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VideoLAN Client (VLC)
VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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ShareX
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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Kodi Home Theater Software
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
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LibreOffice
Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead (by LibreOffice)
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zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.
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davinci-resolve-linux
Setup Davinci Resolve on Linux an Fix Issues with Importing and Exporting Media
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greenshot
Greenshot for Windows - Report bugs & features go here: https://greenshot.atlassian.net or look for information on:
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free-programming-books
Discontinued :books: Freely available programming books [Moved to: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books] (by vhf)
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Tor
Discontinued Tor protects your privacy on the Internet by hiding the connection between your Internet address and the services you use. (This is *not* the official repository.) (by katmagic)
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Text-Grab
Use OCR in Windows quickly and easily with Text Grab. With optional background process and notifications.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
VLC media player - VLC media player is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software, and streaming media server
PowerToys by Microsoft - Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows 10 experience for greater productivity. It has certain options to fine tune their Windows PC. Link is of Github. Go down to the bottom and choose the exe file. Link for PowerToys if you want to know more
OBS Studio: Streaming and Recording software - https://obsproject.com/
ShareX - Screen Capturing tool with a lot of options such as fullscreen capture, regional capture, direct share to several uploading sites such as imgur, can upload the video and shorten link and generate sharable link.
uBlock Origin https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#ublock-origin
Chocolatey or Ninite. Both of them have similar function. Both of them are install manager. Just choose the apps that you want to install, it will install for you. Chocolatey is CUI ( Character User Interface aka no icons/windows like UI ) so if you are little bit techy/geeky, this is perfect. Or Ninite can do the similar function but in a normal GUI way. Good for those who are unfamiliar in CUI way.
VSCode's source is open source, but the product available for download is not open source and contains telemetry/tracking put there by Microsoft. VSCodium is an actual open source version of the product, using the same source code, but without all of the licensed Microsoft tracking stuff.
For Mac users, IINA player. It plays anything VLC can but is easier to use and less visually obtrusive. https://iina.io/
Kodi: Entertainment center software - https://kodi.tv/
Notepad++ - This is a better version of Windows Notepad.
Software/Add-ons: Ninite - update/install all your programs at once PortableApps - load several apps on a thumb drive to run on any Windows PC. recommended by /u/danteas1 SlimDrivers - Cloud based program that detects what drivers need to be updated. Incredible--especially after formatting an operating system. No need for CDs or trying to remember which model card, adapter...etc. you have. Copy - Online cloud storage. Start with 15gb free. Or 20gb with a referral link. BitTorrent Sync - Secure, unlimited file-syncing. No cloud required SyncThing - opensource alternative for bitsync. its recommended if you care about your privacy and security of your files. recommended by /u/akeryw Mega Desktop Sync(50GB) and Symform (Unlimited, but you must share back!) - both cloud storage services recommended by /u/muntoo Calibre - Free ebook library management F.lux - Adjusts the gamma on your screen uses magic as the day progresses to reduce eye strain. GIMP - Free photo manipulation software Inkscape - Free and open vector graphics editor. Paint.NET - Windows application designed to be the much needed upgrade to MS Paint. recommended by /u/SquirreI and /u/zeaga Pixlr - Online photo editor. web-based equivalent to an old version of Photoshop from 2005 or something. Very functional for occasional use manipulating images, and seeing as it's web-based and doesn't require an account it's super easy to use from anywhere. recommended by /u/abercromby3 Sumo Paint - Powerful graphics editor for your web browser and pc, recommended by /u/NotMyCircus Blender - Open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation. recommended by /u/Tom7980 Prey Project - Multi-platform anti-theft software RES - Reddit enhancement suite - A must have for all you redditing needs KeePass - free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager. LastPass - free (with premium for multiple platforms), easy-to-use password manager. Dictionary Pop-up extension, double click on a word that you don't know the meaning of and a dictionary definition pops up. Firefox extension powered by dictionary.com. Chrome extension powered by Google ClipCube - clipboard history. ClipX - ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager. It is sweet, it is free, use it. ClipCube alternative. LeechBlock (Firefox add-on) - simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. recommended by /u/Rae_Starr StayFocused - Chrome alternative to LeechBlock, recommended by /u/Jeskid14 Reaper - Audio workstation. Not free. Just a trial.
