Hello everyone,

I built Lexicon, a free, open-source desktop writing assistant. Clean grammar checking and text editing without sending your private drafts to cloud servers or paying monthly subscriptions. A rich editor includes LaTeX math, structured tables, code blocks, and clean PDF/Markdown exports.

The app offers proofreading and 15 local text tools (Rewrite, Concise, Tone shifts, Summaries, Tables). It's completely free and open-source under the MIT license.

GitHub & Downloads: https://github.com/AashishH15/Lexicon

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

Hi,

I've created a free native application for smart images search. Works especially well with memes but could actually find any type of pictures in multiple languages. Also, it could search for similar images.

App is using OCR to get text from images for search with. Also, it's using local language-vision model for so called natural language search. It's complicated term for simple type "cat" to find pictures with cats.

Download link

Some tech info for those who are interested:

• Works on Windows 10 20H2 or higher
• WinUI3, because I hate electron apps. So, it's kinda fast and have native look and feel
• Built-in Google SigLIP2 for smart search
• Batteries (ai model) are included
• Works completely offline. Feel free to search for the craziest memes
• 95% handcoded, so I've learned some new things while developing it

Hey everyone,

If you recently got a new laptop or one of the new Copilot+ PCs, you’ve probably noticed the mandatory Copilot key. For many users, developers, and sysadmins, it’s mostly prime keyboard real estate going to waste on a web shortcut we don't necessarily use or want.

Since Windows doesn't offer a native way to customize it and the alternatives conflict with it, I decided to build a clean, lightweight utility to fix this annoyance, and I recently published it on the Microsoft Store (this is mandatory to get the app recognized as a Copilot key provider).

Under the Hood & Tech Stack:

• Resources-First: Built using C++ for the background launcher to ensure good performance and near-zero CPU/RAM footprint when triggering your apps, combined with C# and MUI3 for a clean, modern native UI configuration tool.

• 100% Private & Secure: The app requires no internet connection, features no telemetry/data collection, and contains absolutely zero ads. It just installs and works.

• Full Customization: Remaps the Copilot key to open any application (.exe or store), Windows CMD, PowerShell, or specific command-line scripts.

Pricing & Trial: While it isn't free I wanted to keep this accessible, so it’s priced at a symbolic 0.99 USD (or close to that, whatever the Microsoft Store charges you for the equivalent to 0.99 USD). However, I’ve set up a one week completely free trial so you can test its performance in your daily workflow risk free.

If you want to give it a shot, you can find it here: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NQW6CTV79D7

Just remember to go to Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Keyboard, and select it as the Copilot key provider after downloading it. The settings UI can be opened from the start menu, and pressing the Copilot key will launch what you bind to it.

I’d love to get your technical feedback! If you have any feature requests, questions about the implementation, or bugs to report, let me know in the comments.

Thanks for checking it out!

I've been trying nearly every phone-as-webcam app available (DroidCam, Camo, Iriun, EpocCam...) while building my own alternative.

Most of them still have issues or are annoying to use.
Watermarks, Subscription-only features, High CPU usage, Awkward setup.

So I'm curious, if you use your phone as a webcam:

What's the one thing that annoys you the most about your current app?

I'd really like to understand where these apps are falling short before I continue building mine.

Hopefully someone can help. I have downloaded a load of old video game manuals that for whatever reason are in CBR file format which is useless to me I want them as PDF.

Can anyone suggest a software that I can simply drag and drop these files then click a button and the conversion is done? When I search all I am seeing is do this and that, then put into imageshack covert there etc. I just want as simple an option as possible. I would have thought something like this would be very easy to do yet here I am almost 2 hours later and still haven't found a viable solution.

I have already downloaded something called Jomic but my Macbook keeps refusing to open the file so please can someone offer some suggestions Preferably a paid software as that would be best. I have too many things to convert to use one of those online free sites.

I also have access to a windows computer if what I am looking for is easier to do there but all the stuff is on my mac so I would prefer to do it here.

ok so this happened to me with Trello a while back, remember when it was just clean simple boards and now it's got like 15 power-ups shoved in your face and half the UI feels like an upsell screen

anyway made me think about how many apps do this. you use something for years, it's perfect, then one update later it's unrecognizable and somehow worse even though it has "more features"

what's yours? bonus points if you remember the exact version/update where it went downhill

I'm trying to build an app that automatically lays out solder sub-assemblies for an aerospace manufacturer, and I'm trying to use the ELK layout engine, but it's been lacking. Does anyone know a better layout engine? Or know how to use ELK effectively?

How it works:

-Append && curl -fsS https://ping-url to a cron job. If the ping doesn't arrive within the expected interval + grace, the monitor flips to down.

-Also does HTTP uptime checks (interval, expected status range, keyword match, SSL expiry).

The part i actually care about: pings can carry metrics as query params (?rows=1400), and you set rules on them; floor, ceiling, or deviation from the recent median.

So ?rows=0 fails against a floor even though the job "succeeded." Lets you treat "ran but processed nothing" as a down state.

Alerts go to email/Telegram/Slack/Discord/webhook; webhook payloads are HMAC-signed so you can automate a response.

Currently working on incorporating auto analyzing stack traces in stderr payloads.

Looking for feedback, would you find this useful ?

Link : https://pulsewatcher.vercel.app/

Hi everyone,

Over the past few months, we've been building TadreebLMS, an open-source Learning Management System focused on enterprise and corporate training.

