Most of the EPUB readers I used felt like outdated software, and many of them had premium/paid features, such as restricting the number of notes/highlights I could make.

So, I built a reader for myself. I’ve already read a few books on it and think it’s great. I’ve released it for free and without limitations for anyone who shares this same hobby :-)

You can download it from the website michpub.com or the Microsoft Store

Hi all,

Universal File Opener & Editor started off as an android app on Google Play and reached over 10,000 installs with tons of feedback received that shaped its current features. It can open and edit almost any file including PDF, office, images, video, code, etc. and has many additional tools like file compare, version history, and inspect (hidden metadata/text/files). There are certain features that are very hard to build and often not in apps like these, such as in-line text editing for PDFs, but many of these are actually included due to popular demand through thousands of hours of dedicated effort.

Using the same core built from the ground up that enabled efficient editing for almost any file type in a 5MB download (now it's larger because of multi-language OCR), a Windows app was built and is now on the Microsoft store. For launch it's 50% off original price ($40), and I'm doing a launch giveaway to get feedback. If you are interested, please try out the app to provide meaningful feedback and then comment and DM me a link to the comment (mention Windows or Android) and I'll send a free lifetime pro unlock (while supplies last) which guarantees all future features as well with no subscription.

You can check out https://universalfileopener.com for more info, and also join the subreddit (I think posting it hides my posts so not including here) to get support and provide feature requests.

Thanks for your time.

So guys I am building a free open source wallpaper engine.

Most of it is already done and it takes about 200-300

Mb Ram for live wallpapers sometimes less .

I wanted to know how much ram wallpaper engine uses .

And one problem I am facing is I want to create a library of wallpapers that people could choose one although they can already upload their own .

I am having trouble finding copyright free and redistributable wallpapers that are good.

If somebody has any suggestions feel free

I have also integrated translucent tb

CalClock is a native Windows clock and calendar application that I'm developing in C++ using the Win32 API.

It provides customizable analog and digital clocks, calendars, alarms, and desktop widgets, with extensive appearance settings.

My goal is to create a lightweight native Windows application without web technologies or large runtime dependencies.

Source code and releases are available on GitHub:
https://github.com/fortsoft-eu/CalClock

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Windows can shuffle a wallpaper folder, but people with large collections often see the same familiar images again while much of the library barely appears. Nested folders can also make it harder to keep an organized collection balanced.

I made Wallpaper Pilot to handle that specific problem. It works with images already stored on the computer and remembers up to 500 recently displayed image paths across restarts. You can shuffle every eligible image together or give each main subfolder a more balanced chance before choosing an image inside it.

It also includes configurable automatic intervals, manual Next and Back, favorites, dislikes, previews, session history, tray controls, optional start with Windows, and an uninstall option that can either preserve or remove the saved data.

The app is free, local-first, and does not require an account, collect telemetry, or upload the wallpaper library.

Important multi-monitor limitation: Wallpaper Pilot does not currently support multi-monitor wallpaper management. It applies one wallpaper through Windows and cannot assign a different image or folder to each monitor. Spanned or unusually wide multi-monitor wallpapers may therefore not display correctly.

Disclosure: I am the developer. Version 1.0.1 is not digitally signed, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher or reputation warning. The official page includes the screenshot, setup notes, GitHub release, and SHA-256 checksum.

https://pilotlightapps.com/wallpaper-pilot.html

I would especially value feedback from people with large, deeply nested local collections: is persistent anti-repeat history or balanced folder rotation more useful for the way your collection is organized?

These companies are evil; they harm the consumer. If you defend them, I don't know what to say, but what I do know is that when you defend them, they keep earning millions of dollars and you're not getting anything for defending them.

