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GUI drag & drop style GUI Builder for Python Tkinter
Awarded Jan 8 at 21:27
What library should I use for handling CLI arguments for my Java program?
Awarded Oct 10, 2022 at 8:41
Is there a non-awful free word processor for Windows?
Awarded Sep 13, 2022 at 16:05
Command line tool to check whether two images are exactly the same graphically
Awarded Aug 16, 2022 at 7:50
Open-source SSH terminal client for Windows with tabs, private key auth + more
Awarded Apr 7, 2022 at 7:51
Online poll that lets users add new options?
Awarded Sep 21, 2021 at 17:26
Simple versioning for plain-text documents (Linux)
Awarded Sep 3, 2021 at 19:15
Photo editing software for Windows
Awarded Jul 5, 2021 at 4:31
Open-source image organiser with face recognition (alternative to Picasa) with OSX/Linux support
Awarded May 18, 2021 at 14:57
“Grep” that highlights instead of filter
Awarded Mar 28, 2021 at 17:30
Standalone JUnit XML report viewer
Awarded Feb 10, 2021 at 13:10
Free PDF editor for Windows
Awarded Feb 10, 2021 at 8:17
Free alternative to step-by-step-solution feature of Wolfram|Alpha Pro?
Awarded Feb 3, 2021 at 4:08
Generate database table diagrams from a PostgreSQL database
Awarded Jan 29, 2021 at 19:05
Free offline tool to create icon files?
Awarded Jan 8, 2021 at 14:04
Full remote access to Android device
Awarded Dec 17, 2020 at 5:40
Simple video annotation software that allows drawing in frames (Windows or Linux)
Awarded Oct 27, 2020 at 13:37
Free PDF comparison tool
Awarded Jul 17, 2020 at 20:52
Tabbed PDF viewer that works on Ubuntu
Awarded Jul 17, 2020 at 9:48
Media player that will remember my last position
Awarded Jul 10, 2020 at 10:55
Free software for selecting and combining pages from multiple PDFs into a single PDF
Awarded Jul 2, 2020 at 9:18
See CPU use history as a graph in a Linux shell
Awarded Apr 10, 2020 at 17:30
Image/Photo Viewer for Windows
Awarded Apr 8, 2020 at 19:40
Tool to list all current Windows 10 Hotkeys?
Awarded Jan 12, 2020 at 10:40
Alternative to Matplotlib for scientific plotting with Python
Awarded Dec 19, 2019 at 8:00
Tool for optical character recognition (OCR)
Awarded Jun 14, 2019 at 8:25
Is there an image viewer for Windows that auto-refreshes the image when it is modified?
Awarded Apr 25, 2019 at 9:55
Disk space monitor - where did my disk space go?
Awarded Oct 4, 2018 at 2:10
Alternative to Microsoft Office that does not require Internet or Cloud
Awarded Sep 29, 2018 at 1:05
What is a good free program to open corrupted JPEG files?
Awarded Sep 21, 2018 at 3:20
What tool can generate HTML documentation from C# code, like Javadoc can do for Java?
Awarded Sep 11, 2018 at 13:00
Viewer for huge JSON files on Windows
Awarded Aug 24, 2018 at 22:40
GUI for Git and Mercurial on Linux (similar to Atlassian SourceTree)
Awarded Aug 21, 2018 at 19:16
Tool to remember clipboard content
Awarded Aug 21, 2018 at 14:35
Merge GUI tools for those new to merging
Awarded Aug 21, 2018 at 9:10
Program to save visible windows' locations and later restore the layout
Awarded Jul 18, 2018 at 9:41
Video player with backward frame by frame stepping for Linux
Awarded Jun 14, 2018 at 12:45
Fastest free Python library to read a CSV file with 1~3 columns of numbers
Awarded May 27, 2018 at 16:49
Drawing convolutional neural networks
Awarded Apr 13, 2018 at 1:05
Simple program to edit screenshots (add texts and arrows, mark stuff) on Linux
Awarded Mar 13, 2018 at 9:35
How to convert Markdown to PDF without LaTeX?
Awarded Mar 12, 2018 at 13:38
A free, lightweight but quality video capture software for Windows?
Awarded Jan 22, 2018 at 18:08
Substitute for Adobe Lightroom - Linux
Awarded Sep 17, 2017 at 7:02
Text based browser that runs JavaScript
Awarded Sep 11, 2017 at 19:40
Record screen section as animated GIF
Awarded Jul 5, 2017 at 15:52
Windows SSHFS/SFTP mounting clients
Awarded May 15, 2017 at 20:05
Software to find duplicate files
Awarded May 15, 2017 at 20:05
WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux
Awarded May 15, 2017 at 20:05
What is a screen recorder with mouse movement and can save the recording as video?
Awarded May 15, 2017 at 20:05
Drawing software for amateurs
Awarded May 15, 2017 at 20:05
Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)
Awarded Apr 20, 2017 at 21:07
Games focused on software engineers
Awarded Apr 16, 2017 at 5:39
Open source PDF reader for Windows
Awarded Apr 12, 2017 at 17:51
Python IDE with rich features: code completion, debugging, etc
Awarded Feb 21, 2017 at 18:59
Train simulation game to compete against the driver of the train I am riding right now
Awarded Feb 17, 2017 at 3:48
Speed reading software for Windows
Awarded Jan 8, 2017 at 0:04
Tool to convert between different plain text formats
Awarded Jan 8, 2017 at 0:04
Is there a StackExchange client for Windows 8?
Awarded Jan 8, 2017 at 0:04
RSS feed client for Linux
Awarded Jan 6, 2017 at 1:53
Free/Libre voice & video chat alternative to Skype?
Awarded Jan 6, 2017 at 1:53
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