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What are the coolest (privacy respecting) apps you have? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by hai@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Title says it all. I'll go first:

I don't really have any on my computer (all I use that for is Vim, Firefox, and Git), but on my phone: Orbot (basically Tor as a VPN on your phone).

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[–] silent_clash@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everything search app is easily my most used on my Windows PC. Instant, as-you-type file search by name with detail sorting and wildcard support. I set a keyboard shortcut as well. It puts Explorer search to shame. As good as Spotlight, which I was missing from when I had a Mac in 2008.

LaunchyQT - modern fork of Launchy that actually gets development. App launcher, dead simple.

FanControl - Fan curve software with all the features I want including hybrid temp sources, sensible automatic settings, visual graphs with an intuitive interface.

AutoHotKey - Hotkey scripting language that I can use even as someone who barely codes.

Transcribe! - Not open-source but it's a reasonably priced audio and video slow down app for transcribing.

[–] hai@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Spotlight, which I was missing from when I had a Mac in 2008

Amazing that Spotlight is that old!

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

If you use the 1.5 beta version of Everything Search, you can even sort videos by their image/video width and height, audio bitrate, video bitrate, duration of audio/video and such parameters you find in Windows Explorer's custom file attributes section.