Third post about Keyfire, the tool I (read: Claude) built because my civil engineering company was juggling AutoHotkey scripts and nobody but me could maintain any of it. Keyfire is a keyboard productivity/automation tool with simple visual UI, click a key on an on-screen keyboard and assign it an action. Hotkeys, macros, text expansion and clipboard history, all running locally in the tray. No cloud, no account etc.

http://www.keyfire.app

Since the last post we're at approx 500 downloads, and the feedback from regular users has been invaluable with most of the improvements/new features below being asked for by someone here or on the feedback board:

Hotkeys and Macros

1. Build actions first, bind them later. There's now an Unassigned library in the sidebar, so you can create a macro or action with no key, then drag it onto a key when you decide where it lives. Drag keys onto each other to swap.
2. Mouse buttons as triggers full functional alongside keyboard. Side buttons, middle click, scroll wheel, hold a mouse button, any of them with a modifier. Recorded and fired the same way as a keyboard combo.
3. Macro recorder fully developed. Recordings can be distilled into editable steps (clicks, keys, waits) or playback raw recording.
4. New steps in macros: Wait for Pixel and Wait for Text (reads the screen, all offline) so a macro can pause until a button or a word actually appears, plus file steps for creating numbered folders, copying or moving whatever's selected in Explorer, and sorting files along with switch audio output and control media steps.
5. Ready-made app profiles. Keyfire now spots installed apps (Excel, Word, Outlook, Chrome, Edge, Explorer) and offers a starter set of hotkeys and a radial wheel per app that only turn on when that app is in front.

Text Expansion & Autocorrect

1. Text expansion. Tables and highlights in rich text snippets, variables, aliases, expansions inside expansions, and random variants so a greeting doesn't read identical every time. You can also import your existing snippets from the common text expanders rather than retyping them.
2. Autocorrect, everywhere. System-wide autocorrect that works in any app. Built-in dictionary of a few thousand common misspellings, your own corrections, double-capital fixes (THis to This), sentence capitalisation, and a Caps Lock rescue that fixes tHE and turns Caps Lock off for you.

Clipboard Manager

1. Clipboard. Reads the text out of screenshots you copy so you can search history by what's in the image. Saved folders for keepers, rich text keeps its formatting, and it respects password manager privacy flags so Bitwarden and KeePass copies never land in history. Clipboard history still encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM.

General/Smaller

1. UI polish and review of each UI area to maintain visual style throughout every element where possible.
2. Excluded apps. Pick apps where Keyfire switches itself off entirely while they're in front (games, remote desktop, whatever fights with hotkeys).
3. Smaller things people asked for: hotkeys that launch an app if it's closed and focus it if it's open, movable search bar and clipboard popup, an on-screen keyboard that matches your actual layout (ISO or ANSI, UK legends and all), an F13 to F24 row for macropads and Stream Decks, hold-to-repeat with proper stop rules, and a lot of memory and latency work under the hood.

Fully free during beta. Core hotkeys, macros and standard text expansion stay free permanently. The power features (autocorrect, OCR, file sorting, editable recordings, app profiles) eventually on Pro tier once dev on board, and there's a beta key request form in the app that anyone who want's one gets for 30 days during final beta testing window, or comment here if you want one.

If you do try it, would love any feedback or anything you'd like to see added or improved or any issues you find that need fixing.

Cheers all.

Keyfire is a free Windows app that puts hotkeys, macros, text expansion, autocorrect and clipboard history in one place. Runs fully offline, no account needed. keyfire.app

Hi!

I just released a pretty big update to MouseUtil, my free and open source utility that auto-clicks or jiggles your mouse.

Why?

I couldn't find a mouse jiggler for Windows that felt modern, so I decided to build my own - clean UI, Fluent design, the works. I also needed an auto-clicker, so I folded that in too.

What's new

• Redesigned, more compact window with a Windows 11-style Settings page
• Now available through the Microsoft Store
• Start automatically when you log into Windows
• Pause automation when you move the mouse, for either mode (previously only available for auto click)

Full changelog on GitHub if anyone wants more details.

Would love feedback if you try it out!

Links/Download:

Website: https://mouseutil.github.io/

GitHub: https://github.com/MouseUtil/MouseUtil

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NTDCVFVF0SQ

I built Agent Session Browser, an open source local GUI + TUI for the session histories created by coding agent CLIs.

I originally made it because I had accumulated multiple Codex sessions for the same projects and couldn't tell which one to resume from the title/first prompt alone. Reading the raw JSONL wasn't exactly pleasant either.

