A Collection of Recommended Software/Websites I Find Useful
Most software can be installed via Chocolatey or the Windows Store.
Websites / Software
- Chrome Remote Desktop - Fallback alternative to TeamViewer.
- Discord - For basic communication..?
- Ditto - A powerful clipboard manager.
- EarTrumpet - Better volume control on Windows.
- Element - Client for Matrix.
- PreMiD - Link your browser to Discord Rich Presence.
- Spotify - Smart music.
- TrucksBook - Log all your truck deliveries for ETS2 & ATS.
- WhatPulse - Essentially a usage tracker down to the individual key press etc.
Websites
- &what; - Nice for finding specific Unicode characters.
- Alphabetizer - Because I’m too lazy to alphabetize this list myself.
- AlternativeTo - Find an alternative to anything on this list.
- Last.fm - All your music in one place. Goes great with Spotify too.
- Metastream - “Watch streaming media with friends” -the website
- ProtonMail - Can’t go wrong with private encrypted emails.
- RunKit - Test your scratch JS code in your browser.
- Simulator Radio - Because listening to different music is nice too.
- Tables Generator - Excellent for Markdown tables.
Software
- 7-Zip - Come on now, who doesn’t have 7-Zip?
- AquaSnap - When you want more control over your windows.
- CacheMonkey - Access the cache of Electron apps.
- Chocolatey -
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for Windows. - Cmder - Use once and never go back to the old CMD.
- Everything - Find that specific file that you just can’t find.
- Fences - Organize your messy desktop.
- Git - Can’t go wrong with local version control.
- GnuPG/Gpg4win - For all your PGP key needs.
- HWiNFO - Overpowered system monitoring.
- Ledger - Simply hardware crypto wallet.
- LockHunter - Find that pesky program that won’t leave a file/folder alone.
- Matrix - My goto for private chatting beyond Telegram or Discord.
- ModernFlyouts - A nice flyout replacement for the buggy Windows ones.
- MultiMC - Manage isolated Minecraft profiles.
- nvm Linux/nvm Windows - Simple Node version manager.
- ProtonVPN - Because schools like to track students. Reeeeeeeeee.
- QuickLook - Quickly view the contents of files without opening them.
- Rainmeter - Bring back widgets?
- SuperF4 - Because for some reason programs can decide how to handle Alt+F4.
- TaskbarX - Make your taskbar centered on Windows.
- TeamViewer - Fallback alternative to Chrome Remote Desktop.
- Telegram - Better for a more private communication setting than Discord.
- TMAC - Spoof your MAC address for some added privacy.
- TranslucentTB - Customize the appearance of the Windows taskbar.
- Ventoy - A simple tool for multi-booting iso files in USBs.
- Visual Studio Code - Basic text editor and an IDE smashed together.
- VoiceMeeter - When you want to make your audio unnecessarily complicated.
- Wallpaper Engine - Who wouldn’t want a fancy animated wallpaper?
- WSL - Linux running on top of Windows. View my setup.
- Yubico Authenticator - Physical 2FA key.
Android
- DroidCamX - When you want to do a house tour and don’t have a 200ft long webcam.
- Empty Folder Cleaner - Because cleaning your phone out takes time.
- Niagara Launcher - FINALLY, the perfect launcher I’ve been looking for!
- OpenKeychain - All your PGP needs, but on your phone instead.
- PingTools Pro - I dunno, network stats ‘n stuff at your fingertips.
- SD Maid (Pro) - More automated phone cleaning.
- Sesame - Integrates with Niagara and works like an absolute charm.
- Solid Explorer - The single best file explorer, can access cloud storage too.
- Steam Link - Imagine playing steam games on your phone. Yeah, me neither.
- Termux - Not turning your phone into a dev environment is boring.
- YouTube Vanced - Annoying YouTube be gone! Comes with SponsorBlock too.
Firefox
- CaretTab - Free & open source start page for Firefox!
- ClearURLs - Because those ridiculously long URLs are annoying as all hell.
- Dark Reader - Why are white websites default? Like damn my eyes be hurting.
- Decentraleyes - I dunno, it helps protect against “free” CDNs that track you.
- DDG Privacy Essentials - I dunno, blocks trackers ‘n stuff.
- DuckDuckGoogle - When DuckDuckGo isn’t as good as Google, yet.
- Flagfox - All sorts of website information at your fingertips.
- HTTPS Everywhere - Upgrade supporting http links to https.
- I don’t care about cookies - So fucking annoying, I swear.
- Imagus - When you’re tired of opening an image in a new tab.
- Metastream Remote - Required for the Metastream website.
- Privacy Badger - Helps protect against trackers and blocks them.
- ShareX - Extension for ShareX support on Windows.
- SponsorBlock - Gone are the days of Raid Shadow Legend advertisements!
- Twitch Point Auto-Clicker - I just want to watch the damn live-stream, please.
- uBlock Origin - The only “ad-blocker” that I will ever trust.
- Universal Bypass - Bypass all those annoying ad.fly things.
- User-Agent Manager - When websites require you to use Edge or something.
- SearX - Not an extension but an amazing meta-search engine! I use searx.info.