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Software that would convert Google documents to .docx
In google docs choose File > download > Microsoft Word (.docx)
Edit: For completeness sake, also supports other formats as well.
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Send a file to Google Search by Image search from the Windows Explorer context menu
This is quite late, but I wrote a very simple program which does this: GoogleImageShell. It adds a shortcut to the right-click menu on images (JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP) which uploads the image to Google and ...
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Retrieve Google Scholar results
Have a look at this python command line tool:
https://github.com/ckreibich/scholar.py
Example usage if you want a bibtex file:
$ scholar.py -c 1 --author "albert einstein" --phrase "quantum theory" ...
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Program to set up an auto-responder for Google Hangouts
I made gchat.simon.codes to do this. It's a hosted service, but you could also run the bot yourself if you want (it's open source).
Note that it's intended for accounts that you never log into, but ...
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Alternative to Google's Play Store for Android
Aptoide is an alternative marketplace for mobile applications which runs on the Android operating system. In Aptoide, unlike the default Google Play Store, there is not a unique and centralized store; ...
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Alternative to Google's Play Store for Android
On the premise of being incomplete, here are some of my recommendations:
use the main Google search (via web), not the one of the store. My trick:
intitle:<app_name> site:www.appbrain.com
no ...
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Android App to automatically MOVE files from folders on one device to a folder on another device when connected to Wifi?
FolderSync can do this (I'm using its paid version for years). It lets you define "folder pairs" consisting of a local directory matched to a remote directory, and have them sync'd e.g. ...
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Are ESB still worth as communication layer? Which ones?
I don't know, I don't have enough details.
As you are using SFTP, Samba and Google Cloud Storage it seems to me that you are moving .CSV and probably ingesting them through SSIS.
Then you are also ...
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Software suggestions for converting a website to a mobile app
Try https://zeroqode.com/native. I remember seeing it on Product Hunt and tried it, and was satisfied. Just trialed though, never went through with it.
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Online documentation tool, where I create reusable “text objects”
Atlassian's Confluence offers excerpts, which is a transclusion feature based on its macros.
There is a discussion about how to integrate Confluence with Atlassian's online tool, Bitbucket. The ...
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Program or extension to save Google News archive images?
An old question, but still relevant in 2019. The only success I've had is to configure my monitor with the image rotated 90-degrees. This allows me to expand the height of the browser page and get a ...
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What IDE/ pragramming language to use for my android app?
You can use Android Studio for your development, which is free to download.
Google has provided all the basic and most features as in Android Studio to start developing an app from scratch.
You will ...
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Tool to script simple find & replace for a fixed set of text strings
Would this be hard to achieve in Google Apps Script (given that I currently know nothing about Apps Scripts)?
If something like this is hard or not to achieve is "primarily opinion" considering only ...
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Google Sheets integrated with Gmail
Use Google Apps Script. It has a Mail Service and a Gmail Service that could be used to send emails. With the Gmail Service it could read the content of your mailbox even it could change some Gmail ...
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Local photo management software as good as Google Photos wanted
digiKam is open-source desktop software with a lot of features of Google Photos, like galleries, showing photos on a map, and identifying faces. In my experience, it is both more and less powerful ...
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Android App for C Programming
Here are few in the list:
Decoder
Cppdroid
C4droid & GCC Plugin for c4droid
Programming Hub, for other languages also
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Looking for a service to display 2 factor auth codes online, rather than on my phone
It is very simple to write something like this.
Whether it's secure enough? It depends on how secure your 2fa-online web service is.
Here is a Python snippet using module oath which reads the base32-...
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Import Google Scholar publications into LinkedIn publications
not sure if this exactly solves your problem, but a lot of bio/med researchers seem to be using a chrome extension that allows you to import a publication from a DOI or pubmed ID: https://www....
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Home Page that locks the apps and widgets in place
Total Launcher
Its a very configurable launcher, locking is just one feature. You can even set a custom height and width (in pixels) for every single widget. Its a small 2MB download with many ...
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Home Page that locks the apps and widgets in place
Apex Launcher does support this. From its app description:
Lock your desktop to prevent accidental changes
And even if you don't care about wallpapers, themes, etc – Apex supports all those. And ...
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Spreadsheet Software (Javascript Funtions)
If a programmatic solution is acceptable, a Spreadsheet control like ejSpreadsheet can be used to host your own spreadsheet locally that supports custom functions written in JS.
Sample
Note: I work ...
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Google Contacts "cleaner" / "lint remover"
I have been trying to "clean up" my contacts as well. In this Software Recommendations SE question I am requesting software recommendations to backup all contacts, preferably in an editable format (...
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App to manage your cloud files?
I am the author of AJC Sync for Windows. The Pro edition which costs $35 will allow you to sync to multiple cloud accounts. See AJC Sync
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A good open-source directory/org chart software
Wikimedia Foundation made one, a bit sluggish and only tested for ~200 persons but sort of worked, WikiMedia OrgChart
It looked like this, except it actually loaded the chart,
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Desktop client for Google Tasks that sits in the tray area
I've developed a web app to manage my google tasks in a Trello like fashion.
I know it's not a native windows app but I can make an electron app out of it if you are interested.
it's called ...
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Windows Live Writer replacement for a Mac user
Good news and bad news (and potentially good news).
Good news - So we never found a replacement. Instead, we installed Parallels on his macbook, installed Win 7, installed Windows Live Writer, and ...
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Gratis Outlook addin that can sync with Google Calendar
Currently Outlook Google Calendar Sync offers everything you're after except for multiple calendars.
Depending on what you need to achieve, you may be able to set this up through having multiple ...
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