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Nerd
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Berlin
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Cool/Helpful Software
Hi, Does anybody know of any interesting/helpful software that improves upon the standard tools/features given by their OS? This doesn't have to be strictly Windows software; post your Windows/Mac/Linux suggestions here and share them with everybody else. I'll start this off! Divvy An application for managing the windows on your screen. It's available for Mac/Windows users and can be downloaded for both Mac and Windows. There's both a free demo version and a paid version available. http://mizage.com/windivvy/screenshots/ui.png (Unsupported image host) Start8 Brings the start menu back to Windows 8/8.1 It's probably the best start menu replacement I've found. You can download it here. Unfortunately it's paid-for software. If you'd like a free version, take a look at ClassicShell. Greenshot A great replacement for the print screen feature. Greenshot gives you a selection rectangle that allows you to select a certain area on your screen and do a range of things with it, including uploading your image to Imgur, saving it to your computer, opening it in an image editor and more. You can download it here. |
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Join Date: Aug 2013
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Inkscape It runs on all operating systems, "Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format." Has always been one of my favorite graphics programs, basically Paint on steroids. May not be cool/helpful for everyone but I know this community is filled with artists who might enjoy this. https://inkscape.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/resources/file/inkscape-0.48-ferrari.png (Unsupported image host) More examples of projects done on Inkscape |
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gyazo screenshot program that auto uploads all screenshots to gyazo.com, you can also upload image files simply by opening the image with the App. |
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Magnificent Bastard
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Bermuda Triangle
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SpaceSniffer http://static.digit.in/fckeditor/uploads/file/SpaceSniffer_1_1_4_0_-_www_uderzo_it_-_Stuff_(E)_-_Ready.png (Unsupported image host) Kind of an unusual tool, but it's super useful if you have large hard drives and need to figure out if certain things are taking up large amounts of space on your computer. You basically select one of your drives, and it generates blocks based on file sizes in folders at a fairly fast pace, so you can easily see which folders are larger than others. Also has some built-in functions like opening those folder locations when you click on each block, and so on. |
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Notepad++ This is one of my favorite text editors, it's pretty much Notepad but way way better and it gets actual updates and it also supports some web developing languages which is a bonus for new web developers. I know not many people use Notepad on a daily basis but I do and this really makes it much more productive. |
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Software Engineer
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Gold Coast, Australia
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ShareX is, in my opinion, the best screenshot/basic recording utility available for windows. Sublime Text 3 is my favorite text editor. It is extremely customizable and runs very well. |
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I use Oracle VM VirtualXbox. It is a program developed by Oracle which let's you run Virtual Machines. It means that you can run other Operative Systems and have more computers inside your computer without having to dual-boot or make partitions for the other OS's. It is not too practical if you plan to use another OS as main. So for my programming classes they asked me to download Linux Fedora and many other OS's, all my classmates had lots of problems with their laptops, but I simply downloaded all OS's and ran them on VirtualBox, and worked like a charm. |