Software/Add-ons: Ninite - update/install all your programs at once PortableApps - load several apps on a thumb drive to run on any Windows PC. recommended by /u/danteas1 SlimDrivers - Cloud based program that detects what drivers need to be updated. Incredible--especially after formatting an operating system. No need for CDs or trying to remember which model card, adapter...etc. you have. Copy - Online cloud storage. Start with 15gb free. Or 20gb with a referral link. BitTorrent Sync - Secure, unlimited file-syncing. No cloud required SyncThing - opensource alternative for bitsync. its recommended if you care about your privacy and security of your files. recommended by /u/akeryw Mega Desktop Sync(50GB) and Symform (Unlimited, but you must share back!) - both cloud storage services recommended by /u/muntoo Calibre - Free ebook library management F.lux - Adjusts the gamma on your screen uses magic as the day progresses to reduce eye strain. GIMP - Free photo manipulation software Inkscape - Free and open vector graphics editor. Paint.NET - Windows application designed to be the much needed upgrade to MS Paint. recommended by /u/SquirreI and /u/zeaga Pixlr - Online photo editor. web-based equivalent to an old version of Photoshop from 2005 or something. Very functional for occasional use manipulating images, and seeing as it's web-based and doesn't require an account it's super easy to use from anywhere. recommended by /u/abercromby3 Sumo Paint - Powerful graphics editor for your web browser and pc, recommended by /u/NotMyCircus Blender - Open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation. recommended by /u/Tom7980 Prey Project - Multi-platform anti-theft software RES - Reddit enhancement suite - A must have for all you redditing needs KeePass - free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager. LastPass - free (with premium for multiple platforms), easy-to-use password manager. Dictionary Pop-up extension, double click on a word that you don't know the meaning of and a dictionary definition pops up. Firefox extension powered by dictionary.com. Chrome extension powered by Google ClipCube - clipboard history. ClipX - ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager. It is sweet, it is free, use it. ClipCube alternative. LeechBlock (Firefox add-on) - simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. recommended by /u/Rae_Starr StayFocused - Chrome alternative to LeechBlock, recommended by /u/Jeskid14 Reaper - Audio workstation. Not free. Just a trial.
Godot Game Engine - easy scripting language, fairly lightweight runtime, the visual shader editor is fun to play with
LibreOffice (Office Suite) https://www.libreoffice.org/
You could try Blokada, which not only blocks ads on websites, but also in-app ads.
Python: A programming language for quickly writing scripts - https://www.python.org/
pfSense: Firewall software - https://www.pfsense.org/
Darktable: Photo workflow a la lightroom - https://www.musicpd.org/ and https://www.darktable.org/
DaVinci Resolve: Video color correcting/editing - https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
OPNsense: Firewall software - https://opnsense.org
Handbrake: video converter - https://handbrake.fr/
Visual Studio Code: Code editing software - https://code.visualstudio.com
Audio Router: Sound routing - https://github.com/audiorouterdev/audio-router
Arduino: Open-source electronics platform (software is free) - https://www.arduino.cc/
Rufus: Tool to make bootable usb drives - https://rufus.ie
LMMS: Music studio - https://lmms.io/
Git: Version control system - https://git-scm.com/
Greenshot: Print screen tool - http://getgreenshot.org/
Courses and tutorials: Class Central - Discover free online classes (MOOCs) from top universities like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, etc. Coursera OpenStudy Open2Study - recommended by /u/SpiceFox FutureLearn - Learning for life, provided by UK and international universities. recommended by /u/fdsafdaw3f3acvsda Udacity iTunes U - iTunes University offers many free open courses from leading university. recommended by /u/wuisawesome Harvard Open Courseware MIT Open Courseware Yale Open Courseware - actual video lectures for the class so you can get the in-class experience. Lots of classes over lots of subjects. Stanford Open Courseware EDX - Free courses from the best universities, you can even get a diploma for a few dollars. recommended by /u/Ghune Khan Academy - Free learning tutorials on just about every subject. PatrickJMT - making FREE and hopefully useful math videos for the world! recommended by /u/thejoce1 Codecademy Free interactive coding tutorials Become a programmer, motherfucker Duolingo and FSI Language courses- Free language learning Memrise - Learn vocabulary, languages, history, science, trivia and just about anything else easily using flashcard techniques. Recommended by /u/exploiting Anki - Similar to Memrise. Anki is a program which makes remembering things easily. Intelligent flashcards Ted Talks - Free talks and lecture about anything and everything Wolfram Alpha - Your one stop shop for calculations and questions about anything Mathway - Awesome math problem solver. recommended by /u/RedS94 A giant collection of Computer Science books made freely available FreeRice - Answer vocabulary questions and rice is donated to charity! /u/Jowzer 's recommendation. Be sure to turn off adblock when using this site, as that's how they supply the rice! (Thanks for the heads up /u/Jack0fspad3s) Mendeley - The best free way to manage your research. Organize, share, discover. Great for when writing a paper, it manages all your referencing/bibliography in many different available notations
