Here i post weekly software recommendation (mostly Windows, Linux and Android). If you have interesting software to share, a questions or critic please tell!
I will (try to) only post free and open source or at least well known software with good reputation. Regardless I can't guarantee anything and you should always verify the safety/legitimacy with multiple sources (see disclaimer).
If you are interested in more check out my De-Google thread.
Disclaimer:
The use of the software and scripts linked on this site is done at your own discretion and risk and with agreement that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from such activities.
TL;DR: use your brain, look the software up and don't blindly follow one person/site.
Relevant info (Terms explained):
What is open source software (OSS) and close source software (CSS)?
What is a software fork?
Useful Sites:
Privacy Tools: https://privacytools.io/
Software Alternative Finder: https://alternativeto.net/
Technology News: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
Technology News aggregator: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Android App Tracker & Permission lookup: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
Android De-Google App compatibility checker: https://plexus.techlore.tech/
Browser Fingerprinting test: https://www.bromite.org/detect
Website Privacy Inspector (or just use uBlockO/uMatrix): https://themarkup.org/blacklight
Ad&Tracking Blocker Benchmark: https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/src/adblock.html
Help for deleting online accounts: https://justdeleteme.xyz/
Browser feature support lookup: https://caniuse.com/
Wikis: https://wiki.archlinux.org/ & https://wiki.installgentoo.com
Index:
I will (try to) only post free and open source or at least well known software with good reputation. Regardless I can't guarantee anything and you should always verify the safety/legitimacy with multiple sources (see disclaimer).
If you are interested in more check out my De-Google thread.
Disclaimer:
The use of the software and scripts linked on this site is done at your own discretion and risk and with agreement that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from such activities.
TL;DR: use your brain, look the software up and don't blindly follow one person/site.
Relevant info (Terms explained):
What is open source software (OSS) and close source software (CSS)?
Useful Sites:
Privacy Tools: https://privacytools.io/
Software Alternative Finder: https://alternativeto.net/
Technology News: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
Technology News aggregator: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Android App Tracker & Permission lookup: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
Android De-Google App compatibility checker: https://plexus.techlore.tech/
Browser Fingerprinting test: https://www.bromite.org/detect
Website Privacy Inspector (or just use uBlockO/uMatrix): https://themarkup.org/blacklight
Ad&Tracking Blocker Benchmark: https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/src/adblock.html
Help for deleting online accounts: https://justdeleteme.xyz/
Browser feature support lookup: https://caniuse.com/
Wikis: https://wiki.archlinux.org/ & https://wiki.installgentoo.com
If you like the software please consider supporting there developers!
Index:
- Software Sunday #1 (14/02/2021) - EverythingToolbar: Better Windows Searchbar
- Software Sunday #2 (21/02/2021) - Youtube-DLG & youtube-dl: Video Downloader
- MPV: Video player
- Software Sunday #3 (28/02/2021) - F-Droid: Privacy friendly Android app store
- Software Sunday #4 (7/03/2021) - ScreenToGif: Gif creation and editing tool
- Software Sunday #5 (14/03/2021) - KeePass: Offline Password Manager
- Software Sunday #6 (21/03/2021) - uBlock Origin: Browser content blocker
- Software Sunday #7 (28/03/2021) - andOTP: two-factor authentication (2FA) App
- Software Sunday #8 (4/04/2021) - Privacy Redirect: Redirect Big Tech sites to privacy friendlier alternatives
- Grabber: Art scraper/bulk downloader
- Software Sunday #9 (11/04/2021) - QDirStat: Disk usage statistics viewer
- Quicky: Image Searching services/tool
- Software Sunday #10 (18/04/2021) - CrystalDiskInfo & CrystalDiskMark: disk health monitoring & disk benchmarking tool +cute anime girls
- Software Sunday #11 (25/04/2021) - HandBrake: GUI video converting tool
- Software Sunday #12 (02/05/2021) - EXIF Tools: remove sensitive information from images and videos
- Software Sunday #13 (09/05/2021) - Cryptomator: Client-side encryption tool for both local and cloud storage
- Software Sunday #14 (16/05/2021) - NewPipe: lightweight, privacy friendlier and feature rich YouTube Front-end app for Android
- Software Sunday #15 (23/05/2021) - simplewall: lightweight client Firewall tool for Windows
- Software Sunday #16 (30/05/2021) - εxodus (Exodus): privacy auditing platform to analyze Android apps
- Software Sunday #17 (06/06/2021) - GrapheneOS: privacy and security focused mobile OS based on Android
- Software Sunday #18 (13/06/2021) - SponsorBlock: Easily skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos
- Software Sunday #19 (20/06/2021) - dupeGuru: GUI tool to find duplicate and similar files
- Software Sunday #20 (27/06/2021) - PCAPdroid: Network monitor and traffic dump tool for Android
- Software Sunday #21 (05/07/2021) - DarkReader: Turn every website into Dark Mode
- Software Sunday #22 (11/07/2021) - OpenRGB: LED lighting control application that doesn't depend on manufacturer software
- Software Sunday #23 (18/07/2021) - User script manager: Change and add functionalities to any website
- Software Sunday #24 (25/07/2021) - VirtualBox: Hypervisor to run VirtualMachines (e.g. run Linux inside of Windows)
- Software Sunday #25 (01/08/2021) - Kdenlive: Video editing software
- Software Sunday #26 (08/08/2021) - Web Archives: quickly search for and create archived versions of Web Sites
- Software Sunday #27 (15/08/2021) - Meld: visual diff and merge tool for files and directories
- Software Sunday #28 (22/08/2021) - Privatezilla: manage Windows 10 Privacy settings
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