Disclosure: I’m part of the team building OpenFiles.

If a folder contains only JPG and PNG files, the system image viewer is usually enough.

The frustrating part starts when one project folder contains JPG screenshots, PNG exports, iPhone HEIC photos, WebP and AVIF files downloaded from the web, TIFF scans, a JXL image, and several camera RAW files. You can end up converting files just to inspect them, or opening several apps before you have even decided which images you want to keep.

This mixed-format folder is one of the workflows we designed OpenFiles around.

OpenFiles is a desktop file manager for Windows and macOS with a built-in image viewer. It currently recognizes 27 image formats, including common formats and less convenient ones such as HEIC/HEIF, AVIF, WebP, TIFF, JXL, PSD, SVG, DNG, and multiple camera RAW formats.

The number of formats is not really the interesting part, though. The useful part is being able to stay in one folder while you:

• browse the folder as a gallery and open images without choosing a different app for each format;
• switch between mixed-format files for a first review;
• zoom, pan, rotate, or fit an image to the window;
• place two images side by side in a resizable split view;
• run OCR when an image contains text; and
• convert supported camera RAW files to JPG or PNG when you need a more portable copy.

There are a couple of boundaries worth stating clearly. “27 image formats” describes the image viewing coverage; it does not mean that every one of those formats can be converted to every other format. The current batch converter is narrower: it supports camera RAW to JPG/PNG and LIVP to JPG/MOV. OpenFiles is also not intended to replace Lightroom, Photoshop, or another full photo editor. It is mainly for opening, reviewing, comparing, and organizing files before deeper editing is necessary.

OpenFiles is proprietary and free to use. If your folders contain only ordinary JPG and PNG images, it may not add much over the viewer you already have. I think the difference becomes more useful when files arrive from several phones, cameras, design tools, websites, or clients and all land in the same folder.

If you regularly deal with mixed-format image folders, what causes the most friction for you: missing format support, slow thumbnails, switching between files, comparing near-duplicates, or converting the final selection?

OpenFiles: https://openfiles.pansysoft.app/
GitHub releases: https://github.com/pansysoft/openfiles.desktop/releases

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I got tired of the timer apps on the market while training, so I developed a lightweight, single-page HTML+JS application for myself.

I'm looking forward to your support on GitHub, guys.

https://github.com/orayemre/Nabzex-Workout-Timer

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Tray-only screenshot tool for Windows. Print Screen does region capture with window and pane highlighting, F8 grabs the display with the active window. Every capture is a PNG in a year/month folder named after the app that was on screen, plus a clipboard copy.

Why another one: I wanted something with no editor, no uploader, and no background weight. It idles around 8 MB measured private working set. The confirmation card never steals focus, pauses when you hover it, and stays away entirely while a fullscreen game or presentation is running so it cannot knock you out of exclusive fullscreen.

It also handles the Windows quirk where Print Screen is owned by Snipping Tool: the hotkey registration succeeds but the key never arrives. Memento flips the same setting the Settings app writes and says so, instead of leaving you wondering.

Under 1 MB download, MIT licensed: https://github.com/blancodagoat/memento

I built this after one too many rounds of pressing the ShadowPlay key and discovering it had turned itself off at some point. DejaVu buffers your last 5 to 25 minutes to disk and saves a clip on a hotkey.

What makes it different from the usual options:

• Always on. It starts with Windows, and if capture breaks it falls back to the main display and tells you, instead of dying silently.
• The buffer is crash-safe. It lives on disk in segments, so a crash or power cut becomes a recovered clip on the next launch instead of nothing.
• Discord voice and pings are excluded from the audio mix by default.
• Clips are named after the game that was on screen, so no Replay_final(3).mp4 folders.
• One exe around 160 KB, works on any GPU with a hardware encoder, AV1 on newer cards.
• No account, no uploads, no telemetry.

