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(on Wikipedia)
was libav.org
A suite of tools to diddle with multimedia stuff and things.
See also FFmpeg, which has valuable usage notes.
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Abandoned – The project is closed and the website is dead.
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A sound player thingy.
I’ve got it, I don’t know if I care, though. Noted here for completeness.
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2016-03-31, it comes with Slackware 14.1
Don’t mistake this for the movie Alien – (1979 movie)
(on Wikipedia)
https://joeyh.name/code/alien/
A tool to convert between package management types.
Mandatory for getting software working which does not have a maintainer for one’s current distribution.
- ~ 2015-02 – alien is no longer maintained
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was http://www.movsd.com/thegun.htm
A notepad.exe replacement in 6,144 bytes.
Particularly notable because its configuration is done through an external program which directly modifies the THEGUN.EXE binary.
I tossed this in with my portable applications. It’s tiny, and I figure it’s one of those “just in case” sort of applications.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://obsproject.com/
I used it for Twitch.
It’s reasonable. I did some pretty fancy things with it, after some fiddling.
- aka OBS
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The project was abandoned and rewritten as OBS Studio.
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.iobit.com/en/advancedsystemcarefree.php
One of those “PC problems” programs.
Whatever this is supposed to be, it’s insultingly simplistic and opaque.
TODO – make a proper page
TODO – add my notes
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was https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=hddguardian
A windows GUI which uses the smartctl backend.
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Abandoned – Website gone, archive gone.
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(on Wikipedia)
was https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/
A PDF reader. Many people mistake this as “the” PDF viewer, but PDF is an open format, and Adobe just happens to make a popular viewer.
- While I don’t use it, I keep it in my toolkit: Win10 enGB – 2015.009.20069
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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/greenshot/greenshot/releases
https://getgreenshot.org/
A screenshot software tool.
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Generally unnecessary now that Windows Snip (
Win-shift-s) works well.