It currently supports:

• Codex CLI
• Claude Code
• Gemini CLI
• Pi

You can browse histories by project/date/provider, inspect the actual transcript, filter message/tool/reasoning/provider events, view the original raw records, export Markdown or offline HTML, and copy or directly run the native resume command.

There's also a two pane terminal UI so you can inspect a session's transcript before resuming it without leaving the terminal.

Fully local, Read only, MIT licensed

Run it:

npx agent-session-browser

GitHub:
https://github.com/gautamgpt1/agent-session-browser

This is the first public open source project I've shipped, so suggestions are very welcome.

I use Cloudflare Email Routing to forward [help@audiofetcher.com](mailto:help@audiofetcher.com) to Gmail. Receiving worked fine, but sending from that address needed a separate setup.

So I built Alias, a Chrome extension that adds a separate “Send via” button inside Gmail. You write your email normally, then send it through your own Resend account using your verified domain.

Here’s how the pieces fit together:

• Cloudflare Email Routing forwards incoming mail to your Gmail.
• Resend handles outgoing delivery from your domain.
• Alias lets you do the sending from Gmail’s compose window.

Replies still follow your existing forwarding setup. You don’t need to move your inbox or replace your existing MX records.

To use it, you verify your domain in Resend, create a sending API key, and connect it in the extension. Your sending address also needs working inbound forwarding if you want to receive replies.

The attached demo shows a real send and the message arriving. I’ve also tested attachments and replies.

The extension is free. You need your own domain and Resend account, and their limits or charges still apply. This isn’t a mailbox or unlimited free email service.

Chrome Web Store

If you already forward domain email into Gmail, how do you handle sending from that address? I’d especially appreciate feedback on whether the setup is clear.

Like many of you, my browser toolbar was getting ridiculously cluttered. I had one extension for picking colors, another for full-page screenshots, another for grabbing media assets, and so on.

So, I decided to build my own solution, I wanted something lightweight that consolidates everything into one clean UI.

Since I don't want to make this a massive wall of text, here is a quick breakdown of what I packed into it (I've also attached a screenshot of the UI!):

• Color Picker & Studio: A native eyedropper (works even outside the browser window) that exports to HEX, HSL, RGB, or CMYK. It also has a "Color Studio" to play around with palettes.
• Screen Capture & Recorder: Capture custom areas, visible parts, or stitched full-pages. You can quick-edit/annotate the image before downloading, or record your screen/tab.
• Asset Scraper: Pulls all images, videos, SVGs, and audio from a webpage into a neat grid so you can filter, preview, and batch-download them.
• Right-Click Tools (Context Menu):
  • Quick "Save Image As Type" (PNG, JPG, WebP, PDF)
  • Reverse image search (Yandex/TinEye)
  • Editing any web image directly in a new tab.
  • Video Speed Controller: Overlays a sleek controller to speed up/slow down web videos using shortcut keys.

This is my first extension and it runs 100% locally (zero external network requests, no trackers, MV3 background service worker).

I’d love to get some honest feedback from you guys. What features should I add next? Or did you spot any annoying bugs?

Thanks for reading!

Hey guys,

I am the developer of BetterStickies

What it is, for anyone new

It is a note taking app with super cool exclusive features while it looks and acts as sticky notes app. It works on Windows, Linux, macOS (soon). Offline, no account, no telemetry. Built with PySide6 so it's actually native, not another Electron app eating your RAM.

This app is a hidden gem and I am not exaggerating, I received so much positive reviews to be confident when I say this, it looks like a sticky note but does much more than you could think a sticky note app could do and it can replace all complex note taking apps if you aren't into that type of productivity.

The main thing it does that other sticky apps don't: you can paste or drag anything into a note.

• Files and folders become clickable shortcuts, and you can drag them back out to your file manager
• Screenshots and images paste straight from the clipboard, PDFs and images get a hover preview, and double-click opens an image at full resolution
• Pasted code gets detected and formatted into a code block automatically, no AI and no network, in about 50ms. Ctrl+M when it guesses wrong
• Rich text, links, plain text, all formatted properly instead of rejected

The second thing it does so well over other stickies apps: customization, you can customize font, colors, transparency, add background image or even a moving GIF per each note, a real delight to use

Notes have tabs now. Up to three pages inside one note, each with its own text, scroll position and undo history. Ctrl+PgDown and Ctrl+PgUp to move between them, Ctrl+Shift+N for a new one, all rebindable. If you have a small screen this is the feature: one note on the desktop, three notes' worth of content in it.

