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Blacklight

Curious about the user-tracking technologies a website may be using to get your data? Enter the address of any website into Blacklight and get real-time privacy report and insights on what’s installed, including ad trackers, third-party cookies, screen recording services, keystroke capture technology, and more.

BrowserFrame

ATTN: All you late-night deck builders. Need to wrap a screenshot in a browser frame? Here’s Browser Frame. Just upload your image, select the browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc.) and operating system of your choice, and download. You also have the option to tweak values like padding, shadows, colors, and screen dimensions and scale.

Snapchat Agency Adventure

Snapchat’s new 16-bit interactive mini game is intended to help agency folks learn about the Snapchat ad campaign building process. You choose a character and an industry brief, and then you navigate around an agency office to interact with various characters and mini-games along the way. You even get a custom downloadable to guide your planning.

YouTube Create

In another move to keep up with TikTok, YouTube finally made a video editing tool for mobile users, which you can get in beta from the Play Store. Use YouTube Create to spice up your Shorts with precision trimming, filters, effects, royalty-free music, voiceovers, captions, and the works. It’s coming to iOS in the new year.

Today Tagz

Quickly reference the trending topics and their tweet/view counts on X and TikTok, by country and city, all in one place, no logins necessary. You can even export the data into an Excel doc or choose to navigate directly to the app to view respective topics.

NotesNudge

If you’re a manager or a content creator or simply a student of life, you might like the NotesNudge app. It connects to your note-taking apps and serves you an excerpt of your own writing every day via a delivery method of your choosing. It’s like a quote-a-day, except instead of sayings from old poets, you get a “fresh conversation with your past self.” It’s pretty cool to see how old insights transform with new context.

Free Tiny Tools

This is the Swiss Army knife of websites. Access hundreds of free tiny tools for all your text, image, development, calculator, generator, and convertor needs. For free.

Elephas

Elephas has joined the chat with an AI writing assistant optimized for seamless use between your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The “Super Brain” feature synthesizes your ideas collected across various knowledge management apps, and the AI assistant works with your favorite word processor to refine your writing projects. Plus, ChatGPT runs on top of any app with one click of the super-command bar.

GA4Spy

Keep this comprehensive GA4 cheatsheet handy. Quickly search, filter, and find the purpose, category, scope, Looker Studio and API availability, and more for each dimension and metric.