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tools2024

An extensive resource page dedicated to a variety of tools and applications tailored for web development, browsing enhancements, cybersecurity, operational productivity, and much more. The webpage is meticulously categorized into segments that cover an array of tools, including browsers like Chrome and Firefox, alongside less conventional options such as Nessie and brow.sh, each aimed at optimizing online navigation and efficiency. The section on browser extensions details add-ons that enhance user interface and experience on multiple platforms, including energy efficiency and functionality improvements. The search engines portion highlights specialized resources for profound internet investigations, encompassing data tracking and analytics tools aimed at sectors like human trafficking and political corruption. Additionally, the content elaborates on diverse web tools and productivity software intended to streamline digital workflows and bolster productivity in a technological environment. This HTML page acts as a strategic guide, furnishing users with essential digital tools to enhance their web development tasks and secure data handling efficiently.

Browsers:

Browser Add-ins:

  • DownThemAll (chrome) (firefox) (opera) - DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images on a website and much more
  • Shut Up: Comment Blocker (chrome) - Toggles comments on many popular websites
  • Reader Mode (chrome) - a feature-packed Chrome reading extension and web app that removes clutter, ads, and distractions, while also includes dyslexia support, bookmarking, annotating, highlighting, text-to-speech and many other features all in one tool
  • Video Speed Controller (chrome) - allows you to control the playback speed on any site. Set the default pace to 1.10x and you'll go through videos 10% faster without even noticing
  • The Great Suspender (chrome) - Makes Chrome use fewer resources by suspending tabs you're not using 
  • Tab Snooze (chrome) - Ran into an interesting rabbit hole or website that you'd really like to check out, but don't have the time right now? Use Tab Snooze, and it'll magically reopen the tabs later
  • Google Keep Chrome Extension (chrome) - Save to Google Keep in a single click
  • Notion Web Clipper (chrome) - Use our Web Clipper to save any website into Notion
  • News Feed Eradicator for Facebook (chrome) - News Feed Eradicator removes your news feed (and live ticker) and replaces it instead with an inspirational quote
  • Minimal Twitter (chrome) - Extends Twitter UI functionality by adding CSS to make the UI cleaner. No big labels, cluttered elements, and distracting text
  • View Image (chrome) - Re-implements the Google Images' "View Image" and "Search by Image" buttons
  • Simplify Gmail (chrome) - Simplifies Gmail interface to the bare minimum
  • Babelshelf (chrome) - Highlight to save books from anywhere on the web
  • Rumin Web Clipper (chrome) - Browser extension for Rumin which allows you to save learnings from online resources. (Chrome Web Store link, Firefox Add-on link)
  • Vimium - a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor

Search Engines:

