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Train simulation game to compete against the driver of the train I am riding right now
Train driving simulators like Odawara Line Simulator or Densha de Go! are popular in Japan.
Controls:
Acceleration
Brake
Goal:
Stop within centimeters of the target place.
Arrive exactly on time.
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Helpers to create custom classes, macros and styles for LaTeX
To create and compile my LaTeX stuff, I am currently working with TexMaker on Ubuntu. TexMaker has many options and wizards, but what I’m dearly missing is something that enables me to easily create ...
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An open source alternative to Wolfram Alpha
I want an open source alternative to Wolfram Alpha that is like a QA system that:
can take in natural language and process it
have image processing functions
has scientific functionality and ...
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Android camera app that can record sound while recording slow motion video
I tried using stock camera app to record slow motion videos, but the app is not recording audio in slow motion mode. There is no audio at all, it's just mute.
I would like to record audio too while ...
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Cross-platform calendar that stores data locally - I want to sync it myself
I'm looking for a calendar application, ideally one that can run on windows, Mac, and iOS. I want my data to be available offline, and -- here's the kicker -- I don't want to store my data on Google's ...
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Communication Channel Unifier/Manager
These days organisations have alot of different communication channels at there disposal.
I counted up, our student computer club has a:
Multiple mailing lists
Facebook Group
Website
Wiki
Twitter
IRC ...
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Offline Vector Map for Windows Mobile
I’d like to use an offline vector map (not bitmap) with more or less up-to-date map data on my Windows Mobile 6 Professional (Windows CE-based, not related to Windows Phone) device. (These devices ...
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Personal finances management calendar
I am looking for an application (open source is strongly preferred) that lets me manage my finances in a calendar-like manner. The difference to a normal calendar is that it should explicitly support ...
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Is there a free-standing equivalent to PowerPoint's "SmartArt" feature?
MS PowerPoint includes a feature called "SmartArt". It provides a means of automating various kinds of graphical layouts of lists. I believe it was introduced with MS Office 2007.
I'm not a Windows ...
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Alternative to Struts-Menu for menus in Struts 2.X application
I am currently using Struts-Menu to handle my menu needs for my Struts 2 J2EE application. It is not necessarily a package I wish to work with I have found by playing around with it. So what is an ...
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A free program to turn a PC into a Chromecast or AirPlay receiver
Most iPhone apps only allow you to cast a streaming video to another device via Chromecast or via AirPlay. But I would like to cast to my Windows 10 PC (for watching Hulu Live TV on a PC, as I discuss ...
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Bird song ID app for Android that is audio only
I'm looking for an app to help one learn birds by their song for Android. I've tried several, and the ones I've tried all use images and text to identify the bird while they play the song.
A key piece ...
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Hex/binary editor with tagging (highlight a section and store that highlight persistently)
I am looking for a binary editor (Hex editor with binary view) that supports tags – i.e. the ability to highlight a section and store that highlight persistently.
tags example (screenshot from WxHex; ...
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The best Code Contracts alternative for VS 2017/2019 and .net core projects?
I was using Code Contracts in several projects and I was really satisfied with its static checker and propagated it across other developers.
With new Visual Studio 2017 and .NET Core projects, I found ...
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App that controls PC's mouse cursor using Android's mouse cursor
I want an app that let me control the mouse cursor on my computer using a mouse connected to my Android device without having to touch or drag on the screen to move it, i.e., when I see the mouse ...
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Money Management
Due to poor management skills, I often find myself questioning "where'd I spend all that money?". I have trialled apps like Pocketbook, MoneyManager, MyBudgetBookPro and other apps, but find it very ...
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Firefox add-on to block browser caching but have exceptions for individual whitelisted domains/URLs?
I have a good reason to want to disable caching by default in my browser.
(It's a particular approach to privacy, whereby for sites I don't visit that often or log into, disabling cache prevents them ...
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Mono library to display an SVG image in a multiplatform project?
I'm working on a multiplatform project (Linux, OSX, iOS, Win32) so I need Mono for portability. My project needs to load and work with SVG images and their elements for dynamic vector visualizations, ...
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CMS for static websites that allows inline editing of elements with specific class/data-* value
There is a category of CMS that allow inline-editing of static pages, simply by adding a specific class to the elements that should be editable.
However, I only found proprietary and/or hosted ...
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Java calendar library with support for recurring events / exceptions, etc
I am looking for a calendar module/library that I could use in my simulation. My idea is to fill such calendar with events, single shot and recurring. This calendar should be able to give me next ...
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Online WYSIWYG website builder
I am looking for a free (open source) or low cost WYSIWYG website builder that I can host on my own server. It needs to be able to handle multiple separate sites on different domains, and it needs to ...
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Free/Open Source CRM where the Lead is seen as a Company
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I am looking for a CRM where the Lead's are considered as Companies with multiple contacts, not individual people.
Longer
We have been using Zurmo and it is ineffectual for our aims. We work in ...
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Use second keyboard for shortcuts
On Windows, if you connect two USB keyboards, they behave like one. AFAIK (I can't try at the moment) it even synchronizes CapsLock and NumLock.
I'm looking for a way to map keyboard shortcuts to the ...
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Android phone as secondary screen
I want to use my android phone (LG G3) as a second screen for my laptop. My laptop dual boots Linux(Xubuntu) and Windows(8.1), so an application that is running on either of those is fine.