Software/Add-ons: Ninite - update/install all your programs at once PortableApps - load several apps on a thumb drive to run on any Windows PC. recommended by /u/danteas1 SlimDrivers - Cloud based program that detects what drivers need to be updated. Incredible--especially after formatting an operating system. No need for CDs or trying to remember which model card, adapter...etc. you have. Copy - Online cloud storage. Start with 15gb free. Or 20gb with a referral link. BitTorrent Sync - Secure, unlimited file-syncing. No cloud required SyncThing - opensource alternative for bitsync. its recommended if you care about your privacy and security of your files. recommended by /u/akeryw Mega Desktop Sync(50GB) and Symform (Unlimited, but you must share back!) - both cloud storage services recommended by /u/muntoo Calibre - Free ebook library management F.lux - Adjusts the gamma on your screen uses magic as the day progresses to reduce eye strain. GIMP - Free photo manipulation software Inkscape - Free and open vector graphics editor. Paint.NET - Windows application designed to be the much needed upgrade to MS Paint. recommended by /u/SquirreI and /u/zeaga Pixlr - Online photo editor. web-based equivalent to an old version of Photoshop from 2005 or something. Very functional for occasional use manipulating images, and seeing as it's web-based and doesn't require an account it's super easy to use from anywhere. recommended by /u/abercromby3 Sumo Paint - Powerful graphics editor for your web browser and pc, recommended by /u/NotMyCircus Blender - Open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation. recommended by /u/Tom7980 Prey Project - Multi-platform anti-theft software RES - Reddit enhancement suite - A must have for all you redditing needs KeePass - free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager. LastPass - free (with premium for multiple platforms), easy-to-use password manager. Dictionary Pop-up extension, double click on a word that you don't know the meaning of and a dictionary definition pops up. Firefox extension powered by dictionary.com. Chrome extension powered by Google ClipCube - clipboard history. ClipX - ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager. It is sweet, it is free, use it. ClipCube alternative. LeechBlock (Firefox add-on) - simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. recommended by /u/Rae_Starr StayFocused - Chrome alternative to LeechBlock, recommended by /u/Jeskid14 Reaper - Audio workstation. Not free. Just a trial.
Software/Add-ons: Ninite - update/install all your programs at once PortableApps - load several apps on a thumb drive to run on any Windows PC. recommended by /u/danteas1 SlimDrivers - Cloud based program that detects what drivers need to be updated. Incredible--especially after formatting an operating system. No need for CDs or trying to remember which model card, adapter...etc. you have. Copy - Online cloud storage. Start with 15gb free. Or 20gb with a referral link. BitTorrent Sync - Secure, unlimited file-syncing. No cloud required SyncThing - opensource alternative for bitsync. its recommended if you care about your privacy and security of your files. recommended by /u/akeryw Mega Desktop Sync(50GB) and Symform (Unlimited, but you must share back!) - both cloud storage services recommended by /u/muntoo Calibre - Free ebook library management F.lux - Adjusts the gamma on your screen uses magic as the day progresses to reduce eye strain. GIMP - Free photo manipulation software Inkscape - Free and open vector graphics editor. Paint.NET - Windows application designed to be the much needed upgrade to MS Paint. recommended by /u/SquirreI and /u/zeaga Pixlr - Online photo editor. web-based equivalent to an old version of Photoshop from 2005 or something. Very functional for occasional use manipulating images, and seeing as it's web-based and doesn't require an account it's super easy to use from anywhere. recommended by /u/abercromby3 Sumo Paint - Powerful graphics editor for your web browser and pc, recommended by /u/NotMyCircus Blender - Open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation. recommended by /u/Tom7980 Prey Project - Multi-platform anti-theft software RES - Reddit enhancement suite - A must have for all you redditing needs KeePass - free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager. LastPass - free (with premium for multiple platforms), easy-to-use password manager. Dictionary Pop-up extension, double click on a word that you don't know the meaning of and a dictionary definition pops up. Firefox extension powered by dictionary.com. Chrome extension powered by Google ClipCube - clipboard history. ClipX - ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager. It is sweet, it is free, use it. ClipCube alternative. LeechBlock (Firefox add-on) - simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. recommended by /u/Rae_Starr StayFocused - Chrome alternative to LeechBlock, recommended by /u/Jeskid14 Reaper - Audio workstation. Not free. Just a trial.
