15 Surprisingly Useful Single Serving Sites

If you've ever been sent a link to AmIAwesome.com, you know all about the wonderful world of single serving sites. Each one has their own solitary and useless reason for existence—except that some of them can actually be pretty darn helpful. Get your bookmarks ready, because here's our favorite sites to help with everything from baking a potato to calling your cousin in Europe.

PriceOfAStamp.com and ThePostalRate.com
We're digital-life people who rely on online banking and bill pay. So when the time comes send our commissioner our Fantasy Football check, we're digging through our junk drawer, wondering if our 42¢ stamp is enough (Hint: It's not).

WhatsMyIP.net
On the phone with tech support and need to figure out your IP address quick? Type this url in to view your IP and copy it to your clipboard with one click.

GoingToRain.com, UmbrellaToday.com, and DoINeedAnUmbrella.com
This trifecta of sites can all help streamline your getting-ready routine. Enter your location and save the site as your homepage to get an instant weather report: Yes, it's going to rain.

HowToCutAPineapple.com
One of life's most difficult tasks, this site aims to show you the right way to cut, skin and core a pineapple.

HowToBakeAPotato.com
No need to do a Google search or sift through a recipe website. This site has step-by-step instructions on how to bake a potato for delicious consumption.

DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com
Never again wonder whether your excruciatingly long load time is the fault of your ancient machine or the website's host. But we have one question: Where do we turn if Down For Everyone Or Just Me? is down?

WhatTimeIsItThere.info
One visit will show you the current time in every US state, presented in a graphically gorgeous and colorful map. But if you type "in 5 hours" or "at 5:30am eastern" into the search box, you can see the time in the future!

SimpleCountryCodes.com
The name doesn't lie. Tell it where you are and where you want to call and this site tells you what to dial. No more wondering if you're supposed to dial that extra zero or not.

WhatWeekIsIt.com
OK, we'll admit we have no idea exactly what this might be useful for. But somebody, somewhere must be wondering exactly which day or week of the year it is (231 of 365 or 33 of 52, if you're that guy).

e.ggtimer.com
Visit the site and enter a time in the box to have e.ggtimer.com count down for you. But if you find yourself cooking eggs every morning, bookmark a url that specifies your time (i.e. e.ggtimer.com/2minutes or e.ggtimer.com/30seconds). You can also make use of e.ggtimer.com's special timers for a morning wake-up routine (e.ggtimer.com/morning) or the 25/5 Pomodoro schedule (e.ggtimer.com/pomodoro).

Steep.It
This one's from the same guys as e.ggtimer, and it uses the same url style. Steep.it/3minutes sets a three minute tea timer to let your tea bag steep—perfect for Oolong tea, as you'll figure out on the homepage's convenient and clickable chart of tea times and temperatures.

IsAppleStoreDown.com
This one's for the Apple fanboys. Set your homepage to this one, which does nothing else but tell you if the Apple Store's retail website is up and running. Useless, yes... until you realize that they take the site down every time they're adding new products. If you see a "Yes!," it's time to hit the ATM.

Comments (16)

www.tie-a-tie.net/

saved me a couple times.

http://www.amicrazyoraretheycrazy.com/

http://www.ifitsuckssobadquit.com/

not exactly like what's above, but similar. and useful. and hilarious.

http://www.isthemarketopen.com/

useful to find out if the us stock market is open or closed (expecially on holidays)

I'm a big fan of thefuckingweather.com

http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/

Very helpful...

Best post ever.

monthlyinfo.com

I've seen simplified-weather type things before, and they seem pretty pointless to me. That precipitation is expected isn't very useful on it's own.

Low wind (umbrella OK), medium wind (better have a very high-quality wind-resistant umbrella) or high wind (fhageddabout an umbrella)?

Rain, sleet, hail, slush, light dry snow, heavy wet snow, freezing rain, or "wintery mix"? Is it expected to be the same form of precipitation all day, or will it change dramatically?

How hot or cold is it? Is the temperature going to change dramatically over the course of the day, so I don't get caught over- or under- dressed at the end of the workday?

I don't want simplified weather. It's too complex and rapidly changing for a "simplified" version to be useful.

I guess unless you live in one of those places where every day is supposedly "80 degrees, partly sunny, rain in the afternoon". But I've never lived anywhere like that.

@ twnt1andcounting -- that's great! I clicked just to see what the site was like, now i'm craving "Salmon glazed with honey and mustard"

great post thanks!

not sure if I'm allowed to post this but.... thefuckingweather.com :)

so much fun!!

Loving thefuckingweather.com and whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com! Here is another great one: www.whosthecutest.com

Thanks, my little apt, an hour of my life gone forever. :)

Heh, I had three websites break on me over the course of an hour, so on a lark, I looked for (and discovered)
http://www.ismercuryinretrograde.com/
=^D

http://www.howtobidatauctions.com/

Those of us who are new to the auction scene.