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Windows Alternative to Tofu Text-Reading Program?

Looking for a columnar text reader for Windows like Tofu (http://amarsagoo.info/tofu/). Such a program displays text in a configurable number of columns making for easier reading on landscape computer ...
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Mac photo screensaver that can save favorites and block some?

I'd like a Mac desktop photo screensaver that will let me mark pictures as favorite or do-not-show. Ideally it would then have a way for me to see the collection of favorites. Is there a way to do ...
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Drag and drop buffer utility to collect several items then give them to you to drop onto a target

This monkey patching solution would speed up many workflows. Say I'm browsing a folder structure in Windows Explorer, selecting things to upload to the browser. The web app doesn't know how to queue ...
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What offline software or utility can I use to detect minimum Javascript version to run a web application?

I have inherited a web application to maintain. The application entails hundreds of thousands of lines of Javascript across hundreds of libraries that get loaded/unloaded at run time. I need to add ...
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Is there a software that can put application software in 'hibernate'?

In an operating system like Windows, we can put the OS in hibernation so all the content in RAM is store in hard drive and be resume later. However, for application software it seems there is no such ...
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Is there a simple javascript library that contains a lot of basic utility functions?

I'm thinking something like lodash - but lodash doesn't have the functions I'm thinking of. One's I'm thinking of are: round to increment places eg. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
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Portable, free, cross-platform, GUI-based prose-friendly plain-text diff and merge tool?

I have a Macbook at home and a GNU/linux desktop workstation at work. But, I sometimes also have to work on my university's library machines (running Windows 7) without admin rights. Is there a (...
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Headline Capitalization

Background Developers write JIRA tickets; developers do not style the ticket items consistently. We'd like to present the ticket summaries to clients, but with a consistent format. Problem We're ...
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Software to provide server alias for server which is behind VPN

I once found a small utility that ran on windows and as my public IP address changed (as it will under VPN), the utility would update a record mapping that to a public domain alias. So this website ...
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Clipboard Manager for Windows that allows one paste of all items in one fell swoop

I need a feature I haven't been able to figure out in my existing clipboard manager, Arsclip: I'd like to be able to paste all the existing entries in the clipboard list with just one or two clicks or ...
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Looking for a tool similar to iperf, but for network data corruption testing: sends continual chunks of random data + their checksums over a network

I have a slightly unusual situation, where there's an intermittent low level of corruption of data being sent across my LAN. The problem in tracing it is that it only shows up under heavy parallel ...
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Ethernet port configuration utility?

I am developing hardware that communicates via Ethernet, and as part of the testing often have to switch a single port between two or more different configurations (such as DHCP vs. static IP- with ...
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Is there any software which can distribute the internet speed to the programs according to their priority order?

So, if first (assigned) process gets the internet speed first and after it's demand is over/fulfilled the remaining speed goes to second process and so on?
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Free VPN software to browse from USA [closed]

What is the best free VPN I can use to browse the internet as I where from USA ? I am on Windows 10
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Windows - Global Zoom Tool That Doesn't Hijack Mouse Cursor

Looking for a global zoom tool ( in other words - system wide -applying to whatever is on the screen ) that doesn't require mouse interaction. The purpose of said tool is to allow me to still work ...
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A du-like utility with curses graphic illustration of used space

I occasionally use du to explore my disk usage, and find myself having to write elaborate sorting and filtering scripts around it to sort of get a "big picture" of what's going on in a directory. I ...
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Alternative to Disk Utility mac

So i'm trying to resize a partition on my backup drive without erasing my data (see here). I have been talking to some of my friends about this since my other question currently has no responses, ...
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Enter data automatically into a web pages

I have a job to enter data into web pages everyday at specific times, these data are not fixed so is there a software I configure or program to enter the data for me automatically each day ? The data ...