  • myTech.Today - TL;UL of all sorts of internet investigative tools.  Perhaps thousands of government, NSO, military, educational, professional databases, search engines, investigation techniques, data-tracking software, and other material focused primarily on tracking human trafficking, the drug trade, political corruption, money laundering, and corruption worldwide.
  • myTech.Today - Bitcoin (BTC) Blog - musing on BTC, blogroll of authoritative BTC vlogs
  • wiby - A search engine for the classic web
  • Google's site search template - https://www.google.com/search?q=%22search_term%22+AND+site%3A
  • Google Search Operators: The Complete List (42 Advanced Operators)
  • All duckduckgo bang operators on one page (metasearch tool)
  • Archive.is - Archived webpages at a point in time
  • Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - Searchable index of websites at points in history - not on page with javascript tech. such as Facebook
  • >>Apse.io - A Personal Search Engine, APSE for short.  OCRs screenshots and stores the text in a search index, so you can query by keyword, date, boolean operators, the whole shebang. It's all local >($15/mnth - Personal, $30/mnth/user - Business) (download page) (download trial)
  • Stackoverflow.com - Answers to programming problems
  • BigMatch - a tool to find open-source libraries in binaries only using their strings
  • Muzi - Search by color, keyword, or style
  • Google Image Search - Seach all of the images of the publicly available internet
  • Reverse Google Image Search - Search where an image you have is from on the internet
  • duckduckgo - Privacy, simplified
  • Ahmia - searches hidden services on the Tor network
  • grep.app - Search across a half-million git repos
  • style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Runnaroo.com - it will pull traditional organic results from Google, but it will also directly query Stack Overflow for a deeper search
  • infinitysearch.co - open-source search engine
  • hndex.org - a search engine for finding articles posted to hacker news
  • symptoma.com - Symptom Checker & Medical Search Engine - Differential diagnoses
  • Advangle - a simple and convenient builder of complex web-search queries through Google or Bing search engines. You can save your queries in a free Advangle account to refer to later
  • Bing vs Google - A tool that provides a side-by-side list and comparison of search results delivered through Bing vs. Google search engines.
  • iSeek - A targeted discovery tool that allows an investigator to enhance, analyze, and organize searches, and see how collected information on a topic is distributed. iSeek uses natural language queries that understand the meaning and concepts embedded in the search and delivers relevant information.
  • asone.ai - Reddit but for research only (asone.ai)
  • Yippy (formerly Clusty) - a metasearch engine that allows investigators to index and federate documents and data sources to provide relevant big picture insights.
  • Weboas.is - eclectic collection of resources: search engines, databases, chat directories, torrent sites, Reddit forums, forum directories, file sharing tools - All-in-One Web Portal For Internet & Tech Enthusiasts Who Love Exploring & Learning About The Digital Underground
  • NerdyData - With NerdyData investigators can search for source code. The platform allows investigators to search for web technologies, advertising tags, meta descriptions, and any pattern that they want to identify on a website’s code.
  • 100% free, quality CC audio - A curation of CC-licensed music from various artists and genres for you to use, however you like with correct attribution, in your creative projects
  • Discover Classical Art - Browse and download high-resolution, public domain artworks
  • Smithsonian open-access Image Collection - search 120M Smithsonian images
  • SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) - digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant.
  • PublicWWW - Allows investigators to search the source code and find related websites through the unique HTML codes they share such as widgets and publisher IDs.
  • The WWW Virtual Library - the oldest catalog on the web. It was started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, back in 1991
  • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) - a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals - directory of US Federal Government Services
  • elephind - search all the world’s online historic newspapers from one place. We aren’t there yet, but we are adding more newspapers every day.
  • Awesome Health - Curated list of awesome open-source healthcare software, libraries, tools, and resources. Each link has been vetted to ensure the project is active and provides value to healthcare facilities, providers, developers, policy experts, and/or research scientists.
  • ForumSearch.io - monitor conversations across professional networks HackerNews, Reddit*, IndieHacker, DEV.to, Lobste.rs
  • Instant Search 2 Million Recipes
  • judyrecords - 439 million United States Court Cases

Web Tools:

Replacement Apps:

Productivity Apps:

Additional Productivity Apps:

Audio:

Video Players:

Video Transcoding:

Video Streaming:

Online Group Viewing Apps:

  • Netflix Party Player - Watch Netflix remotely with friends with Chrome (download page)
  • watch2gether.com - Enjoy the internet in sync with your friends. Watch videos, listen to music or go shopping on Watch2Gether

Video Codecs:

Screen Capture:

  • Amolto - Free Skype Recorder (download page) (download link)
  • ScreenRequest - Simple screen recording with no installs on any browser except Safari. Receive screen recordings from customers.  Send screen recording request URLs

Media Server:

  • Plex - Organize, beautify, stream, and share your favorite movies, TV, music, web shows, podcasts, and more, all streamed to your favorite screens

Chat Software:

Image Editing:

  • Gimp - Image Editor (download page) (download link)
  • ImageMagick - (download page) (download x64 mac OS Linux) - Use ImageMagick® to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 200) including PNG, JPEG, GIF, HEIC, TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP, Postscript, PDF, and SVG. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.

