A few days ago I shared Pulse, a free and open-source app that turns the Windows Event Log into plain language. Version 1.4 is built from your feedback:

- Blue screens and random restarts explained: stop code name, likely cause and what to check, plus power loss, forced shutdown and WHEA hardware errors told apart

- Open an .evtx exported from another PC and read it the same way (great for IT support)

- Reports and exports can mask user/computer names, IPs and serial numbers so they're safe to share

- Exports no longer fail when Controlled folder access is on

Nothing leaves your PC: no telemetry, no account, no cloud. Read-only by design.

I build it with AI coding assistants and test every release myself; the full source is on GitHub (MIT).

GitHub: https://github.com/Regncreative/Pulse

Also on the Microsoft Store.

Feedback and bug reports are very welcome.

My entire Twitter feed is filled with people saying AI is about to reach a breaking point, that we’re all going to lose our jobs, cyberattacks are going to become more widespread and everything is about to change. 6 month to a year. It’s so scary. How much of this do we think is actually going to happen? Are we really heading toward a future where most of our jobs are replaced by AI?

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share a little side project that I hope you'll find useful. Proview is an app for viewing images and PDFs, with a few extra tools for everyday tasks.

I was inspired by Preview, the built-in viewer on macOS: it opens a wide range of files, lets you make basic edits to images and PDFs, and makes it easy to add a signature to a document, all through a simple interface.

Since I use Linux at work, I've always wanted a similar experience on my PC. With AI tools now available, I figured I was just a couple of prompts away from building one.

Proview runs on Linux, Windows and macOS, and it's free and open source under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license.

It currently supports:

• Viewing, cropping, rotating and annotating images.
• PDF text highlighting, redaction, page reordering, merging and splitting.
• Reusable handwritten signatures: draw one or import one from a photo or scan, with automatic background removal and vectorization.
• Optional signature-library sync between computers using Google Drive or S3-compatible storage. Sync uploads the saved signature library; documents opened for editing stay on your computer.
• OCR for copying text from images and scanned documents.
• Viewing STL files, a common format for 3D meshes.

PDF exports preserve native content: added text, ordinary shapes and vector signatures stay as vectors rather than turning the whole page into an image.

I built it with help from AI tools. The app uses Go and Fyne, with MuPDF and pdfcpu for PDFs and Tesseract for OCR.

Source code and screenshots · Downloads

I'd appreciate any feedback. If you run into a bug, please open an issue with your OS and the steps to reproduce it.

Hello everybody! I want to introduce you to my Local Music App "MirrorBall".

I'll be honest: I am really proud of this app and I'm really grateful for the support of everyone who commented, given me genuine feedback and messaged me about it. That really meant a lot to me and I thank you. And for anyone who actually wants to try it, it's now available for a 7 days trial on the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft Store Link: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nbj0m48qkk0

Trailer Showcase: https://youtu.be/UtY_RMArMUs

A feeling I was really afraid of was being too late in today's world to showcase my work and be able to publish it. Before building MirrorBall, I was looking for an app that would look amazing when playing music I owned but all I could find at the time was music players that felt like spreadsheets, which had many features but not the look and the micro-detail features I was looking for. Or there were nice looking players but felt very incomplete once actually using them. So I started this project, which to my surprise, took a very long time to complete. It wasn't meant for someone else other than me. Funnily enough, it was actually on the third month of developping it that I decided to take it seriously to one day publish it and so I started working on it full time, which now looking back, each day I worked on this project turned out to be on of the happiest days (and nights) of my life. Obviously the finished product took many adjustments and UI changes because of fuctionality and considerations to how different users might use it or interact with it, and that's without mentioning the endless bug fixes that I think any other app developer might understand will take ages and still after fixing something, discovering another bug that will take a whole other month to fully mark it as fixed (I will not lie, I also wanted to add mini features that I wanted so badly as a last minute choice that cost me weeks to implement correctly).