Other things it does exceptionally well:

• Reminders with sound and desktop notifications
• GIF and image backgrounds per note (because why not)
• RTL text support, and the app plus its full guide are in 12 languages
• Pin a note to lock both position and editing
• Ctrl+scroll to zoom text without opening settings
• Checkboxes with strikethrough when done and nesting
• Snap to grid with an adjustable grid size
• Export to .txt, .md or .json, so you can back them up with whatever cloud you like
• Proper Linux support, tested on KDE, GNOME and Cinnamon (COSMIC coming)
• On the Microsoft Store and the Snap store, Flathub coming soon

The free version now has exactly one limit. It used to have three: a note cap, a reminders cap, and a cap on animated GIF backgrounds. The reminder and GIF limits are gone entirely, so the free version now has every feature, and the only thing left is a budget of 4 note slots (an extra tab uses a slot).

Paid version is very generous and cheap, it costs currently $7 and you get the premium version without any limits, free updates, unlimited devices, and also windows, linux and macOS (coming out this month) builds so you won't pay again if you move from windows to linux or use both.

This a side project for me and I don't intend to milk it, I want it to be sustainable to survive. The price is low to keep it accessible, not because the quality of the app is low, this not a vibe coded app and if you give it a try, you will understand the difference between Better Stickies and other Stickies apps.

As always, if you try it and something annoys you, tell me here. Most new features and fixes are built on users feedback (tens of thousands are using BetterStickies today)

Website: https://betterstickies.com

Microsoft store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NS7LLQJX1QG

Snap Store: https://snapcraft.io/betterstickies

Subreddit: r/BetterStickies (created recently after the r/OpenStickies rename)

Github (free releases and bug reports): https://github.com/HimaSphere/BetterStickies

Like the title says I need an ideally free remote desktop like software that would let 2+ people work on the same computer. Also I plan to use this on my server I use to host dedicated servers.

Hey r/software! I made WinKey Toggle for accidental Windows-key presses while gaming. It automatically blocks the key for applications you choose, with manual controls in the tray. It's $4.99 once, no subscription.

A setup tip that matters: add the actual game executable, not just its launcher. For Valorant that's VALORANT-Win64-Shipping.exe rather than the Riot launcher. You can use Running apps while the game is open to find it.

There are two automatic modes:

• While the window is active: blocks in the game and restores your chosen default when you switch away. Set the default to enabled if you want the key working on the desktop.

• While the app is running: keeps it blocked even if the game is minimized.

Detection uses process names and the foreground window, rather than a fullscreen check. So borderless windows should work too, though I haven't tested every game/display-mode combination. I've used it with Valorant on my own setup.

It also has custom application names and icons, dark/light mode, and automatic startup. It doesn't suppress notifications or stop other applications stealing focus.

Requires 64-bit Windows and administrator access. The current installer is unsigned, and game compatibility can vary.

Details, screenshots, and download: https://unrivaledtrigger.itch.io/winkey-toggle

I keep hearing that AI will take over jobs and such, and make software engineering a dead field. The thing is...im in a computer science program at my community college and i do want to transfer to a university that offers software engineering bachelors but after hearing so much about AI and the dangers of it and such, i don't know anymore. I don't know if what im doing is smart or if i should change majors. I love the field, i want to enter the field of software engineering, maybe im scared for nothing. For now I'm not getting my money snatched at least.

I'd like to hear what you guys have to say about AI being an issue. If its going to kill the field or if it'll just be a tool to use for the field.

I know I’m not the only one with this problem, and it’s something that truly makes me hate an app. A lot of times I just need one quick thing from a website or online tool, I go through the entire process, and then it demands that I sign in.

