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Software and Online Tools is the everyday toolbox of the directory. Linux and macOS software covers desktop apps, package sources, and utilities for both systems. Browser tools and extensions come next, with add-ons that change how pages look or work. Text and writing tools hold editors, grammar helpers, and formatting utilities, while text editors and formatting lists the code-focused editors and their plugins. System utilities covers disk, file, and maintenance tools, and media players and servers collect apps for playing and streaming your own files. File utilities, hardware and diagnostics, notes and knowledge management, PDF tools, and RSS readers fill out the rest of the list. Many entries are small projects from individual developers, so support and update schedules vary. Read the listing and check the licence before you install anything you plan to use at work.
List of Emojis is a Wikipedia article that catalogs Unicode emojis. It includes notable emojis with their descriptions and associated meanings, organized into categories including faces, nature, food, activity, places, objects, symbols, flags and miscellaneous.
Mouse Without Borders is a Microsoft Garage project that enables users to control up to four computers using a single mouse and keyboard. It also supports copying text and dragging and dropping files across the connected computers.
Notesnook helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of free, open-source utilities for Windows 10/11 aimed at power users and developers. The current utilities include FancyZones for window layouts, PowerToys Run, Color Picker and PowerRename, among others. The project is hosted on GitHub for code, issues and contributions.
Proton Docs is a secure online document collaboration tool offered by Proton. It supports real-time co-authoring, safe document sharing, cross-device access, and end-to-end encryption. The tool also includes features for tracking changes and suggestions, gathering feedback and comments, and user-controlled sharing.
r/GetMotivated points to a Reddit community or thread with discussion, guides, updates, or shared resources.
RAMMap is an advanced physical memory usage analysis utility for Windows Vista and higher. It presents usage information in different ways on several tabs, covering use counts, processes, priority summaries, physical pages, physical ranges, and file data in RAM. It includes a refresh feature and support for saving and loading memory snapshots.
Workspace for organizing OSINT investigations, sources, entities, tasks, and evidence notes.
Shoko is an anime cataloging program designed to automate the organization of anime collections of any size. It is hosted as a public repository on GitHub where users can contribute to its ongoing development.
Searchable platform for presentations, slides, documents, and professional learning content.
Userscripts is an open source Safari extension that saves and runs JavaScript and CSS code for visited websites. It is offered on the App Store as a free user script and style manager, with use cases spanning automatic page redirection, website page manipulation, custom ad-blocking, and custom code or style injection. The app provides no user tracking.
Vim Tutorials is a video resource with tutorials, demonstrations, reviews, or related media.
Yandex.Translate is a free online translation tool that allows users to translate text, documents, and images in over 90 languages. It also offers a comprehensive dictionary with word meanings, synonyms, and usage examples.
7 Taskbar Tweaker is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
80legs offers customizable web scraping, including custom web crawling run on a cloud-enabled platform and a Giant Web Crawl product that pulls custom data from a crawl of the entire web. It also points to Datafiniti for instant access to web data.
ActivityWatch is a free and open-source automated time tracker for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. It automatically tracks how time is spent on devices, including app and website usage, and keeps all data on the device rather than uploading it to the cloud.
Universal x86 Tuning Utility is an open-source tuning tool for x86 laptops and computers that offers control over the processor and GPUs. It is described as a lightweight alternative to Ryzen Master and XTU and is noted to work best on Zen-based CPUs or APUs and Intel CPUs from 4th gen and newer. The project is marked as a work in progress.
Amphetamine is a Linux, macOS, BSD, or Unix resource for tools, documentation, communities, or system workflows.
aMule is a Linux, macOS, BSD, or Unix resource for tools, documentation, communities, or system workflows.
anon.to is an anonymous URL shortener and redirect tool. It shortens or redirects any URL while hiding the referrer so destination sites do not see the visitor's origin, and it states that clicks, visitors and personal data are not tracked. Redirects occur over encrypted HTTPS connections.
AudioRelay streams audio between devices. It can stream a PC's or laptop's audio to a phone, send a phone's microphone to a PC over Wi-Fi, and use a phone as a wireless speaker or headset. A USB connection is also offered. The documentation lists server installation, an Android app, and Windows, Linux and macOS instructions.
Aurelius helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
BackupPC is an open-source, enterprise-grade system that backs up Linux, Windows and macOS PCs and laptops to a server's disk. It includes a web interface for viewing logs and status, initiating and cancelling backups, and browsing and restoring files, plus data deduplication and compression. No client-side software is required. The latest release is 4.4.0, from June 20, 2020.
BentoPDF is a free, open-source online PDF toolkit that processes files locally in the browser using WebAssembly, so files are not uploaded. It offers over 100 tools for merging, splitting, compressing, converting, editing, annotating, signing and filling PDFs, and is described as self-hostable with offline OCR.