We've recently completed a major restructuring of the project

The project is built with:

• PHP / Laravel
• MySQL
• Bootstrap / JavaScript
• Docker

GitHub:
https://github.com/Tadreeb-LMS/tadreeblms

Issues:
https://github.com/Tadreeb-LMS/tadreeblms/issues

We have a huge roadmap like SCRUM Integration, UI upgrade as per FIGMA, Gap Analysis Module Integration, Integrations with HR Systems etc...

Please anyone experience or architect in PHP can give recommendation on best practices, gaps in the system etc..

For those who have problem with av1 encoded videos in mpc be player not playing smoothly ... Buffering at some moments there is a fix that worked for me

MPC-BE → Internal Filters → Video Decoder → Video Decoder Configuration → Number of Threads → Auto

I've been trying to find an autoclicker that lets me lets me do 1 click = x clicks, but I'm only able to find autoclickers that have me set the amount of time between each click, and most of them are ones that I have to start/stop instead of per click.

I'm using a Windows laptop and Opera GX.

I have a 400-page book and a mirrorless camera mounted on a tripod, so taking consistent, high quality photos isn't the problem.

What I'm looking for is software that can process all of these images in bulk.

Ideally, the workflow would be:

1)I photograph every page in order.

2)I import all of the images into the software.

3)The software automatically detects the page boundaries, corrects perspective if necessary, crops each page consistently, enhances readability (if needed), and exports everything as a single PDF in the correct order.

OCR support would be a nice bonus, but it's not essential.

What software would you recommend for this workflow? I'm looking for something that works well with hundreds of images rather than requiring me to manually adjust every page.

My phone says that 28 GB are being taken up by apps, but when I counted it, I only got 12.8 BG. Where is the rest of the 16 GB??

I was doing a demo of an operational system I have built and the prospective team brought up a good question I was unable to answer at a high level.

“What happens if forbid it ever happen, you’re gone forever?” being I’m a solo dev and founder.

Has anyone been asked a question like this (as a solo founder and dev) and how did you handle it?

My book club votes on any new books, we each suggest a title or two and then vote. Each member can give 3, 2 and 1 point, which, while a bit more complicated, leads to results that everybody is somewhat happy with, instead of the one that is the favourite of some, but maybe not liked at all by others. Well anyway, it works for us.

Sadly, I was so far unable to find any website or software that allows for this "natively", we just use a google sheet and ask people how to vote (some of which are not good at understanding the method) and then just count. So we don’t even have any nice graphs or graphics automatically. Sad.

Anyway, can anybody recommend a good polling site or program for our first world problem?

Sharing an app I've been building called Valutio.

It tracks net worth, investments, cash accounts, spending, tax and retirement planning, all in one place.

It runs in your browser and installs like a regular app (PWA), works offline too.
No signup, no bank login, nothing gets sent anywhere except live price lookups when you're online.
Your data stays on your device unless you choose to export it, and there's an encrypted export option if you want a real backup.

It's completely free and open source.

Site: https://valutio.app/

Source: https://github.com/SalvatoreSorvillo/Valutio

This is a first release, so let me know if you run into bugs or have suggestions.

FSIV 7.4 was great and fast but further updates caused jpeg images to start slow with a black window so I had been daily-driving the older versions until the 8.7 update came along and got me greedy to open JXL images as well.

FSIV 8.7 now supports JPEG XL and performs really well with JXL and all other file systems except for jpeg where it starts a photo slow if the "smooth" feature is enabled. Disabling makes images look really bad when reviewing images. Monitor ICC doesn't affect the issue and I tried with 12th gen 12500h cpu with Intel Xe gpu and Nvidia rtx3050 connected to external display as well through nvidia optimus. I also faced this issue on 11th gen intel laptop.

Does anyone face the same issue as me and is there any solution to this?

I also use Irfanview, jpegview, xnview and none were as easy to navigate as FSIV for me. I emailed the dev but haven't gotten a reply yet but I'm hopeful this issue can be resolved soon.

Hi r/software - I’m the developer of Scryptian, a free and open-source Windows app for running scripts for processing data without switching window when u work. I built it because I wanted to be able to use routine tools such as a translator or summarizer or converters like csv to excel without leaving the work area (GIF demo on the website).

How it works?
elect text in Telegram, browser, Word or PDF - and you can immediately translate it, correct errors, simplify or make a short summary. 

Where will it be useful?
Correspondence with foreign customers.
Working with technical documentation.
Translation of PDF of any size.
Writing letters.
Checking any foreign language text.
Studying and working with large articles.
Any tasks where you have to constantly switch between applications.

In case there are not enough basic scripts, you can create your own .py file with your own logic and put it in a special folder. If you are not a programmer or don’t want to, then a registry of scripts has been added that you can download in one click and it will work immediately. Without the need for an IDE or other technical issues.

The best part is it's free: no accounts, no subscriptions. The .exe is installed on ~30 MB, the model is downloaded once (~2 GB).

19sec demo video: https://adrianium.github.io/Scryptian/

I hope this speeds up your performance!

So when i went through my startup folder today because my ahk files werent working and found this shortcut just chilling there: "LG Monitor App Installer" i never installed it and haven't to agreed to it no nothing.

LG sneaks this through Windows Update or driver installs if it sees you've got an LG monitor plugged in and with no pop it just appears...