BeachWaterTemp gives live and typical water temperatures for 221 US swim beaches, for anyone deciding whether to get in. Every reading names the NOAA station it came from and how far that station sits from the sand, rather than implying it was measured at the beach itself.
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FishingHelps gives a daily bite forecast for any of 16,000+ US towns, folding solunar feeding windows and live weather into a single score. Its own about page calls solunar theory a folk model with mixed scientific support, which is rare candor from a site built on it.
Bold Puzzles is a free collection of large-print word searches, sudoku, solitaire and trivia made for older adults and anyone reading with low vision. Words in its grids never run backwards, on the stated view that reversed words frustrate more than they challenge.
KeepTradeCut tracks what dynasty fantasy football players are worth, from rankings crowdsourced from the managers who actually trade them. Nothing is paywalled, since charging for a crowdsourced resource would be silly, but the full board stays hidden until a visitor ranks three players.
Nitro Type is a free browser game where students build typing speed by racing each other through short passages. Built in 2011 by the team behind Typing.com, it ships with no player chat at all — a deliberate omission that keeps it in classrooms.
Your Texas Benefits is the state portal where Texans apply for food, cash and health assistance and manage an open case. Texas Health and Human Services runs it, and a single application covers SNAP, TANF, Medicaid and CHIP — the prescreening tool comes first, before any account is required.
LawnDates tells US homeowners when to overseed, aerate, fertilize and put down pre-emergent for their own ZIP. Each city calendar names the actual NOAA station its dates come from and how far away it sits, then calls every window a starting point rather than a deadline.
Zumper is a rental marketplace for apartments and houses across the US and Canada. Every month it distills over a million active listings into a National Rent Report, which is where much of the press gets the median rent figure it quotes.
Federal Student Aid is the U.S. Department of Education office behind the FAFSA form, federal grants and student loan repayment. In December 2019 it absorbed StudentLoans.gov, FSAID.ed.gov and parts of NSLDS, ending years of borrowers bouncing between four differently branded federal sites.
skribbl.io is a free browser Pictionary game where one player draws a word and everyone else races to guess it in the chat. It asks for nothing but a nickname before dropping a player into a room with strangers, and the newest post in its front-page news column is still dated November 2022.
healow is where patients book appointments, read their medical records and join video visits with their own doctors. Run by eClinicalWorks, it is the patient side of that company's EHR, so signing up starts with a practice code handed over by the doctor's office.
Family is a self-custody Ethereum wallet for iPhone, built around the idea that crypto software should feel as considered as any mainstream consumer app. Its site earned a following among designers well beyond the audience that will ever hold a token.