doesn't it feel great when you find a
website that does that one thing really
really well and it does it fast and it
does it absolutely for free well in
today's video i'm going to share with
you seven extremely useful websites that
you may have never heard before but i
can guarantee you're going to come back
again and again because they're just so
useful hello everyone scott friesen here
at simpletivity helping you to get more
done and enjoy less stress and let's
start off with website number one and it
is called have i been
pwned have i been pawned my first
question for you is how do you pronounce
this word there's a big debate online
whether it's pwned or pawned or do we
just say own because it's based off of
someone making a mistake and actually
misspelling the word owned no matter how
you pronounce this word this is a
fantastic website to check your email or
phone number to see if it's been
involved in a data breach now of course
you've heard of many important and
significant data breaches over the years
maybe your banking information has been
attacked maybe other big services such
as facebook and other social media
accounts has been hacked maybe you've
received warnings in the past well you
can do your own checks based on your own
information so what i'm going to do here
is i'm going to type in an email address
that i use for testing purposes and i'm
going to hit pwned pawn you tell me in
the comments and it's going to tell me
that oh no
there's been some data breaches in fact
there's been 11 data breaches now if i
scroll down the great thing about this
website is that it's going to tell me
the details of these particular data
breaches for my specific email address
or whatever you enter in here so i can
see things like adobe
and canva for example if i scroll down
further dropbox
last.fm they'll even give me the years
in which many of these data breaches
occurred and they're telling me that
yeah look at this email addresses
passwords usernames website activity all
of these things were compromised in
these data breaches so what do you do
next well maybe i'm going to log into
some of these accounts and change my
email address that would be one thing
number two i should probably go in there
for sure and change my password even if
i want to keep the username or the email
address
log into some of these services and
change their passwords as well the next
useful website on our list is called
print friendly and you'll find that at
print friendly.com
now how often have you been looking at
an article or a webpage and saying you
know this is valuable information maybe
i'd like to save this as a pdf or maybe
i need to actually print out a paper
copy so you come up to your browser and
you select print now sometimes this can
take a little while because it needs to
load all of the ads and the images and
other things that are going on in this
article and even before i saw the
preview i'm looking up here 11 sheets of
paper even if this is going to be a pdf
that's i think way too long for this
article look at all of this menu and
website gunk i've got at the top of the
screen and as i scroll down look at all
these advertisement breaks in between
here's another black friday ad in the
middle i've got these advertisement
spaces uh yeah this is not very easy to
read in this particular format well
that's where print friendly comes into
play let me just copy the url of that
exact same article i'm going to come
over here and paste it and say preview
now it may take just a few seconds but
here you can see a much more readable
file so here we've got the entire
document
and we're done that's about it that
looks more like two maybe three pages at
most i've just got the goods of this
particular article now print friendly is
perhaps even more friendly if you
install the browser extension then you
don't have to be coming back to this
website and the good news is that print
friendly is available on all major
browsers including chrome firefox edge
and safari so if you want to print just
the goods be sure to check out
printfriendly.com now the third website
on our list may be a little
controversial but i'll let you decide if
you want to go forward and use it or not
the website that we're talking about is
called 12 foot dot io and here's the
tagline show me a 10-foot paywall and
i'll show you a 12-foot ladder so here's
the idea you come across an article and
maybe it's from a magazine such as
harvard business review maybe it's a
news publication such as the boston
globe or really anything which is
requiring a subscription so here i've
found an article i've been searching
online and this looks like a great
article really what i'm interested in or
what i need to know but as i scroll down
i've only been given about a paragraph
and then it's telling me that i'm out of
free articles for this month and this is
gonna change depending on the website
that you're on right some may give you a
few free articles per month or per day
or whatever the case may be
now i want to be very clear if you're
getting real value from any publication
or any website i think you should be
paying for those services that's how
you're getting quality content and
quality information
however you might stumble across a
website where there's just that one
article right just that one piece of
content you may not be interested in any
of the other content that this website
