A collection of single-purpose online tools for web makers, from favicon makers to CSS generators, sorted by topic and searchable in one box.
Opens in a new tab. We do not control this site and it may have changed since we catalogued it.
Tiny Helpers sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: The other directories, random buttons and curated indexes. We are one of these; it would be dishonest to pretend the others are not worth your time.
Yes. Tiny Helpers is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Tiny Helpers without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Tiny Helpers as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
A daily five-minute roundup of tech, science and programming news, with every issue also readable on the website.
Home of a long list of absurd browser games and quizzes, several of which have quietly consumed entire office afternoons.
Wikipedia articles served as a vertical swipe feed, which is either a public service or the end of civilisation.
A directory of blogs and tools that load in under one megabyte, kept as a quiet protest against bloated pages. Every link opens almost instantly.
Drag in PNGs and JPEGs and they come back far smaller with no visible difference. Nothing else to learn.
A quick whiteboard in the browser: sketch boxes, arrows and doodles, share a link and draw together in real time without making an account.
The onion router straight from the people who maintain it — the browser download plus a plain-English account of how the relays work.
Paste a single screenshot and it names the anime, the episode and the exact timestamp. Unreasonably accurate for something free.
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