Questions tagged [software-recommendation]
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Solution to switch quickly between different group of windows by keeping their state (position) on macOS
I am using macos/osx now for more than 15 years and I always try to figure out a good way to group windows and persist their position and state so that I can quickly switch between those groups (...
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Is there an iPhone app that displays scientific notation during calculations?
I'm teaching students online and find they have a lot of trouble doing calculations involving scientific notation. I think the reason is that as they are doing the calculations, what appears in the ...
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Show capacity of unplugged drive
I have a lot of stored drives into my physical desktop and since I’m only using them on my own computer, I want to be able to keep an eye on the space left even if they’re not plugged in.
Do you guys ...
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Are there tools to allow export of Console.app output with same format?
So for years I have not found a way to export a clean output of results collected in the macOS Console app
I primarily want to save my results in the same format as the data is organized in the ...
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A lightweight free tool to convert SVG to PNG or JPG, that doesn't require Homebrew
I need a free tool to convert SVG images to PNG or JPG. I cannot use Homebrew, because this is a company computer and Homebrew is against the company policy. I'd like a GUI tool, but that isn't ...
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Free WYSIWYG Markdown editor
I've been using Typora as a Markdown editor when it was free (during beta), but now it's pay for use and I want to find an equivalent, free (preferably open source) tool.
My requirements:
free (...
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How to block Twitter / X login pop up on iPhone?
On windows there are browser plugins to block elements of a website in real time (right clicking on element for example.) What browser(s) or plugin(s) are available for iPhone to accomplish this task?
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How to stream your ipad screen via standard streaming protocol
I want a solution to stream iPad screen wirelessly to anywhere I want (especially video chats).
The solution should rely only on some standard protocols like rtsp or some other (I’m new to streaming ...
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Which Media App Supports to Open a Video/Audio file from its Previous Seek?
I was looking for a media player app that would play video/audio from its last seek point when the file is opened, like the one available in Windows VLC Player. I tried it with MK player but it look ...
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iOS/macOS audio player with millisecond-level delay control?
I'm trying to perform an amateur experiment related with sound waves. Let's say I have a file on my iCloud Drive, let's call it wave1.wav. I want to play it on my Mac/iPhone, but with a slider or ...
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Are there SFTP command-line tool for macOS that have history or auto complete?
Is there software for macOS that adds command history, autocompletion or other features to an ftp command line client?
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ps_mem alternatives for Mac?
ps_mem is an utility to accurately report the in core memory usage for a program. Currently, it works only on Linux.
It doesn't have OSX support. https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem/issues/6
Are there ...
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How to combine 4 images into a grid?
This old question asked how to combine 2 images into a single image side by side.
I want to do something different - combine 4 images into a grid.
So I have 4 png files, all the same size
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Apple Watch Web Browsing app
I'm finding the Apple Watch to be surprisingly capable for browsing the web! If I send myself an iMessage with a link to nytimes.com, I can log in to my New York Times account, scroll through the ...
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Apple Watch app to trigger shell scripts on remote UNIX box
I've finally switched from a Pebble Smartwatch to an Apple Watch, and I need a replacement for this app: https://store-beta.rebble.io/app/568a4cfa496916a93f00004e
The watch displays a list of shell ...
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