A Fool’s Guide to Free Useful Things on the Internet

There is plenty of free information on the internet. And not all of it is on Youtube.

Know your cause, take a dip!

Art & Design

Also for digital painting:

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/

And for regular painting/figure drawing:

Entertainment

Project Gutenberg – Free books
https://alison.com Free courses based in Ireland.

OpenLibrary – download out-of-copyright books, borrow in-copyright books
LibriVox – Free audio books
Podiobooks.com – free audiobooks mostly from self-published authors.
Documentary Heaven – Free documentaries
TopDocumentaryFilms.com and FreeDocumentary.tv – more free documentaries.
Last.fm – Keeps track of your listening habits
Songza – Playlists for whatever mood you’re in.
8tracks – Another playlist service with playlists created by users. Internet radio created by people, not algorithms.
ZenMate – (Chrome extension) MediaHint alternative.
Soundozer – it’s kind of like Pandora, but you can listen to any song you search for and you can create a station based on that song. You don’t have to register either.
Grooveshark – free music, online radio, streaming. recommended by /u/freebytes
Jango – Free music – internet radio that plays what you want, great for those who can’t access Pandora.

Courses and tutorials

Class Central – Discover free online classes (MOOCs) from top universities like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, etc.
Coursera
OpenStudy
Udacity
MIT Open Courseware
Yale Open Courseware – actual video lectures for the class so you can get the in-class experience. Lots of classes over lots of subjects.
Stanford Open Courseware
EDX – Free courses from the best universities, you can even get a diploma for a few dollars.
Khan Academy – Free learning tutorials on just about every subject.
PatrickJMT – making FREE and hopefully useful math videos for the world!
Codecademy Free interactive coding tutorials
Duolingo and FSI Language courses– Free language learning
Memrise – Learn vocabulary, languages, history, science, trivia and just about anything else easily using flashcard techniques.
Anki – Similar to Memrise. Anki is a program which makes remembering things easily. Intelligent flashcards
Ted Talks – Free talks and lecture about anything and everything
Wolfram Alpha – Your one stop shop for calculations and questions about anything
Mathway – Awesome math problem solver.
A giant collection of Computer Science books made freely available
FreeRice – Answer vocabulary questions and rice is donated to charity!
Mendeley – The best free way to manage your research. Organize, share, discover. Great for when writing a paper, it manages all your referencing/bibliography in many different available notation

http://scholar.google.com

Self-Help/Advice

7 Cups of Tea – Free, anonymous, and confidential conversations with trained active listeners.
Thrive On – Not completely free, but aims to bring affordable online mental health programs to those who would otherwise go without. Starting next month
Blah Therapy – Online listening service. “Experience the rewards of venting to a stranger or lending an ear.”
MoodGYM – Learn cognitive behaviour therapy skills for preventing and coping with depression.
Social Services resources – a subreddit created by a professional Social Worker who has spent the rest procuring resources for those in need.

Credit to /u/FrancisMcKracken for post and /u/njdeatheater for markup version from Reddit.com 

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