Companies.tools, Excel Formula Bot, Calm Calendar, & More

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Alex Brogan
January 15, 2023 • Read Time: 7 minutes

Welcome to the new friends of the A Players newsletter who have joined us since last week!

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This Week: 10 insanely useful free websites

Ever wondered what technology the most successful startups in the world are using?

Wonder no more.

CT provides a curation of the design, research, code, support, and feedback tools of the best tech teams.

Excel Formula Bot

Using excel, but forgot the right formula? @bresslertweets has you sorted.

Excel Formula Bot uses AI to transform text instructions to an excel formula.

The result? No more remembering complicated excel formulas.

Calm Calendar

Synchronise your events between your personal and work calendars, while excluding private details.

The result?

• Fewer conflicts

• Better privacy

• One source of truth for your personal & work calendar

TypeLit

Kill two birds with one stone with TypeLit:

1) Improve your typing skills

2) Learn from any book in the world

How? TypeLit provides typing practice on any of your favourite books—or you can choose from dozens of pre-loaded classics.

Practice Typing, Read Lit | TypeLit.io

Test your typing while reading great books like Alice in Wonderland, 1984, Dracula, and The Art of War — or import your own material!

https://www.typelit.io/

Synthesia

Create professional videos—with no prior knowledge of video creation—using AI avatars, all from the comfort of your laptop.

Features:

• Web-based app with diverse AI avatars

• Create custom avatars

• 60+ languages

myNoise

Think of myNoise as free noise-canceling headphones.

It can create any noise you like to mask those you don’t:

• Busy streets

• Noisy colleagues

• Loud cafes or restaurants

You can listen to rain, white noise, or even the Ocean!

PDF24 Tools

Need to edit a PDF but don’t want to pay for an expensive Adobe subscription?

PDF24 allows you to access everything you need to handle PDFs online and be more productive—completely free.

Did you take a great photo but there's an object you need to remove?

With Cleanup.pictures, you can remove any unwanted object, defect, person or text from your pictures in seconds.

Rome2rio

Find the best way to get from A to B, anywhere in the world.

Compare every possible transport option all in one search:

• Plane

• Train

• Bus

• Car

• Ferry

• Bike share

• Driving

• Walking

Where to next?

Class Central

Find the best online courses in the world, all in one place.

Class Central aggregates courses from:

• 1000 Universities (Harvard, Stanford, etc.)

• 70 Providers (Coursera, Udemy, etc.)

• 600 Institutions (Google, Amazon, etc.)

There you have it, 10 insanely useful free websites.

I hope you found these as helpful as I have.

Stay curious,

Alex

P.S. Whenever you're ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:

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Hire your next top performer in 5 days or less with Athyna.

Discover a new way of scaling your team. Athyna bridges the gap between extraordinary talent and exciting opportunities, giving your business access to a pool of world-class professionals. Build your dream team with ease, and forget about the hassle and complexities of traditional global hiring.

  • Athyna handpicks from 70,000+ talents to meet your needs.

  • Save up to 67% compared to local hiring costs.

  • No search fees. No activation fees.

  • Pay nothing until you find the perfect match.

Ready to find your dream team (for way less time and money)?

See you again next week!