the kit

(on Microsoft Store)
http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm

A “Safely Remove Hardware” feature which also works on fixed disks, to dismount and spin them down.

Used to Hot swap a SATA drive on Windows 11

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Oculante

2022-11-16

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Software > SVG viewers >

https://github.com/woelper/oculante

A straightforward and capable cross-platform image viewer.

Can only display SVG files.

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HxD

2022-09-08

freeware, GUI software, loved, proprietary software, software, text editors, the kit, utilities, Windows 10 software, windows 11 software, Windows software, zombie

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

A utility to raw edit files, disks, or memory.

Portable

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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText
https://cudatext.github.io/

A capable and fast programmer’s editor.

It’s capable and fast, but not being able to disable the recent files list is a killer for me.

Portable only, but it has an installer so you can easily right-click and open files in it.

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Notepad3

2022-09-08

freeware, glances, GUI software, liked, Linux software, live, open-source software, software with Git repositories, text editors, the kit, windows 11 software, Windows software

Software > Text editors >

https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3
https://rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3/

A straightforward and capable Windows text editor which also has a portable version.

This seems like a nice daily driver for little things. I shouldn’t replace Geany with it though since I want something cross-platform.

It’s really stupid that it doesn’t have configurable shortcuts unless I want to compile it from source.

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Software > Text editors >

(on Wikipedia)
Homebrew: geany
Chocolatey: geany
https://www.geany.org/

Geany is a GTK2 (GUI) text editor which is light and featureful. Here is a sampling of features from their about page:

Syntax highlighting
Code folding
Symbol name auto-completion
Construct completion/snippets
Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
Call tips

This is a editor that does such magical things as use control up/down to skip paragraphs. I love it for in-page bookmarking, code folding, search-replace, escaped-replaces and regular expressions for selections, documents and groups of documents.

The package geany-plugins is important..
I also (sometimes) use Leafpad.

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Microsoft exFAT/NTFS for USB

2021-09-22

Android 10 software, android software, file utilities, freeware, GUI software, live, loved, payware, software, the kit, utilities

Software >

https://www.paragon-software.com/free/exfat-ntfs-fat32-hfs-android/

Read/write filesystem support for Android.

While it doesn’t offer pure read/write access like you’d expect, this lets you mount things. You can use any other file manager (I use several most notably Total Commander and Ghost Commander), and it prompts to download the file.

Has a free version, but I don’t know what the difference between that and the pay version is.