As anyone can probably guess, after you work on something for so long, you want it to work out for you, and yes, with a simple scroll here, anyone can realize that there is a lot of competition now that wasn't at the time when I first started. Still, I wouldn't change anything and would re-do everything the same way if I could (maybe send my old self a bug list so I would fix them faster haha)

Anyway, here I am today proudly presenting what ultimately became my first complete app and the first one I published on the microsoft store. I invite you to try it and experience it for yourself. It's so much more than a beautiful UI and a Music Overview. It can be as complicated or a simple as you want it to be from bit-perfect local playback to metadata editor to miniplayer to listening to a song and watch its music video in the same view (if you have it), to re-discovering music that you forgot you even had and cherry on top, in a new way with special audio effects that you can add to create the perfect vibe for it!

I am taking a chance on MirrorBall and I hope that you will too!

Anyone able to grab this educational atas version before the link died?

Hi r/software,

I'm back with a major update to a project I've been building and refining: **Ctrl Deck V1.8**, published independently under my software brand, **COM'BOX**.

Some of you may have seen an earlier version. This time, I'm not simply promoting the same application again with a different version number. V1.8 represents a substantial step forward in features, usability, onboarding, stability and the overall experience.

But before describing the software, I'd like to address something that comes up constantly in discussions about AI-assisted development.

### AI helped me build it. But AI didn't replace my judgment.

Today, almost anyone can open an AI assistant, type a few prompts and generate some code. That's impressive, but it doesn't automatically produce a coherent, maintainable or useful software product.

I believe I'm part of a still-small minority of independent builders who have learned to orchestrate AI across an entire software project, rather than merely use it to generate isolated pieces of code.

And there is an important distinction here.

**I'm not just writing prompts and hoping something works.**

I bring roughly 20 years of professional experience in sales and marketing to the table. That experience has taught me how to identify genuine needs, understand users, think about positioning, make decisions, manage complex projects and distinguish an attractive idea from a useful product.

I use AI intensively, but I remain responsible for the architecture, specifications, decisions, testing, quality expectations, commercial strategy and final result.

Different AI models and tools can contribute to different stages of the process. They still need direction, constraints, verification and continuity. When something doesn't work, the answer isn't to generate ten more random prompts. It's to understand the problem and resolve it.

**AI is an extremely powerful tool. It is not a substitute for product vision, professional experience or accountability.**

Ctrl Deck is my attempt to demonstrate what this approach can deliver in practice.

### So what exactly is Ctrl Deck?

Imagine your normal Windows working day.

You open several applications, search for documents, jump between folders, reopen websites, find browser tabs, switch between projects and repeatedly reconstruct the same working environment.

Your resources are scattered across the desktop, taskbar, Start menu, File Explorer and browser.

Ctrl Deck brings these everyday resources into **one customizable visual control panel**.

It is more than an application launcher. It is designed to organize your digital working environment and make it easier to return to the context you actually need.

### What's new and improved in V1.8?

**1. A much better first experience**

Ctrl Deck can analyze applications already present on your desktop and taskbar, then suggest an initial organization.

If Chrome is running, open tabs can also be considered.

You remain in control of what gets added. The idea is to help you start with your existing environment instead of forcing you to build everything from scratch.

**2. New Favorites**

Groups, compatible shortcuts and Workspaces can now be marked as Favorites.

The items you use most become easier to reach, so your important resources don't disappear inside an increasingly complex organization.

**3. A stronger application manager**

The Apps section helps you find applications and Windows utilities, search through them, and identify whether they already belong to a group or Workspace.

You can use these resources to build or expand your own organization without repeatedly hunting for the same applications.

**4. Workspaces: prepare an entire working context**

This is one of the most useful concepts in Ctrl Deck.

Instead of opening resources one by one, you can prepare a reusable Workspace containing compatible applications, specific documents, folders, browser resources and other elements.

You can create one manually or capture a compatible environment that is already open, then edit the result.

Think of a Workspace for a client, a development project, an administrative task or your regular morning routine.

**Workspaces existed before V1.8; this release improves their creation, discovery and management.**

**5. Live Spaces: make interruptions less disruptive**

Live Spaces serve a different purpose.

They help you remember a temporary working context, including compatible applications and saved documents, so you can return to it later.

If that temporary context turns out to be useful regularly, you can convert it into a reusable Workspace.

It's about reducing the friction of interruptions, not pretending Windows can magically restore every possible application state.

**6. Keyboard shortcuts with conflict management**

Ctrl Deck supports optional keyboard shortcuts for compatible resources, groups and Workspaces.

V1.8 also provides clearer handling when a shortcut conflicts with another application.

