Useful Links

Online Tools

File conversion: https://www.zamzar.com/

Website status checker: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ 

Chemical Formula Unicode converter: https://jwilk.github.io/chemiscripts/? 

Graph Paper Generator: https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ 

Video to test headphones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_5xC-5BK88 

SD71 Web Print: http://dac-print-01.sd71.net:9191/app?service=page/UserWebPrint 

Google Drive Direct Link Generator: https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/ 

Image Editing

• Magic Eraser / Infill  using AI: https://snapedit.app/  (remove part of an image and automatically fill the space)

  • • free, no login required, provides decent resolution download

Mac OS Malware Removal

• General Advice: 

  • https://malwaretips.com/blogs/will-damage-your-computer-mac/

  • https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/preemptive-safety/mac-malware-removal 

• PlatformDeploy Browser Hijacker: https://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guides/21604-platformdeploy-browser-hijacker-mac 

  • • free, no login required, provides decent resolution download

Video Editing

• Windows Movie Maker (old, simple, Windows-only): 

  • • To download: https://archive.org/details/wlsetup-all_201802 

      • • select "Show All Files"

        • click on "wlsetup-all.exe "

    • Instruction for install: https://windowsreport.com/windows-movie-maker-windows-10/ 

• OpenShot (relatively simple, newer, more powerful, cross-platform)

  • • To download: https://www.openshot.org/download/ 

    • Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLWXlc1BW-I 

COVID-19 Links

Island Health Daily Dashboard: https://www.islandhealth.ca/sites/default/files/covid-19/documents/public-health-covid19-daily-dashboard.pdf 

BCCDC BC Dashboard: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19/data 

Marine links for Comox Paddling

• Wind direction and speed (Comox Airport) http://www.bigwavedave.ca/latest.php?site=5 

• Marine forecast (Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo) https://weather.gc.ca/marine/forecast_e.html?mapID=02&siteID=14301 

• Comox Valley Maps/ Chart: 

  • http://fishing-app.gpsnauticalcharts.com/i-boating-fishing-web-app/fishing-marine-charts-navigation.html#11.27/49.6504/-124.8997 

  • https://www.oceangrafix.com/chart/zoom?chart=CHS3513 

    • dezoomify: http://jk.g6.cz/dezoomify.html 

  • https://www.bcmarinetrails.org/bc-map 

• Weather forecast (Comox Valley) https://www.wunderground.com/hourly/ca/comox-valley 

Comox Valley Winter Conditions

• Mount Washington Snow conditions: https://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Mount-Washington/6day/bot 

• Mount Washington Nordic conditions: https://www.mountwashington.ca/nordic-conditions.html 

Games

Flagle

• • once-per-day: https://www.flagle.io/ 

  • unlimited: https://j0nan.github.io/flagle/ 

Wordle

• Original: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html 

• Canuck-le: https://canucklegame.github.io/canuckle/ 

• Logan-uckle: https://isfeld.github.io/canuckle/ 

Other

• Nerdle: https://nerdlegame.com/ 

• Worldle: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ 

• World Traveller: https://worldtraveller.vercel.app/ 

• Countryle: https://countryle.com/ 

Links for Embedding Youtube Videos into WebPages

https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDl76jaRdXf-rr_dh3wJQtQ

https://webcam.io/support/howto-embed-youtube-live/ 

United Church Channel: UCprSWtXE0g4K3LOvG54v0-g

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel= UCprSWtXE0g4K3LOvG54v0-g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCprSWtXE0g4K3LOvG54v0-g/live 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqu-UHnf5ZKx7wLb76IFbC4of5b1NcMNl 

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLqu-UHnf5ZKx7wLb76IFbC4of5b1NcMN" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

XKCD Web Comic 

Using Chocolately: 

• PS as admin

• Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1')) 

• https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1-69t6Ha9Qmdcaaed9jrNMM0b4iykqXBm