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Recent Updates To Our Website & Training

(This page was last updated on the 13/10/2025)

This page will be updated with details of any new OSINT / i3 techniques and resources and any new links to useful sites that we have added to our website within the last few months.

13th October 2025
Added a link to the Botim Messaging App to the Messenger Apps page on our OSINT / i3 website, as recently I've noticed it crop up quite a few times when I'm researching people, so it's definitely one to add to your burner phone for when you are checking out contact details for people, as it's very similar to WhatsApp & Telegram.

1st October 2025
Created a new page on our OSINT / i3 website for Fitness Apps & Sports Related Sites, with a few details and links to try to get the most out of any Fitness Apps & Sports Related Sites during an investigation.

September 2025
Created a new page on our OSINT / i3 website for Spotify, with a few details and links to try to get the most out of any Spotify account you are researching.

Made more changes to the Messenger Apps page of our OSINT / i3 website, by creating 2 new pages, for Telegram & WhatsApp, with lots links & details, which may help when investigating issues around these messaging apps.

Made changes to the Messenger Apps page of the website, and moved some links to a new page at Snapchat, with links and details which may help when investigating issues around Snapchat.

August 2025
Added a link for SpotThem, to the Email & Mobile Phone pages of our OSINT / i3 website, SpotThem is a new site, where you can search an Email Address and Mobile Number, to locate linked online accounts & app etc, similar to OSINT Industries, Epieos & OSINT Lol Archiver.

Thanks to Mario Santella for this OSINT Technique.
I've updated the Python Sites & Instagram pages on our OSINT / i3 website, adding details of InstagramPrivSniffer by Obitouka, which is a tool that allows you to extract additional information about Private Instagram accounts, such as URL's to some linked public posts.

We have changed the Translation page of our website to a Translation & Transcription Sites page, and added a section on Online Transcription Sites, with links to sites, which use AI, where you can obtain a transcription of what is said on TikTok or X / Twitter videos etc, which whilst not 100% perfect may be good enough to assist in an investigation.

There are a number of links to Download A TikTok Video on the TikTok page of our website, but recently I had a need to download some video's from a TikTok account, so thought I would say that UrleBird was so quick and easy to use.

We have added a new section called Sites To Check If An Image Is AI Generated to the Reverse Image Searching page of our website. As always nothing is 100% accurate but these sites allow you to upload an image for free and will then quickly assess if the image is Genuine or AI Generated.

Twice in the last two weeks I have used FaceSeek to identify & locate an image online and have been really impressed by the results. From a not great profile image, it has located linked accounts on adult sites and social media sites, which has really helped drive forward some investigations. There is a link to FaceSeek on the Reverse Image Searching page of our website.

July 2025
The Email Related Sites & Links page of our website was looking a bit cramped, so we have moved some links and created a new page on Hacked Account Research Sites & Links, with details and techniques which will hopefully help online investigators and researchers.

We have added a page on Pinterest to our website, with details and techniques which will hopefully help if you have to investigate or research a Pinterest account.

We have added some more pages and sections to the Creating Fake Online ID's page of our website, with new pages and details on Creating Fake Profile Images, Creating Fake Profile Videos and Linking Your Smartphone To Your Desktop.

Thanks to Ritu Gill / Forensic OSINT for this OSINT Technique.
I've updated the Facebook Marketplace Research page on our OSINT / i3 website, adding details on How To Identify When A Facebook Marketplace Listing Was Made.

June 2025
Thanks to Epieos for this OSINT Technique.
I've updated the X / Twitter page on our OSINT / i3 website, adding details on How To Identify When An X / Twitter Profile Banner Was Last Updated.

I've updated the UK Birth, Death & Marriage Certificate Details page on our OSINT / i3 website, adding some new details, to help show what is recorded on the Certificates, which can be a really useful source of information when carrying out research into individuals.

May 2025
I've updated the OnlyFans page on our OSINT / i3 website, adding some new useful OSINT links & details.

Made lots of changes and additions to the Archive & Cached Related Sites & Links page of our OSINT / i3 website, with new pages & details on how to use archive sites, listed under Request A Webpage To Be Archived, Archive.Org - Normal Use and Archive.Org - Social Media Research, which will hopefully help those that are not using archive sites during their online research.

Updated the TikTok page of our OSINT / i3 website, with some new useful links & techniques.

Finished making the additions to the Property Sites page of our OSINT / i3 website, with new pages & details for UK Properties covering Estate Agent Type Sites, Land Registry, Streetview Type Images & Other Useful Details.

April 2025
Made some changes to the Searching Phone Numbers page of our OSINT / i3 website, adding some more countries to the list, as to how their telephone numbers are formatted / set out and so how they can be searched.