is providing but you would just like to
see what's going on here well this is
perhaps where 12 foot ladder comes into
play what i'm going to do is i'm going
to copy this url and i'm going to come
back to 12 foot ladder now you actually
don't even need to come to the website
itself all you need to do is actually
put this little url in front the 12 foot
dot io url in front of it but i'm going
to paste it in here just for our example
here and i'm going to say remove
the pay wall and what it's gonna do it's
gonna stay on that same tab but now as i
scroll down uh i have no restrictions
i've got the entire article here in
front of me and the nice thing is that
usually it'll remove everything else
including the ads so why is this working
and how does this particular website get
around this well if we scroll down to
the bottom of the 12 foot dot io page
you can get the what why and the how
does it work essentially the developer
of this website says that he thinks that
adwords has killed the web and so that
we're too often being served up with
things with keywords and things just to
grab our pieces of information but how
is it working behind the scenes well
google is indexing all of their content
so news sites and other publications are
giving google the entire article so it
can scan through it and do its google
crawler business however this website is
making use somehow i guess of the
crawler or access to that same
information so that they can cash a copy
of the site each and every time now the
next website on our list is very
interesting and also comes with a very
peculiar name here we are at this person
does not exist.com
and yes you read that right the person
we're looking at right now
does not exist what we're looking at is
a headshot or an image made up of many
other faces so this is not a real human
being this is someone that a computer
has put together from a variety of other
random images let me just hit refresh
here you can see someone with
some type of hat on top
it's a very interesting website and the
way that you might find it useful is if
you're looking for some headshots for
your website if you're looking for
something for your demos or maybe a
database especially if you're giving
examples to your clients or customers i
know for myself i'm often needing a few
headshots if i'm putting together a
database or wanting to put something
together where it looks like i've got
some actual avatars or actual profile
pictures here and it's almost eerie on
this page because this person and
everyone that we've seen so far does not
actually exist these eyes are probably
from someone different than the nose
than the mouth and the hair then the uh
the ears and the chin profile let me
refresh this once again and again
someone else who does not exist now
you're probably already recognizing that
it's not the most diverse collection
here uh there's tends to be a lot more
women in this particular collection and
a lot more fair-skinned women as well so
if you are looking for greater diversity
this may not be the website for you but
even just for a few moments of
entertainment to refresh this screen and
and to look at an image that looks so
lifelike that looks so real
yet this person does not exist something
that may be helpful to you if you're
looking for images and not just want to
repeat all of the stock images and all
those things that you see time and time
again you can go have some fun or use it
for your own purposes at this person
does not exist.com
now speaking of things that no longer
exist here we are at
archive.org and we are going to take a
look at the wayback machine how often
have you wanted to go back and see what
your website or maybe a competitor's
website or maybe just want to have some
fun and take a look at a website what
did it look like many years ago well
what the internet archive does is
actually cache
most web pages or at least a large
variety of web pages over the years it's
like taking a snapshot of different
websites over the years so let me give
you just a quick example i'm actually
going to type in my own website because
i'm in the process of redesigning my
website maybe i'd like to go back and
see well how did things get started was
there things that were working better in
the past or not let's go back and take a
quick look so here you can see we've got
a bit of a timeline here at the top and
yes my website was actually launched in
2015 but it looks like the wayback
machine didn't start archiving them
until 2016. so these little bars
represent the different points in time
where things were snapshotted where
things were grabbed over time and so if
i click on 2016 for example
down below then i'm given a yearly
calendar and i can see the different
months to see what did things look like
at that time so let's take a look at uh
i don't know november 27 2016. if i go
here and click on the time that's going
to be the specific time when they took
that snapshot what it's going to do is
actually going to bring and present that
website to me
here within the browser and things look
quite a bit different than they do now
on my home screen now keep in mind that
some of the fonts some of the layout may
be a little bit different so for example
this simplitivity link is actually a
logo that was over here it didn't
actually look quite like that there
might be a few things out of alignment
