What are some of the coolest/most useful programs to have in 2022?

Remote Desktop Screenshot Annotation Note Taking

mRemoteNG Landing Page
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mRemoteNG

mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote, an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I just found RDCMan and started setting it up but I may have to give https://mremoteng.org/ a try now after seeing it in this thread. Being able to connect to RDP, VNC, SSH, Telnet, HTTP/HTTPS, rlogin, Raw soctes and PowerShell remoting all in one tool is definitely enticing.

#Remote Desktop #SSH #Remote PC Access 21 social mentions
draw.io Landing Page
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draw.io

Online diagramming application
Pricing:
- Open Source
Can you explain why you're so dead-set against anything else? I've used both pretty extensively and I have to say I prefer draw.io. Visio is only my go-to if the organization already uses it as a standard.

#Diagrams #Flowcharts #Wireframing 714 social mentions
Barrier Landing Page

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Barrier

Barrier is a cross-platform software for sharing your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers...

Barrier - having the program on 2 PCs allows you to control both from 1 set of kb & mouse, your 2nd PC behaves like an additional screen.

#Remote Desktop #Remote PC Access #Mouse Tools 347 social mentions
dnGREP Landing Page
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dnGREP

dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results.
Pricing:
- Open Source
(Windows only) dnGrep - GUI based grep for Windows with tons of options, also integrates Everything's file index service.

#File Manager #Note Taking #Clipboard Manager 9 social mentions
tabby.sh
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Tabby.sh

Tabby is a free and open source SSH, local and Telnet terminal with everything you'll ever need.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Tabby looks pretty cool: https://tabby.sh/.

#Terminal Tools #Command Line Tools #DevOps Tools 17 social mentions
QTTabBar Landing Page

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QTTabBar

QTTabBar is an extension for Windows Explorer that brings tabbed browsing to Microsoft's file...

QTTabBar is brilliant for having multiple tabs on windows file explorer.

#File Manager #FTP Client #File Explorer 30 social mentions
Ninite Landing Page

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Ninite

Ninite is the easiest way to install software.

Pretty much a few things from ninite.com.

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

Greenshot is a free and open source screenshot tool that allows annotation and highlighting using the built-in image editor.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 116 social mentions
LightShot Landing Page

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LightShot

The fastest way to take a customizable screenshot.

Lightshot. Lets you draw arrows and boxes on the screenshots, on-screen without going to an intermediate editor, and can jump from there to clipboard or cloud upload.

#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 48 social mentions
OctoPrint Landing Page
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OctoPrint

OctoPrint is the snappy web interface for your 3D printer that allows you to control and monitor all aspects of your printer and print jobs, right from your browser.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Octoprint - If you use and/or work with 3D printers, you need remote control of them, and Octoprint is one of the better 3D printer servers out there. With variants for all major OSes and Raspberry Pi images, it's pretty flexible.

#3D #Architecture #CAD 110 social mentions
MKVToolnix Landing Page

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MKVToolnix

MKVToolnix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices...

MKVToolNix - I try to output video files exclusively in mkv containers until they hit deployment locations, since mkv is so malleable. MKVToolNix is a great toolkit for mucking with them, including replacing audio and/or video tracks, adding embedded subtitles, as well as the ability to examine and edit properties and other embedded files.

#Video #Video Converter #Audio & Music 185 social mentions
WinCompose Landing Page

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WinCompose

WinCompose supports the standard Compose file format.

WinCompose - No more Alt+1234 codes to type special characters. Most common unicode characters are built in with intuitive defaults, and it's completely configurable.

#Ruby Web Framework #Web Frameworks #Fonts 45 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
VS Code - I've actually been really digging on VS Code lately, despite actively hating Visual Studio. Code is a complete redesign written in electron/npm with Typescript/Javascript extension support and a reasonably active community marketplace for extensions. It's far from perfect, but represents a really good foray into modern development environments from Microsoft.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1002 social mentions
f.lux Landing Page

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f.lux

f. lux is a piece of software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android that provides a blue light filter over your screen. Research suggests limiting our exposure to blue light in the hours before bedtime can help us fall asleep faster.

#Work Management #Color Temperature Adjuster #Time Tracking 345 social mentions
Remmina Landing Page
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Remmina

Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travellers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks.
Pricing:
- Open Source
For the Penguins here, Remmina (https://remmina.org/ ) works pretty well.

#Remote Desktop #Remote PC Access #Remote Control 28 social mentions
Ditto Landing Page
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Ditto

Easy to use interface; Search and paste previous copy entries; Keep multiple computer's clipboards in sync; Data is encrypted when sent over the network; Accessed from tray icon or global hot key; Select entry by double click, enter key or drag drop…
Pricing:
- Open Source
URL for Ditto: https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/.

