Chooser - Creative Commons
Not sure which CC license to publish your original content? This site guides you through it.
Rare Book School
Straight from my Rare Books professor at UIUC, these classes make a difference towards additional niche knowledge
Ocean of PDF
Ocean of PDF's domain changes every once in a while (not sus at all), but a quick Google search brings it up.
Standard Ebooks
Beautifully formatted ebooks. Love this site.
Mendeley | Homepage
The way Mendeley works with MS Word is beautiful.
MergedPDF
Meant to work with & manipulate PDFs. You’d have to upload the PDF to the internet though, I think, so consider that privacy-wise.
Shadow Libraries
I love the IRC one - I want to go back to IRCs!
Hotel Tonight App
This one I’ve actually used a few times & it’s worked. Be sure to check the additional fees after the deal; sometimes that can drive the price higher than you were initially hoping. Also, there’s a level system; you get better deals if you’ve actually used the app before.
Folge - Free Step-by-Step Guide & Documentation Software
Love this tool, love the developer's licensing ethics. This software is excellent for quickly creating physical (but also digital if necessary) handouts telling people where to go and what to do on a computer screen.
ANDI
I haven't heard "bookmarklet" in awhile. It's all extensions these days. This lil tool works great though!
PressReader - Connecting People Through News
Get this app thru your local public library. I particularly enjoy their headlines widget on Apple mobile devices.
Send to Kobo/Kindle
Quick simple utility to send epubs to your Kobo device.
LocalSend: Share files to nearby devices
To send photos from my Apple and Android devices to my Linux laptop
Gamma
Recommended by my colleague whose expertise exploring AI tools is remarkable.
Slidesgo
Surprisingly creative and cute slide deck themes that you can use as long as you attribute.
Bulk Rename Utility - Free File Renaming Software
Bulk Rename Utility: Free File Rename Utility for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily batch rename files and folders based upon many flexible criteria. Free Download.
DataIsBeautiful
r/DataIsBeautiful is full of dataviz nerds & I love their posts
The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion
I'm kind of trying to get away from Notion, but you can't deny its database rollup features are great.
Perplexity
The reference librarian uses an AI tool for her own general reference? Yes. I use Google too. And Wikipedia (I contribute & donate to Wikipedia! haha). With the various obvious caveat that you keep going past those initial searches.
Proton: Privacy by default
Funded by the Proton Foundation, based in Switzerland, that prioritizes privacy and security for its email service & a growing suite of apps like calendar and VPN which I vouch for.
Privacy Guides
Heard these were great via Masto
Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email address has been exposed in a data breach
This site has been around for a while. Great site, if a little aesthetically alarmist; also doesn't really help you past 'yes you've been pwned.' Still good though.
Digital Shred Workshop
A LibGuide program that offers information, handouts, worksheets, etc. to orient and empower users on their digital existence
Just Delete Me | A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
While you can’t get off the grid entirely, you can still reduce the harm that may come from having random data floating around the ether. Kill those accounts <3
Category:3D models - Wikimedia Commons
Yeah Wikimedia! Always an embarrassment of riches when it’s Wikimedia
NIH 3D Resources
Public domain 3D models of chemicals and anatomy from the National Institute of Health 😍
Stlfinder
This .stl finder (3D print file formats) kinda works. It's worth a try if you're really trying to find something just bc it crawls 3D printing repositories you might not have heard of
Plushify
3D models to sewing patterns. An unusual high tech >>> analog tech project website :D
Monster Mash: New Sketch-Based Modeling and Animation Tool
I worked a 5-6 year old who was obsessed with 3D printing. It was pretty cute!
Nomad
This is supposed to be pretty prestige 3D modeling software, as far as I'm aware.