My brother sits about 3 feet away from me when I play games and his voice is so loud and annoying for ppl im playing with is there any software I can use to remove his voice im using Nvidia broadcast right now and it gets rid of background noise but not his voice he says racial slurs all the time ive been voice banned on all sorts of games because of him its making me so angry I need somthing to fix this
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
-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 ?
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.
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 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.
I built Endstate to solve an issue I had previously pushed through many times, which is setting up a new machine or reinstalling Windows with all the apps and settings back to how they used to be.
The apps are the easier part, a package manager gets those back in ten minutes. It's the settings that eat the weekend.
Endstate captures both into one portable file. On a fresh machine it shows what is missing, installs the apps through WinGet or Chocolatey, and restores only the settings you explicitly enable. Credentials and secrets are deliberately excluded.
It is now available directly through WinGet:
winget install --id SubstrateSystems.Endstate -e
357 apps currently have settings modules. An app without one still installs normally; it just starts with fresh settings.
The engine is Go and the GUI is Tauri and React. Both repositories are Apache 2.0. The local product is free, works offline, requires no account and has no telemetry.
The MSI is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you.
I built this for myself first and have used it successfully on my own laptop, but that is still an N=1 experiment. What I need now is feedback from real setups: apps or settings it misses, unexpected behaviour, and anything that would stop you trusting it before a real reinstall.
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
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?
How do you write technical documentation such as requirements, goals, software architecture, and general project documentation?
Back in the pre-AI era, it was common to write long, multi-page documents that explained everything in detail. That approach had its pros and cons. The documentation was usually well organized and comprehensive, but it was also often boring to read and sometimes overwhelming.
What does it look like now, in the era of AI coding assistants? My impression is that large, comprehensive documents are becoming much less common and mostly remain in legacy projects or a few specific use cases.
It feels like the entire world has shifted to Markdown, so I assume technical writing is evolving in the same direction. It makes sense to break up those oversized documents into smaller, focused files so that both humans and AI agents can navigate and consume them more easily. That’s what I do for my side projects, and it has worked well so far.
On the other hand, at work we still tend to rely on large documents written by technical writers. The argument is that we’ve already established a structure around them, and that’s how our development process is designed.
What’s your approach to documentation for both personal and professional projects?
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).
Je suis le développeur unique de Ctrl Deck, et je le partage aujourd'hui dans le cadre du Mercredi de l'autopromotion.
Ctrl Deck était à l'origine un petit outil que j'avais créé pour moi-même.
J'en avais assez d'utiliser constamment Alt-Tab, de chercher dans une barre des tâches surchargée, de rouvrir les mêmes applications, de retrouver les mêmes dossiers et fichiers, et de recréer le même environnement de travail à chaque fois que je passais d'un projet à l'autre.
Ce qui a commencé comme un utilitaire personnel est progressivement devenu une véritable application de productivité Windows.
Avec la dernière version, Ctrl Deck est bien plus qu'un simple lanceur d'applications visuel.
Son objectif est de vous aider à organiser, trouver, ouvrir, capturer et reprendre plus rapidement des contextes de travail complets.
## Ce que Ctrl Deck peut organiser
Ctrl Deck permet de regrouper :
Applications
Fichiers
Dossiers
URL
Raccourcis Windows
Groupes modifiables
Espaces de travail
Espaces dynamiques
Vous pouvez l'utiliser pour vos projets de développement, vos missions clients, l'administration, la recherche, les tâches récurrentes, les travaux créatifs ou toute situation où vous avez régulièrement besoin des mêmes ressources.
## Configuration initiale beaucoup plus rapide
Au lieu d'ouvrir Ctrl Deck pour la première fois et de se retrouver face à une interface vide, l'application peut désormais importer :
Raccourcis du bureau
Raccourcis de la barre des tâches
URL Chrome
Elle suggère ensuite des groupes modifiables pour vous offrir un point de départ organisé.
Tout reste personnalisable ; la structure suggérée est là uniquement pour vous faire gagner du temps et non pour imposer un flux de travail particulier.
## Une nouvelle section APPLICATIONS
Ctrl Deck inclut désormais une section APPLICATIONS qui analyse votre ordinateur pour trouver les applications installées et les outils Windows utiles.
À partir de là, vous pouvez rechercher une application et :
L'ajouter à un groupe
Créer un nouvel espace de travail avec elle
L'ajouter à un espace de travail existant
Cela évite de devoir localiser manuellement chaque exécutable ou de recréer les raccourcis un par un.
## Glisser-déposer dans l'application
Les applications, les fichiers, les dossiers, les URL et les raccourcis peuvent être ajoutés par glisser-déposer.
L'objectif était de permettre à Ctrl Deck de fonctionner avec les ressources que les utilisateurs utilisent déjà, plutôt que d'imposer un processus de configuration complexe. Vous pouvez également faire glisser les « cartes » dans le panneau principal, par exemple pour changer de groupe (vous pouvez les réduire ou les développer toutes ou individuellement ; un défilement automatique facilite la navigation), ou même pour ajouter un raccourci à un espace de travail existant.
Espaces de travail : option 1
Un espace de travail est un ensemble réutilisable de ressources associées à un projet, un client, une activité ou une routine.
Vous pouvez en créer un manuellement contenant les applications, dossiers, documents, URL et raccourcis dont vous avez régulièrement besoin.
Ensuite, au lieu de tout rechercher à nouveau, vous pouvez rouvrir l’espace de travail complet lorsque vous reprenez cette activité.
Espaces de travail : option 2 // Capture en un clic d’un environnement de travail ouvert
Il s’agit de l’une des principales nouveautés.
