The best and latest new sites on the Internet

Updated: Aug 8, 2023

Welcome to Australia's "Beyond The Black Stump" - online since 1995!

Issue 3 - Aug 8, 2023 Tweet this

Aussie Green Thumb
...Detailed and practical information on a variety of gardening topics
Muted.io
...Magical collection of interactive music theory tools & visual references to learn music online for free
Darknet Diaries
...Podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network
Colorize Pictures
...Automatically colorizes black-and-white photos using AI
Child Net
...Helping make the internet a great and safe place for children and young people
ConnectSafely
...Dedicated to educating users of connected technology about safety, privacy and security
Futurepedia
...The Largest AI Tools Directory, updated daily
Wondrous Independent Bookstores
...We think book havens are heaven
Down Detector
...Real-time problem & outage monitoring
Down
...Is That Website Down, or Is It Just You?
New Muses
...What would classical music look like if we were always searching for our next favorite composer
Roadside America
...Photographs by John Margolies
Screenplays
...Thousands of screenplays for movies and TV shows
Your Browser Is ?
...Easily check your customer's web browser make, version and settings
Formulabot
...Transform your text instructions into Excel formulas
Bird Migration Explorer
...Heroic Annual Journeys by 450 bird species
PDF24 Tools
...Free and easy-to-use online PDF tools
Darwin Correspondence Project
...The full edition is now online!
Colorize
...Colorize Pictures free
Understanding Browser Cookies
...A cookie is a small plain text file stored in the browser

Mobile Beyond the Black Stump
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Facebook Beyond the Black Stump
..and we're on Facebook too
Twitter Beyond the Black Stump
Yes, we're on Twitter....

Many more Sites of the Day, Week, Month etc., can be found here or here..or look in the barnacle encrusted treasure chest for Pirate Pete's previous picks!!

Issue 2 - Apr 4, 2023 Tweet this

Codex Atlanticus
...Evolution of Leonardo da Vinci’s thought over the years
DebugBear
...Monitor Site Speed and Core Web Vitals
Compress Images Online
...Use this tool to compress size of JPEG and PNG images
Eucalypt Australia
...Focuses on eucalypts, an Australian icon
Art Museum of Kangaroo Island
...A dedicated public art space on our own wild island
Style Manual
...Circumvent the common pitfalls that the English language brings along
Sudoku
...Generate your own Sudoku - Very Easy to Difficult
Commercial Pattern Archive
...Tool for researchers and designers to recreate or date clothing from 1847 to present
History Photographed
...History In Pictures
Point in History
...Visualizes the history of any point on the planet
Venom Maps
...Where are the venomous snakes?
Fridge Manuals
...Original owner’s manuals and instructions from home appliance manufacturers
Compress Images Online
...Privacy first and fastest way to bulk compress images online
Blobs Icons
...Free icon sets
Podchaser
...Your Daily Source for Podcast Discovery
Fierce Girls
...From athletes to aviators, scientists to spies
Language Please Style Guidance
...Detailed definitions, related terms, and additional resources
The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog
...Every single version of each Infocom game, both source code and compiled game files
Chrome Extension Performance Lookup
...What performance impact do the Top 1000 Chrome extensions have when loading a website?
Image Upscaler
...Upscale, denoise and enhance your images in seconds

Issue 1 - Jan 1, 2023 Tweet this

Artvee
...Discover Classical Art
Find a Piano
...Find the public piano closest you to you
Yellow Lab Tools
...Online test to help speeding up heavy web pages
Australian Opera Digital Library
...Australia’s operatic artform and a platform to champion the work of our composers, librettists, designers, directors and singers
Hong Kong in Transition
...An Open Access Photographic Archive For Hong Kong and its History
Serious Eats
...Good Cooks Know How. Great Cooks Know Why.
Voices of Women Museum
...From women who have lived around South Africa
Association for Computing Machinery
...The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform
Know your Meme
...Internet memes and viral phenomena
Text Cleaner
...All-in-one text cleaning and text formatting online tool
Scout Explore
...Travel planning, simplified
Travel Mapper
...Plan trips using a chic itinerary template with a built-in dynamic Google Map
Privacy Tests
...Open-source tests of web browser privacy
Monumental Trees
...Thousands of photos, measurements, and location details of often unknown monumental trees
Bonsai Browser
...Web-browser for research that helps programmers think clearly
CropScore
...An image cropper for content creators
Pika
...Helps you present your screenshots and mockups in the best light
Free Learning List
...Finding the best education resources on the internet
Interneting Is Hard
...Friendly web development tutorials for complete beginners
Oldest Search
...Search the oldest results on internet

