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Sometimes, it takes a handful of well-intentioned strangers to open your eyes. One internet user sparked an informative thread on r/AskReddit after asking everyone to share their favorite free online things that everyone should know about. Scroll down for their tips, and make sure to take notes!
Bored Panda reached out to Matt Johnson, PhD, a marketing psychology expert specializing in topics such as consumer psychology and serendipity, for his thoughts on why some people view free things with suspicion and the future of (un)paid internet resources. You'll find our full interview with him below. Be sure not to miss it!
#41
Epic Games weekly free games - it's just nice to try out some games you normally wouldn't try, and you discover cool games this way.
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#42
Https://www.desmos.com/calculator
I was never that good with graphing calculators, also they're expensive.
I was never that good with graphing calculators, also they're expensive.
PenguinBallZ, https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/woman-using-calculator-near-plan-equipments_3716783.htm#fromView=search&page=1&position=15&uuid=1056f8cc-f1e1-4ba0-9ef3-f7fead04dece
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#43
A basic “get started” class with Microsoft excel. Such a useful tool that most people don’t know how to properly use.
14points
#44
Bandcamp
You can listen to music for free. Support your favourite artists.
You can listen to music for free. Support your favourite artists.
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13points
#45
Not sure if it's been posted, but [Flashpoint Archive](https://flashpointarchive.org) includes thousands of archived flash games from your childhood (if, like me, you grew up in the early 2000s).
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13points
#46
/askreddit is a pretty cool place, ran into some smart, some funny and some weird people over here.
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12points
#47
Remove.bg
It has a very simple interface for removing the background of pictures. It does a pretty decent job of identifying the background. It also includes a magic brush so you can restore parts of the background or the picture, or erase just specific parts of the picture. It also has a canva integration so you can edit your picture appropriately and then dump it right into a Canva project.
All the AI tools I have tried, it was not the one I would have picked for one I would use everyday. Amateur photographer and children's book author (also a surprise by the way) here. I literally use this website a few times a week on average and daily sometimes when projects are being put together and finalized.
It has a very simple interface for removing the background of pictures. It does a pretty decent job of identifying the background. It also includes a magic brush so you can restore parts of the background or the picture, or erase just specific parts of the picture. It also has a canva integration so you can edit your picture appropriately and then dump it right into a Canva project.
All the AI tools I have tried, it was not the one I would have picked for one I would use everyday. Amateur photographer and children's book author (also a surprise by the way) here. I literally use this website a few times a week on average and daily sometimes when projects are being put together and finalized.
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12points
#48
Kaggle. It's a site with great free data analytics lessons and data sets. It is a great skillset to have.
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10points
#49
Ffmpeg
It's a free command-line tool that can cut/merge/re-encode mp3/mp4/any other video/audio format you can think of. Instead of finding some random website to convert .mp3 to .wav, spending an hour uploading a huge a*s file, you can cut out the middle man and just use what they use under the hood on your local machine. Requires a bit of technical knowledge but you can normally google "how to _ ffmpeg" and you'll find a command you can copy paste.
It's a free command-line tool that can cut/merge/re-encode mp3/mp4/any other video/audio format you can think of. Instead of finding some random website to convert .mp3 to .wav, spending an hour uploading a huge a*s file, you can cut out the middle man and just use what they use under the hood on your local machine. Requires a bit of technical knowledge but you can normally google "how to _ ffmpeg" and you'll find a command you can copy paste.
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10points
#50
Education, there are plenty of videos on YouTube about different topics.
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