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IrfanView 4.62 Released
- New PDF PlugIn (thanks to Pdfium guys)
- Option to save slideshow as MP4 video (Thanks to Shao Voon Wong)
- New options menu: Append current image to PDF (Options->Multipage images)
- New options menu: Edit multipage PDF (Options->Multipage images)
- New "Adobe 8BF filters" PlugIn (also for 64-bit 8BF, thanks to Sinisa Petric)
- New in Advanced Batch dialog: All effects (Effects Browser dialog) can be used
- New in Properties->Extensions dialog: Load only minimal (browsing) extensions
- The selection rectangle can be resized on corners (with CTRL = proportional)
- Change for "Paste into Selection": you can move/resize the selection rectangle/image; click to apply selection image to main image
- New option in "Compare images" dialog: Show difference image
- New effect in Image->Effects menu: Skew/Shear image
- New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + G: Start Google Maps with GPS of the loaded file
- New command line option: /fs_exit=> if started in fullscreen mode; ESC closes fullscreen and IrfanView
- Old/obsolete JPG options disabled: "Load as grayscale" and "Save as grayscale" (easy to forget; can be re-enabled using new INI flags)
- Removed very old PlugIn: FiltersUnlimited
- Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
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A good FOSS multiplatform alternative (IMHO the best one) to IrfanView is Nomacs - ImageLounge, with the same features as IrfanView, except Multimedia (for this is anyway better the VLC player).
Image Viewing
supports the most common image formats including RAW (see table below)
- fast thumbnail preview
zoomable grid preview of thumbnails
display exif information
frameless view
change transparency of windows
display overview/histogram/file info
file filtering/searching/sorting
improved anti-aliasing (cool for displaying highly textured images)
hide menubar and toolbar
slideshow
image information (e.g. date created)
play/pause with user defined time interval
adjustable background color
Image Editing
- crop images
resize images
pseudo color function
color adjustments (brightness/contrast/saturation …)
multi page TIFF export
rotate images
drag and drop images
automatically save screenshots
delete/rename images
create mosaic image (Howto)
set wallpaper (windows only)
Viewer Synchronization
- synchronize multiple instances (Howto)
synchronized zooming
synchronized panning
synchronized next/previous file
overlay of two or more instances (with changing opacity)
arrange synchronized instances
synchronize multiple instances in the LAN (Howto)
synchronized zooming
synchronized panning
images can be sent over LAN connection
- fast thumbnail preview
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A good substitute for the File Explorer is Double Commander, it's a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.
Features
- Unicode support.
Tabbed interface.
Multi-rename tool.
Custom columns.
Built in file viewer (F3) to view files of in hex, binary or text format.
Internal text editor (F4) with syntax hightlighting.
Archives are handled like subdirectories. You can easily copy files to and from archives. Supported archive types: ZIP, TAR GZ, TGZ, LZMA and also BZ2, RPM, CPIO, DEB, RAR.
All operations working in background.
Extended search function with full text search in any files.
Configurable button bar to start external programs or internal menu commands.
Total Commander WCX, WDX and WLX plug-ins support.
- Unicode support.
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Another, rather curious, file explorer is Eagle Mode.
Eagle Mode is a zoomable user interface (ZUI) with file manager, file viewers, games, and more.
This project is about a futuristic style of human-computer interaction, where the user can visit almost everything simply by zooming in. It features a portable C++ programming interface for developing such ZUIs, and it features the Eagle Mode application, which provides a virtual cosmos with plugin applications.The most important one is the professional file manager with its rich, scriptable command set. It integrates file viewers for most of the common file types, as well as an audio/video player. Furthermore, the virtual cosmos contains a chess game, a netwalk game, a 3D mines game, a multi-function clock, some fractals, and a Linux kernel configurator in form of a kernel patch.
An autoplay function allows to show or play things one ofter the other (e.g. slideshow of picture files or document pages, playing of multiple audio or video files).
The core of Eagle Mode supports fast anti-aliased graphics, virtually unlimited depth of zooming, extensive mouse and keyboard control, animated navigation with kinetic effects (inertia, friction, and magnetism), popup-zoomed control views, editable bookmarks, in-place help texts, and working with multiple windows.
Eagle Mode is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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System D (not confuse with systemd) is a great online collaboration Tool (FOSS, AGPL-3.0 license -still in developement but works fine). 100% private, collaborators are added by invitation link by the main user.
OUR PURPOSE :
Develop a tool to support the transition to a production model based on the free exchange, the sharing and the collaboration between humans.