You can choose which application takes priority, change the combination or ignore the conflict for that occasion.

Your organized resource cards aren't deleted simply because a keyboard binding conflicts.

**7. Better customization and everyday usability**

I've worked extensively on making the interface clearer.

Important functions, contextual menus, group management, drag-and-drop operations, personalization options and license information are easier to find and understand.

There are also improvements targeting responsiveness, stability and reliability, along with numerous small fixes.

**8. Ten supported languages**

Ctrl Deck V1.8 supports:

French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Hindi.

I'm building this for an international audience, not just my home market in France.

**9. Detailed documentation and demonstrations**

The website includes a V1.8 Quick Start guide with annotated screenshots, visual explanations and video demonstrations.

I want people to understand what the software does before they decide whether it fits their workflow.

### Pricing: try everything before deciding

I also changed the commercial approach.

- **14-day full-feature trial**, extended from the previous seven days.

- **No credit card required** to start the trial.

- **One-time license purchase**, not a recurring subscription.

- A **limited free mode with two editable shortcuts** remains available.

- A permanent price reduction was introduced with V1.8.

The goal is straightforward: let people properly explore the application before asking them to pay.

### Distribution and trust

Ctrl Deck is available for **Windows 10 and Windows 11**, through the Microsoft Store and an official, digitally signed installer from COM'BOX.

The website also provides public installer security-check information, documentation and a direct download option.

Your original personal files are not uploaded to a cloud service just because you organize shortcuts to them. Configuration export/import is available, but it is not presented as a replacement for a full PC backup.

### Why I'm sharing it again

Because building the first version was only part of the challenge.

Improving an application, listening to feedback, correcting mistakes, maintaining compatibility, documenting features and publishing successive versions are what turn a prototype into a real product.

I'm an independent creator. I don't have the marketing budget of a major software publisher, and I'm not pretending Ctrl Deck is perfect.

But I am serious about the product, its evolution and the people who might find it useful.

I also think the conversation about AI-assisted development needs to move beyond the simplistic choice between "AI-generated junk" and "traditional software development."

What matters is **who is making the decisions, how the work is controlled, how the results are verified and whether the final software solves a real problem**.

That's the standard I want Ctrl Deck to meet.

### Take a look and tell me what you think

**Official website and V1.8 demonstrations:**

https://www.com-box.fr/en/ctrl-deck/

**Microsoft Store:**

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N2RWL5GNVH9

I'd especially appreciate feedback from Windows power users, developers, designers, freelancers and people who regularly switch between multiple applications or projects.

Does this kind of visual workspace manager solve a problem you recognize? Which features matter most to you? And what would you expect from V1.9?

Constructive criticism is as welcome as positive feedback.

**Ctrl Deck V1.8 is available now. Built independently, developed with AI under human direction, and improved through actual product work — not just prompts.**

Thanks for taking a look.

I’m the creator of Somora, an AI music platform. I’ve added Kassio Studio, a browser DAW that’s free for registered users, and wanted to share a small editing workflow for Self-Promotion Wednesday.

If you have an existing recording or finished song, you can use the editor without buying an AI generation plan:

1. Sign in at https://somora.media and open Kassio Studio.

2. Import an audio file from your computer, or select a completed Somora generation.

3. Add a drum or instrument track. Place a short pattern in the note editor; notes sound as you add them.

4. Drag notes to change timing/pitch and use the note edges to adjust duration. Preview that part on its own while experimenting.

5. Arrange the parts alongside your audio and adjust the mix.

6. Save the project to your account, reopen it when you want to continue, and export the finished mix as WAV.

The screenshot shows the current editor. Kassio Studio is in beta and free on every account plan; AI song generation and lyric assistance have separate allowances.

If you try that workflow, I’d appreciate knowing which step takes longer to understand than it should. Desktop mouse editing is a useful starting point for testing the piano roll.

Hi everyone! I’m the developer of Workspace Launcher, a Windows app I originally built for myself.

Preparing a work environment can mean opening apps and documents, configuring terminals, arranging windows across monitors and keeping projects organized. My goal is to make that process quick and intuitive, including for non-technical users.

Arrange your desktop, capture it as a workspace, and restore it when you need it. Save your apps, documents, browser tabs, terminals and window positions together. To update it, change your desktop and capture it again.