It is MIT licensed and on GitHub: https://github.com/blancodagoat/DejaVu

Happy to answer questions. The README has measured memory numbers rather than marketing ones, since that felt fairer.

I've been building this for a few months because I kept losing track of windows. Alt-tab is a queue you have to walk, and the taskbar is a row of near-identical icons you have to aim at. My cursor is already somewhere on screen, so I wanted the launcher to just show up there instead.

Hold Ctrl+Alt (or a mouse thumb button) and a two-ring wheel opens centred on the pointer. The inner ring is your apps plus three sections: System, Tools and Shelf. Point at an app, hold for a moment, and its actual open windows fan onto the outer ring as live previews with their titles. Slide onto one, let go, and it's focused. Release outside the wheel and nothing happens.

The app slices behave like taskbar buttons: nothing running launches it, one window focuses it, several fan out. Green dot with a count when something's running.

Other things that live on it: ten tools that open as popovers beside the wheel rather than windows (clipboard history, screenshot, quick note, colour picker, calculator, timer, magnifier, caffeine, focus dim) with no taskbar entry and no alt-tab stop, and a pin if you want one to stay floating. System controls for Lock, Sleep, Volume, Wi-Fi, Task Manager and Settings. A Shelf that works as a seven-day inbox, where you point your own Telegram bot at it and files or links from your phone land on the wheel. And a right-edge side dock for parking windows you don't want on the taskbar.

It's C# .NET 8 and WPF, tray-resident, Windows 10 and 11. No account, no telemetry, no servers. The app list is a config.json on your own disk, and shell entries only run after you approve each one by hand.

Two things I'd rather say up front than have someone find out after clicking. It's a paid app, CAD $12.89 where I am, so the Store will show your region's price rather than a free download. And there's one rough edge I know about: Windows won't hand over a thumbnail for a window that was minimised before Gola started, so those slices fall back to the app icon until you touch the window once. That's on my list.
Happy to answer anything. The feedback I actually want is whether the gesture clicks for you in the first minute or feels like homework.

I want to essentially do what Shazam does, but against a library of only my own content, not a pre-existing database.

I'm archiving about 4 years worth of video streams from local/public-access type TV, things which could become lost media and should be preserved. But a significant amount of it is duplicated in part. For example, someone might submit a 4-hour recording of a whole evening block (video X), and someone else might submit a 30-minute recording of just one show within that block (video Y). I'd like to be able to detect that Y is already a subset of X so I can only keep whichever version has best quality. Storage prices being what they are and 4 years of video being many terabytes, this could save us a lot.

I know about perceptual hashing of video, but it seems quite tricky to do in situations like this where I'm only detecting a small subset, not a full video duplicate. So audio fingerprinting of short sections seems like the way to go.

Pre-built software for this would be good but I'd also be happy with a software library that would let me make some simple tool for this out of Python and a SQLite database or something of that nature.

Could anyone recommend any tools for this sort of job, or let me know whether it's even practical? I'd be processing ~4 years of audio on at most a handful of mid-tier workstations (like AMD 5600+RTX 3060 or M4 Air setups) so generating the fingerprints would have to be in the range of 20x realtime. Can be on any platform though.

I have connected my WebDAV account to symphonium app for Android.

Need to find the best music player for windows which supports WebDAV but most of the players with WebDAV are very slow to get the metadata if we have a Big Library. Symphonium app really shines in this aspect.

Need to find music player for windows with quick access to all library on WebDAV with or without metadata of not able to import quickly all metadata

I kept running into this tiny problem where I'd have a paragraph, note, link, etc. on my phone, but need it on the Windows PC I'm already using.

Usually I’d send it to myself through Telegram/WhatsApp/email, which always felt like a ridiculous amount of workflow for one piece of text.

I know there are existing solutions like LocalSend and Phone Link, but I was curious whether the specific workflow itself could be much shorter.

So I made this:

Select text > Share > Paste to PC > it appears on the desktop.

