Any useful program you are willing to share

Artoris

Artoris

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Any program on the internet which will do something for you

a good AI chat and image generators would be good

but any other program would be even better
 
Artoris said:
I thought you were a decent guy who breaks up fights and has some dignity

but I am disappointed to be wrong
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Mate, I'm a shit poster with warnings for now unwanted content on this site. I'm on my comparatively best behaviour.

And still being so lazy. Looking up WinRAR is literally a couple of clicks/taps away.
 
Artoris said:
cool
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It's a

The Rock Grammy GIF by Recording Academy / GRAMMYs
 
Ear Trumpet for Windows is something I use fifty times a day it seems. On the Windows Store for free.

Tree Size is great for managing your PC storage.

Obsidian is by far the best note taking app I've used. And I've used them all. Can't live without it.

For artists, Pureref is a fantastic tool for putting up reference images on your screen and arranging everything so you have all your references exactly where you need them to be. Even has an "always on top" feature that is very handy if you're using 1 monitor.
 
Rufus for when you need to format a USB stick into any damn format around. It can also download windows ISOs and create bootable media from that which is a godsend.
Netwrix Account Examiner for when you need to figure out what is locking out your domain account
Treesize creates easy to view graphs of what folders are eating up all of your disk space, and how often files are used\accessed.
 
SPECTROID

I used it to diagnose the hum in my parents' home air conditioner. I was able to make a decent noise dampener once I knew the offending frequency range.

It's also good for amusing young children for about 90 seconds.
 
Perplexity
not as powerful as ChatGPT, but it has references to the sources it uses... which don't always seem accurate, but still neat. I guess it's like a web search that compiles multiple sources into one text
coolors
create colour palettes
 
All the kids seem to be going on about Kazaa...

Never heard of it myself.

In all seriousness though, do people use YouTube to MP3 converters still and is there a recommended one thats not full of malware?
 
Nitty_Grimes said:
All the kids seem to be going on about Kazaa...

Never heard of it myself.

In all seriousness though, do people use YouTube to MP3 converters still and is there a recommended one thats not full of malware?
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You can do it yourself, with yt-dlp and little effort. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
On Windows:
Put the program into a folder. Run command-line with right click in that folder and write "yt-dlp [link] -x --audio-format mp3".
You may also need to download ffmpeg and put it in the same folder for the conversion to work.
 
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Melon Husk said:
You can do it yourself, with yt-dlp and little effort. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
On Windows:
Put the program into a folder. Run command-line with right click in that folder and write "yt-dlp [link] -x --audio-format mp3".
You may also need to download ffmpeg and put it in the same folder for the conversion to work.
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make sure it's YT-DLP and not YT-DL

DL is slow! DLP is faster.

If you don't want to deal with command lines then I recommend Jdownloader2. Make sure you download it from the official site at

JDownloader.org - Official Homepage

jdownloader.org jdownloader.org

It looks shady but I've been using it years with no issues. All you gotta do is copy and paste links and it'll download them. You can select what portions it downloads so if you just want audio then you can download that only.

Also works for many other *cough* um... "scientific research" sites if you know what I mean :messenger_winking_tongue:
 
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kraspkibble said:
isn't WinRar going to be obsolete soon? I thought I read something about WinRar and 7zip getting built into a new Windows update soon. Maybe that's just to decompress/extract?
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Didn't Windows build in ISO mounting for a hot minute but now I seem to need Daemontools again?
 
VLC to play video files.
windirstat to check whats on your harddrive taking up so much space. Good to remove junk to make space.
 
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I've just started using Chocolatey, a command line interface package manager for Windows that takes some of the monotony and time out of managing/updating software
chocolatey.org

Installing Chocolatey

Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages. Chocolatey integrates w/SCCM, Puppet, Chef, etc. Chocolatey is trusted by businesses to manage software deployments.
chocolatey.org chocolatey.org

The website's documentation is pretty good, too. Doesn't take too long to have it set up so you can update software much more quickly than manually going to a site and downloading update installers
 
BossLackey said:
Ear Trumpet for Windows is something I use fifty times a day it seems. On the Windows Store for free.

Tree Size is great for managing your PC storage.

Obsidian is by far the best note taking app I've used. And I've used them all. Can't live without it.

For artists, Pureref is a fantastic tool for putting up reference images on your screen and arranging everything so you have all your references exactly where you need them to be. Even has an "always on top" feature that is very handy if you're using 1 monitor.
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Treesize is awesome for finding the files and folders that are eating up your disk space.

Notepad++ for one of the best general purpose text editors for Windows.
 
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To look for synonyms and antonyms

English to French, Italian, German & Spanish Dictionary - WordReference.com

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To look for specific words translation

same.energy

Same Energy | Visual Search Engine

Find beautiful images.
same.energy same.energy
To look at similar images when you are working on anything visual

CleanPNG - HD png images and illustrations. Free unlimited download. - CleanPNG

Discover transparent background images and illustrations. Best quality, free unlimited download.
www.cleanpng.com
To get actual PNG with a transparency layer and not a fake one

blank

www.blank.org
To clean your computer screen, press F11.

CopyChar – Copy special characters to your clipboard

A basic app that allows you to find and copy special characters to your clipboard. Click or tap on a character and it will be copied to your clipboard.
copychar.cc copychar.cc
To find characters that aren't on your keyboard
 
Houdoku
FreeTube
FileZilla
PowerISO or Virtual CloneDrive
Advanced Renamer
LibreOffice
GIMP
Moonlight (in conjunction with NVIDIA Geforce)
 
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