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!

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?

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

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.

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??

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...

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.

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.

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

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!

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'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?

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..

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 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?

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!

I have an elderly farmer that uses a Celeron computer from 2001 that uses ACT! 2.0 to do his cattle records (he got it from work when he was selling cars and is definitely not using it for it's original intent.) is there a free or cheap piece of software that would work in windows 11 basically similarly or nearly identically.. the 30 bucks a month for ACT! now is not an option on top of which finding an intermediary version of ACT! would be needed to update the format and it really doesn't work the same as the old school program. This one has me a little stumped. I give forth my dilemma to the universe. Transferring data manually is just acceptable terms for this project.

Hey r/software,

Like a lot of people here, I’ve spent way too much time pulling my hair out trying to find files on my hard drive because I couldn't remember the exact filename. Standard keyword search just doesn’t cut it when you've got thousands of files scattered around.

So, I decided to build Fossick—a local, privacy-first semantic search tool that lets you find documents, notes, and images by what they mean, not just what they are named.

Key Features:

• Semantic Search: Query your files using natural concepts and context, rather than guessing exact words.
• Built-in OCR: It automatically indexes and lets you search text trapped inside images, receipts, and scanned PDFs.
• 100% Offline & Private: This was non-negotiable for me. Zero data is ever uploaded to the cloud. Your files and embeddings stay completely on your machine.
• A background automation engine: set your file rules and Fossick will execute it in the background keeping your folders nice and organised

What's Coming Next (Future Vision): 

Beyond just searching, I want Fossick to manage your local file system for you. I'm currently working on improving the background automation engine. It is working currently, but there are features that i want to add in the future.I also want to work on improving the UI so it looks and feels more premium for the users and i would love some feedback on how i can do so.

Current Status:

The core engine is fully built and functional, and we are officially in open beta. The app is completely free to use right now while we polish the interface and fix edge cases before going live down the road.

I’m really looking for some brutal feedback from software enthusiasts. What works? What breaks? What features are missing that would make this an indispensable part of your workflow?

You can grab the build directly here: getfossick.com

Let me know what you think or if you run into any performance hiccups during the initial indexing!