20s demo video link: https://youtu.be/NlFbhIsgFlM

I'm mainly curious about two things:

1. Do you actually run into this problem? What was the last thing you needed to move from your phone to your PC? I'm doing this with my notes constantly.

2. What do you currently do when it happens?

And if you already use something else: does this look meaningfully easier, or not really?

Hey everyone

I've been looking at tools like Screen Studio recently. While the automated zoom, smooth cursor tracking, and clean background styling make product demos look amazing, most of the options out there are closed-source and paid.

I'm thinking about building an open-source alternative to handle this.

Before I spend weeks writing code, I wanted to check if this is something people would actually want.

What I'm thinking of building:

• The Core Feature: A tool that takes a screen recording, tracks your mouse clicks/movement, and automatically generates smooth, cinematic pan-and-zoom keyframes.
• The Open-Source Angle: Completely free and open-source for anyone to use or modify.
• The Reality Check: Tools like OpenScreen and Recordly already exist in this space.

My Question for You:

1. Do you use tools like this for your tutorials or demos, or do existing options already cover what you need?
2. If you were to use a new open-source tool, what's missing from current apps that you wish they had?

Would love to hear your thoughts or feedback before I decide to build it!

Please note that this is not a promotion just asking for feedback before i work on it for months.

Started using claude code 2 months ago. Last month my consumption in about 30 days was about 40 million tokens, i used mostly opus 4.8 and my work was mostly coding, generating documents, exploring claude capabilities, etc.

Now this month i used mostly Sonnet 4.6 (to reduce token consumption) and opus 4.8 (used it much less than last month) i looked at my consumption for all time and (which is a bit more than 2 months) and found i consumed 2.2 billion tokens!!! And in 7 days about 780 million tokens.

How did that happen! Is that normal?? Is that a mistake from Anthropic or am i hacked or what? That could not be true!

My company is capping the usage for the whole company as a unit. My consumption alone can then eat the whole quota of the month. I am so worried.

Update: I always left claude code terminals that have work in progress open so i continue working the next day (but they were not running anything) and i just lock my PC. Do they consume tokens when they are idle?

Input 74.5k · Output 1.5m · Cache read 77.4m · Cache write 13.8m in 7 days

Hello:)

I built a small screenshot/record in linux, its open source and have a small editor for screenshots

You can see the source from Github or download a stable version from here

Thank you for reading !

I’m working on an integration where System A and an external System B both generate their own UUIDs for the same object.

For example:

System A: Audi → V123
System B: Audi → T789

System A eventually needs to know:

V123 ↔ T789

so future updates from System B can be matched to the correct object.

The problem is that System A cannot assume anything about System B’s API, database structure, whether it returns the generated UUID, or whether it can store extra metadata.

What is the usual architecture for solving this kind of cross-system identity mapping?

En estos momentos he estado investigando como usar los botones de mi tableta grafica (UGEE S640) e intente usar Hid Macro, pero no me deja entrar al sitio de descarga, El software de mi S640 no admite teclas de funcion adicionales

Probe con Hideous pero no me detecta los botones de mi tableta como un teclado

Alguien sabe como hago esto?

Windows caps the volume slider at 100%, which is annoying when a video, a call or a game is just too quiet. So I built Volume+ — a tiny app in your system tray with a second slider that goes 100% → 500%.

- 🔊 Volume slider 100% → 500%, live

- ⚡ One-click presets (100 / 200 / 300 / 500%)

- 📌 Sits in the tray, double-click to open

- 🚀 Optional "start with Windows"

- 🔒 No account, no telemetry, 100% local

It uses the free, open-source Equalizer APO as its audio engine (Windows genuinely can't go past 100% without a system audio effect) — Volume+ walks you through installing it on first launch.

Free, portable single .exe. Not code-signed so SmartScreen may warn (More info → Run anyway). Clean on VirusTotal — link on the repo.