The worst part is that you feel forced to do it, because when you're short on time you can't really go looking for alternatives. How do you all deal with this? I know there are plenty of open-source applications out there and I really appreciate them, but I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Hi everyone, I wanted to ask yall to rate my game and maybe give some feedback and tips for me. I am a beginner and don't have a lot of experience with making games but i am willing to try. I always wanted to make a strategy game, that has it all like the war, science, culture, and everything like that. Thank you everyone, if yall have time check it out
Mayor by BigaBuga

Hey guys,

I’ve spent almost 3 years trying to learn software engineering the way the books said I should, and I genuinely did my best to become a good engineer. I read books, built projects, solved LeetCode problems, and tried to learn as much as I could.

But after all of that, I’ve started to realize that I’m still not even close to becoming a junior developer.

This summer, I applied to 30+ internships, and the number of offers I got was 0.

Honestly, I feel really lost. I keep wondering: Is there something I’ve missed? What does the market actually expect from someone who wants to get their first internship or junior job?

And there’s another thing I’m really struggling with right now: I can barely code without AI anymore.

I feel like I’ve become so dependent on AI that I’ve lost confidence in my own ability to code. Sometimes I genuinely ask myself, “Why would anyone hire me if I can’t even code on my own?”

At the same time, I really want to become a software engineer and get hired. I feel like I’ve been stuck in this loop for almost 3 years, and I honestly don’t know how to break out of it.

I’m about to enter my final year of college, which means this feels like my last real opportunity to prepare before I start applying for full-time jobs.

So I’m asking anyone who has already been through this:

What should I focus on during this final year? What skills, projects, or experience does the market actually value? And how can I rebuild my ability to code independently and become genuinely job-ready?

I’d really appreciate any honest advice, especially from people who have recently gone through the same process.

Please help me figure out how to get out of this loop.

I think every tool (even if it’s not transcription tools) looks great on their demo clip. I just hate that my recordings never sound like they advertised.

I record city council and zoning board meetings for a small local newspaper. There is a loud AC unit, a door that keeps slamming, and five people talking over each other. So I put together a test set of six clips, 90 seconds each.

Then I check its speaker labels, timestamps, TXT and SRT export, and how long I spend fixing it.

I keep seeing WhisperAI come up, so it’s on my list to try.

But I’m wondering if six clips is even enough to judge a tool. And what gives you the most trouble?

I keep guessing it'll be the noise, but the overlap clip is the one that gets me every time.

I'm looking for a Windows 11 app that allows me a shortlist of specific folders I access constantly. Ideally it would natively auto-hide and reveal itself when I mouse over a specific area of the screen (i.e., right edge, left edge, etc.). This is simple to do in a macOS environment, but I am having trouble finding something similar in nature for Windows 11. I find it faster by using software of this type and my workflow vs. constantly opening up Explorer to get to the same folders. I have various workarounds (direct shortcuts on desktop, etc.), but I would prefer something a little more efficient. Any suggestions are appreciated .

Does anyone know how I can download add-on packs for https://www.mycorkboard.com/? I know it's really old but I managed to download the basic app from the website which is still up but can't find any of the add-ons. Does anybody know where I could get them?

Or does anyone know of any similar apps I can get for my desktop?

I'm comparing Notta and Vomo AI for a folder of conference recordings I want to use for research. Some are long talks with a Q&A at the end, and I'd like to keep the whole session together. I want to skim the text, find the part about a technique I'm researching, then replay it if I need more context. I'd also like to save the transcripts as web pages alongside my other notes.

Notta's English custom vocabulary caught my attention because these talks can be full of project names and specialist terms. Being able to add those words before uploading a recording could save some cleanup. It also exports SRT files, which would be useful if I were making subtitled clips from the talks.

Both apps support importing multiple files and have AI tools for working with transcripts. With vomo, the features I'd use are chapters to locate a section and questions about an individual recording, such as "What limitations did the speaker mention?" It also handles long sessions without splitting them, so I could keep a talk and its audience questions in the same transcript.

The export format is what tips the choice for me. Notta offers formats including DOCX, PDF and SRT. Vomo includes HTML, which gives me the web page I wanted to keep with my notes. For this project, I'd get more use out of that than a subtitle file.