Bookmarks - Applications, Tools & Services

Visual Studio Code: The best text-/code editor there is. Install plugins of your need and you have endless possibilities!

Updated: 2023-09-06 12:55:27 CET VSCodium: Ohhhh, can this be the Visual Studio Code linux fork I've been waiting for??? Almost on the day of 2years, I have replaced VSCodium by the official Visual Code. They now have DEB package for Visual Code for ARM64 Maybe it was there before, but I noticed that the ARM64 DEB download is in the official download page!.

Gimp: Best free image editing tool.

Surfshark: I am very happy with Surfshark as VPN provider.

Updated: 2022-10-12 11:51:26 CET distill: I am trying this out website change detection service. I added all my sites todayI noticed that the free plan covers up to 5 webpages, I added today 12/Oct/2022, all my websites start pages.. Seems much better than VisualpingI am testing it again, created a new account 12Oct2022 to see if it's any better now......future will tell.

Updated: 2021-05-29 17:46:36 CET Temp Mail: Your temporary email address. Perfect during registrations etc.

Updated: 2021-05-31 15:00:10 CET have I been pwned: Check cell phone nbr, email or password if it's been breached.

Updated: 2021-07-24 13:07:10 CET Worldtimebuddy: Check the time anywhere in the world.

Updated: 2021-07-24 13:07:10 CET Snipboard.io: Best screenshots and image share service!

Updated: 2021-09-21 10:03:11 CET Imgbox.com: Free image hosting. The best of the few! I am actually hosting one pic here as a test! The runner-up was https://imgbb.com/

Updated: 2021-08-27 11:40:47 CET Bitly.com: The URL shorter #1 and much more. Another good, with more basic functionalities, is tinyurl.com.

Updated: 2021-09-01 22:32:58 CET QR code generator: This QR code online generator is great with a lot of cool options - creating contact card in VCard format, calendar events, GEO location, SMS etc. Really nice!

Updated: 2021-09-02 09:19:05 CET Advanced QR code generator: This QR code online generator is great with more advanced functions, you'll get a landing page with more design functions available!

Updated: 2021-09-07 20:56:05 CET Pocket: Save your articles and pages you want to read later with Pocket. Actually, this is the best service! The articles goes straight into Kobo as well. NOT bad!

Updated: 2021-09-12 12:04:46 CET Solar Putty: The best SSH client (on windows) supporting multi sessions. I wrote a post about it here.

Updated: 2021-09-19 14:22:26 CET Git Cheat Sheet: The best interactive Git cheat sheet.

Updated: 2021-10-19 08:43:52 CET FreePik.com (sample search): Freepik.com is a great place for graphical downloads.

Updated: 2021-11-02 10:55:56 CETAbetterRoutePlanner.com: A better Route Planner is a great EV route planner.

Updated: 2021-11-24 17:29:05 CETRufus: Great USB formatting tool! Couldn't have said it better myself: "Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives".

Updated: 2022-01-09 15:06:00 CETPi TiMoLo: RPi camera time laps, motion and web camera interface!

Updated: 2022-01-15 11:02:44 CETwkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage: HTML to PDF and image CL tool converter. Works great with Pandoc.

Updated: 2022-01-15 11:04:48 CETPandoc: The best universal document to PDF converter. Best usage scenario would be Markdown file format to PDF.

Updated: 2022-01-15 11:04:48 CETPixaby.com: Free music on Pixaby.com.

Updated: 2022-05-23 14:45:04 CETMoRSS.it: Great RSS tool that will format and enrich rss feeds and additionally it will also rss:ify webpages. GREAT TOOL!

Updated: 2022-06-02 14:18:31 CETdrawio: This is a great free open source flowchart/diagram online tool. GREAT TOOL!

Updated: 2022-11-06 12:57:09 CETURBackup: A backup solution - client/server - compatible with Mac, Windows, Linux (even ARM) and Docker! There is also Kopia - no image backups - as an alternative.

