LM.io Collection

This is so very cool of Moby. I filled out an application for a couple different tracks and got them within 48 hrs.

Created and run by infosec professionals, journalists, & tech educators, the EFF champions & lobbies for citizens' rights to security and privacy online

Not sure which CC license to publish your original content? This site guides you through it.

Straight from my Rare Books professor at UIUC, these classes make a difference towards additional niche knowledge

Ocean of PDF's domain changes every once in a while (not sus at all), but a quick Google search brings it up.

Beautifully formatted ebooks. Love this site.

The way Mendeley works with MS Word is beautiful.

Meant to work with & manipulate PDFs. You’d have to upload the PDF to the internet though, I think, so consider that privacy-wise.

I love the IRC one - I want to go back to IRCs!

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.

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.

I haven't heard "bookmarklet" in awhile. It's all extensions these days. This lil tool works great though!

Get this app thru your local public library. I particularly enjoy their headlines widget on Apple mobile devices.

Quick simple utility to send epubs to your Kobo device.

To send photos from my Apple and Android devices to my Linux laptop

Recommended by my colleague whose expertise exploring AI tools is remarkable.

Surprisingly creative and cute slide deck themes that you can use as long as you attribute.

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.

r/DataIsBeautiful is full of dataviz nerds & I love their posts

I'm kind of trying to get away from Notion, but you can't deny its database rollup features are great.

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.

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.

Heard these were great via Masto

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.

A LibGuide program that offers information, handouts, worksheets, etc. to orient and empower users on their digital existence

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

Yeah Wikimedia! Always an embarrassment of riches when it’s Wikimedia

Public domain 3D models of chemicals and anatomy from the National Institute of Health 😍

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

3D models to sewing patterns. An unusual high tech >>> analog tech project website :D