Made lots of changes to the Property Sites page of our OSINT / i3 website, with new pages & details for UK Properties covering Council Tax, Business Rates, Bin Day & Planning Applications, and will be adding some more pages and details soon.

Made some changes & updates to the Political Sites section on the Favorites page of our OSINT / i3 website, with some useful links, mostly for the UK Parliament and the Dissolved Assemblies.

Made some changes to the Genealogy - Births, Deaths, Marriages and Wills & Probate Sites page of our OSINT / i3 website, deleting a few old links, which no longer worked and add a few new useful ones.

March 2025
Made some changes to the Maps & Location Related Sites page of our OSINT / i3 website showing how a Latitude & Longitude reading can be altered to show the location on Google Maps, as not every Image EXIF Viewer, which shows the Latitude & Longitude associated to an image, links directly to a Mapping site.

I doing some online OSINT training sessions for The Investigator over the next few months, the details are Here.

Apparently Skype is being retired / removed by Microsoft in May of this year, which I suppose is understandable (as no-one really uses it anymore) but it's always sad to see another old OSINT resource disappear, just like when Friends Reunited went. So I will remove the links to Skype from the website, but no doubt shortly another great OSINT resource will be discovered, which we will all use and many will wonder how we ever found anything useful without it.

February 2025
I've updated a number of pages on our OSINT / i3 website, removing a few old dead links and adding a few more useful links, so feel free to checkout our pages on EXIF Data Related Sites & Links, LinkedIn Related Sites & Links, People Search Sites & Time Zone & Time Converter Related Sites & Links.

After seeing a demonstration of it, I have added a link for ReplicaCyber to the OSINT Sites And Research Software & Solutions page of our OSINT / i3 website. The ReplicaCyber Platform would appear to be a very easy to set up & operate Remote Desktop style solution, offering complete anonymous internet activity, from your browser, cutting out some of the big issues with other Remote Desktops being used by the law enforcement in the UK, as it seems quite user friendly, leaves genuine common footprints; allows the user to add whatever addons / extensions they want, to whatever browser they wish to use; and allows easy copy/paste or drag/drop of material from the Replicate Remote Desktop to the user's real Desktop.

January 2025
I have updated the General Social Media Sites & Links page of our OSINT / I3 website, as so many of the smaller social media sites, linked to particular countries or languages, are no longer around.

As many of the online resources, where you could paste in a Facebook or X / Twitter account URL to obtain an Account ID Number, or to do the reverse, no longer work, we have now removed the links from our website, however there are still techniques which you can use to obtain an Account ID Number, or turn an Account ID Number into an Account Name, some of which are listed on the Facebook & X / Twitter pages of our OSINT / I3 website.

Have added a link on the Motor Vehicle Related Sites of our website for partialnumberplate.co.uk, and created a page at UK Partial Number Plate Research, explaining how to use it. PartialNumberPlate is a free useful online resource, which allows you to search a partial UK & Irish registration number, replacing any unknown / missing characters with a ?, it will then return a list of possible registration numbers for vehicles, along with the vehicles make & colour.

December 2024
We have noticed that now both Bing & Yahoo seem to have removed Cached from their search results, like Google, so Cached now only seems available on Yandex, where it is referred to as Saved Copy.

I've just had to access some Land Registry Title Documents and they have gone up from £3 to £7 which is quite an increase when you have to do quite a few of them for a report, and looks like they are limiting some historic data, so always try to work out when your subject was linked to property, checking when it has been bought and sold and who is linked to any Planning Applications, with the details and links listed on the Property Related page on our OSINT / i3 website.

I've updated the YouTube page on our OSINT / i3 website, adding some new useful OSINT links & techniques.

I've updated the TikTok page on our OSINT / i3 website, adding some new useful OSINT links & techniques, including details about Account ID Numbers.

November 2024
I've updated the Threads page on our OSINT / i3 website, adding some new useful OSINT links & techniques, including details on Account ID Numbers, accessing the exact Date & Time a Post was sent and who has Liked a Post.

I've updated the Facebook pages on our OSINT / i3 website, as it appears that the Facebook Hack Dump site is no longer available on its previous Onion site.

I've updated the BlueSky / BSky page on our OSINT / i3 website, adding some new useful OSINT links & techniques, including details on obtaining a BlueSky / BSky Account ID Number, accessing the exact Date & Time a Post was sent, who has Liked a Post, and how to access large versions of an accounts Profile Image and Background Image.

I've updated the OnlyFans page on our OSINT / i3 website, adding some new useful OSINT links & techniques, including details on obtaining an OnlyFans Account ID Number and the date an account was created, and accessing large versions of an accounts Profile Image and Background Image.

I gave an interview to the Head of Press at Locate International, about my time with the organisation, which has been published on their website under the heading of Building a Legacy in OSINT: Neil Smith's Journey with Locate International.

