Let's talk about must have applications that you can't live without! 2021 Edition

Security & Privacy Monitoring Tools Windows Tools

ShareX Landing Page
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ShareX

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen...
Pricing:
- Open Source
ShareX (Free) - Capture screenshots, make GIFs, and upload them straight to cloud storage and give me the share link.

#Screenshots #Screenshot Annotation #Image Annotation 271 social mentions
bitwarden Landing Page
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bitwarden

Bitwarden is a free and open source password management solution for individuals, teams, and business organizations.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- $10.0 / Annually (Premium)
Try Bitwarden. It's open source and has a better free tier incl. No restrictions on amount of devices.

#Password Managers #Password Management #Security & Privacy 604 social mentions
Winaero Tweaker Landing Page

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Winaero Tweaker

Universal tweaker software which supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.

Winaero Tweaker (Free) - Tweak a bunch of "hidden" features in Windows 10, also let's you turn off all telemetry.

#Utilities #Data Cleansing #Monitoring Tools 54 social mentions
VSTS Landing Page

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VSTS

Visual Studio dev tools & services make app development easy for any platform & language. Try our Mac & Windows code editor, IDE, or Azure DevOps for free.

#Code Collaboration #Git #Continuous Integration 93 social mentions
Plex Landing Page

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Plex

Free movies and TV plus all your personal media libraries on every device. Master your Mediaverse.

Plex - Using this with Plex Media Server for watching my movies.

#Video & Movies #Media Player #Watch Movies Online 649 social mentions
PCem Landing Page
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PCem

PCem emulates an IBM 5150 PC, several models of clones and successors, along with various graphics...
Pricing:
- Open Source
PCem (Free) - For emulation old PCs, much better than using VM to install Windows 95 etc.

#IDE #Email Marketing #CRM 34 social mentions
Microsoft 365 Landing Page

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Microsoft 365

Boost your productivity with reliable access anywhere with services like email, calendar, file sharing, meetings, instant messaging, and Office Online

#Office & Productivity #Office Suites #Office Tools 12 social mentions
Notepad++ Landing Page
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Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 169 social mentions
Npcap Landing Page

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Npcap

Npcap is the Nmap Project's packet sniffing library for Windows.

Npcap (Free) - Gives PCem access to my PCs network card so I can go online with Windows 95.

#Monitoring Tools #Security & Privacy #Web Scraping 7 social mentions
MPC-HC Landing Page

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MPC-HC

MPC-HC, the free, open source media player for Windows. DownloadsNote. Supported Operating Systems: Windows® XP SP3 .

#Media Player #Video Player #Audio Player 37 social mentions
HandBrake Landing Page
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HandBrake

HandBrake allows users to easily convert video files into a wide variety of different formats.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Video Converter #File Converter 568 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
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Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1008 social mentions
Chocolatey Landing Page
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Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Chocolatey (Free) - Package manager like apt-get for Windows. Super sweet! Perfect for those times you have to clean install Windows.

#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 social mentions
Unchecky Landing Page

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Unchecky

Tired of unchecking unrelated offers while installing software?

#Monitoring Tools #CRM #Utilities 14 social mentions
MPC-BE Landing Page

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MPC-BE

MPC-BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows.

MPC HC is no longer maintained I recommend switching to either VLC or MPC BE.

#Media Player #Audio Player #Video Player 58 social mentions
ProtonVPN Landing Page
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ProtonVPN

ProtonVPN is a security focused FREE VPN service, developed by CERN and MIT scientists. Use the web anonymously, unblock websites & encrypt your connection.
Pricing:
- Open Source
ProtonVPN is a completely free VPN with unlimited bandwidth. It is HQed at Switzerland which has strong privacy laws and was founded by the scientists of CERN. Although completely free, it has only 3 countries to choose from. In paid version, you can choose any country. Better than any sponsored VPN that you see at youtube ads.

#VPN #Cloud VPN #Security 310 social mentions
Ninite Landing Page

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Ninite

Ninite is the easiest way to install software.

I use Ninite instead of Chocolatey. I found chocolatey a little bit harder as it requires using the CUI way of installing. For those who are comfortable using Powershell, it is a very good app. But to those who want to have an install manager in a easy GUI way, Ninite is a good option.

#Windows Tools #Package Manager #SSH 447 social mentions
YogaDNS Landing Page

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YDN

YogaDNS

YogaDNS automatically intercepts DNS requests at the system level and allows you to process them...

#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Block Ads 5 social mentions
Playnite Landing Page
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Playnite

Source code generated using layoutit.com
Pricing:
- Open Source
Playnite (all your games in one place; a bit like GOG Galaxy 2.0).

#Gaming #Emulators #Gaming Tools 286 social mentions
NextDNS Landing Page
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NextDNS

Block ads, trackers and malicious websites on all your devices.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Threat Detection And Prevention #Ad Blockers 499 social mentions
Join by joaoapps Landing Page

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Join by joaoapps

Join – Tasker and Join

#Push Notifications #File Explorer #Web Push Notifications 24 social mentions
Spicetify Landing Page

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Spicetify

Command line tool to customize Spotify client

Spicetify (customisation of Spotify).

#Work Management #Time Tracking #Color Temperature Adjuster 77 social mentions
TaskbarX Landing Page

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TaskbarX

TaskbarX gives you control over the position of your taskbar icons.

TaskbarX (having the taskbar centered feels so much better).

#Note Taking #LMS #Productivity 86 social mentions
Peace Equalizer Landing Page

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Peace Equalizer

Download Peace Equalizer, interface Equalizer APO for free.

Equalizer APO (and optionally the Peace GUI).

#Audio #Audio & Music #Sound Equalizers 193 social mentions
Equalizer APO Landing Page

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Equalizer APO

A system-wide equalizer for Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 with channel remapping/copying capabilities

Equalizer APO (and optionally the Peace GUI).

#Audio #Audio & Music #Sound Equalizers 263 social mentions
FileZilla Landing Page

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FileZilla

FileZilla is an FTP, or file transfer protocol, client. It lets individuals transfer single files or batches to a web server. For many years, FTP was the standard for website design. Read more about FileZilla.

#File Transfer #FTP Client #SSH 81 social mentions
Scoop Landing Page
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Scoop

A command-line installer for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
Awesome list thanks so much! Would also recommend scoop if you're looking for a good package manager (it's my favourite so far).

#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 155 social mentions
Chrome Remote Desktop Landing Page

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Chrome Remote Desktop

The easy way to remotely connect with your home or work computer, or share your screen with others.

Why would suggest not using Microsoft Remote Desktop and instead use Chrome Remote Desktop.

#Remote Desktop #Remote PC Access #Remote Control 94 social mentions