Issue 4 - Sep 6, 2022 Tweet this

Moving Images of Queensland
...The essence of Queensland domestic life
Weird Units Converter
...Fun, interesting, and sometimes even wacky units
Underwater Photographer of the Year
...Stunning collection of winning images
Pinkcast
...A short video with science-based tools and tips for working smarter and living better
India Lost & Found
...Story of the untold monuments and sites of India
Auswip
...Develop, promote, and support female and non-binary creatives in the photographic industry
Timeline of the Human Condition
...Milestones in Evolution and History
Historic England
...Search an online map of aerial photographs from the last 100 years
Redditle
...Simpler, more direct way to search Reddit
Joe Besser Forever
...Once a Stooge, Always a Stooge
Audio and Ringtones
...From NASA
Eponymous Laws
...Laws of the Internet
Yale School of Music
...Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments
What Is NFT?
...Non-Fungible Tokens Guide For Dummies
Open Sea
...OpenSea is the world's first and largest NFT marketplace
Hacker Laws
...Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful
Walk the Great Wall of China
...Visit the Great Wall virtually
Every Time Zone
...Easily find the exact time difference with the visual Time Zone Converter
View Source
...Code for any site
Budget Bytes
...From a food lover, number cruncher, and meticulous budgeter

Issue 3 - May 25, 2022 Tweet this

Australian Shark-Incident Database
...Over 1,100 individual investigations of shark-bite cases in Australia since 1791
Reddit Reads
...Which books are reddit users reading?
Old Games Download
...Archival website providing a database of abandonware games from the 70s, 80s, 90s
Test Your Router
...With many additional firewall tests
International Cloud Atlas
...The Observation of Clouds and Other Meteors
Cleared for Takeoff
...Explore Commercial Aviation
LunaPic
...Completely Free online photo editing
Shape Catcher
...Unicode character recognition
TREO Site Speed
...Find out for free how fast your website is for real users
Pronounce Names
...Dedicated to helping people pronounce names correctly
Scientific Calculator
...and other math tools
Edit Photo
...The Free Photo Editor in your Browser
Project Gutenberg
...A library of over 60,000 free eBooks
Coolors
...The super fast color palettes generator!
Trowel Blazers
...Highlighting the contributions of women in the ‘digging’ sciences: archaeology, geology, and palaeontology
ShipMap
...Visualize the shipping lanes
Da Vinci Face
...Create DaVinci-style portraits
Drive and Listen
...Sit back, kick on some tunes, and experience a new city
Weird Old Book Finder
....Finds books one at a time and in the public domain
Pan Am Collections Guide
...Pan Am proved to be an airline of many "firsts"

Issue 2 - Mar 15, 2022 Tweet this

Plant Guides
...Popular Plants From A To Z
Cleanup Pictures
...Remove objects, people, text and defects from any picture
What's Her Name
...Dedicated to reclaiming forgotten history of fascinating women you've never heard of
RSOE-EDIS
...Live world map of emergencies
Omni Calculator
...Your life in 2112 free calculators
Confusing Words
...Commonly Confused Words in English
OneLook Reverse Dictionary
...Enter a word, phrase, description, or pattern above to find related words
Food Timeline
...Ever wonder how the ancient Romans fed their armies?
Plantae
...The global plant science community
Nuclear Power Reactors
...Comprehensive database focusing on nuclear power plants worldwide
Brave Browser
...The best privacy online
Sartle
...Rogue Art History
Fishing Tips
...Best fishing tips and techniques
Typographic Scale Calculator
...Help you choose the right font size from a harmonious type scale inspired by the way music works
Climate Visuals
...Evidence-based and impact focused climate photography resource
Anagram Solver
...Free online anagram solver
Black Music History Library
...Articles, books, documentaries, radio broadcasts, and podcasts
Lightning Maps
...A community project with free lightning maps and apps
Early Pianos
...A research database dedicated to the worldwide cataloging of pianos built before 1860
Eucalypt of the Year
...There are over 900 eucalypt species across the continent