Financial Software:

Safety Software:

  • Sandboxie - Sandbox environment for software and browser

Web Tools:

Malware Software:

Cleaning Software:

  • Ccleaner - clean up temp files, memory dumps, log files, cache files, etc from Windows and Applications
    (download page) (download link)
  • AdwareCleaner (download page) (download link)
  • O&O Shut Up - seal off Windows 10 snooping on a user - must be run after every major update
    (download page) (download link)
  • hwinfo - Start to analyze your hardware right now
  • Windows 10 Debloater - removes Windows 10 Bloatware - must be run after every major update
    (download page) (download link)   (Run the following command from PowerShell with Admin rights)

    iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://git.io/debloat'))
  • ZULU.bat - One-shot cleanup for Win7 and XP

Backup Software:

Cloud Storage:

Connectivity:

Networking:

Remote Control Software:

File Transmission:

Hard Drives:

Application Corruption and Removal:

Maximum Memory Allocation Scan:

Virtualization:

Resources:

Power Tools:

Web Tools:

  • Selenium.dev - automates browsers. That's it! (download page) (download server) JAVA Required
  • Elemental - Common use-cases missing from Selenium are built into Elemental. Elemental has built-in automatic waiting so that your automation is less flaky. It has a sensible default which can be overridden when necessary. Easy access to 100% of Selenium's API. Write less code than you would if you were using Selenium directly. The Elemental API is terse and internally consistent while still being explicit and unambiguous.
  • Apache JMeter - open-source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance
  • Postman (download page) (download link x64)
  • Scout [sass] (download page) (download link)
  • Emscripten - a complete compiler toolchain to WebAssembly, using LLVM, with a special focus on speed, size, and the Web platform
  • JSFiddle - free, easy-to-use, HTML, JS, & CSS testing platform
  • Brackets - A modern, open-source text editor that understands web design with live preview
  • Codepen.io - CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers
  • JSHint - free Static Code Analysis Tool for JavaScript (download page)
  • htmx.org - htmx allows you to access AJAX, WebSockets and Server-Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext. htmx is small (~7k min.gz'd), dependency-free, extendable & IE11 compatible
  • uptimerobot.com - Downtime Happens. Get Notified!
  • Pingler your URL for FREE - Drive SEO Search Traffic to your site 
  • JSON-LD Schema Generator For SEO
  • <styled components>  - Visual primitives for the component age.  Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress
  • Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python. https://scrapy.org
  • Scrapyd is a service for running Scrapy spiders.
  • SpiderKeeper - admin UI for scrapy/open-source scrapinghub
  • scraper_ai – Extract data from any website, detect changes
  • Scraper API - Proxy API for Web Scraping in 2020
  • open web api - A rest API to access user-hostile websites
  • Git Scraping - Git. And GitHub Actions (and other CI systems) make it easy to create a scraper that runs every few minutes, records the current state of a resource and records changes to that resource over time in the commit history.
  • Headless Web Scraping with Python - a headless browser on a server environment that also has no graphical interface attached to it, which is normally accessed through shell access. It can also be faster to run headless and can have lower overhead on system resources.
  • facebookscraper.net - A Free And Simple App For Scraping Data from Facebook for your projects
  • cloudflare.com - DDoS protection and traffic acceleration for all your network infrastructure
  • Telekinesis - an [experimental] open source new way of defining online services. The idea is that you code like you would do locally (albeit an await), and then Telekinesis takes care of the rest.
  • sheet2api - Use any Google Sheets or Microsoft Online Excel spreadsheet to power a fully-fledged API, no coding required
  • Puppeteer - Puppeteer is a Node library that provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium

Miscellaneous Web Tools:

