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Grip logo

Software >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/ [ 1 ] was http://nostatic.org/grip/

A cd-player and cd-ripper.



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WordPress logo white

About this website >

(on Wikipedia)
wordpress.org

A website/blog engine.

Decent. I switched to this because I didn’t really want to get into making my own thing. I can tolerate WordPress because of BlogText.

NOTE – WordPress is controlled by a dictatorship of tyrannical assholes. This won’t matter to most people, but it will for some.



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Software > Screencasting >

(on Wikipedia)
xvidcap.sourceforge.net

Multiple regular-video formats. Simple and works.

2007-04-28 – While it works if compiled (slowly) from source, and can sync audio properly now that I’ve tried it again.. it can’t capture a reasonable-sized screen. It doesn’t even get the aspect ratio right.

xvidcap (gvidcap) – says it can record audio, and it can, but it doesn’t do it right. I have to research this problem.

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more coming later

Openbox 3 logo

Software > Window managers >

(on Wikipedia)
http://openbox.org/wiki/Main_Page

A straightforward but powerful window manager.

Openbox has been my window manager of choice for years now. Over that time, I’ve amassed some significant knowledge which I’ll try to maintain here.
A component of LXDE.



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Disgaea 2 - Cursed Memories - (2006 game) image

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
Steam: Disgaea 2 PC
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071784/
https://www.nisamerica.com/disgaea/d2/

Well, it’s got a sellout anime feeling to it. The graphics and sound are more cartoonish. A number of the annoyances of the first game have been hammered out, but there is a “toy” quality to the game which replaces the original gritty feeling of the original game.



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Software > MediaWiki > MediaWiki extensions >

(on MediaWiki)
https://followthescore.org/dpldemo/index.php?title=Extension_DPL [ 1 ] was semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=Extension_DPL

A report generator.

I used it to build intelligent lists which draw from various other pages scattered throughout the wiki via templates.

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Footnotes

^ 1 was semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=Extension_DPL

FrostWire logo

Software >

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

A BitTorrent client.

I used to love it, but it gave up Gnutella functionality so it’s useless. I wonder if old versions are still good..

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