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> It is very rare these days to have an application that is all of the following... Yep. On Windows there's: - IrfanView for image editing - foobar200
by nickjj 4y ago
> It is very rare these days to have an application that is all of the following...
Yep. On Windows there's:
- IrfanView for image editing
- foobar2000 for mp3s
They've been on my "must have" install list for ~20 years.
There's also Ditto for managing multiple clipboard entries. It's a good example of how a small open source tool with an optimized UI for 1 thing ends up being 100x better than the same feature MS tried to implement straight into Windows.
- nix23 4y agoI add 7-Zip and SpeedCrunch to the list
- DeathArrow 4y agoAnd Paint.NET.
- Ambitious1325 4y agoIn your opinion what advantages does Ditto have over win+V? I've only used Ditto very briefly but didn't immediately notice anything too wildly different from the built-in implementation.
- nickjj 4y agoFor a multi-clipboard manager I'm looking for: - Configure hot keys to bring up the clipboard selector (I use CTRL + Alt + V) - Quickly select a clipboard item via hot key, arrow keys or mouse - Search through the list of clipboard items immediately - Configure how many items get saved and when they expire - Ability to paste in plain-text as a separate hot key Ditto hits all of those marks. Overall it feels like it was built by a person who actively uses it.
- Joker_vD 4y agoI use Imagine for image viewing. It has an amazing little feature: when you press the "Next Image" (or "Previous Image") button and the window resizes/moves to keep its size consistent with the new image's size, the mouse cursor is automatically moved to still be over that "Next"/"Previous" button. It most likely takes about 5 lines of code to implement but what's important that the author actually thought about and took care about this scenario.
- tomcam 4y agoFricking awesome.
- ColonelPhantom 4y ago7-zip has already been mentioned, but I want to mention Notepad++. It's not as featureful as a full-on IDE or most modern extensible text editors, but it's fast and has a simple classic UI. When I just want to edit a basic text file I tend to use N++, as long as I'm on Windows and I don't want to boot up VSCode, let alone a full IDE.
- mNovak 4y agoI use N++ everyday and do love it; though I recently found out that it completely freezes trying to open modest sized single-line json (couple MB), which made me sad.
- irq-1 4y agoOpen it as plain text. It does the same thing trying to highlight large XML files. There is also a plugin to reformat JSON.
- arcanemachiner 4y agoFor me the killer audio player was Winamp. I could hide the window and control everything via keyboard shortcuts. It was the perfect program: completely invisible and yet completely functional.
- nyolfen 4y agoi think this applies to every audio player software that has ever been developed
- recursive 4y agoI mean, iTunes exists.
- scns 4y agoWas because you left Windows? Development picked up again.
- tincholio 4y agoI was thinking about trying Winamp again at some point, but nowadays I use Spotify, and shuffling a ton of MP3s across systems doesn't seem as compelling as it did 10 or 15 years ago. I guess I don't really have a strong need for an mp3 player anymore.
- ragazzina 4y agoI would add Everything by VoidTools. It completely changes one's workflow.
- kcartlidge 4y agoNot open source, but mp3tag [1] and Notepad++ [2] (which is) would also be on my Windows list. For Mac I'd add MarkEdit [3], which is less than 3MB, carefully feature-scoped, and has a responsive developer behind it. [1] https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ [2] https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ [3] https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit
- DeathArrow 4y agoPaint.NET is another must have for me. I do have Photoshop installed but for some very simple things I don't have to load Photoshop.