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Free incident management tool for more than 50 users
In our DevOps team (~10) we get a few bug reports, change requests or incident reports per week. These modest volumes don't merit an application like TopDesk, so I wondered if someone knows of a good (...
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A program to log how much time you spend in what program
Seems like there should be something. Basically it should provide a report:
With the total time spent in program X
With a graph of how much time was spent in program X at what time of day (think the ...
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Self-hosted replacement for Github
I need a self-hosted replacement for Github. It is crucial it works on firewalled intranet, with no access to the Internet (for example, styles, license checks, etc.).
Relatively good web UI: source ...
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Alternatives to TrueCrypt?
With the advent of TrueCrypt appearing to have been abandoned, what are my options for whole disk encryption going forward?
I'm looking for options that will work with Linux distros as well as ...
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Markdown editor for Windows with live rendering in the editing pane, NOT in a separate preview pane
There are lots of Markdown editors out there but I couldn't find one in which the viewer was built into the editing pane itself.
An example of what I don't want is these SE sites, where the question/...
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Tool for taking screenshot and quickly editing it
I'm looking for a screenshot utility that would help me when I try to explain over email how to use a program. I'd like it to:
Take a screenshot,
Add a red arrow or circle like this:
Upload the ...
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What is a screen recorder with mouse movement and can save the recording as video?
I'm looking for screen recording software that supports:
dynamic zooming of the page
captures mouse movements
allows captions to be overlaid
stop/continue recording
sound recording
saves as standard ...
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Offline map browser on Android with offline search
I'm looking for an offline map browsing application for an Android phone. Absolute requirements:
Runs on Android.
Provides downloadable offline maps for the places I travel to. OpenStreetMap as a map ...
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Free, lightweight, all-in-one, audio and video format converter
In short, something that just does what one would expect such a program to do. (Just convert it so it works on my mother's media player!)
By "free" I mean free-as-in-beer. I'm okay with closed source ...
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A free, lightweight but quality video capture software for Windows?
I want to record some tutorials / workings of my programs / desktop activities / old-school gaming in Windows 8.1.
I tried a few video capture programs, but the results didn't satisfy me.
I tried:
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Free OCR software that makes a PDF searchable (with searchable text at the right place)
Is there any freeware OCR software (for Linux and/or Windows) that can take a PDF scanned document as input and output a Searchable PDF like Adobe Acrobat does?
With searchable PDF I meant that the ...
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Password manager for Linux and Android
I'm looking for a password manager which is available as Android App and Linux Desktop application alike. I know there's e.g. KeePassDroid (see: Password manager for Linux with just working in-browser ...
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Free/Libre voice & video chat alternative to Skype?
I don’t want to use Skype because it’s proprietary.
I’m looking for an alternative that
is Free/Libre (FLOSS),
is available cross-platform * (at least: GNU/Linux, Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows),
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Free automatic backup tool for Windows?
Unlike blackwind I'm not searching for a backup tool with various functions. I simply want to backup my files to an external hard disk. I'm using Windows 7 64-bit, if that really matters.
My ...
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Split MP3 files automatically
I have a few large MP3 files (some 7 hours, some 25 hours) and, sadly my player (car-hardware), does not scan well. So, if I listen up to the 3 hour point and I turn off my car, I must scan back to ...
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Portable encryption for USB flash drives
I believe this is a more specific question than Alternatives to TrueCrypt? with different answers.
I have USB flash drives which I carry around and use on various computers at work and at home. I ...
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Software to download YouTube videos to hard drive
I'm looking for software that would let me download YouTube videos as video files to the hard drive.
Don't care much about format being saved as long as Windows VLC can play it out of the box.
I'm ...
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Record screen to animated GIF on Linux (alternative to LICEcap)
I use LICEcap fairly extensively when answering questions on Stack Exchange - its a VERY intuitive tool for making gif-based screen captures
You open the application, select an area to record, ...
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Free Windows program to save screenshots immediately on a key press
There are many ways to take a screenshot, edit it and save it to disk. But sometimes I want to take a series of screenshots possibly quick and process them later.
Is there a free Windows program ...
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Markdown editor for OSX that includes a preview, ideally in real time?
I'm looking for a native OSX desktop application (needs to work offline) in which I can edit plain text documents, and preview how they'll look with markdown formatting applied.
At a minimum, I need ...
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Software to find duplicate files
I need recommendations for a software for de-duplication.
Requirements:
Runs on Windows
Ability to find duplicate archives: files that have exactly the same content (and, so, the same size). Names, ...
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Full remote access to Android device
Background:
I'm looking for an app that lets me control my Android device from my computer.
Sadly, any attempt at Googling this, only yields results for using the Android device as a remote control.
I'...
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Best Free Alternative to Tableau
Is there a good GNU/FOSS alternative to Tableau?
Tableau is a piece of software which allows you to connect to heterogeneous data sources (files, SQL databases, etc) and quickly combine data in ...
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Linux network monitor with web interface
I am looking for a free web-based network monitor for CentOS. It should contain at least:
Bandwidth monitor
Server health
Load average
Disk usage
Which one do you recommend?
Note: "Web-based" ...
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Software to draw the data flow of a program?
I would like to draw the data flow for the documentation of a project. I thought of something like this (created with Dia).