Si vos applications, dossiers, fichiers, liens et ressources de projet sont déjà ouverts, Ctrl Deck peut capturer cet environnement de travail en un seul clic.
Vous pouvez ensuite le conserver comme espace de travail et le rouvrir en quelques secondes.
C'est pratique lorsque vous avez enfin rassemblé tout le nécessaire pour une tâche, mais que vous savez que vous devrez la fermer, changer de projet ou redémarrer l'ordinateur.
Au lieu de recréer manuellement cette configuration, vous préservez le contexte et pouvez y revenir plus tard.
Il peut rouvrir des fichiers précis comme des fichiers .psd ou .indesign, Excel ou Word, ou simplement l'application dont vous avez besoin.
Espaces dynamiques
Les espaces dynamiques offrent une vue des ressources actuellement utilisées dans votre travail. Lorsqu'un contexte de travail temporaire devient réutilisable, il peut être enregistré comme espace de travail.
Vous pouvez ainsi démarrer naturellement, observer l'évolution du contexte de travail et ne l'enregistrer que s'il s'avère utile.
Accès au clavier et panneau visuel optionnel
Ctrl Deck est accessible via son panneau visuel (accessible par un clic de souris ou un raccourci clavier personnalisable), mais ce panneau n'est pas permanent. Il peut être affiché ou masqué rapidement, et des raccourcis clavier optionnels peuvent être attribués aux éléments suivants :
Groupes
Applications
Espaces de travail
Une fois la configuration terminée, les ressources fréquemment utilisées peuvent être ouvertes sans avoir à ouvrir le panneau.
Les utilisateurs qui préfèrent une vue d'ensemble claire peuvent conserver le panneau disponible ; un simple clic sur un raccourci, un groupe ou un espace de travail suffit pour le faire disparaître. Les utilisateurs privilégiant le clavier peuvent quant à eux utiliser davantage les raccourcis.
Pourquoi cette version a-t-elle nécessité un temps de développement considérablement plus long ?
Il ne s'agissait pas d'une simple mise à jour cosmétique. Plusieurs couches techniques ont dû être ajoutées, étendues ou reconstruites, notamment :
Importation initiale des raccourcis et des URL
Migration depuis les configurations précédentes
Découverte des applications et des outils Windows
Recherche dans les applications et les ressources
Gestion cohérente des applications, fichiers, dossiers, URL et raccourcis
Fonctionnalité glisser-déposer améliorée
Persistance de l'espace de travail
Capture et restauration des contextes de travail
Suppression du bouton « Enregistrer » : toutes vos actions sont conservées sans sauvegarde (mais vous pouvez exporter/importer votre configuration complète à tout moment)
Espace dynamique Conversion
Gestion des raccourcis clavier et résolution des conflits avec les raccourcis existants dans les applications
Nouvelle expérience d'intégration et de démarrage rapide
Avertissement de mise à jour automatique (vous pouvez choisir d'installer ou non la nouvelle version)
C'est pourquoi je ne considère plus Ctrl Deck comme un simple lanceur d'applications.
Le lanceur en fait toujours partie, mais l'objectif principal est de réduire le temps d'attente entre l'arrêt d'une tâche et la reprise d'une autre.
Sécurité et distribution
Le programme d'installation Windows est signé numériquement par COM'BOX via Microsoft Azure Artifact Signing, avec une signature Authenticode SHA-256 valide et un horodatage Microsoft. Des vérifications VirusTotal et Jotti ont également été effectuées sur le programme d'installation signé.
La vidéo de démarrage rapide inclut des sous-titres dans les sept langues prises en charge par Ctrl Deck.
Offre de lancement
Ctrl Deck est actuellement disponible à 9,90 € / 11,30 $ jusqu'au 20 août.
Je serais intéressé par des retours honnêtes, en particulier de la part de personnes qui jonglent régulièrement entre plusieurs projets ou qui reconstruisent fréquemment les mêmes environnements de travail Windows.
Et comment gérez-vous cela actuellement ? Via la barre des tâches, les bureaux virtuels, des scripts, des lanceurs, des favoris ou d'autres systèmes ?
I have been working on a naming system called Onymetry that searches for brandable names while also checking whether they offer a realistic clean slate for branding and SEO.
The first three serious naming runs produced: Onymetry, which became the name of the system itself Shotdresser(for an AppStore screen shot editor) Oqvara(a mobile testing plugin)
I was able to buy Onymetry.com at the normal registration price, and I confirmed that the .com domains for Shotdresser and Oqvara were also available at base price when generated.
That was the main problem I wanted to solve. Most naming tools suggest names that sound good until you search them and discover an existing company, a parked premium domain, crowded search results, or dozens of similarly named products.
Onymetry currently runs as a skill inside my Codex and Claude Code environments. I give it a product description, and it conducts a deeper naming and validation process before returning candidates.
Now I am trying to decide how to position it:
Build it into a standalone web or mobile app and charge for access.
Use Onymetry.com as a paid naming service. People submit a product description, I run the system myself, and they receive a researched shortlist.
Publish the skill freely so developers can run it inside Codex, Claude Code, or similar coding agents.
Package it as an official plugin or hosted tool that agents can call directly.
Keep the core skill private, but offer both self-service and higher-priced human-reviewed naming reports.
I am especially interested in hearing from people who have built developer tools, SaaS products, marketplaces, or productized services.
Which format sounds most useful and commercially realistic?
Would you trust a self-service naming app, or would the human-reviewed service be more valuable because domain availability and search results can change quickly?
Also, is this better positioned as a tool for founders and marketers, or as infrastructure for AI coding agents?