  • httrack (download page) (download link x64) - Download web sites as a copy of HTML files.  Doesn't work with JS.
  • ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear - Free, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging - No javascript, no stylesheets, no trackers. Just your words.
  • Archive.org - historical data on web site changes
  • Google Images - search all images on the internet using the Googles search algorithm
  • QR Code Generator from the ZXing Project
  • KUAG - Shorten your URL and generate the smallest QR Code
  • Sharp - an automatic API generation library for Python Flask and JavaScript
  • donotlink.it - Whenever you link a website, its position in search engines is strengthened. Sometimes you want to post a link to a website without improving its rank. This is where donotlink.it comes in.
  • PrivacyPolicy.com - ready to use website privacy policies
  • WebMaster Tool Kit - (download page) Color Picker & Measurement Tool
  • namecheckr.com - Check domain & social username availability across multiple networks
  • hyperlink - A command-line tool to find broken links in your static site
  • jsonapi.co - JSON Real-Time Editor
  • IconSear.ch -  search of 50K royalty-free SVG icons
  • GitHub Pages URL Shortener - This is a minimal URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub pages
  • Referlist - Increase sign-ups via gamified referrals
  • URL Fuzzer - Discover hidden files and directories
  • Ali - A load testing tool aimed to perform real-time analysis
  • grep.app - Search across a half-million git repositories - cross-search of git repos across the internet
  • Text Fragments - Create a link to specific text in somebody else's page or pdf (Chrome experimental) (Draft Community Group Report)

Web-Based Accessibility checkers:

Mockups/WireFrames:

CSS Tools:

Browser Extensions for Web Developers:

  • Simple Link Checker (Mozilla) - Redirect Link Checker will check all links on your page to find broken and redirect links
  • cssbuilder (chrome) - adds easy to use CSS3 design widget to Chrome
  • WordPress Theme Detector and Plugins Detector (chrome) - This tool detects theme and plugins used on WordPress sites and displays information about them
  • Web Sniffer (chrome) - View all HTTP Requests and Responses sent between the Web browser and the Web server
  • Wappalyzer (chrome) - a utility that uncovers the technologies used on websites
  • WhatRuns (chrome) - Discover what runs a website. Frameworks, Analytics Tools, WordPress Plugins, Fonts - you name it
  • WhatFont (chrome) - the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage
  • CodeKitWP Easily add custom codes
    on your WordPress website

Analytics:

  • Google Analytics - Get insight into every step of your customer’s journey on your website, then use analytics to elevate your impact
  • Plausible - a lightweight and open-source website analytics tool. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU
  • Fathom - a simple, light-weight, privacy-first alternative to Google Analytics

Authentication:

  • Auth0 - a versatile platform designed to simplify the integration of authentication and authorization services into applications, helping organizations to efficiently manage user access without the need to develop custom security solutions​
  • Magic - a platform that provides seamless, passwordless authentication solutions and non-custodial wallet services, allowing for easy integration into web and mobile applications to facilitate secure and efficient user interactions with web3 technologies​
  • Firebase - a comprehensive app development platform from Google that provides a suite of tools and services, including databases, analytics, authentication, and hosting, to help developers build, improve, and grow their mobile and web applications efficiently.

Web Frameworks:

  • flask - a lightweight and flexible Python web framework that provides the tools necessary to build web applications quickly and with minimal setup, emphasizing simplicity and fine-grained control.
  • laravel - a comprehensive PHP framework known for its elegant syntax, extensive features for robust application development, and built-in tools to support everything from simple APIs to complex web applications.
  • CodeIgniter4 - a lightweight PHP framework that offers simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications with a focus on performance and minimal configuration.
  • Cordova - an open-source mobile development framework that allows developers to build cross-platform mobile applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, leveraging web technologies to access native device features.
  • Remix - Remix is a full stack web framework that lets you focus on the user interface and work back through web standards to deliver a fast, slick, and resilient user experience.

JavaScript Libraries & Frameworks:

