This is a collection of tools and services that we consider useful and worth trying.
Most of these are completely free but some may offer additional paid services or have restrictions for commercial use. Therefore, feel free to check their license agreements if you plan using them for commercial purposes.
Have I been pwned?
This is a free resource for anyone to quickly assess if they may have been put at risk due to an online account of theirs having been compromised or “pwned” in a data breach.
PortableApps
PortableApss platform provides a lot of applications that are portable and does not require installation. You can put them on any of your internal or external drives or portable storage and use them directly. They can be also copied to other computers and will run without need of any modifications.
Royalty-free images and stock sites
Pixabay
Pixabay is one of our favorite sites for royalty-free images due to rich their collection and flexible license agreement.
Pexels
Ventoy
Ventoy is an open source tool for creation of bootable USB drives.
Unlike many other tools, with Ventoy you don’t need to format the disc over and over.
Once you create the bootable disk, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. The best part is that you can copy many files at a time and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them.
Canva
Canva is an online design and visual communication platform. It provides a lot of functionality for free but also provides payed services and content.
