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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 ...
156
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9answers
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What is a good newbie-friendly graphical Git client for Windows?
Personally I'd just install Cygwin and proceed with the usual *nix shell tools, but I need to make a software recommendation to some clients that need something a bit more newbie friendly.
The ...
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4answers
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Is there a Chrome extension that I can use to note why I've opened a tab?
Community managers tend to have issues with tabs, in particular, an over-abundance of them. While applying a recent batch of system updates, I closed about 150 tabs between two browser windows. The ...
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5answers
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Alternative for Graphviz with better automatic node placement for large graphs?
In the past I used Graphviz to create drawing of graphs. It is a nice tools for small graphs.
But unfortunately, for large graphs, Graphviz really sucks:
It always crossed edges that obviously could ...
101
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6answers
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Windows program for viewing which program is using a file
Often, on my Windows computers, when I go to delete or move directories or files, an error message appears explaining that this action can not be completed because one of the files is being used by ...
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14answers
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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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13answers
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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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10answers
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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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17answers
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)
I am looking for a Markdown viewer. It should:
run locally on Ubuntu - be a normal program, not a browser addon, webapp or anything else that requires usage of an internet browser*
Preferable:
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8answers
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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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What software solution can I use (on Windows 10) to keep all my non-Microsoft software up to date?
In other words, is there a Windows 10 equivalent to apt-get / rpm / brew? Preferably cheap or free, and available for use in my business?
The more software packages it supports, the better. ...
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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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6answers
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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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15answers
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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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10answers
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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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9answers
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Linux-like terminal for Windows
I'm looking for an application that can act as an integrated Linux-like terminal for my Windows PC. For instance, I could roam around the file system, install applications like vi, etc. I would like ...
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11answers
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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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5answers
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'Modern' browser that will work in Windows 98SE
I have a little Windows 98SE virtual machine I run as a curiosity. I occasionally need to/want to download software to test on it, but the version of IE on it has trouble rendering many modern sites ...
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2answers
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What software can I use to monitor the quality of my Internet connection?
I've been having a lot of problems with both of my Internet providers lately, and I'd like to start monitoring and graphing the quality of my Internet connections. My ultimate goal is to be able to ...
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2answers
8k views
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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18answers
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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/...
53
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6answers
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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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8answers
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Is there a LOGO interpreter that actually has a turtle?
This is not a repeat of the now infamous "How do I move the turtle in LOGO?"
Recently, I had the following conversation with my five year old daughter:
Daughter: Daddy, do you write
programs?
...
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13answers
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Cross platform JS/PHP editor software with FTP support and code hinting
For my web development purposes, I am looking for a code editor. In my case, it's mostly for JavaScript and PHP.
Here are my requirements:
Must have Syntax highlighting,
Must have Code hinting (...
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4answers
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Open source PDF reader for Windows
I want to read PDF files on Windows.
The PDFs can be quite large (like 50 MB) but they do not contain interactive forms nor special gadgets.
I just do casual human reading, no automatic data ...
48
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9answers
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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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15answers
5k views
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 ...
46
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5answers
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Calendar application for Linux that plays well with Outlook and Exchange and works offline
I work with people who use Outlook and Exchange as their calendar platform. I need a calendar application that is compatible with this usage: it must connect to the Exchange server and retrieve and ...
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11answers
2k views
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 ...
42
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3answers
2k views
File integrity checker
I have a large amount of files that should never change, including RAW photographs and video files. I'm worried about silent bit rot.
I do have backups to restore lost/corrupted files, but comparing ...
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3answers
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What can tell me that I'm probably out of garbage bags?
It happened again today. We were at three different grocery stores, and still managed to not buy some of the stuff that we need. I'm getting tired of coming home just to realize I need to go back out ...
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6answers
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Free FTP client for Windows [closed]
I just tried to download FileZilla from SourceForge. It tries to install some random content from an unpopular and useless provider. It is definitely not reliable anymore.
More generally, which FTP ...
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8answers
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C++ IDE for Windows with a rich feature set: Code completion, refactoring, etc
I'm looking for an Integrated Development Environment for C++ that should run on Windows 8. The program should ideally support the following features:
Code completion/hinting
Indentation assistance
...
39
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3answers
30k views
See CPU use history as a graph in a Linux shell
I am looking for a free program that can display the CPU use history as a graph in a Linux shell, as bmon (sudo apt-get install -y bmon) can do network use per network interface.
or like Microsoft ...
39
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6answers
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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 ...
39
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8answers
30k views
Viewer for huge JSON files on Windows
I am looking for a JSON viewer for Windows that can:
open decently large files (e.g. > 10 MB), unlike JSONViewer Notepad++ plugin (lags for ever), JSON Editor Eclipse Plugin (take over 1 minute to ...
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8answers
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Free software to reverse engineer existing complex database diagrams in SQL Server 2008+
Up until a few years ago I used Microsoft Visio to reverse engineer an existing database to a diagram. This feature has been deprecated for a while now, and I'm rather stuck in finding an alternative. ...
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6answers
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Is there a free-to-use alternative to Photoshop for Windows? [closed]
Is there a decent free alternative to Adobe Photoshop for Windows?
I know, there is a similar question, but it seems to be focused entirely on Linux.
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5answers
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A standalone SVG editor?
I am seeking recommendations of a program that
allows creation, editing and saving of files in .svg format
allows standard editing including
drawing lines and shapes
filling areas with color
...
37
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9answers
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Online storage service with 15GB that works well on Linux
I mainly use Google Drive Desktop for backing up pictures, and files on Windows, but I have yet to find a good alternative to use on Linux/Ubuntu. I know about Dropbox, however they don't have a large ...
37
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7answers
9k views
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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5answers
66k views
WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux
I’ve recently made a shift from Windows to Ubuntu and one of the software that I’m really missing is Adobe Dreamweaver. Wine doesn’t give as good an experience.
Which WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You ...
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2answers
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Auto indentation plugin for Notepad++
I'm looking for a plugin that can indent code (HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, etc.) in Notepad++.
In Visual Studio (and a few other Microsoft editors), you can auto format a document with a simple Ctrl + K, ...
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8answers
2k views
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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8answers
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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:
...
35
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6answers
22k views
Video player with backward frame by frame stepping for Linux
For analyzing videos, I am looking for a Linux tool to browse through frames one by one, both forward and backward in time.
I am currently using MPlayer for studying these videos, using . to step ...
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2answers
5k views
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 ...
34
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3answers
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Drawing convolutional neural networks
Is there any software used to draw figures in academic papers describing the structure of neural networks (specifically convolutional networks)?
The closest solution to what I want is the TikZ LaTeX ...
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7answers
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Windows SSHFS/SFTP mounting clients
I'm looking for a solution that lets me 'mount' a remote server via ssh or sftp protocols.
The remote directory should show up as a drive letter on Windows.
(optional) More than one simultaneous ...
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0answers
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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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