  • roughnotation.com - A small JavaScript library to create and animate annotations on a web page
  • form-validation.js
  • handwritten.js - Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
  • Elevator.js - fixes those awkward "scroll to top" moments the old fashioned way
  • vuejs.org - The Progressive JavaScript Framework
  • vuetifyjs - a Vue UI Library with beautifully handcrafted Material Components
  • reactjs - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
  • material-ui - React components for faster and easier web development
  • angular.io - Develop Across All Platforms
  • Suri - your own link shortener that's easily deployed as a static site (for free)
  • videoinput.js - client-side video input field with POST submissions
  • SQL.js - a javascript SQL database. create a relational database and query it entirely in the browser
  • emberjs - a productive, battle-tested JavaScript framework for building modern web applications
  • nodejs.org - a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine
  • gatsbyjs - a free and open-source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing-fast websites and apps
  • Nextjs.org - React Framework
  • Livewire - a full-stack framework for Laravel that makes building dynamic interfaces simple, without leaving the comfort of Laravel
  • svelte.dev - js framework - runs at build time, converting your components into highly efficient imperative code that surgically updates the DOM
  • procedural-gl.js - a library for creating 3D map experiences on the web, written in JavaScript and WebGL. It is built on top THREE.js
  • Google News JS - an open-source package for scraping Google News data. It provides easy API access to main Google News features
  • Mocha - Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on Node.js and in the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting, while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.
  • Chai - Chai is a BDD / TDD assertion library for node and the browser that can be delightfully paired with any javascript testing framework.

CSS Frameworks:

  • XP.css - a framework to look like WinXP or Win98
  • mono-color (download) - accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support
  • ChartSS.css - a framework to provide flat mono or color controls
  • newcss.net - basic, vanilla, classless CSS framework for simple sites of the only HTML
  • w3.css - a modern CSS framework with support for desktop, tablet, and mobile design by default, is smaller and faster than similar CSS frameworks, was designed to be a high-quality alternative to Bootstrap, was designed to be smaller, faster, easier to learn, and easier to use, was also designed to be independent of jQuery or any other JavaScript library
  • Bootstrap - the world’s most popular front-end open-source toolkit, featuring Sass variables and mixins, a responsive grid system, extensive prebuilt components, and powerful JavaScript plugins
  • Foundation - The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world
  • bulma.io - a free, open-source CSS framework based on Flexbox and used by more than 200,000 developers
  • skeleton - A dead simple, responsive boilerplate
  • SPCSS - a simple and plain stylesheet for simple text-based websites. Demo <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/spcss@0.3.0">
  • purecss.io - A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project
  • groundworkcss - A Responsive HTML5, CSS and Javascript Framework
  • cardinalcss - Cardinal is a modular, “mobile-first” CSS framework built with performance and scalability in mind
  • powertocss - A versatile CSS Framework. Simple, light, and responsive
  • muellergridsystem - a modular grid system for responsive/adaptive and non–responsive layouts, based on Compass
  • bootflat - an open source Flat UI KIT based on Bootstrap 3.3.0 CSS framework
  • CSS Geometric Shapes
  • Pattern.css - CSS only library to fill the empty background with beautiful patterns

  • 7GUIs     - by Brad Woods

Programming Tools:

Blockchain Tools:

  • Truffle - The most comprehensive suite of tools for smart contract development
  • hardhat - Ethereum development environment for professionals

Miscellaneous Tools:

Coding Tools:

Coding Tools2:

  • gec - a command-line utility written in Bash with convenience commands for using gocryptfs with git. making it possible to naively fallback to the underlying gocryptfs or git commands if a need should arise.
  • GOMP (Git cOMPare) - a Git-based tool for comparing branches, designed to work with a rebase-oriented Git workflow
  • regexr.com - online regex explorer tool (regex tutorial)
  • Refined GitHub (chrome) - Simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
  • Semgrep - Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find and block bug variants with rules that look like source code
  • OneFuzz - A self-hosted Fuzzing-As-A-Service platform.  Enables continuous developer-driven fuzzing to proactively harden software prior to release
  • TakeNote - a note-taking app for the web. You can use the demo app at takenote.dev. It is a static site without a database and does not sync your notes to the cloud
  • qareplay - Smartest screen recorder, instant replay for bug reporting. Record steps to reproduce effortlessly
  • Draw.io VS Code Integration - This unofficial extension integrates Draw.io into VS Code
  • Streamlit.io - open-source app framework is the easiest way for data scientists and machine learning engineers to create beautiful, performant apps in only a few hours! All in pure Python. All for free

Video Game Development:

