🧢 Write like Gen Z (IUW #58)
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We accidentally linked to the Gumroad page of Mentionitis last week, which didn't give much info about what it does 🤦♀️. If you'd like more info, check out their site instead.
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📢 Big news
We've launched a referral programme for our readers! The rewards are really simple:
Refer 5 subscribers, get a $10 Amazon gift card*
Refer 5 more subscribers, get a $15 Amazon gift card*
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That means if you refer a total of 25 new subscribers, you'll get a total of $75 in Amazon gift cards*.
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👩💻 New Insanely Useful Websites
Screen recorder with pause, rewind and replace. If you make a mistake while recording, Vento lets you fix it without re-recording the whole thing. Great for tutorials, product demos and training clips. Free to use.
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Forum search engine. Google results are overrun with low-quality affiliate sites, making it hard to find reliable product info. CrowdView searches forums, communities and sites like StackExchange to find opinions from real people.
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Interesting scenes from Google Street View. See a random selection of the most interesting, creative and outright insane sights captured around the world by Street View cameras.
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🧢 Language skills
Translate to and from Gen Z slang. Need to text (or fax) someone born after 1997? This site helps you ensure you're understood, and you can understand their replies.
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⏪ Time warp / project idea?
What Google would have looked like in the 80s. The site no longer works since Google discontinued its search API, but hearing modem sounds and seeing a retro UI is still fun. An 80s theme for Searx or ChatGPT might be an idea for creators looking for a project?
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