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Software > Text editors >
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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
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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.
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I also (sometimes) use Leafpad.
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Software >
Video conferencing / Linux softphones >
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https://jitsi.org/
A nice and simple video conferencing program.
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I use Push To Talk with it.
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Software > Image editors, SVG viewers >
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Chocolatey: gimp
https://www.gimp.org/
An incredibly capable (and therefore very convoluted) image editor.
I use this:
- For converting
.svgfiles to.jpgor.png - (On Windows For editing
.pngfiles which have transparency, sincemspaint.execan’t do that. - For importing a page from a PDF, as an image.
- For transparent backgrounds
- GNU Image Manipulation Program
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Often called “The Gimp”.
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Software >
BitTorrent >
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https://www.qbittorrent.org/
A BitTorrent client.
Meant to be an open-source clone of uTorrent, it does do a very good job of mimicing it.
Software > YouTube >
Pale Moon > Pale Moon extensions >
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/youtube-nonstop/
https://github.com/own3mall/YouTubeNonStop-Legacy-XUL-Extension
Auto-clicks “Video paused. Continue watching?” and the “Get the best YouTube experience” nag.
See also:
Software >
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
Lets you run Linux GUI software on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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Part of “VcXsrv Windows X Server”, but I don’t use any other component.
Software >
https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html
Lets you easily create links from within explorer.
The commandline equivalent is ln – command line hardlinks
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Software >
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html
EXE/DLL/OCX/CPL icon grabber/extractor
- Unfortunately the source code for this particular program has not been provided.
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See also that author’s DotNetResourcesExtract for .NET stuff.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit
https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit
A subtitle editor.
It’s quite capable.
