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Open source PDF reader for Windows
One of my personal favourites is SumatraPDF.
Features:
Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows.
Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, ...
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What software solution can I use (on Windows 10) to keep all my non-Microsoft software up to date?
UPDATE 2016-10-10: It's possible that Chocolatey version 0.10.0 gave me a malware infection a couple of months ago. However, that does not seem to be the case. I have not had any trouble so far with ...
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Explorer-like FTP client for Windows, open source and well-maintained
WinSCP matches all your requirements.
Graphical: Yes – There are two alternative interfaces:
Commander interface:
Explorer interface:
Feels like a Windows explorer window: Yes – One of the ...
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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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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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What software solution can I use (on Windows 10) to keep all my non-Microsoft software up to date?
There is in fact a command-line package manager built into Windows 10: PackageManagement.
It uses PowerShell's extremely verbose language to give a native Windows equivalent of apt-get or yum. You ...
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Markdown editor for Windows with live rendering in the editing pane, NOT in a separate preview pane
Last update: 2023-05-06
Having a similar need to the OP, I searched the whole web for current solutions. There's no current perfect solution, but there are a few ones that might be worth a try.
Note ...
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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 ...
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GUI drag & drop style GUI Builder for Python Tkinter
One tool that I've been using is called Pygubu. It's open source and can be run anywhere python is installed. It includes support for not only Python version 3 but also version 2 as well. It appears ...
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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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Is there a non-awful free word processor for Windows?
You are not writing what you are using your word processor for.
For my needs, I have found that Atom (or any other modern text editor) and Markdown gets me almost everything I need, and I can easily ...
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Is there a non-awful free word processor for Windows?
You could just use Google Docs.
I've found that for 90% of features and 95% of people it has all the functionality that you'd find in Microsoft Office. (Obviously estimated numbers, but based on ...
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Which software can I use to transfer Windows 10 to a new hard drive?
The license is usually tied to the motherboard, not the hard drive.
So you can reinstall Windows 10 and it should automatically activated.
If it is not activated automatically, refer to the ...
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What software solution can I use (on Windows 10) to keep all my non-Microsoft software up to date?
Just my two cents: Ninite
It has got a wide variety of apps to choose from, which it will install / update without Toolbars and all that stuff:
Through a simple cmd script, you can set the install ...
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Fake Virtual Camera and Microphone for Windows
open to using multiple pieces of software to accomplish this task.
I'm glad you allow this. For me, this combination of software does the job really well: Open Broadcaster Software plus OBS Virtual ...
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Is there a non-awful free word processor for Windows?
Consider learning, then using LaTeX. See https://www.latex-project.org/
It is an open source software and free of cost.
You need to read books about LaTeX before using it.
Budget a week of work, and ...
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What is a good newbie-friendly graphical Git client for Windows?
You may consider using GitKraken. Some features:
Free for non-commercial use
Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Multiple profile support
One-click undo & redo
Built-in merge tool
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Software to quickly join many JPG images into one PDF without recompressing
img2pdf
Website: https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/img2pdf/blob/master/README.md
img2pdf is a Python library with a command-line interface, which directly (i.e. losslessly and without ...
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Is there a non-awful free word processor for Windows?
LibreOffice definitely has a dark mode, as well as support for dark themes. See here for the details. Example screenshots:
You can get the Dracula theme for LibreOffice (popular as a dark mode theme ...
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A program to log how much time you spend in what program
ProcrastiTracker is an open source time tracking tool for Windows that automatically tracks what applications and documents you use, and allows you to view statistics on your usage in great detail:
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Windows text editor for editing files hosted on remote linux server
Looks like the perfect match for you is Notepad++, which ships with an FTP file browser:
Notepad++ with opened FTP browser / FTP config (source: StackOverflow; click images for larger variants)
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Alternatives to windows file explorer
Total Commander (or any similar, like Double Commander) offer an entirely different paradigm, with a lot more functionality. Best for more advanced users.
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Fake Virtual Camera and Microphone for Windows
Manycam is a virtual webcam, you can provide it with videos, images, audio and has many other features like flipping or mirroring footage, adding effects and so on. I have not used it recently but it ...
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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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Which software can I use to transfer Windows 10 to a new hard drive?
Do it properly: recover the key then install Windows 10.
To recover the key from your existing Windows installation you can use tools like KeyFinder (https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/). This ...
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Is there a non-awful free word processor for Windows?
There is SoftMaker FreeOffice.
This has both free and paid-for versions. The appearance and use are much closer to MS Office than the Free / Libre Office alternatives.
To run the free version ...
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What software solution can I use (on Windows 10) to keep all my non-Microsoft software up to date?
I used to do computer maintenance kind of work, which required me:
To have a lot of setup packages on hand and updated
Being able to quickly install/update any/set of them
To have a set of portable ...
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