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Software > Oldschool music players >

https://www.bannister.org/software/ao.htm

An oldschool music player.

Has potential, but is missing critical features and its development appears to have ceased. Only good for playing ASMA (Atar) .mus, .str, and .wds files.



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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: Ghostscript
https://ghostscript.com/

A suite of software for dealing with PDFs.

It’s a requirement for other software, and I only care about actually using it for repairing PDFs.



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Software >
Pale Moon > Pale Moon extensions >

was https://github.com/wsdfhjxc/expose-noisy-tabs, but I found a copy at https://github.com/adisib/expose-noisy-tabs
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/expose-noisy-tabs/

Adds an icon to tabs to indicate which emanates sound and allow one to easily mute them.

  • 2019-01-15 – Obsoleted when its functionality was implemented in Pale Moon 28.3.0.
  • 2018-03-31 – 1.1.0

Software > Scanners >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.hamrick.com/

It really looks great.

VueScan supports the CanoScan LiDE 120, which I tested it with.

It watermarks what it scans, unless you buy it. It’s not worth $50 for something decent, because my scanner cost that. $100 to get OCR cooked-in also isn’t worth it.

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Music >

Research on music licensing, with a focus on legally streaming copyrighted music.

This is not about the equipment, the act of bring a DJ or any other practical thing. This is about the law, and particularly for someone in Canada.

I had tinkered with this as a project some time ago, but I misplaced those bookmarks before thinking to post them up here. I’m not presently that interested, but I will be if I pursue related endeavours in the future.



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Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4975856/

Time travelers recruit an everyman to help save their world.

Crude and un-funny.