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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
A ubiquitous byte-copying tool.
I use this for copying disks, partitions and ISOs.
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Part of GNU’s “coreutils”
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VLC > VLC plugins >
https://web.archive.org/web/20160718195007/http://addons.videolan.org:80/content/show.php/Remember+Playing+Now?content=171318
https://web.archive.org/web/20170206054146/http://gna.org/projects/rem-play-now-vlc/
Appends the ‘Now Playing’ info to a text file.
I use it to save the title when listening to a web radio station that puts the artist/song in VLC’s title.
TODO – add my notes
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Storage > Software > smartmontools >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.smartmontools.org/
A HDD health program.
I find it essential. I think.
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This is part of the smartmontools suite.
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Software > Image viewers, [/tag/svg-viewers |SVG viewers]] >
(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: IrfanView and irfanviewplugins
https://www.irfanview.com/
A venerable picture viewing tool. Can also view other media with plugins.
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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: sumatrapdf and sumatrapdf.commandline
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader
Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows.
Seems decent enough.
- Some stores don’t ship to your country.
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Receiving a gift is great, but receiving it from a stranger is worrying because it’s a breach of privacy.
See also:
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(company page, on Wikipedia)
was bicworld.com/en/products/details/59/velocity-gel
These are good-quality gel pens.
When my Kyocera pen ran out of ink, I explored some other pens. Unfortunately, I fell in love with the Bic VelocityGel. It’s not a fancy pen, so it lacks the sort of ritualization of a very high quality pen and a pen with a cap. But its ink and the writing experience are spectacular.
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(company page, on Wikipedia)
store on penloversparadise.com
was global.kyocera.com:80/prdct/fc_consumer/stationery/index.html
These are high-quality pens which use ceramic-tipped water-based refills.
Much of my writing is pen and paper, and the right pen is extremely important. A certain balance, texture and weight of pen, and a smooth writing experience are important to me. Put one of these pens down on a table, and spin them. They spin around the central closure for when the cap fits against the pen. That’s Japanese quality.
I’ve bought these from ThinkGeek , but most recently I’m buying them from penloversparadise.com.
I do not know if this ink is archival quality!
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(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210511011408/https://us.moleskine.com/en/
These are high-quality notebooks with archival quality paper.
Much of my writing is pen and paper, and it turns out that good paper also matters a lot. I’m perfectly comfortable with cheap paper in a three-ring binder, but I want something much better for travel and for long-term storage. A bookshelf of these little notebooks also look a hell of a lot better than binders.
