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Storage > Software > smartmontools >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.smartmontools.org/
A suite of HDD tools.
I find it essential. I think.
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smartctl is the most important component for me.
commandline software
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was willwap.co.uk (gone as of 2016-03-31)
Corrects busted VBR records in MP3s.
I most notably use this program with my rip-audio-from-video.sh script
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Abandoned?
- I can’t find a home page.
- Debian reports this program as orphaned – https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vbrfix
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://lame.sourceforge.io/
An MP3 transcoder.
This has been an essential part of my toolkit for as long as I’ve had CDs. These days I use it primarily to convert various other audio formats to MP3.
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my rip-audio-from-video.sh script uses
lame.
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was http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/jpegoptim/
https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html
https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim
Optimizes JPEG images, performing magic to reduce size, or optionally stripping metadata for even further savings, or performing lossy re-compression for potentially extraordinary size reduction.
I like this idea, and it’s actually freed up a significant amount of space. Being able to take a 5MB file and knock it down to 1MB while maintaining excellent visual quality.. is astonishing
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Software > Revision control systems >
(on Wikipedia)
https://subversion.apache.org/
A version control system.
svn-
On windows I would usually use https://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html
this needs to be cleaned up
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(on Wikipedia)
https://git-scm.com/
A version control system of some note.
I use it, not that I know what I’m doing.
See also:
- My git repository for git scripts
- Git on Windows
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tig (text-mode interface for git)
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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: 7zip
https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable
https://www.7-zip.org/
An archival program.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://ffmpeg.org/
A suite of tools to diddle with multimedia stuff and things.
It’s mandatory to have in my toolkit.
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Software >
https://slouken.libsdl.org/projects/splitvt/index.html
This program takes any VT100 terminal window and splits it into two shell windows, one on top and one on bottom. It allows you to watch two terminal sessions at once, which can be very useful whenever you want more screen real-estate without messing with windows.