  • Unity3D - freemium integrated 3D video game middle-ware development environment (download page) (download link)
  • Twine - an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories (download x64 macOS Linux)
  • RPGmaker.net - RPG Maker VX Ace improves every aspect of RPG creation, making it not only the latest but also the greatest engine in the RPG Maker Series. With multiple tileset support, full auto shadow control, and a flexible features system, Ace gives you the most powerful RPG making tools ever
  • WORK WITH INDIES - a single place to find all the cool jobs in indie games

Video Game Miscellaneous Tools:

  • Allegorithmic.com - Procedural texture plug-in for Unity
  • Bolt - $70/once, soon free - Unity visual scripting plug-in (download page)
  • DeltaDNA - A PRODUCT BY UNITY - Build intelligent long-term relationships with players using personalized engagement – powered by deep and rich data!
  • Leanplum  - simplifies multi-channel campaigns to help you achieve engagement and revenue goals
  • Unity Analytics - gives you the specific information you can use to tweak gameplay and offer the best possible experience on multiple platforms. And it helps you get the most out of your monetization efforts.
  • Fast Inverse Square Root - The famous fast inverse square root is some mysterious code not written by programming legend John Carmack to calculate a fast approximation of 1/x1/\sqrt{x}1/x

3D Modeling and Printing:

CAD:

Libraries:

  • An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
  • Concise Encoding - The friendly data format for human & machine
  • xkit.co - Build OAuth integrations in minutes.  fresh access tokens for 25+ apps in 5 lines of code. No backend needed.
  • Real-Time License Plate Identification System - project implements a license plate identification system
  • Igel - A machine learning tool that allows you to train/fit, test, and use models without writing code
  • tidy-json-to-csv - Converts a subset of JSON to a set of tidy CSVs. Supports both streaming processing of input JSON and output of CSV, and so suitable for large files in memory-constrained environments
  • Starfish - A Peer to Peer Authentication System, using bitcoin wallet encryption
  • DAIN (Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation) - a depth-aware flow projection layer to synthesize intermediate flows that preferably sample closer objects than farther ones
  • Sir.DB - simple database on the file system - JSON files organized into subdirectories for each table
  • gron - Make JSON greppable! - gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute 'path' to it. It eases the exploration of APIs that return large blobs of JSON but have terrible documentation
  • Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow - The Universal Sentence Encoder, recently released by Google AI, is one of these new models available via Tensorflow Hub
  • Google Trends Data Downloader - two scripts designed to help you download daily data from Google Trends over longer periods of time
  • QR-to-QR - enables two phones (with front cameras) to share text 
  • salient - salient is a natural language processing and machine learning toolkit
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Languages:

  • Citrine - Localized Programming Language
  • C# -  programming language on the .NET platform (mono framework)
  • C/C++ - Microsoft C++, C, and Assembler documentation
  • Picat - a simple, and yet powerful, logic-based multi-paradigm programming language aimed for general-purpose applications
  • PHP - a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development
  • Python - a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively
  • jquery - a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library.
  • Javascript - a lightweight, interpreted, or just-in-time compiled programming language with first-class functions

Platforms: Databases, Messaging, Machine Learning:

  • Microsoft SQL Server - Build intelligent, mission-critical applications using a scalable, hybrid data platform for demanding workloads (local) (azure)
  • MySQL -  The most comprehensive set of advanced features, management tools, and technical support to achieve the highest levels of MySQL scalability, security, reliability, and uptime
  • SQLite - SQLite is a C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine
  • Oracle Database Cloud - A complete database solution to run all of your workloads more securely, whether it’s on-premises or autonomously managed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • MongoDB - MongoDB is a general-purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era
  • Access - Access is an easy-to-use tool for creating business applications, from templates or from scratch
  • OrbitDB - a serverless, distributed, peer-to-peer database. OrbitDB uses IPFS as its data storage and IPFS Pubsub to automatically sync databases with peers
  • AWS RDS - cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backup
  • Postgresql - a powerful, open-source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development
  • IBM Cloud - Upload, download, and transfer data to and from cloud databases on IBM Cloud for free
  • Heroku - SQL
  • AWS dynmoDB - noSQL
  • Cloud FireStore - noSQL
  • Google SQL Cloud - SQL
  • Fauna - a flexible, developer-friendly, transactional database delivered to you as a secure, web-native API
  • Redis - an open-source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker
  • dapr.io - An event-driven, portable runtime for building microservices on cloud and edge
  • Cloudstate.io - Distributed State Management for Serverless
  • Tensorflow.org - end-to-end open-source machine learning platform
  • Kafka - better throughput, built-in partitioning, replication, and fault-tolerance which makes it a good solution for large scale message processing applications