#Note Taking #Bookmarks #Clipboard Manager 60 social mentions
Chocolatey Landing Page
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Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Official Pricing
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 251 social mentions
Rclone Landing Page
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Rclone

rsync for cloud storage.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Storage #Web Service Automation #File Sharing And Backup 616 social mentions
Beyond Compare Landing Page

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Beyond Compare

Beyond Compare allows you to compare files and folders.

BeyondCompare is a tool I love for comparing configuration files or t directory trees.

#File Management #Diff And Merge Tools #Data Comparison 5 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.
Pricing:
- Official Pricing
I use a fair few of already mentioned apps from above so won't repeat. Here's a few I didn't see or missed. Winget - native package manage in Windows Vysor - Android mirroring Huetro - Philips Hue control Twinkletray - Twinkle Tray lets you easily manage the brightness levels of multiple monitors XnView MP - XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. WinAreo - for applying a few tweaks here and there Screen Ruler - especially useful when working with graphics Nirsoft.net - too many to mention Shutter - lots of conditional shutdown options TheMatrixTrilogy - My preferred screensaver of choice Reg2ps.azurewebsites.net - honourable mention of service for converting .reg files to PowerShell.

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

Vysor lets you view and control your Android on your computer.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Official Pricing
I use a fair few of already mentioned apps from above so won't repeat. Here's a few I didn't see or missed. Winget - native package manage in Windows Vysor - Android mirroring Huetro - Philips Hue control Twinkletray - Twinkle Tray lets you easily manage the brightness levels of multiple monitors XnView MP - XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. WinAreo - for applying a few tweaks here and there Screen Ruler - especially useful when working with graphics Nirsoft.net - too many to mention Shutter - lots of conditional shutdown options TheMatrixTrilogy - My preferred screensaver of choice Reg2ps.azurewebsites.net - honourable mention of service for converting .reg files to PowerShell.

#Device Management #Data Management #iPhone 3 social mentions
Twinkle Tray Landing Page
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Twinkle Tray

Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I use a fair few of already mentioned apps from above so won't repeat. Here's a few I didn't see or missed. Winget - native package manage in Windows Vysor - Android mirroring Huetro - Philips Hue control Twinkletray - Twinkle Tray lets you easily manage the brightness levels of multiple monitors XnView MP - XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. WinAreo - for applying a few tweaks here and there Screen Ruler - especially useful when working with graphics Nirsoft.net - too many to mention Shutter - lots of conditional shutdown options TheMatrixTrilogy - My preferred screensaver of choice Reg2ps.azurewebsites.net - honourable mention of service for converting .reg files to PowerShell.

#Time Tracking #Work Management #Color Temperature Adjuster 21 social mentions
Bluegrams Screen Ruler Landing Page

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Bluegrams Screen Ruler

A lightweight and configurable ruler tool for Windows Desktop.

I use a fair few of already mentioned apps from above so won't repeat. Here's a few I didn't see or missed. Winget - native package manage in Windows Vysor - Android mirroring Huetro - Philips Hue control Twinkletray - Twinkle Tray lets you easily manage the brightness levels of multiple monitors XnView MP - XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. WinAreo - for applying a few tweaks here and there Screen Ruler - especially useful when working with graphics Nirsoft.net - too many to mention Shutter - lots of conditional shutdown options TheMatrixTrilogy - My preferred screensaver of choice Reg2ps.azurewebsites.net - honourable mention of service for converting .reg files to PowerShell.

#Note Taking #Screenshot Annotation #Social Networks 3 social mentions
WebVideoCap Landing Page

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WebVideoCap

WebVideoCap is a very small program that will let you save the .

I use a fair few of already mentioned apps from above so won't repeat. Here's a few I didn't see or missed. Winget - native package manage in Windows Vysor - Android mirroring Huetro - Philips Hue control Twinkletray - Twinkle Tray lets you easily manage the brightness levels of multiple monitors XnView MP - XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. WinAreo - for applying a few tweaks here and there Screen Ruler - especially useful when working with graphics Nirsoft.net - too many to mention Shutter - lots of conditional shutdown options TheMatrixTrilogy - My preferred screensaver of choice Reg2ps.azurewebsites.net - honourable mention of service for converting .reg files to PowerShell.

#Download Manager #Video Downloader #Music Downloader 11 social mentions
WinDirStat Landing Page
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WinDirStat

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool, inspired by KDirStat.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Disk Analyzer #Hard Disk Usage #Hard Drive Tools 332 social mentions
ProGet Landing Page

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ProGet

ProGet is a repository manager that allows you to host your own personal or enterprise-wide package...

We did not. We use a Proget server and a couple scripts.

#Software Development #Package Manager #Developer Tools 2 social mentions