Software/Add-ons: Ninite - update/install all your programs at once PortableApps - load several apps on a thumb drive to run on any Windows PC. recommended by /u/danteas1 SlimDrivers - Cloud based program that detects what drivers need to be updated. Incredible--especially after formatting an operating system. No need for CDs or trying to remember which model card, adapter...etc. you have. Copy - Online cloud storage. Start with 15gb free. Or 20gb with a referral link. BitTorrent Sync - Secure, unlimited file-syncing. No cloud required SyncThing - opensource alternative for bitsync. its recommended if you care about your privacy and security of your files. recommended by /u/akeryw Mega Desktop Sync(50GB) and Symform (Unlimited, but you must share back!) - both cloud storage services recommended by /u/muntoo Calibre - Free ebook library management F.lux - Adjusts the gamma on your screen uses magic as the day progresses to reduce eye strain. GIMP - Free photo manipulation software Inkscape - Free and open vector graphics editor. Paint.NET - Windows application designed to be the much needed upgrade to MS Paint. recommended by /u/SquirreI and /u/zeaga Pixlr - Online photo editor. web-based equivalent to an old version of Photoshop from 2005 or something. Very functional for occasional use manipulating images, and seeing as it's web-based and doesn't require an account it's super easy to use from anywhere. recommended by /u/abercromby3 Sumo Paint - Powerful graphics editor for your web browser and pc, recommended by /u/NotMyCircus Blender - Open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation. recommended by /u/Tom7980 Prey Project - Multi-platform anti-theft software RES - Reddit enhancement suite - A must have for all you redditing needs KeePass - free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager. LastPass - free (with premium for multiple platforms), easy-to-use password manager. Dictionary Pop-up extension, double click on a word that you don't know the meaning of and a dictionary definition pops up. Firefox extension powered by dictionary.com. Chrome extension powered by Google ClipCube - clipboard history. ClipX - ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager. It is sweet, it is free, use it. ClipCube alternative. LeechBlock (Firefox add-on) - simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. recommended by /u/Rae_Starr StayFocused - Chrome alternative to LeechBlock, recommended by /u/Jeskid14 Reaper - Audio workstation. Not free. Just a trial.
Entertainment: Project Gutenberg - Free books OpenLibrary - download out-of-copyright books, borrow in-copyright books LibriVox - Free audio books Podiobooks.com - free audiobooks mostly from self-published authors. Documentary Heaven - Free documentaries TopDocumentaryFilms.com and FreeDocumentary.tv - more free documentaries. Last.fm - Keeps track of your listening habits Songza - Playlists for whatever mood you're in. 8tracks - Another playlist service with playlists created by users. Internet radio created by people, not algorithms. Popcorn Time - /r/PopCornTime Media Hint - Allows for US Netflix and Pandora access for those of us living abroad. Turns out Media Hint are now charging but here is a workaround ZenMate - (Chrome extension) MediaHint alternative. Hola Unblocker - Same as above, allows access to US Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, etc. but be warned. Soundozer - it's kind of like Pandora, but you can listen to any song you search for and you can create a station based on that song. You don't have to register either. Grooveshark - free music, online radio, streaming. recommended by /u/freebytes Jango - Free music - internet radio that plays what you want, great for those who can't access Pandora. recommended by /u/your_mind_aches Pornhub - free porn, nuff said TBLOP - The big list of porn Thumbzilla - more porn. That Mp3 - Convert YouTube to Mp3. Really simple. Don't click on any ads.
Security concerns? Telegram is built on open-source code. Anyone is free to investigate the code for any security gaps.
Snapdrop
EZBlocker - It can stop/pause the non-sense ads of Spotify. If you are free user of Spotify, then this is a good app to use with it. It will mute the ads for you. ( The ads will run but mute it automatically ). For premium users, ignore.
Media Player HC - This is free & open source software for media playback. Similar to VLC.
BCUninstaller or Revo Uninstaller - Both are very good software in removing any software. It has features to create restore point if you want to reinstall the program. Clean up residue files after installation.
Bitwarden - Free and Open Source Software for Safe storage of passwords.
Windows10Debloater - gets rid of a bunch of bloatware (open source)
TOR (The Onion Router) - open source privacy network that permits users to browse the web anonymously, IMO it is better than a VPN but it is slow
SponsorBlock - automatically skip sponsored segments in YouTube videos
there are some things that AHK can't do, like getting input from a second keyboard, I reccomend using LuaMacros, if you have a logitech G-series keyboard use their Lua API
Dunno. I also use http://mpv.io and https://smplayer.info (for youtube), so they might work ...
Text-grab - Minimal Windows utility which makes all visible text available for copy and paste.
Lossless-cut - Lossless trimming and cutting of video and audio files. Why watch the whole porn when you can just cut out the good part and watch that? <-- VLC and go to View/Advanced Controls to show the A-B button that will let you set a start and end point in a video and then just set it to loop play.
Like the other guy said, it has a GUI and dare I say that it's pretty good. You only need to use the command line once to install Chocolatey itself and the site gives you a pretty good guide for it.
Waterfox (a firefox base webbrowser) Waterfox
Cmder is a great console emulator if you're some one who codes and needs something that is practical than the default cmd and powershell. It gives you Unix like console which is soo much better than the other inbuilt options.
homebrew: makes it easy to install, update and uninstall software on your macOS computer
For downloading youtube videos I would recommend NewPipe. Since it is open source you can also install it via the FDroid app store.