Updated: 2022-12-13 15:24:27 CETChatGPT: AI chat bot with a lot of impressive functions - writing blog posts, articles and even programs and scripts etc.

Updated: 2022-12-13 15:24:27 CETPlayground: AI text to image service. This is probably my personal favourite of the two (Dall-e)...

Updated: 2022-12-13 15:28:22 CETDALL-E 2: AI text to image service. This is a great service with a lot of available tweaks and settings.

Updated: 2022-12-13 15:34:50 CETRytr: AI writing tool. Makes it easy creating articles and specific text. This is a fantastic tool!

Updated: 2023-01-07 11:22:19 CETSendGrid: A free (100 emails per day) email API service that can be used with Netlify (email submission forms etc).

Updated: 2023-02-02 09:58:17 CETOBS NDI Plugin: OBS plugin called NDI (Network Device I..., something). This is to create a virtual camera stream to multiple systems. Like stream virtual camera to VLC.

Updated: 2022-03-05 18:31:09 CETMail Signatures Generator: This is a really nice online email signature generator

Updated: 2023-03-27 17:11:55 CETExcalidraw: Without a doubt, the BEST online/free draw/diagram tool there is! It also comes with great export (great SVG support) and share functionalities!

Updated: 2023-04-01 16:59:35 CETNotioniframe: Interesting service to allow integration of Notion pages with iframe

Updated: Mon Apr 24 2023, 11:11:08 am CETVDO.Ninja: This is a fantastic resource/tool that allows you to connect your mobile phone as a secondary camera to OBS etc.

Updated: Thu May 18 2023, 12:06:59 pm CETJitsi Meet: Very interesting Open source online meeting service - alternative to Zoom and Google meet etc.

Updated: 2023-05-22 16:55:16 CETStable Diffusion AI: Stable Diffusion is a really nice open source AI graphic generator.

Updated: 2023-05-25 17:33:41 CETRipgrep-all: Search in PDF, DOCX, ODT...etc. Use it together with Tesseract (OCX with jpg, pdf, tiff), Poppler (pdftotext) and Pandoc (MD, Docx etc)

Updated: Tue Jun 27 2023, 11:08:46 am CETDesigner: AI design tool by Microsoft, a competitor to Canva etc. Easily create graphics with the help of AI.

Updated: 2023-08-10 21:01:21 CETeM eMail Client: This has been the Windows email client of choice for some years now. It has really been working nicely for years. You can only have 2 email accounts for the free license!

Updated: 2023-09-17 12:32:40 CETimgBB: A very promising free image hosting (competing with imgbox)! The temporary image sharing is an interesting function as well.

Updated: 2023-09-17 16:24:58 CETBoxy-avg: A really nice online SVG editor. You can open/edit SVG data directly from clipboard.

Updated: 2023-09-27 18:53:35 CETStirling PDF: This is a very interesting PDF generation and manipulation tool/solution. I have other CLI solutions including Pandoc etc, but this might just be on another level. This is the link to install the Docker image to completely self-host it.

Updated: 2023-10-01 21:37:16 CETShotcut: This is a very interesting video edit application that seems to very competent, comparable with iMovie. I have already created a small video clip from my last drone flight!

Updated: 2023-10-01 21:50:33 CETPaint.NET: This is a very interesting image editor app! Almost as good as GIMP...

Updated: 2023-10-24 20:40:56 CETDeepL Translator: If you don't know about this..., you probably lived under the same rock where I was until a couple of weeks ago. Especially for us in Europe, this is a great translator which is constantly getting updated.

Updated: 2023-11-04 14:38:26 CETCrontab - every 30 minutes: This is a great little tool to simulate and validate Crontab entries.

Updated: 2023-11-04 17:46:32 CETAllDup: AllDup is a great free program to find duplicated files.