Functions: I would like to be able to draw databases, single computers, ...
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Raw copy from failed hard disk
I have a Seagate drive (ST3400832AS 3.03) that failed very badly without warning. Woke up to find the computer had come out of sleep during the middle of the night and rebooted. Checked the event log ...
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Offline alternative to OneNote / Evernote
Is there any good alternative to OneNote / Evernote with the following features:
1) Forever usability. No subscription locks as in Office 365
2) Offline. No uploading to CIA / KGB as in Evernote.
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Freeware video editing software [closed]
I'm working on a comparative list of both commercial and free video editing programs (NLE software). While there are tons of good commercial options, I can't find many acceptable freeware alternatives....
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Ticket tracking project management workflow software
I'm looking for a piece of software that fulfills the following requirements. I've exhausted my search capabilities.
Version control integration (SVN preferred)
Tickets support custom fields, ...
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Syncronization software with smart update
I'm looking for a Windows software that synchronizes files between different drives but analysing for existing files so it doesn't need to copy the file again.
Is there a software that analyses the ...
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Screen-recording GIF 'video' tool for Mac OS X
I'm looking for a free program that allows me to record my screen and save the 'video' as an animated GIF.
This will be useful when making instructions / steps to do something.
Requirements:
free (...
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Text editor or reader for working with huge files in Windows
At the office certain server log files grow way too big and trying to go through the logs can be a real pain, when for instance you have a several GB size text file and all the normal text editors ...
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Simple program to edit screenshots (add texts and arrows, mark stuff) on Linux
I have quite often the need to take screenshots and do the following:
Crop them
Add texts (where I want to be able to choose the color)
Add arrows (where I want to be able to choose the color)
Mark ...
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Syncing files between computers?
I have three computers (2x OS X and 1x Ubuntu) and Android tablet. I'm trying to find a tool to automatically sync files between the computers and the tablet. Backups are handled separately, so there'...
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Alternative messaging network to WhatsApp?
Since Facebook bought Whatsapp, I'm looking for an alternative app and chat network which is able to replace their functionality. What can you recommend?
Requirements:
End-to-end encryption
group ...
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Apache Log Viewer alternative for Linux
I am looking for a Linux alternative to the Windows program “Apache Log Viewer”.
Here is a screenshot:
I have been looking around for a while but most of the things I've stumbled upon were ...
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Online poll that lets users add new options?
Is there an online poll service that allows users to add their own options? To be clear, this is what it should do:
I create the poll by choosing a number of preset options
I send the URL of the poll ...
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Simple versioning for plain-text documents (Linux)
I would like to identify a simple, FOSS version control system for plain text documents.
For more complex (academic) writing, I happily use LibreOffice. But increasingly I find it convenient to write ...
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Open-source SSH terminal client for Windows with tabs, private key auth + more
Moving here a question locked on ServerFault, with some refinements:
since nothing assures you that closed-source terminal emulators don't phone home with your login details or private keys, I'm ...
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Software to quickly join many JPG images into one PDF without recompressing
I have many documents scanned in past with a printer that did not have a direct "to PDF" option, so I have various folders called "Document1, Document2." Within each of the folders were many jpg like ...
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Team chat with private rooms, file upload and link previews (alternative to Slack)
I’ve been using Slack more and more and while I love it, the pricing is bit high for my current finances.
Basic features
chat rooms
private rooms
support file upload
link previews
Nice to have
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File Recovery Software
After using a lot of File Recovery Softwares, the only one that I found usefull was TestDisk with PhotoRec.
But it lacks a GUI and is not suitable for recommendation to 'not advanced users'.
Please ...
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An open alternative for Evernote?
Since Evernote's recent pricing changes, I don't want to trust important personal data to their company any more, and I've been hunting for an alternative. Unfortunately there're not a whole lot of ...
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Is there a hassle free way to install and update generic software packages on Windows?
I am primarily a Linux guy but from time to time have to use Mac or Windows for whatever reason. On Linux, keeping the entire system up to date with the latest software releases is usually the work of ...
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Free/Libre open source Q&A site software, Stack Exchange replacement
Stack Exchange has great features, but does not empower groups of people to set up and host their own Q&A site, quickly or privately.
What other web-based Q&A software options exist that ...
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Real-time code collaboration
I work from both at home and at school with my friends. At school, all ports except port 80 and port 443 (HTTP/HTTPS) are blocked, so it's hard to set up a collaborative "workspace".
I'm ...
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iTunes alternative on Ubuntu [closed]
I like iTunes, but unfortunately it is not available for Linux/Ubuntu.
Some features I am looking for:
Playlists
Ability to change song from taskbar
Album covers
CD import
Notification when the song ...
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Retagging/Renaming software for ebooks
I'm basically looking for something like mp3tag but for ebooks - I have most of the baen free library downloaded, but its designed to be read off the cd, rather than copied onto ebooks, the files have ...
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Which backup/sync software for me?
Preferably free (preferably also for commercial use, but I guess I can live without that; home has priority over work; it's just that I like to use the same tools at both if I can).
Backup to an ...
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Window resizing software
Working on Windows XP, I'm looking for a software enabling at least the same window control present in Windows 7 and higher. By that, I mean:
when moving a window on an edge, this window is resize ...
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