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Alternative to Acoustica Mixcraft for Chrome OS
I am looking for an alternative to Acoustica Mixcraft which is audio recording software that runs on PCs. Here are my requirements,
Reasonably priced (preferably free)
Runs on a Google Chromebook (...
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Automatic, bootable drive wiper
I'm looking for a bootable tool that erases all data on all hdds in a computer that does not need any interaction whatsoever.
On my work, we now and then get quite a few, old, crappy PCs that are for ...
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Integrated addressbook/email client
I need a single app that replaces both the functionality of Apple Mail and Address Book/Contacts. Or I need a brower extension that integrates Gmail/Contacts. I run OSX but I'm open to alternatives, ...
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Design-time and Run-time network diagram
Use case: Asked to provide a 'network diagram' prior to provisioning, along with the details of what is needed for provisioning (servers, how the servers relate to each other, cpu/ram/disk reqs, etc). ...
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Program to draw ASCII trees
I'm looking for a program that can draw ASCII trees and:
has a GUI
add/remove/move child/parent nodes
easily rename node
add labels on the edges
automatically place new nodes (i.e. I don't want to ...
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Remote Progress Bar
The work I do often involves deploying a batch of jobs onto a machine, and then walking away.
In order to minimize turn around, I'm a huge fan of Pushover for notifications on completion. Pushover is ...
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C# IDE for Android
One of the reasons I purchased an Android phone was that I saw an IDE that looked exactly like Visual C# on someone's Android phone. Ever since I purchased mine, I have searched on Google, Google Play,...
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.NET/MSSQL forum software supporting 3+ million users
This is not a duplicate of Forum solution for ASP.NET MVC Application.
I've been searching for a (preferable) MVC.NET Forum Solution with the following requirements and found 2 "worth looking at" ...
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Software that helps reverse-engineering a file format
I'm working on a legacy software project. The software uses a file format which is not documented. Now, I need to understand that file format, i.e. I'm reverse engineering it.
There are several ...
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Continuous website URL rechecker for Linux
We regularly have broken links to and from our website; I'd like to operate a tool to report them, preferably on Ubuntu Linux.
The tool would be a link checker, crawling the site and reporting broken ...
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Keep track of all my websites (and domains, hosts, CMS, URLs, etc.)
I run several dozen websites, on many different hosts, using various technologies. It’s easy to lose track of them, especially if they don’t get updated for years. And if having to change something in ...
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Static analysis tool that catches dangerous captures
In C++11, programmers are given control over how lambdas capture values: each value used in the lambda expression (other than the arguments to the lambda itself) is captured either by reference or by ...
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Extensible log aggregation compatible with Elasticsearch (like logstash)
Trying to find some alternatives to logstash for log parsing/aggregation.
It needs to handle multiple text log file formats.
It needs to be extensible (probably with regex) to handle new formats
It ...
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Cross platform disk encryption solution without admin privileges
I am looking for a cross platform (OS X 10.10 + Windows 7) encryption solution which can fully encrypt, decrypt and modify a USB disk (full disk encryption). Truecrypt does this, but you need admin ...
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Syncing Firefox and Google Chrome Browser Bookmarks
I am looking for good solutions for syncing Google Chrome and Firefox Bookmarks.
I currently use XMarks, but sometimes it is "stuck". A solution which lets me recover without losing data would be OK....
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Online photo SHARING APP to show my album pictures on map based on EXIF GPS data
I went on a hike, took a bunch of geotagged pictures, and I want to upload them and have them displayed on a map. What photo sharing services support displaying imagines from a specific user's album ...
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Web Based Story Organization Software for Fiction Writing and Worldbuilding
I'm working on a writing project and I want to know if there is a tool that I can use to organize the work. I need the following features:
manage story text and link it with character sheets, ...
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License management software (Open Source)
I’m trying to find a solution for keeping our license information in our database.
Let’s say a customer bought something 5 years ago, so I will create a new cutomer and assign him the license he ...
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Ultra-lightweight RSS indicator for Ubuntu, running as status menu indicator
I use Feedindicator to be alerted of new RSS news.
It is perfect for me in terms of UI, but it freezes randomly, making it unusable for me.
Is there any similar software for Ubuntu Unity?
Run as an ...
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Limit time usage on certain websites
I need software (for Windows; preferably for Android too) that monitors and restricts internet usage. It would have to split websites in 3 categories:
Allowed. Unrestricted access, as often as wanted ...
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Email client with markdown support (windows)
Other than thunderbird/gmail via Markdown here extension, are there any other email client with markdown support?
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Project configuration editor - alternatives to kconfig-frontends and cmake-gui
I'm working on an open-source embedded project which requires quite a lot of configuration - distortos - object-oriented C++ RTOS for microcontrollers. When starting a new project you can select the ...
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Automated screen pause reminder
Do you know of an existing application (e.g. for android) that automatically monitors how long you've been staring at your screen and suggests you to pause after a while ?
Pause reminder apps are ...
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Is there a proper addon for Firefox which keeps browsing history forever?
At the moment original browsing history component of Firefox looks pretty sad. It doesn't keep history forever.
In the past it was something like places.history.expiration.max_pages;151042.
Today I ...
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Offline tool for validating a json file with respect to a json schema
I'm looking for a desktop application that lets you check whether a json file satisfies a certain json schema. I've found some web applications that do the job, though I have to use the tool on ...
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Chromium-based browser for Android with add-on-support
The up-to-date Chrome browser on my Android 4.x tablet does not support addons. ( Which appears to be on purpose to protect ad-revenue and business models if I am not mistaken. For that reason for ...
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