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Is there an application which does HTTP PUT?
I'd recommend Postman for this.
It supports all HTTP verbs, not just GET, POST, PUT and DELETE. Some operations might require HTTP headers to be set (e.g. for authentication) and it supports that too....
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
Visual Studio Code
Pros:
Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac)
Open-source, see its GitHub page, though there is some fog about it
Free of charge, MIT license
Faster than Atom
IntelliSense ...
28
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
gVim
Pros:
Cross platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, Amiga, OS/2, others, even Android and iOS)
Open-source, see its GitHub page
Free of charge (although it encourages charity donation), GPL license with ...
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Is there an application which does HTTP PUT?
Probably a bit lower level than you're looking for, but cURL largely meets your requirements.
While it's primarily a library for use by other software, it has a command-line UI that's actually rather ...
16
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
Atom
Pros:
Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac)
Open-source, see its GitHub page
Free of charge, MIT license
Shell script syntax highlighting with strong color for variables:
Cons:
Start-up time ...
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Is there an application which does HTTP PUT?
The PUT (and DELETE) verb is used by the WebDAV protocol, so any WebDAV-compatible software fulfills your requirement. WebDAV support is widespread, for example every major OS supports it in its file ...
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
Kate
Pros:
Cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS, Windows)
Open source
Free software (GPL)
Fast
Has syntax highlighting support for a lot of different files (Markup, Scripts, Source code, configuration, ...)
...
8
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Visualizing Git diff (Linux)
Git itself ships with gitk to browse the repository (which includes showing diffs of stuff you've already committed) , gitgui and git difftool [which allows you to choose one of the merge tools ...

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Hexadecimal diff viewer for Linux
Hex diff viewers with console/terminal graphics:
vbindiff, Divides screen into top and bottom, no right/left view, fixed-width output.
hexdiff, Same top/bottom look as vbindiff, fixed-width output, ...
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What GUI Library Should I use in C++
Given your requirements I would say that the best choice would be wxWidgets
From your feature list:
Cross Platform Compatibility Yes
Open Source Yes with a permissive licence
Active with ...
7
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
Emacs
Pros:
Cross platform
Free and Open Source Software
Free of charge
Supports both GUI and CLI usage, even for a single instance simultaneously. You can have your emacs windows in your desktop; ...
6
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GUI editor for Windows Environment Variables
Here is another environment variable editor and I'm using this one currently. It basically has all the functions and abilities of Path Editor from CodePlex, and much more. It meets all my requirements ...
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GUI-based file search utility, (with Arch Linux package)
Why not continue with Search Monkey itself? Compiling from source is very easy in Arch Linux thanks to Arch User Repository(AUR). According to the Arch Wiki:
The Arch User Repository (AUR) is a ...
5
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UI for node.js based desktop application
2016 Update
There are few options for writing GUI apps in Node:
AppJS - the oldest one, not actively developed, recommends NW.js or Electron
NW.js - previously known as node-webkit, sponsored by ...
5
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Tool for inspecting Windows Forms applications
As free application I'll recommend the Microsoft UI Automation toolset from the Windows SDK.
With UI Inspect you can click an UI element then see its name and a full list of other information, and ...
5
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What cross-platform GUI text editor for Linux shell scripting?
Geany
Cross platform. GPL licensed. Syntax high lighting. Actually a very light weight IDE - has buttons for "compile" "build" and such that can have specific actions set for appropriate file ...
4
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Software to easily add an image to a PDF document
The other answer also suggested the free Foxit Reader, but there's an even easier way to add a single image to a document from that program. You can find it on the Home tab:
(Don't let the word "...
4
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GUI to Postfix configuration
Try out webmin and see if it is what you need. Postfix is under the server tab. It offers a lot more tools also.
Requirement:
Linux web app YES I use it that way all the time
Works with postfix ...
4
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GUI Hosts File Editor for Windows
The program I currently use is called HostsFileEditor. It is open source available on GitHub. It meets all my required and preferred requirements. It also knows to remove default comments made by ...
4
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Free GUI website builder for Windows 10
So far I have been using an application called Pingendo. It's a great program for creating simple webpages but I would like something a little more powerful like Pinegrow. It meets all my requirements....
4
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GUI editor for Windows Environment Variables
There's two that I've used, here's one called PathEditor. It meets all my requirements including being compatible with Windows 10 and being gratis. It has a pretty simple interface, just two sections -...
4
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GUI-based file search utility, (with Arch Linux package)
I use regexxer for this. It supports all the features you need:
Searches inside a given folder
Can match filenames with regex
Searches the matching files for strings with regex
Plus it can do ...
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Which software can I use to browse a MSSQL database?
Not sure if this will work for you, but you could try:
DBeaver
https://dbeaver.jkiss.org/download/
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Marking comments and annotations on top of a PDF
So far I have been using Xournal for this purpose and I am quite happy with it.
It essentially allows you to draw on top of the PDF using text and primitive drawing routines.
Regarding your criteria:
...
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Open source tool to draw GUI mockups
Draw.io can be used both online and offline (you can download for Linux), it's open source, can draw GUI items and annotations, and allows you to save the file locally or on the cloud to edit it later ...
4
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Open source tool to draw GUI mockups
Pencil is a tool I have used for UI mockups.
And there’s quite a few tutorials for it on YouTube.
4
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What is a suitable language and framework to create GUI Based desktop applications based on specific criteria?
Best language: I don't think anybody can answer this satisfactorily. Just pick what you are best and most comfortable at. However, I would recommend to pick an object-oriented language for GUI ...
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FTP client for Windows that can open a folder with millions of files
I already replied to your similar question here:
https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/a/27511/2336
Specifically in this question (FTP client), also network data transfer speed comes in as ...
3
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SQLite GUI editor
"DB Browser for SQLite" (DB4S)
https://sqlitebrowser.org/
https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser
seems to do most of what you require, though I am uncertain about the "link&...
3
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Dearchiver that can "intelligently" decide whether to extract into a new folder or not
7-Zip
Eliminate duplication of root folder:
That option allows to eliminate duplication of root folder for "Extract to" operations, if all files in archive are placed in folder with name ...
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