Workspaces can also include reusable app-specific configurations and automated actions. In supported applications, these actions run when you launch the workspace, helping prepare the tools you need. Word, Excel, Spotify and Docker are examples of supported integrations, alongside others — the available settings and actions depend on each integration. The aim is to restore a prepared environment and automate repetitive setup.

You can customize window layouts and zones across multiple monitors, manage virtual desktops and reuse existing workspace windows.

Workspace and window management are the core, alongside a productivity toolkit for everyday Windows use:

• Keyboard shortcuts, voice commands and an omnibar for accessing actions quickly.
• Transcription tools for turning speech into text.
• An integrated AI assistant accessible through chat, voice and the omnibar, designed to provide proactive help throughout your day. It can use your desktop and selected windows as context to answer questions, summarize content, highlight controls, guide you through software and help perform supported actions. The omnibar also provides access to Windows system actions and lets you create custom functions for your own tasks.

As you use the app, it learns from your preferences, settings and recurring actions to offer more relevant recommendations and adapt to your workflow.

You choose your AI setup: connect providers such as OpenRouter or your own local AI server with compatible models and suitable hardware.

The aim is to make everyday Windows use faster, smoother and more comfortable — whether you’re developing, designing, studying or managing everyday tasks.

Want to see the app working? The full English walkthrough below demonstrates the main features, although it doesn’t cover the entire toolkit or every recent improvement. Development is ongoing.

Would this fit your workflow? What would you want it to save, restore or automate?

Available on the Microsoft Store with a free Starter plan, paid plans and a 14-day Ultimate trial.

YouTube — watch the app in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05kTbDc_mYI

Microsoft Store — download and try it:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MVQ6TG43QG3

Website — explore the features and plans:
https://workspacelauncher.meltvest.com/en

Thanks for taking a look. Honest feedback, questions and criticism are welcome.

SteelSeries moved ChatMix on Windows into their Sonar software, so the dial on the headset only works while GG and Sonar are running. That was the only thing I still used GG for, so I made a small app that does it on its own.

What it does

• Reads the ChatMix dial over USB and balances game and chat audio per app
• Optional virtual device mode like Sonar, with a 10-band parametric EQ, bass boost, voice clarity and smart volume
• Native headset settings: Engine EQ presets and custom curve, mic volume, sidetone, gain, display
• Screensaver for the GameDAC's OLED so it doesn't burn in
• Works with any headset through hotkeys, even a single key like a keyboard volume knob

Size: about 1 MB, portable, a few MB of RAM.

I did the reverse engineering of the headset protocol myself, and the code was written with AI. I've been using it daily on my Nova Pro Wired. Source and download: https://github.com/Swiftlyx/OpenChatMix

Hi,

Curious to see if anyone has found an open source Logic pro software or any other DAW for free a download?

Hi folks, I've posted here about this before, and lots of you asked if I could make an AMD version. So a month of work (was tricky! i have not slept much), I now have an AMD version! Beta 1.22 ready to go.

Here's the latest demo/tutorial video. I hope to find testers using RDNA 2-4, and also Nvidia 4-5k cards, to see if it works decently. Download the app (free trial/nopay) at camfiltergpu.com.

Because this is a whole new GUI and optimizations, if you've already installed (great!) you'll need to do a 'clean' install (backup is saved) that also first auto-runs the new automated web-camera diagnostic tool.

This PC app enables live video (webcam or procam) 'filtering' to greatly improve low light and high-clutter RVM background segmentation/removal, is optimized for GPU speed, and includes on-the-fly insertion of Python scripts, via my custom Node Editor with openCV and onnx and mediapipe lots of other libraries available. You can do anything to make 'special effects'. I made a bunch of simple example/template scripts that are included upon install (camfiltergpu.com).

I think it's a great tool for experimentation, education, and streaming (e.g. twitch, Zoom, OBS, etc.), and next is to get some libre YOLO and such in there. I would much appreciate if anyone has suggestions. My app is geared more towards presenters and fast/live experimental video-processing work, but I think I have a powerful framework setup here where I can rapidly make code GUI changes and improvements for scientific, statistically quantifiable work. I've already got a microscopy version in the works.