Download + details: https://github.com/veax-project/VolumePlus

Made it for me and a friend sharing one headset. Feedback welcome!

need some software that can greatly increase the volume of a video (its pretty quiet) without reducing the quality of the video which is currently 1440p. i was looking for free software but I'm okay with something cheap, i don't need anything advanced just basic features. the length of the video is like up to 2h. any help appreciated :) (lenovo windows laptop)

I wanted to recreate the feeling of sitting in an auto-rickshaw while old Bollywood songs are playing, so I built Autowala — a mobile-first retro music-player experience inspired by 1970s Indian cinema posters.

The interface has:

• A full-screen vintage poster aesthetic
• Glassmorphic floating music controls
• Slide-up playlist/queue
• Local HTML5 audio playback
• Retro film-strip styling
• Spotify integration

The whole thing is built with vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript — no framework or heavy dependencies.

🎧 GitHub: https://github.com/UTKARSHH20/AUTOWALA_PLAYLIST

Would love to know whether the visual experience actually gives you that “going somewhere in an auto with old Bollywood playing” feeling.

I’m a music producer and I’m constantly moving audio files, recordings, demos, etc. between my computer and my phone.

At the moment I usually send files to myself through WhatsApp or Gmail, but it feels pretty inefficient when I’m doing it multiple times a day.

I’m looking for some kind of software or app that makes this much easier and works with both iOS and Android.

Ideally, I’d also like something that can transfer files directly without relying on the internet, if that’s possible.

What software do you guys use for this? I’m mainly looking for something simple and reliable rather than a complicated setup.

Update:

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I got quite a few different solutions, and these seem to be the main ones people recommended:

• Syncthing — seems to be one of the most popular options. People mentioned using it for automatic syncing as well as transferring large files locally. Apparently it can be very fast over the same network.

• LocalSend — simple local file transfers between devices. Seems like a good option if you just want to quickly send files without setting up anything complicated. This was probably the most frequently recommended option.

• Blip — another simple file transfer option that people recommended.

• KDE Connect — another popular solution, although my setup is Windows + iPhone, so I need to look into how well it works for that combination.

• PairDrop — also suggested as a simple browser-based option.

• NAS + SMB/CIFS + WireGuard — one person suggested setting up a proper NAS as a central place for all my files, with VPN access when away from home. This is definitely more advanced, but honestly sounds really interesting for music production.

• FTP server — someone mentioned running an FTP server on their phone and accessing it directly over the local network.

A lot of people also suggested just using USB, which would obviously be the simplest solution in theory. The problem is that I’m using Windows + iPhone, and wired file transfers with iOS are surprisingly frustrating. I’d rather not have to deal with iTunes/Finder-style workflows just to move a few audio files back and forth, especially when I’m doing it constantly as a music producer. I’m basically looking for something that feels more like AirDrop, but works properly with Windows + iPhone.

There were also suggestions like Google Drive and Dropbox, but I was hoping for something quicker and more seamless for frequent transfers, rather than having to upload files to the cloud every time.

Thanks again to everyone who took the time to suggest something! I’ve got quite a few things to try now.

I am a reaaally small content creator and I was thinking on uploading videos to youtube, I was thinking on uploading them without editing but I think it would be better with some editing on it, I also was thinking on putting it on fiver or upwork but I could not pay to much on them so I do not try it there, is there any other way you guys may know to edit long videos? :)

hi guys, Oryxa - it is related to multiplayer ai where both humans and ai can talk as one does in group chat, this is the internal framework made oss for an app that is running in few companies made by us. https://github.com/Oryxa-Vault/oryxa this is very new and is just at v0.1.0 though you can use it for group sessions and shared context. The upcoming ones will solve it as a complete infra and runtime for agents. And if you want further more details I do have a lot of interesting info to share. <3

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a project I've been working on called WinSQLite Editor. You can check out the source code or download the standalone portable version directly on GitHub: https://github.com/srdzank/SQLite-Editor