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A standalone SVG editor?
How about Inkscape? It is:
free and open source,
has a perfectly compliant SVG format file generation and editing,
can open a number of other vector formats, with the help of extensions,
can ...
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Alternative to Microsoft Office that does not require Internet or Cloud
I use Libre Office.
It is one of many possibilities available to you. Libre Office can be used to edit and save documents which are in MS Office format, including Visio. It also uses the ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
If you work a lot with Notepad++ (GPLv2), you can install the MarkdownViewerPlusPlus plugin (MIT License):
(According to the Github page, this plugin works for 32 and 64 bits)
Alternativelly, you ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
Its not really simple and lightweight, but
You can use Visual Studio Code, it has a Markdown preview built-in. This way you can view the source and the rendered preview side-by-side.
To display images ...
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Viewer for huge JSON files on Windows
I have written Huge JSON viewer based on JSON.NET, one of the fastest JSON frameworks. It matches the requirements as follows:
open decently large files: it can open the 1.44 GB example file without ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
I use Typora free (commercial license, not open source) markdown editor for Windows/Mac/Linux because it works very fast. The latest version of Typora is currently a beta version and it's free ...
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Alternative to Microsoft Office that does not require Internet or Cloud
You can use OpenOffice.
It has a "full installation" download (about 134 MB) that does not require internet access for the installation.
It is also compatible with many file formats including ...
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Alternative to Microsoft Office that does not require Internet or Cloud
Microsoft Office 2013 does not require an internet connection. Office 365 is pushed heavily, which can cloud (no pun intended) the issue, but there are still fully-packaged product versions of MS ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
Returning to this two years later, I definitely no longer recommend MarkdownPad. I use Visual Studio Code, same as the currently top-rated answer.
I use MarkdownPad. It's free for most use cases, but ...
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A standalone SVG editor?
As already mentioned I would go with Inkscape if you want a full featured SVG editor with great design capabilities and powerful tools.
If you want something simpler however, are looking for a web ...
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Offline Desktop Client for OpenStreetMap on Linux
I use Cruiser. Its platform is Java so it will work on Linux.
Features
Offline detailed vector maps (Mapsforge)
Map file chooser
Add multiple maps
Render theme file chooser
Render ...
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Viewer for huge JSON files on Windows
I'm using JSONedit, typically with 1-2MB of text. Largest data sets I've tested were around 50MB and it's annoyingly slow with loading it and peak RAM usage reaches few hundreds MB - there is ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
CuteMarkEd is a free and open source markdown editor. It fits all listed requirements:
Simple and lightweight: Download the zip file extract and finished (no Installation required, Zip file is ...
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Notetaking application that is programmer friendly
Check out Boostnote - a simple notetaking app for programmers.
Features
Available on Mac, Windows & Linux.
Write your notes using markdown
Syntax Highlighting
Tag your notes
and many more
Also, ...
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Offline OpenStreetMap with vector maps for Windows Phone?
The Windows Phone app Vectorial Map uses offline vector maps. It is also available for iPhone, Android and Blackberry. It uses OpenStreetMap maps in the Mapsforge format, which you can download for ...
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Offline map browser on Android with offline search
Nokia HERE is a relevant option that has grown big in the span of less than a year (2015) [>5 million downloads on Google Play].
free
runs on Android
provides downloadable offline maps for entire ...
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Alternative to Microsoft Office that does not require Internet or Cloud
"Without any loss of functionality" is the key here.
If that is "absolute" (as in do precisely the same thing, precisely the same way, always) then it's a not. There isn't. The reason is farily ...
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priority oriented TODO list manager
Priority Oriented TODO list manager
I highly recommend emacs orgmode
Reasons:
You can prioritize your items
Recurring tasks
open source (part of gnu emacs, included by default in modern releases!)
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Free PDF editor for Windows
You can try:
Inkscape
Free PDF Editor (supports *.fpe files)
Linux (you can always emulate it or use it from live CD such as Knoppix or using Docker):
pdfedit
Not editors, but have some functions ...
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Flowchart editor for Windows/Mac/Linux, graphical, works offline
As an alternative to the already mentioned Dia, you could draw flowcharts using LibreOffice Draw, which might be already installed in your system as part of LibreOffice, the popular free and open-...
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Cross-browser compatibility software
Test Browsers In Virtual Machines
You can fire up a virtual machine with a specific browser installed and test against that.
There are various possible sources of the VM images:
IE Versions and ...
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Offline alternative to OneNote / Evernote
I've started using Joplin after OneNote managed to delete all my data.
It has a rich text editor built in but I'd recommend using the Markdown editor (write in Markdown with a WYSIWYG output to see ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
I like using one program for everything. I use SublimeText, which is free for evaluation just like WinRar, for almost any text editing purposes and there's almost always a plugin for a certain type of ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
I mainly use other softwares on linux for my markdowns, but when I need to edit them in windows I use ghostwriter. It may lack some advanced features (e.g. external themes/fonts support), but it is a ...
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Calendar application for Linux that plays well with Outlook and Exchange and works offline
I'm currently using Thunderbird with this plugin:
https://github.com/ExchangeCalendar/exchangecalendar
It's not perfect, but it's the best solution I've found so far after trying other options such ...
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Tool for saving webpages in XML format
Not a general tool for this job, but a solution that converts Wikipedia articles to XML documents:
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export
Enter article name(s)
Click at "Export"
(By ...
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I need software that selects a random item from a list, to help with indecisiveness
An easy and versatile method would be to use a spreadsheet. LibreOffice is free. Write your list, one entry per cell, and in another cell you can enter:
=RANDBETWEEN(1,10)
Where 1 is the line your ...
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Alternative to Microsoft Office that does not require Internet or Cloud
Because a lot of the answers are not really good in my opinion and I now can answer, here it was I think:
If you need 100% compatibility with the newest docx format, you want to use Microsoft Office. ...
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