheet.com is what Yahoo.com use to be - a resource to the best sites on the internet. It's a great place to go to find sites in just about any category.
Websites are nicely grouped into various categories such as News and Sports, Entertainment, finance, home life and more. It's a good way to expand your Internet Horizon. The nice thing is that the list is small and practical so you won't be inundated with lots of links.
Description from their site:
Welcome to HotSheet(R), the premier web portal/ homepage/start page for both desktop and mobile web browsers. With breaking news headlines from multiple sources, major US national and local news sites, and top world news and sports websites. Also includes top air travel and hotel websites, technology news sites, stock market links, and finance tools, and much more in the Hot Sheet web directory. The single page directory of top sites also includes entertainment news and celebrity gossip pages, social media links, movies, TV, music and arcade games.
Use HotSheet.com as your browser homepage, start page, or favorite web portal. While it works great as your desktop browser home page, HotSheet automatically adjusts to an efficient layout for Apple iPhone and Android smartphone devices. The adaptive web app allows for a mobile experience with the same links and features as the already familiar desktop browser version. Hot Sheet is designed to be an uncluttered and easy to use web portal/home page for desktop or notebook PCs, tablets and mobile devices. See our Change Home Page Instructions on how to update your web browser settings to set www.hotsheet.com as your web browser startup homepage. Info on how to add a HotSheet icon to a smartphone home screen is also included.
Certificate Magic
Fast way to create Certificates
Certificate Magic is a quick way to create an Online Certificate. Simply select from several popular design choices and then add your text.
You can use it to create Certificate of Appreciation or Accomplishments for taking your training.
It's also a fun way to lighten the mood - Give a Certificate to someone who just microwaved some popcorn to smell up the entire office. Not working from home today - congratulate them on showing up in the office!
Certificate Magic is a fun way to create Certificates - and it's free!
Check out these Examples
Internet Speed Test
How fast is your Internet Connection? Google can let you know.
Google has a cool built in Internet Speed Test. Simple go to Google.com and search for Internet Speed Test.
The complete test is actually run by the Measurement Lab (M-Lab). They are a partnership between New America's Open Technology Institute, Google Open Source Research, Princeton University's PlanetLab and other partners.
Speed Limit 700 Mbps
The speed test max out at 700 Mbps, so if you have a really fast bandwidth, your test results will not be accurate. Google Fiber has speeds of 700 Mbps. 1 GB Ethernet, OC-48 Carrier, and 10 GB Ethernet are all faster than 700 Mbps.
Wireless Bandwidth 802.11ac and 802.11ad are faster than 700 Mbps but if you don't have the external bandwidth to handle it, you won't see the difference. These are great if you have home cloud storage.
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Create your own IFTTT to track your town weather
Have you checked out IFTTT yet? It's a cool service that allows communication between Internet services.
From the IFTTT Website:
IFTTT is a free platform that helps you do more with all your apps and devices
IFTTT Sample Results
I setup the following rule on August 25, 2016:
This was configured check the temp in Framingham, Massachusetts at 3 pm every day and put the data on Google Sheets.
From that Data, I was able to get the following information:
| Coldest Days | Warmest Days | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| December 28, 2017 | 11 | June 12, 2017 | 95 |
| January 7, 2017 | 19 | May 18, 2017 | 94 |
| March 4, 2017 | 19 | June 13, 2017 | 93 |
| March 11, 2017 | 19 | May 17, 2017 | 91 |
| January 9, 2017 | 20 | July 19, 2017 | 90 |
Average Temperature in Framingham was 58.76 degrees.
Weather Chart
I was also able to create this Weather graph to see how the temp changed throughout the year in Framingham.
Click on image for a larger version.
Setup your IFTTT Chart
On this New Years Eve Weekend, set up your own chart and have it run every day. You don't have to worry about it running. Then next winter you can open up the data and Google and look at the data.
PermalinkAbout
I will highlight a fun Internet site every Saturday. The basic premise is to highlight sites that I regularly visit for a variety of reasons. All site recommendations are mine and are unsponsored. By highlighting these websites, I hope to provide value to those who may not know of the sites or who might be interested in visiting the sites. I also want to share the sites that I find valuable in the hopes that others will find them just as beneficial.
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Blog Schedule
| Saturday | Internet Tools |
| Sunday | Open Topic |
| Monday | Media Monday |
| Tuesday | QA |
| Wednesday | SnagIt |
| Thursday | BBEdit |
| Friday | Macintosh |