but i can actually go back and i don't
have to save a copy of this or
necessarily back up the website if i
want to come back and review it i can
come here and say oh wow so this is what
i did this is what things look like way
back when was there anything that i want
to come back and revisit now the next
website on our list is for all of us who
don't have the time or effort to read
all of those terms of service and you
know what i'm talking about regardless
of the software the website or the apps
that you use you're often presented with
an extremely long terms of service that
even if you did read it all would you be
able to understand all of the
terms and the legalese which is being
used within those terms of service well
here at t-o-s-d-r that's terms of
service didn'tread.org
you will get not only a summary of the
terms of service but it's actually going
to tell you what it means so for example
if we go here to facebook it's telling
me that facebook stores your data
whether you have an account or not your
identity is used in ads that are shown
to other users now this is the plain
speech that we understand but if i hover
over it it's actually going to give you
the specific wording showing you or
referencing to you the actual terms of
service on the front page here you're
going to see some of the bigger names
like amazon and reddit and wikipedia for
example but you can search for anything
here so for example if you want to type
in one of your favorite tools or one of
your favorite services let's type in
something like oh i don't know maybe
something like todoist for example and
here we can see todoist doesn't have a
grade yet many of them will receive an
actual grade but here are some of the
things that you may want to consider if
you want to go forward with using that
tool and if there's anything that maybe
stands out to you so if you want to go
and preview or read some of the things
that you couldn't have read in the first
place or let's be honest you didn't read
in the first place you can always come
to terms of service didn't read and
catch up and determine if you want to
proceed or maybe hang back
last but certainly not least we are on a
website that's going to help you save
money and make you feel confident if you
are getting a great price on a
particular item here we are at
and camelcamelcamel.com camel camel is
all about looking at amazon products and
seeing the price history of those
particular products now you can use
camel camel in a variety of different
countries so even if you're not using
the american amazon site you can look at
a variety of countries down here
including
a german flag with a blue on the top i
don't know why they chose that there but
anyhow let's stick here with camel camel
camel and we're going to type in
something here like oh maybe something
like a blue yeti microphone for example
i get a lot of questions about scott
what type of microphone are you using
and yes i do use a blue yeti microphone
so if i scroll down here here you can
see there's a few different models and
things that are going on here and let's
click on this first one here it's
telling me the amazon price currently is
129.99 but if i click on the item itself
we're going to get so much more detail
so how am i going to determine if this
is a good price or not well if i scroll
down i can see a full price history all
the way back to 2014 and you know like
most products there's ups and downs
right there's sales there's black friday
there's a variety of other things here
as well so there's quite a gap right
between when it was cheapest at a mere
85 but that was also several years ago
to its highest price of 131 so really if
i look at this the average price has
been 116 maybe maybe right now is not
the time to buy this particular item in
fact it's very close to the highest
price it has ever been let's try another
product for our example maybe i'm
looking for an rgb keyboard in this case
so i'm just going to type in those
keywords it doesn't have to be a
specific product you can actually do
much of your shopping right here at
camel camel camel let's take a look at
this razer gaming keyboard which says
it's 34.99 well is that a good price
should i pull the trigger and purchase
this today well let's open it up and see
what the data has to say so once again
i'm going to scroll down and even before
i do it tells me hey this is the best
price well show me the data why is this
the best price well look at this chart
things have seemed to continually come
down over the years and i can see that
yeah this is rock bottom this is the
lowest this particular keyboard has ever
been listed on amazon so
the average price has been 48.91 the
current price is 34.99 yeah let's go
ahead and buy this keyboard now if
there's a particular item that you're
waiting for the other nice thing about
camel camel camel is that you can track
those prices so if you just enter in
your email address and say listen i want
to be notified when
it drops to a certain amount you can do
so right here now i would love to hear
from you next which of these seven
websites were your favorite and do you
have anything else that you would love
to share and add to this list please be
sure to do so in the comments down below
remember being productive does not need
to be difficult in fact it's very simple
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