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page on sandisk.com
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/
A USB storage testing application.
If regular formatting doesn’t work, this application will do a more low-level format.
This is the official SD card tool for formatting a card.
Windows 10 software
All posts tagged Windows 10 software
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(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180624104818/https://natron.fr/
A video editor. I think. What even is this?
DO NOT BUY. DO NOT TRY.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/
https://www.nomanssky.com/
Explore, survive, gather and trade while making your way to the galactic core.
Every single described goal of this game has failed. It is a bad flight-simulator, with bad crafting, bad technology, and bad survival mechanics. It is set on procedurally generated planets so vast that nothing matters, in a procedurally-generated universe so vast that nothing matters. What’s worse is that it is so godawfully crowded with hand-holding that it becomes both easy and repetitive. Being ugly and with abysmal performance, it’s not even an exploration time-waster.
Perhaps in some years they will change/fix many of its issues, but I believe it has a fundamental casualness to it that anchors its core gameplay problems. This is not a game made for gamers.
2017-05-07 update: I tried it again, and it just isn’t worth it. If its graphics were the same as before (they’re busted now) then maybe. I have another video card but I’m not going to swap things around or fiddle with installing an old version of my card’s drivers. I just don’t want to bother any more.
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/
Shoot stuff and things.
I played the open beta. I found it fun, but not worth money. When I was given it for free a while later, I didn’t find it all that great.
- Has graphics reminiscent of Sanctum 2 – (2013 game).
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Overwatch 2 – While it has PvE to some degree, the full talent trees and upgrades concept will not be implemented. (source)
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Software > VoIP, Instant messagers, Video conferencing >
(on Wikipedia)
(on Google Play)
https://discord.com/
Yet another VoIP client.
A clumsy “pretends to be pretty” interface, but it seems reasonable enough. Definitely not better than Mumble for the basics.
It might be better-suited for large groups, or because it has a free server, or some other thing I haven’t discovered. I’ll keep it in my toolbox, but I don’t really like it.
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Booting multiple distributions from a USB stick >
was multibootusb.org
A tool for booting multiple distributions from a USB stick. Duh.
Very easy to use. Works under Windows. Does not work under Linux.
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2021-02-04 — Abandoned?
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190810154034/http://twistedtreegames.com:80/proteus/
Open-world exploration.
It’s like an even crappier-graphics Minecraft, only with nothing to do. At first I thought it was quirky and interesting, but for some reason I got lifted in the air and after a long, long, while the game ended. I redid things, and this happened the second time too.
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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://www.rarlab.com/
An archival utility.
I’ve been using this for a hell of a long time.
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aka WinRAR, for its Windows versions.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.superantispyware.com/
A malware scanner.
Mostly-meh.
- Their portable scanner is still just an installer.
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It found an Wajam plugin from Magic Camera, presumably installed for either Internet Explorer or Edge.
- During scanning, it claims to have found infected files, but those files were neither reported at the end of its scan nor found in its quarantine. What gives?