(I imagine this added as a feature in Vivaldi for a premium enterprise version https://github.com/HUB-HUmanBeing/SystemD)
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One of the best translation tool, according to own experience, is Crow Translate (FOSS)
Features
Translate and speak text from screen or selection
Support 125 different languages
Low memory consumption (~20MB)
Highly customizable shortcuts
Command-line interface with rich options
D-Bus API
Available for Linux and WindowsDefault keys:
Global
Ctrl + Alt + E - Translate selected text
Ctrl + Alt + S - Speak selected text
Ctrl + Alt + F - Speak translation of selected text
Ctrl + Alt + G - Stop speaking
Ctrl + Alt + C - Show main window
Ctrl + Alt + I - Recognize text in screen area
Ctrl + Alt + O - Translate text in screen areaIn main window
Ctrl + Return - Translate
Ctrl + R - Swap languages
Ctrl + Q - Close window
Ctrl + S - Speak source / pause text speaking
Ctrl + Shift + S - Speak translation / pause text speaking
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@Pesala Have you tried code analysis services, AppRefactoring or Sourcery AI
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Youtube Downloader HD
Simply the best application to download and save Youtube videos. And it's completely free. -
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Youtube Downloader HD
Simply the best application to download and save Youtube videos.
Better than JDownloader2, I doubt it.
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@barbudo2005 said in Big and Powerful but Free:
JDownloader2
I didn't know that. Thank you.
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Look this post for more details:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/52490/have-any-download-manager-of-the-vivaldi/7
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PDF24 Tools
Free and easy-to-use online PDF tools that make you more productive.
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@Ryszard said in Big and Powerful but Free:
PDF24 Tools
Free and easy-to-use online PDF tools that make you more productive.
https://tools.pdf24.org/"The PDF24 Creator brings all PDF24 tools as offline version. All files remain on your PC."
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Love these lists. Here goes mine...
@kahukura XMPlay... awesome. Been using it for years.
MPC-BE - My favorite video player for Windows. Now there's a snap for Linux.
TrafficMonitor to display download/upload speed in windows taskbar with CPU/MEM usage.
Portmaster Firewall - Really nice firewall i use in Windows/Linux. Not the most intuitive, but very capable.
Simplewall Firewall - A (simpler) capable firewall for Windows i also recommend.
Everything search - How can Windows not have this capability for so many years!?
Xtreme Download Manager @barbudo2005 - Like it much better than JDownloader... Not sure about Youtube videos. Never tried it, but it download all sorts of videos. No ads and much better looking, IMO
Greenfish Icon Editor Pro - Very nice icon editor.
PureRef - To create image references. Very useful to decorate my house
Transmission - Very competent and light Torrent client for Windows/Linux.
KDE Connect - To connect your devices, copy/paste text, send/receive messages and commands... Yes, it works in Windows. - Who needs Windows Phone Link to spy on you?!
Putty - Best SSH Client ever.
Joplin - For notes - not using it now that i have Vivaldi, but it's a really competent note-taking app.
Super Productivity - To keep track of my apps development.
Autoruns by Microsoft - To see whats running at boot.
Hostsman - Manage your host file.
KeePass - To manage passwords. Used it for years, but now i'm on Vaulwarden Selfhosted.
Vaulwarden - Selfhosted Bitwarden to manage passwords.
Bleachbit - To keep your Windows clean.
SUMo - To keep your software updated
InputDirector - KVM software. To use the same mouse in different computers with copy/paste capability. Very cool.
Barrier - Discontinued open-source KVM software. Still use it.
Guess i could make a Linux list as well and a very interesting list of self-hosted free software.
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Oh... forgot that i use a little app i made myself to listen to radio.
The app sits on system tray and you just need to click on itto listen. You can also edit the radio list.
Currently only in Portuguese. Not sure why i never got to translate it.
The idea was to replicate this Gnome extension to Windows.
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Everyone knows IrfanView, surely one of the best image and multimedia viewers/editors, although unfortunately only for Windows. It may work on some Linux distros with Wine, but naturally an app with similar capabilities that works on Linux would be better.
There are many viewers for Linux, but this, only limited viewers, but there are only 2 comparable to IrfanView (naturally both FOSS, Linux and Windows)
Nomacs Image Lounge
and the one that is really comparable, even capable to upload and share an image (Imgur anonimously) and also to play mediafiles.
PhotoQt
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IrfanView 4.65 was released on 9th December 2023.
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@Pesala, IrfanView is IMHO the best image, multimedia viewer out there, with no real alternatives, but sadly Windows only and proprietary, only free for personal use. One of the better alternatives which works also in Linux is maybe Nomacs (FOSS, Windows, Linux, Mac), other very good FOSS alternative for Windows is PicView, which I use currently, for multimedia files and streaming videos I use SMplayer, also FOSS (Windows Mac, Linux)
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@Catweazle said in Big and Powerful but Free:
only free for personal use
Not only this - IrfanView is free for educational use (schools, universities, museums and libraries) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations.
@Catweazle said in Big and Powerful but Free:
but sadly Windows only
I once had to check how it works under Wine and there were no problems.