Irina_Tech_Tips Newsletter #1 (2023)
Hello, my dear readers!
Thank you so much for staying with me!
In this newsletter I collect new posts from my Twitter account for the week. For convenience, they are grouped by topic.
OSINT
GMAIl #osint
Free online tool for gathering information about Google account by email: name, profile pictures, calendar events and timezone, Google Maps reviews, probably location calculated by Google Maps and more.
http://gmail-osint.activetk.jp
How to find YouTube channel by owner email?
Use new extreme cool and FREE search feature from Osint Industries:
https://osint.industries/email
A detailed guide on how to search for information on Facebook from
Henk Van Ess and GJIN :
- manipulating URL parameters
- advanced Google search
- using third-party services
and more.
https://gijn.org/2023/06/26/social-search-techniques-using-facebook-henk-van-ess/
Google Fact Check Tools will soon have a new feature that allows you to find out when and on which site a particular picture was first indexed by Google.
To try it, apply to the wait list https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct_cdI7947e_2wqPxYKNkT2q-A0cnNuF41xRoYrYcBJ78fJA/viewform?pli=1
Just in case, let me remind you that https://tineye.com also shows image indexing dates on different sites. But these dates can be much farther from the first appearance of the image on the social network than the Google dates , because TinEye indexes sites less frequently.
AI Image Editing Tools
Stable Diffusion Inpainting - free online tool for editing the selected area of an image according to a text description.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/runwayml/stable-diffusion-inpainting
Image Mixer - tool for generating an image from multiple files. It's possible to use up to five images and adjust the degree of influence on the result for each. You can also combine pictures with text prompts.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/lambdalabs/image-mixer-demo
You've probably seen DragGAN which allows you to instantly resize different objects in an image.
Now its source code became publicly available at HuggingFace
https://huggingface.co/spaces/radames
A free AI tool from Microsoft that allows you to generate logos, booklets, pictures for social networking posts, book covers. After generation, you can edit text captions and other design elements.
QrGEN AI
Online tool for converting links or text into QR-codes decorated with neural network generated pictures.
https://app.qrgen.ai (partly free)
Total free analog - https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface-projects/QR-code-AI-art-generator
Darknet
One good way to open a site in the .onion domain zone in a regular browser (without running Tor) is to add
to the beginning of the link. It works much more stable than onion․cab, onion․to, onion․pet, etc.
ChatGPT
GOOGPT - a search tool that simultaneously displays Google search results and a response from ChatGPT. Does not require automation in your OpenAI account or API key.
When collecting tabular data with ChatGPT it can be not very convenient to copy the result in Excel/Google Sheet (especially if the table contains links). But you can ask ChatGPT to convert the table into CSV, click Copy code and save to a text editor as .csv.
OpenAI API Playground
Try the maximum set of GPT-4 functions and parameters available in the OpenAI API without having to write any code.
It will also be useful for app developers.
https://langtale.ai/playground
Other AI Tools
Whisper Word Timestamps - upload mp3 with audio and get video with subtitles for this audio in English. Can translate audio from various languages, including Russian.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Matthijs/whisper_word_timestamps
RIX - AI tool to find answers to questions related to development and code generation.
Unlike ChatGPT, it generates very short code leaving out many important details (sometimes it's not so bad)
(Both RIX and ChatGPT forgot about authorization in Linkedin)
Chat DOC from LightPDF
Upload a PDF document, get it's short summary and ask bots questions about its contents.
Telegram bots
How to read Twitter accounts in Telegram?
Open https://t.me/TheFeedReaderBot
Type:
/add https://twitter.com/irina_tech_tips
(replace nickname)
Check adding:
/list
Feed refresh every 4 hours (free version)
The bot can also be used to get updates from Facebook, YouTube and RSS feeds.
Other tools
How to read Telegram channels via RSS?
Use http://rsshub.app. For example:
https://rsshub.app/telegram/channel/cyberhunteracademy
Replace cyberhunteracademy to other channel name.
As of today, that's it. Thank you very much for your attention! See you next Friday!