Favourite Applications

Zive

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spybot
adobe
spotify
 

bumfuzzle

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Thanks for all the wonderful suggestions all. Here's a bunch I happily endorse.

The below are freeware/shareware unless noted otherwise:

4k video downloader for downloading entire playlists off youtube (video or mp3)
ABBYY for running OCR against any screenclip (commercial/trialware)
Acronis for automatic operating system backups (commercial/trialware)
FreeFileSync for efficient automatic file/folder only backups
Jackett for searching 3-4 dozen public/private torrent trackers simultaneously
Captura for screen recording
Notepad++ as a Windows notepad replacement
LibreOffice for super lightweight Word, Excel, PowerPoint alternative
OneNote for searchable audio note taking and automatically runs OCR against noted photos
Google Keep for auto transcribed audio recordings
PrimoCache for caching Windows disk access to RAM significantly boosting performance (commercial/trialware)
Sandboxie for browsing or running apps in isolation (until Microsoft finally releases it as a built-in Windows 10 feature later this year)
BatteryCarePortable to show the wear of a laptop battery and remaining useful life
OO AppBuster to remove unwanted apps from Windows 10
WindowsUpdate RebootBlocker to prevent unwanted reboots of Windows 10
FreeDownloadManager to accellerate downloads via multithreading
Alternativeto.net to find alternatives for discontinued or commercial apps
uBlock Origin (FF/Chrome Extension) for blocking unwanted advertisements
DarkReader (FF/Chrome Extension) to make webpages dark during late night reading

ANDROID
GeoTracker for GPS recording your travel while hiking
OfficeLens for OCR of any receipts/business cards
Podcast Addict for listening to podcasts at any play speed
Signal for more secure phone conversations
SyncThing for autosyncing a PC folder with a folder on an Android handset
 

JJ_Brown

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Just used YUMI EFI to create a multiboot USB today. Worked great to add an Acronis EFI ISO which otherwise can't be done with Rufus or BootICE. It can be done with Easy2Boot also but Easy2Boot requirers an additional step...the ISO has to be converted to a imgPTN file.