Resources:

Media Tools:

  • Colorize: DeOldify - A Deep Learning based project for colorizing and restoring old images and videos!
  • Audio Editor:  Audiomass.co - free, open-source, web-based Audio and Waveform Editor
  • One Web Page Media Player:  player.html - One file drop-in video player web app for using MP4 video files served using basic directory listing
  • Remove Video Background: Unscreen - (processing page)
  • Real-time Image Animation: The Project is a real-time application in OpenCV using the first-order model
  • AVIF online Converter: Squoosh.app - an image compression web app that allows you to dive into the advanced options provided by various image compressors for .AVIF files

Image Editor:

Animated GIF:

  • Ezgif.com - GIF animator - online service
  • EXIF attribute editor: exiftool.org
  • Online Group Viewing Apps:
  • Netflix Party Player - Watch Netflix remotely with friends with Chrome (download page)
  • watch2gether.com - Enjoy the internet in sync with your friends. Watch videos, listen to music or go shopping on Watch2Gether

Video Converting:

  • handbrake x64 handbrake macOS (download page) (download link x64)
  • FFmpeg - (download x64 macOS Linux source) FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.
  • Hybrid - a multi-platform (Linux/Windows) Qt based frontend for a bunch of other tools which can convert nearly every input to x264/x265/Xvid/VP9/AV1... + ac3/ogg/mp3/aac/flac inside an mp4/m2ts/mkv/webm/mov/avi container, a Blu-ray or an AVCHD structure

Video Codecs:

Visual Desktop Ruler:

Screen Capture:

OCR:

  • Screenotate.com - Take screenshots you can search for.  uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to recognize text in your screenshots. It's available for macOS and Windows
  • openpaper.work - Paperwork, scan or import your documents and find them back in a snap (download Win10.x64 Linux) (source)
  • Parsr - a minimal-footprint document (image, pdf, Docx, eml) cleaning, parsing and extraction toolchain which generates readily available, organized, and usable data in JSON, Markdown (MD), CSV/Pandas DF or TXT formats (Github)Tesseract on AWS Lambda – OCR as a service - how to run Tesseract on AWS Lambda to create OCR as a service accessible through REST API

Miscellaneous:

Libraries:

Mobile:

  • iPhone Backup Extractor $60 (download page) (download link)
  • mobile-number@message.Alltel.com; mobile-number@text.wireless.alltel.com; number@mms.alltel.net (MMS); mobile-number@txt.att.net (SMS); mobile-number@mms.att.net (MMS); mobile-number@cingularme.com; mobile-number@mobile.mycingular.com; mobile-number@myboostmobile.com; mobile-number@sms.mycricket.com (SMS); mobile-number@mms.mycricket.com (MMS); mobile-number@mymetropcs.com; mobile-number@messaging.sprintpcs.com SMS); mobile-number@pm.sprint.com (MMS); mobile-number@page.nextel.com (SMS); mobile-number@messaging.nextel.com (Rich Messaging); mobile-number@VTEXT.COM (SMS); mobile-number@mypixmessages.com (MMS); mobile-number@tmomail.net (MMS); mobile-number@email.uscc.net (SMS); mobile-number@mms.uscc.net (MMS); mobile-number@vtext.com (SMS); mobile-number@vzwpix.com (MMS); mobile-number@vmobl.com (SMS); mobile-number@vmpix.com (MMS)

macOS & iPhone Tools:

  • Mono Framework - Cross-platform, open-source .NET framework
  • supertag - a tag-based file system, written in Rust, that provides a unique view of your files by removing the hierarchy constraints typically imposed on files and folders. In other words, it allows you to think about your files not as objects stored in folders, but as objects that can be filtered by folders.