October 2024
I've added some more details to the Instagram & Profile Image Related Details pages of our OSINT / i3 website, detailing how to use the Developer Tools / F12 function to obtain a large version of the profile image.

Thanks to @cyb_detective for this link.
I've added details for the ARIN - Requesting a WhoWas Report Service to the Domains & IP's page on our OSINT / i3 website. The ARIN - Requesting a WhoWas Report Service is another way to obtain details of a Domains Registrant, which can often be very useful during an investigation.

I've updated quite a few pages on our OSINT / i3 website, updating a few of the links, adding some links to some new useful online sites and removing a few old dead links.

I've updated the Creating Online ID's - Sock Puppets, Fake Names & False Or Discreet Personas page of our OSINT / i3 website, updating a few links and adding some links to a few useful online guides and a link to the spreadsheet.

I've updated the Archive & Cached Related Sites & Links page of our OSINT / i3 website, as it looks like Google has finally killed off and removed its Cached functions but don't forget that sites like Bing & Yandex still display the Cached / Saved Copy in their search results.

Yearly Updates
2025 OSINT Website Updates
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2023 OSINT Website Updates
2022 OSINT Website Updates
2021 OSINT Website Updates
2020 OSINT Website Updates

Some Useful OSINT Linkedin Articles & Posts I've Written
2024
11th November - UK OSINT Community - OSINT for Missing People Investigations
5th November - Building a Legacy in OSINT: Neil Smith's Journey with Locate International

2023
22nd September - Using OSINT To Unmask A Paedophile Online
13th April - A Quick OSINT Hint / Tip about obtaining images missing from websites on archive.org
6th April - A Quick OSINT Hint / Tip about locating hard to find social media accounts

2022
24th January - Another Article On OSINT Research
11th January - Another OSINT Address Trace Explained

2021
29th December - Anatomy Of An OSINT Address Trace

Newsletters, Articles & Interviews
2021
Our / The Locate OSINT Update - May 2021
Our / The Locate OSINT Update - April 2021
Our / The Locate OSINT Update - March 2021
Our / The Locate OSINT Update - February 2021
Our / The Locate OSINT Update - January 2021

2020
Our / The Locate OSINT Update - December 2020
Our / The Locate OSINT Update - November 2020
Our / The Locate OSINT Update - October 2020
Our / The Locate OSINT Update - September 2020

Our / The Qwarie OSINT Newsletter / Updates - August 2020
Our / The Qwarie OSINT Newsletter / Updates - July 2020
Our / The Qwarie OSINT Newsletter / Updates - June 2020
Our / The Qwarie OSINT Newsletter / Updates - May 2020
Our / The Qwarie OSINT Newsletter / Updates - April 2020

2018
Our November Newsletter

2017
Our September Newsletter
Our June Newsletter
Our April Newsletter

2016
Our April Newsletter

2015
Our August Newsletter
Our April Newsletter
Our January Newsletter

2014
An article written for FreePint on My Favourite Tipples, with details on some of my favourite online resources in areas from domain names to sources for tracking & tracing people
An article written for Police Oracle on The Power Of The Internet & Setting Up A Cheap Stand-Alone System
An article written for Police Oracle on How On-line Videos Speed-Up Crime Investigations
An article written for Police Oracle on The Opportunities Offered By Using Telephone & Translation Sites
An article written for Police Oracle on how Geo-Location Is Crucial For Social Media Investigations
An article written for Police Oracle on Remembering To Use Historic Social Networking Sites
An article written for Police Oracle on How To Identify A Prostitution Problem

2013
An article written for Police Oracle on The Importance Of Newspaper Databases
An article written for Police Oracle on Motor Vehicles & Social Networking Sites
An article written for Police Oracle on Dealing With The Legal Profession
An article written for Police Oracle on The Hidden Intelligence In Basic On-line Searches
An article written for Police Oracle on The Benefits Of Hidden Document Data
An article written for Police Oracle on How Genealogy Sites Are Essential For Investigators
An article written for Police Oracle on The Secrets Contained In Photographs
An article written for Police Oracle on The Goldmine Of Public Information Systems
An article written for Police Oracle on The Hidden World Of Domain Websites
An article written for Police Oracle on Investigative Importance Of Company Information
An article written for Police Oracle on Officers Privacy Is Paramount
An article written for Police Oracle on The Investigative Benefit Of Anonymisers

2012
An article written for the Heir Hunters Association on Using The Internet As An Investigation Tool (Item 10)
An article written for The Investigator Magazine on Armchair Intelligence (Page 4)
An interview given to the Post Desk website about Open Source Intelligence
An interview given to Paul Bradshaw about Investigating People Online for his Help Me Investigate website