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Disgaea – Hour of Darkness – (2003 game)

2018-03-05
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Entertainment > Games > PlayStation 2 >

(on Wikipedia)
Steam: Disgaea PC
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380520/
also was atlus.com/dis/
https://www.nisamerica.com/games/disgaea-1-complete

A tactics game so good it’s worth buying a PlayStation 2 for. It got released on Steam so it’s a game so good it’s worth buying a PC for. :)



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VueScan

2018-03-03
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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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Process Hacker

2018-01-04
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Soon to be renamed System Informer

Process Hacker logo

Software >

https://github.com/winsiderss/systeminformer
https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/

A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.



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FocusWriter

2017-12-30
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Software > Text editors >

https://github.com/gottcode/focuswriter
https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/

A beautified text editor with the widgets around the edges removed (“distraction-free”).

I started using it because I couldn’t trivially get Geany spell checking working. Once I did get it working I stopped.

Although I’ve used this on Linux a bit, it merely idles in my Windows kit.



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Process Lasso

2017-12-15
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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://bitsum.com/processlasso-docs/

A host of features to manage processes, such as changing CPU priority. It has lots of automated magic for system happiness. I use it for its control of the CPU’s power profile, making this the equivalent of Linux‘s cpufrequtils.

Highly recommended.



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Vivaldi

2017-11-23
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Google >
Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://vivaldi.com/

Based on Chrome‘s open-source components (Chromium), but with real-browser functionality added.

Spectacular. It has all the pieces missing from Chrome. I’d strongly consider switching to it from Pale Moon if it had proper ScrapBook X support.



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Synfig Studio

2017-11-02
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Software > Animation >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.synfig.org/

A cross-platform open-source animation program.

I didn’t want to deal with Blender, so I checked this out for simple animations. So far, so good. Even at a glance it could have been done far better, but maybe I can make do.



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Babun

2017-10-25
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I darken its background colour
I darken its background colour

Software >

Chocolatey: babun
https://babun.github.io/

A customized Cygwin for Linux on Windows: Zsh, Bash, Git and other Linux software, all pre-configured.

Can install other software provided by Cygwin.

  • 712, 774 – apparently abandoned, last updated 2016-05-02.

    • The main contributors are still alive, I see them posting on their Twitters.
    • I’ll likely move to pure Cygwin, and get my common applications installed. That should be easy, but who the hell knows with Linux.

My configuration specific to Babun is currently scattered throughout my git repository, just findinall Babun (using my findinall() )



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