Recommendations for software or applications — Important: It's often better to ask for a real problem instead of a software to solve it
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Looking for FREE or low cost screen casting tool like camtasia [closed]
I make a lot of FREE tech videos and I been using QuickTime Player to record them then I edit them in iMovie but I am looking for something like camtasia that I can record the screen and also from my ...
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Record and duplicate file operations on another system
I was wondering if there's a tool to do as title says on windows? I currently use freefilesync to sync two huge directories (1.8 TB). Now I plan to reorganize how the folders are stored.
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How do I remotely execute scripts on multiple servers, mix output
Hi I'm looking for a piece of software or some sort of technique that would enable me to do following in one terminal window:
Take as input a list of ssh-enabled machines with login, password and ...
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What is the technical term for 'big files' in the IT industry? [closed]
What is the technical term for 'big files' in IT industry?
I mean if there is a file which capacity is more, how to describe that file (bulk/vast/big/huge) or any other words?
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Is there software available for creating a fact base? [closed]
I am rapidly building a collection of information based on what I learn on my job. And of course, this information has a variety of topics it is relevant to. e.g.
Fact 1: China is crazy awesome when ...
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On Screen Display Hardware Monitoring Tool [closed]
I'm looking for a On Screen Display (OSD) Hardware monitoring tool capable of display the following hardware status on a Windows 7 machine with ATI Radeon HD video card:
CPU Temp
CPU Usage (Percent)
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How can I find the actual amount of free file directory spaces in a FAT32 folder?
I understand that there are approx. 64K possible files in a FAT32 folder. This assumes 8.3 file names. Longer file names take up multiple slots. Therefore, it is difficult to know how many actual ...
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How to modify the voice to Starcraft 1 Terran adjutant's one
I really like the SC1 Terran Advisors (adjutants) voice!
The idea is to modify an audio file of one's speech so that it sounded like adjutant's one. Or, if it is easier, to adjust some automatic ...
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Powerpoint/Impress + Video -> export as Video [closed]
The situation::
I have:
- > A video (avi or flv but its not important) WITH audio
- > A PowerPoint presentation
- > The slide-chaning times
What I want:
- A software that mix the presentation and ...
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generate command file from internet to windos 7
i work with APC for a UPS .. i have a command file expanded when the power failed and when the power restored but these command files didn't run in windows 7 system to generate the cmd file to show a ...
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Text Editor Software that support Unicode RegEx
Is there any Windows text editor software that support Unicode Properties, Scripts and Blocks feature of RegExp (You can type in it: آرد and search for \p{Arabic} to see if a software support that).
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Music file to .cda converter on Windows
Is there a good whatever-music-file to .cda converter for windows?
I usually use AVS but lately surpisingly I found that there is no option to .cda conversion.
Any suggestion will be more than ...
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Third Party Pandora Player [closed]
Are there any third party Pandora clients for Windows 7?
Like Ubuntu has Pithos, and painobar.
Windows 8 has Pradio...
Is their anything like these for Windows 7?
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PNG Batch resizing and saving while preserving transparency
I've got about 700+ png images. I need to resize and save them. However I also need their transparency to be intact.
I tried Irfanview, but that didn't work. GIMP works, but I can't find a batch ...
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1answer
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Setting up a multi media streaming linux server [closed]
I know this question has been asked countless times around the interwebz but I haven't found a solution that completely suits my needs yet.
I want to build a Linux server (I'm pretty distro ...
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How to install a Virtual Microphone? [closed]
I want to install a Virtual Microphone (a non physical input source interface where I can direct an output such as my sound card), so that I can play sounds/music through it.
Is this possible? If so, ...
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How can I create a diagram/graph similar to the Linux distribution timeline? [closed]
I would like to make a custom timeline diagram such as the one for the history of Linux distributions:
Are there any software tools I can use to create diagrams similar to the above?
Also, if ...
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Is there a digital timelock sort of thing? [closed]
Is there an app/software/website that'll let me store a randomly generated password in a time-lock? It only shows it to be after a set time. Is there such a thing?
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Let any exe prevent system sleep/hibernation in windows [duplicate]
Is there a way to have Windows system standby prevented in the event that a particular executable is still running?
I know playing videos does this semi-automatically but I'd like to apply this ...
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Flash .rom file to BIOS chip
I have got a .rom file from my BIOS chip using this tool (it really isn't a virus). I extracted the Packard Bell boot logo from it using CBROM, edited it and put it back into the .rom, which ...
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Copying files to multiple USB flash drives
Does anyone know of any software or hardware (or both) that will copy a certain set of files to multiple USB flash drives?
We have a project where there are some PDF's that need to be copied to about ...
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What tool does O'Reilley use to draw figures in their books? [closed]
I find the figures in O'Reilly books very pleasing and with consistent styles. Anyone know what kind of tools they are using?
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How can I automatically add a moustache to a batch of images?
I'd like to make an April fools day joke by adding a mustache to all the images of my colleagues.
Is there some software that can automate this?
So the software should recognize the face; if ...
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1answer
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Software to aid in comparing, contrasting, and rating for decision making? [closed]
As I recall, in one of Douglas Adam's humorous fictional novels (possibly Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency), one of the characters became rich because he created a decision-making program. He ...
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How can I take a single hotel Wifi connection and share it out amongst devices via Wifi?