Updated: 2023-11-14 18:17:25 CETOpenShot: One of the best free video editing tools out there. I have created and published some video clips created by this very tool!

Updated: 2023-12-10 20:13:07 CETiA Writer: You might or might not know, but I love Markdown format. Combine my favorite writing format with the best writing tool iA Writer and you obviously have have the best guide. Ever!

Updated: 2023-12-18 23:57:36 CETASCII to HTML Encoder: There are a lot of converters/encoders out there I checked, but this was the first that did what I wanted! HTML entities to ASCII is here

Updated: 2023-12-22 13:23:19 CETWaku: This is something really interesting - a minimal React framework! I need to try it out...

Updated: 2024-01-13 14:34:12 CETGhostscript: The Ghostscript documentation

Updated: 2024-01-27 17:03:26 CETGeekbench: The Geekbench download page.

Updated: 2024-02-08 12:26:08 CETNeovim: The interesting Vim fork loaded with great functionalities; themes (configurations), plugins (Git). Very portable and can be installed in Windows, Linux and Mac systems.

Updated: 2024-02-08 12:35:42 CETNvChad: Enhance the workflow with the NvChad configuration. Brings a lot of added features!

Updated: 2024-03-03 17:56:48 CETAudacity: Audacity is ...well, we all know what it is. The best free audio editing tool there is... I needed to edit an audio file this evening, I installed Audacity (the ffmpeg add-on had to be installed before I could start) and then minutes after I had it all done. Fantastic!

Updated: 2024-03-03 17:46:17 CETLanguageTool.org: How come I didn't find this earlier? Especially since I am using it everywhere - Thunderbird and VS Code are just two examples.

Updated: 2024-04-21 20:13:49 CETSmash: Send and share big files. You can transfer/share (and trace the progress) unlimited size files (but up to 2GB without queueing) and available for 7 days.

Updated: 2024-05-12 15:50:14 CETTraveltalk.ai: Book hotels with the help of AI. Free search help where you can add unique criteria's.

Updated: 2024-05-12 15:52:28 CETUIPath: UIPath is an interesting automation service/tool. I have already tried it for a while, seems to be very competent.

Updated: 2024-05-13 20:18:31 CETLocalSend: LocalSend seems like a promising product - locally share files to devices within your local network. It supports most systems - Windows, MacOS, iOS, Linux and Android.

Updated: 2024-05-20 15:59:52 CETOllama Library: Ollama and models like Llava (image recognition, see a sample here Very interesting details can be found here. The Python example was a huge eye-opener!), Llama3 (generic usage), OpenHermes, Gemma, Deepseek-coder (programming and coding) and Deepseek-llm etc

Updated: 2024-05-20 15:59:52 CETBackground Removal / Virtual Green-screen & Low-Light Enhance: Probably the longest name of them all, but this is a really cool plug-in for OBS. It will basically blur the background with a lot of additional tweaks. It is actually working great...

Updated: 2024-05-20 15:59:52 CETAnthopic - Claude: New AI service - Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Well, not that new, it is just recently made available for a bigger audience, I should say.

Updated: 2024-08-27 10:43:50 CETHugging Face - Flux.Schnell Space: A great space for the AI image generator Flux.Schnell at Hugging Face!

Updated: 2024-08-27 10:45:58 CETHugging Face - Flux Merged Space: Another fantastic Flux Merged space at Hugging Face. This is probably even better then the one above...at least that is what my first results show.

Updated: 2024-08-27 11:20:50 CETSuno: A great online tool to AI generate music. I created 3 different changers - folk, mellow and soft rock - about the banana's journey from Africa to London!

Updated: 2024-08-27 11:57:39 CETHugging Face - MusicGen: Generate music - great for background music in video clips etc - at this Hugging Face space.

Updated: 2024-09-05 13:54:55 CETRedditScout - Trending in Raspberry Pi: This is an interesting service which is using Reddit data making it searchable for your analysis. Here is one example query by me...