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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Viewer for huge JSON files on Windows
Disclaimer: I'm the author of JSONBuddy.
JSONBuddy can do all of this for you and even more:
Can open and edit very large JSON and text data (please use the Plus edition if you need to edit multi-GB ...
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Viewer for huge JSON files on Windows
In case I want to open truly very large files (logs from application for example), then my preferred solution is to load this file into the local mongo database (it is for free) and then use some ...
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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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Linux emoji input
Albert
Try albert with Python Extensions.
It looks good and modern. It works independent of any other program. You simply use a hotkey to call albert overlay, type : and then a substring of an emoji ...
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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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Viewer for huge JSON files on Windows
You can use JSToolNpp:
open source (GPL 2.0)
javascript plugin for Notepad++ (formerly JSMinNpp)
can open file up to 100 MB (I haven't tried larger yet)
has a responsive UI
can collapse/expand a ...
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Cross-platform offline mindmapping
Freemind is a Mind Mapping program with the following characteristics:
Free, Gratis & Open Source
Written is Java so will run on:
Windows
OS-X
Linux
Others
Mind Maps can include follow-able ...
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Duplicate image finder with folder options
Try dupeGuru.
It can compare 2 folders (A & B).
Set folder A as Reference.
Once all duplicates are found, you can select and delete duplicates all in folder B.
It also has a version called ...
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Offline Video Subtitle creator for Windows?
You have a couple of options:
Hard Subtitles
These are visible all of the time on the final video.
There are a few dependencies to install but MoviePy fits the bill neatly. You can even do the Star ...
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A standalone SVG editor?
Any semi-decent vector editing application should fulfil your requisites (except being free). In addition to the already mentioned Inkscape, Gravit Designer is a good choice (you can use it both in ...
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C# library to read PPTX files
Check out SyncFusion's DocIO and specifically https://www.syncfusion.com/products/file-formats/presentation
There is a community edition that you may qualify for (has a generous upper limit if you ...
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Change current date and time for a specific application only
The famous Nir Sofer (Nir Soft) has a tool called RunAsDate, it:
allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify.
This utility doesn't change the current system date and ...
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Simple open-source offline Markdown viewer for Windows
I would recommend Atom editor. You will need to install Markdown Preview but a big advantage is that there is large amount of additional plugins for handling markdown. The preview is opened via Ctrl + ...
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Download all words from Wiktionary for offline use
There's a Python script called dumpgenerator.py that will export a dump in XML format of any MediaWiki website (such as Wiktionary).
You can then import the XML file to your local install of ...
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Offline map browser on Android with offline search
For people who are into hiking, I can recommend the Mapy.cz app. It meets all the Absolute requirements* and provides (offline option included) 'Cycling and hiking maps of the world with marked trails ...
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Offline map browser on Android with offline search
I am going to recommend Maps - Navigation & Transit by Google.
Based on your absolute requirements:
Runs on Android. Check
Provides downloadable offline maps for the places I
travel to. Check
I ...
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Free Navigation App to Find a Geolocation that works Offline without any Maps
There is OSMand. It is a navigation app for which you can download maps, but it comes out-of-the-box with
a (low-resolution) world map,
a compass, showing
the direction to target, and
only 7 MB.
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