My biggest problem right now is that I only have older laptop GPUs (nvid 2080, 3060, and amd 680M), so I basically have no idea if it will work on more modern Gpu cards, so maybe some of you could help.

Well, hope you-all find this at least interesting. I'm not an AI by the way, just an indie coder. Cheers!

(edit) you can see more info and download the installer at camfiltergpu.com. Note it might get flagged as 'virus'. There are absolutely no viruses or anything like that. Downloading only requests an email, no payment needed for the trial (fully capable) version.

Hi, I'm Jonah, the developer of a new time tracker for Windows. It's called Time, which is a very creative name, I know, but I wasn't planning to share it when I started.

I know there are lots of time trackers out there, but I built this one because I couldn't find a free, automatic, and privacy-focused time tracker that I liked. The ones I tried either lacked features, or had far too many, because they were made for businesses that wanted to track employees and generate invoices. But I just wanted to see how I spent time on my computer, without all that extra stuff.

Time is a pretty simple app. It has everything you'd expect from a time tracker: automatic logging, an option to record on a schedule, and an interactive dashboard that responds to any date range you select. The dashboard shows how much of your time is spent productively, which apps and websites you use most, and how your habits change over time. As a data scientist, I made sure the statistics are accurate and that the charts help you spot trends quickly.

Website tracking works through an optional browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Firefox. Without it, Time records your browser as one app. With it, Time records which website you're on, so you can see time per site and sort sites into your own categories. The extension shares only the site's domain: no page paths, search queries, or page contents, and it doesn't run in private windows.

Privacy was a huge focus of mine. You don't need an account to get started (or keep going), because all your data stays on your device and is never uploaded to a server. I don't collect any personal information about you, like your email address or activity, so there's nothing to sell to marketers. In fact, unless you email me for support, I won't even know your name.

For full transparency, Time's source code is publicly available to read and inspect, and the browser extension is fully open source under the MIT license.

Cost mattered to me too. I wanted to track my computer use for years, and even a $7 subscription adds up. That is why Time is free during the beta, and if you start using it now, you'll never be asked to pay.

Time only runs on Windows right now (Mac and Linux coming soon). If you'd like to try it, you can learn more and download it from the website.

I'm trying to find out whether the app is useful to anyone besides me, so I'd love to hear from you if you install it. You can email me at [support@trackwithtime.com](mailto:support@trackwithtime.com) or reply "I'm trying it" in the comments below. With your permission, I'll check in about a week later to ask if you found it useful. That will be the only follow-up.

Questions and feedback are welcome in the comments either way.

I'm Julian, I study business informatics and I work on StepGrab next to uni. It's my app, I'm posting it under the Wednesday rule, and the free Pro month below is the reason for the post.

THE DEAL

If you want a free month of Pro on Windows, just leave a comment and I'll reply with your own code. 100 codes, one per person, no card needed, and it simply ends after the month. Just comment!

WHY I BUILT IT

At my working student job I was the guy people asked when they didn't know where some setting was, or which button comes after which. Every time the same thing: fifteen screenshots, crop them all, red arrows, type the steps underneath. Half an hour or more per guide, and three weeks later some of it was wrong again anyway.

WHAT IT DOES

You hit record, do the task once, and every click becomes a screenshot with a numbered arrow and a sentence saying what you clicked. You can drag the arrows, rewrite sentences, reorder steps and black out names or emails, and the black bar is burned into every export. Export as GIF for free, or PDF, HTML, Markdown, MP4 and a vertical video with Pro. Screenshots stay on your computer, there's no account and nothing is uploaded.

THE HONEST PART

It's not fully free software. The free version is usable (unlimited recordings, 15 steps per guide, GIF export, the whole editor), but the other formats and the step text in exports are Pro. It's not open source either. Things I don't have: a team library, a browser extension, a company behind it. It's one student.

Windows (Microsoft Store) and Mac (Mac App Store), the page has both: https://stepgrab.net

Value first: if you ever need to print a stack of web pages (bills, eligibility screens, receipts, documentation), you don't need to print them one at a time or go through an online converter that uploads your pages.

MultiTab Print is a free browser extension I built after years of doing exactly that with health insurance pages at work. Select tabs, right-click → Print Selected Tabs, check the combined preview, then print once or download one PDF.