Issue 1 - Jan 24, 2022 Tweet this

Foto Forensics
...Is an image is shopped, cropped or otherwise altered?
Rare Flowers and Golden Butterflies
...Stories of women and magic from the Arts Centre Melbourne
XWord Info
...New York Times Crossword Answers and Insights
CSS Tricks Almanac
...CSS properties & selectors
12ft.io
...Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder
Online Radio Box
...Free Online Internet Radio Stations
Explore LiveCams
...World's leading philanthropic live nature cam network
Cloud Lab
...Try your hand at classifying clouds and investigating the role they play in severe tropical storms
Photo Ark
...The power of photography to inspire people to help save species at risk
Introducing Becoming Artsy
...A new YouTube show takes you inside Getty
Skeptoid
...Taking on all the most popular urban legends and revealing the true science
DeepL Translate
...DeepL is a deep learning company that develops AI systems for languages
SheCodes JavaScript Cheatsheet
...A reference list of JavaScript variables, strings, and other attributes
ID Ransomware
...Upload a ransom note and/or sample encrypted file to identify the ransomware that has encrypted your data
The Victorian Archive
...Repository of scans, text and research based on the 19th and early 20th centuries
Stellarium
...Free open source planetarium for your computer
How to Sew on a Button
...Visual explanation
Early Modern Female Book Ownership
...Books owned by women between 1500 and 1750
Blitzortung
...Network for Lightning and Thunderstorms in Real Time
Desmos
...We're on a mission to help every student learn math and love learning math

Issue 8 - Dec 8, 2021 Tweet this

Scottish Register of Tartans
...Which tartan should I wear?
Lumosity Brain Training
...Improve memory, increase focus, and feel sharper
Astrobites
...Daily astrophysical literature journal
Chrome Extension Performance Lookup
...What performance impact do the Top 1000 Chrome extensions have when loading a website?
NASA’s Perseverance Rover
...Take a 3D Spin on Mars
CosmoQuest
...How do you want to explore our Universe?
All Cheatsheets
...Grouped, structured and packed with ready-to-use examples
Keep It Weird
...It’s dark. It’s deep. It’s alive. And it’s weird. You’re about to enter the ocean twilight zone
History of English
...The spoken history of a global language
National Museum of the Philippines
...Works of art, specimens, and cultural and historical artifacts
Vintage Soda Collector
...History and the art of collecting vintage soda
Science Based Medicine
...Exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine
Useful Spy Books
...Books on espionage
Ocean Wise Research Institute
...Conducting scientific research in support of ocean conservation
What The Tag?
...Quickly find out which HTML tag to use
John Lennon
...Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs
The Science Pawdcast
...Fascinating Facts. Adorable Dog Stories. Science Guests that will blow your mind
Little Yarns
...Learning our first words on Country
Roadside America
...John Mar
Live Storm Chasing
...Interactive and immersive storm chasing experience

Issue 7 - Oct 23, 2021 Tweet this

The Beatles Bible
...All you need is love
WebBrowser BookmarksView
...Simple tool for Windows that displays the details of all bookmarks stored in Chrome and Firefox Web browsers
ClearURLs
...Removes tracking elements from URLs
Aboriginal Launceston
...First People’s Lifeworld
Aussie Bushwalking
...Helps bushwalkers find new walks, share walks and track conditions
Hiking 101
...Tips for your next hike
Online Shipping Calculator
...Find the cheapest way to mail a package
The Daily Aus
...We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news
Old English
...Designed to help you read Old English, whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced learner
The Best Jokes
...Daily portion of jokes. New jokes every day
All Trails
...Find your next trail
The Size of Space
...Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known
Mapping The Missing
...The geography of true crime, Australia's missing people and mysteries
Lets Grow Stuff
...Designed to help the beginning gardener learn the tools of successful vegetable and herb gardening
Math Teacher & Student Resources
...An array of free, interactive, real-world resources
O Joy
...Select a low-res photo or Memoji to enlarge it and improve its quality
BASIC 10-liners
...small Atari games
Your Brain
...What is the brain? What does it do?
AFL Feeds
...AFL news aggregator
Bear Cam
...Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park 2021

Issue 6 - Sep 6, 2021 Tweet this

The Museum of American War Letters
...Showcasing extraordinary correspondences from the American Revolution to the present day
Reading Time
...Children's book news and reviews from The Children's Book Council of Australia
Pioneers
...500 Years of Women in British Art
Shape Catcher
...Let shapecatcher help you to find the most similar unicode characters
Vessel Finder
...Founded as a vessel tracking service provider in 2011
Australian Wildlife Conservancy
...From koala rescues to aerial burns to vegetation protection and more
Email is Good
...A site about email productivity
Flim
...Search Movies, Acors, Directors
SoloLearn
...Learn to code for free!
Teacher Guides and Lesson Plans
...Free, high-quality Teacher's Guides for more than 600 of our books
Gwulo
...30,000 pages about old Hong Kong
Genetics Unzipped
...The Genetics Society Podcast
Women Up
...The radical six year program that lifts up the women artists in La Galleria Nazionale
Interesting Engineering
...Engineering is more than machinery and code
Kids Math Talk
...Part podcast, part blog, and all about math
Everything You Need To Know About Emoji
...What are they, technically speaking?
JustWatch
...What do you want to watch?
Word Up
...One word at a time
Wildlife Thailand
...Wildlife & National Parks of Thailand
CSS Tricks
...A website all about building websites

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