Many hotels these days still have pretty dreadful Wifi. Often the worst offender is the "you still only have one Wifi device, right?" assumption; you get a username/password combo, and using it on ...
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Teaching assistant tools for linux [closed]
Are there any teaching assistant tools for linux such as http://www.teachertool.de/cms/en is one for ipad?
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What are some suggested password managers? [closed]
So, I wasn't sure if this type of question was allowed in superuser, but I checked the FAQ and it said software related questions are allowed. I'm unsure of whether that meant software related issues ...
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Is there a tool that can scan for corrupt PDFs on my computer?
I really like that there is a tool (ImageVerifier) that can scan through my photo collection and tell me about corrupt JPG and TIFF files. However, I also have a vast collection of image-based PDFs ...
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resizing/compressing thousands of images to reasonable sizes [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Batch “resize” JPEG images to a fixed file size
fast batch image resizer
I have thousands of images (90 GB) mostly documents, and employee related stuff like passport ...
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How to Centralize/Aggregate My Communications? [closed]
I have too many sites I need to go to in order to check for alerts, messages, updates, etc.
In my particular case, I must check these places daily:
A teacher's Google Site where she sometimes ...
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Is there a software similar to Think (Mac) for Windows? [closed]
I really like this software - Think. Is there any Windows alternative of this app?
Thanks,
A
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How do I recover a file from the deleted hdd partition after installing windows 7 ultimate?
I had a file with my important data on it in my previous windows 7 professional. I formatted the partition on which windows was installed and split it into 4.
Now I want to recover the file from the ...
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What OCR application can process technical data such as equations? [closed]
What optical character recognition application (on any platform) can read complex text such as equations? I have to scan several long documents that have many large equations in them at work. ...
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Portable folder encryption software that doesn't require admin rights?
I enjoy TrueCrypt a lot. It's fast and offers a decent amount of options, but it also requires you to have admin (super user) rights on the machine you use it on. I've experimented with DCU, Peazip ...
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Which document-collaboration software works without internet and central server?
I'm looking for a software where many (~10) users in a LAN can look at and modify a document (text or whiteboard) at the same time. The software has to work without an internet connection, so it ...
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Any software to find out how much bandwidth i have used per month [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Software to report internet traffic for home user
I have a limited bandwidth internet connection which charges when download limit is exceeded i need a software to ...
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Formalize my diary (record what happened how often) and create statistics out of it [closed]
I'm searching for a FLOSS tool (for GNU/Linux) for the following job:
I have written a diary for some years. For each day, I noted what I did resp. what happened. Now I want to formalize/record some ...
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Is there software that can give me a view of the galaxy from another star? [closed]
Is there software that has the positions of the stars in it, and allows you to move around or take a picture from another star?
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Any tool for transforming bullet point lists (with multiple sub bullet points) to a mindmap format? [closed]
I have a list all typed out in word something like:
List item
List item
List item
List item
List item
List item
I wanna know if there's any software where I can put in my list and make ...
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VNC Server that can be used from command line?
I'm looking for a replacement for a custom vnc server that we have been using in my company for a long time. I need a simple executable that can be run from command line by an IT Support software ...
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“Integrated” VMs (As opposed to “Sandboxed”) [closed]
It is common for virtual machines to be sandboxes, their interaction with the host OS being limited to the absolutely necessary.
Are there any projects that would try to integrate VMs (specifically ...
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Read ahead buffering while playing video file from optical disc
I was wondering if there is a program for Windows 7 (64-bit), that reads ahead the file to be played back (usually MKV files in my case) to the RAM, so the disc that the video file resides in, won't ...
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Remove difference b/w PC and Unix Text in beyond compare
My problem is I'm try to compare two folders which are almost same but some little difference.
But when I compare both of the folders then it shows difference in each file.
When i open the file its ...
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Monitor color temperature changing software (like f.lux) that can temporarily switch color temperatures to a specified 'daytime' temperature, at night
I'm using f.lux to control my computer display's color temperature (it automatically changes the color temperature of the computer screen depending if it's day or night).
At night, I would ...
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If I make a mail server can I send bulk email? [closed]
I work for a small company and we have fallen into the fad of "email campaigns" a.k.a junk mail. So far the company has gotten a subscriber list from our website, and paid a good chunk of change for a ...
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How can I play common videos without leaving tracks on the system? [closed]
I need a way to play the common video formats without remembering the file names of files I have viewed in a recent files list, so that no one can know what has been watched.
This is for privacy ...
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Is there any git “for humans”?
A few non-technical friends have expressed interest in many of the cool abilities of git (the version control and rollbacks, not the offsite duplication), but definitely don't want to deal with git-* ...
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What's the best Linux USB live distro to test laptops at a store? [closed]
Have to replace the trusty eeepc-1000. Plan to go to a physical store, find a few machines with a keyboard that I like, and test a live distro with plenty of hardware support (but ideally no many ...
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RTMP video stream desktop player [closed]
I am looking for a Windows desktop player of RTMP stream.
Tried VLC, but it does NOT open RTMP streams.
I am aware of rtmpdump+VLC, but this is not user-friendly...
Is there any other player that ...
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Software for categorization with simple GUI [closed]
Is there a simple software that would let me categorize, tag and search items that I input in it? It would be like a regular database but with a simplified GUI.
I would add items with meaningful ...