Anti-Virus:

  • Antivirus Zap - Secure your Mac from all malware, stop and prevent pop-up scams

Apps:

  • BackBlaze Unlimited Backup ($6/month) - Cloud storage that's astonishingly easy and low-cost
  • EtreCheck - macOS system utility and monitoring
  • Downie 4 (freemium/$20 one-time) - online downloader for online video from websites.
  • DiskWarrior ($120) - The world's most advanced macOS repair and data recovery tool
  • Coriolis Systems - Mac utility software, including its award-winning iPartition partitioning tool and iDefrag disk optimizer, as well as a handful of other products including VMOptimizer, Zipster, and a real-time AC-3 compatible encoder, Aura
  • Objective-See - simple, yet effective OS X security tools
  • Namebench  - a free networking software program that helps users find the fastest Domain Name System (DNS) for an enhanced browsing experience
  • Monolingual -  a program for removing unnecessary language resources from macOS
  • OnyX - a multifunction utility that you can use to verify the structure of the system files, to run miscellaneous maintenance and cleaning tasks, to configure parameters in the Finder, Dock, Safari, and some Apple applications, to delete caches, to remove certain problematic folders and files, to rebuild various databases and indexes, and more
  • lunar.fyi - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display
  • iTerm2 - free and open-source terminal emulator that offers users a robust search tool coupled with auto-complete commands, multiple panes in independent sessions, multiple profile support, several customization options, etc
  • Alacritty - cross-platform terminal emulator with a strong emphasis on simplicity and performance. It uses the system’s GPU to accelerate its performance, works well out of the box, and is both free and open-source
  • AppCleaner - a small and simple application that will let you uninstall all those unwanted apps. Whenever you install an application, it distributes a number of files to your system while using the space from the hard drive unnecessarily
  • Transmit 4 - one of the most liked file transfer applications which allows you to establish a connection with servers using FTP, Amazon S3, SFTP, and iDisk protocols. It comes with a simple and easy to use interface that allows you to download, upload and delete files
  • DaisyDisk - Visualize your disk and free up the memory space by searching and removing unused files and folders
  • ImageOptim - application offers an excellent way to make your Mac and iPad applications look smaller. It’s a great way to publish images on the internet. eliminating EXIF metadata like the camera’s serial number and GPS position etc. so that the images are published without any private data

Maestro Scripts:

Power Tools

  • Setapp.com - Full repertoire - Maintenance, Lifestyle, Productivity, Task Management, Developer Tools, Writing & Blogging, Education, Mac Hacks, Creativity, Personal Finance
  • Alfred - Alfred is an award-winning app for macOS which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion, and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac
  • Mac keyboard shortcuts - By pressing certain key combinations, you can do things that normally need a mouse, trackpad, or other input device

Cloud Storage:

  • CloudMounter ($47.79) - Your Amazon S3 browser OS X and Windows

iOS:

  • Drawcon - (iOS) Draw Your Own App Icons

Apps:

Linux Tools:

Resources:

  • scanimage - scan from the command line (scanimage is a command-line tool, in the sane-utils Debian package )

Scripts:

  • Cronhub Scheduler - a job scheduler to automate workflows and run jobs on a recurring basis. Think of it as a friendlier alternative to traditional cron jobs

Cloud Storage:

Tweaks:

Marketing Virility & Business:

Hackables:

Paid Subscriptions:

  • allisonhouse - The data you trust and the weather display you want
  • PageWatch - Catch embarrassing website errors before any of your users do
  • spike.sh - We alert you of your incidents via Phone call, SMS, Slack, and Email before your customers do
  • pipl - interact with searchable databases, member directories, court records, and other deep internet search content to offer you a detailed snapshot of a person
  • CallsRedirect - ($4/mnth; $0.035/min calling) Get business calls on your cell phone. With no internet, no app, and no desk phone. Calls are marked as business calls. Business Phone Numbers - Calls Forwarded To Cell Phone - Voicemails & Faxes Sent To Email

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