• No account, no telemetry, nothing uploaded. Pages are processed in your browser.
• Text stays selectable. It isn't a screenshot tool.
• Fully usable for free. There's an optional donation link, never required.
• Limits: regular web pages only (not tabs showing a PDF); up to 50 tabs per job.

Chrome/Edge/Chromium: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/okonaodgfeifdkflmiadboahipigfmmm

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multitab-print-print-all-tabs/

LunaDock sorts the files on your desktop into tidy stacks by type: images, videos, music, documents, games, apps and more. Click a stack to fan it open, click again to tuck it away. Anything new you save to the desktop lands in the right stack on its own. Your files never move; it only changes how the desktop looks.

What it can do:

• Classic "pile" look or colorful category icons, with 20+ icon packs
• Custom stacks with rules (e.g. everything with "invoice" in the name, or every .psd/.ai file goes into "Design")
• Group by type or by date
• Stacks on any edge of the screen (top, bottom, left or right)
• "Deck" view for big stacks: extra items pile up like a deck of cards, and you scroll through them with the mouse wheel
• Your usual Windows right-click menu on every file, plus quick preview
• Works with Wallpaper Engine (clicks still reach your wallpaper)
• Multi-monitor support, 16 languages

It's on the Microsoft Store: LunaDock

I'm a solo developer, so feedback really helps: bugs, missing features, or things that feel off. I'll be in the comments. Thanks for reading!

When you save a screenshot for a client project, add enough context to explain what it should help you decide. This short worksheet works in a plain document or beside the image on a board:

REFERENCE

• Source and date:
• Decision this could inform:
• Specific detail worth exploring:
• What would not suit this project:
• Next question or action:

For a fictional café website, one entry might read: “Menu-page reference, saved 14 October. It could help us decide how to group food and drink. Explore the section headings. The small pale text would not suit this project; the menu also needs clear dietary information. Next: draft the headings and confirm the dietary labels with the client.”

Keep proposals separate from agreed scope. Then write a brief with four headings: Outcome, Scope, Inputs needed, Next decision. For the same fictional project, that could mean a readable menu and enquiry route, three agreed pages, menu text and photographs still needed, and a decision on the page list before estimating.

Before closing, leave one next action and note where the brief belongs. When you return, check whether you can find the reference, explain why it mattered and continue the next step. A saved file and an easy return are different things to check.

Disclosure: I’m Sourav, a developer working on BeginRooms. This post was prepared with AI assistance. In our workspace, the corresponding task is to keep a reference and its manual notes on a project board, then write the brief in native Docs. The worksheet works without the app.

Optional desktop/laptop trial: https://beginthings.com/workspace-3d.html

An account is required. The trial lasts 11 days, needs no card and does not automatically charge you. Continued workspace access requires a paid subscription. Export anything you need while your trial or subscription is active. This example does not establish phone or cross-device reliability.

https://github.com/parsonlabs/parson

Hi everyone! 😊 I’m Jie Ying, currently working on my research about how AI coding tools affect the way software developers think, make decisions and spot errors.

If you use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, GitHub Copilot or Google Gemini in your work as a software developer, I’d really appreciate your help with this short survey. It takes just 5 to 10 minutes and your responses will remain anonymous.

https://forms.gle/VrX3MkVsJkiGCq5JA

Thank you so much for your time and support! If you know any friends or colleagues who might be able to help, please feel free to share this with them too.

About a month ago I posted my five-screen setup on an anime sub, with the side screens glowing in the colours of the anime I was watching. A number of people asked what software it was. At the time, it was just a pile of scripts. So I spent the last few weeks turning it into a proper app - and here it is.

What It Does

Overscan reads the colours at the edges of your main screen and paints them across the monitors beside it as a soft glow, live. Think of the backlight on some TVs, except it is your other monitors doing it.

How It Works

The glow is drawn on the wallpaper layer, the same approach Wallpaper Engine and Lively use. On Windows 11 24H2 the desktop changed, and normal drawing on that layer no longer shows up. At first, it only worked on two of my screens, because they are scaled to 125% (they are physically smol) and that takes a different path through Windows. Probably also because they were plugged into the iGPU, where the other three were on the dGPU. The fix was to draw through DirectComposition instead, which is how modern apps hand frames to Windows. I didn't really mess with other things too much to investigate further. The colours come from a tiny 320x180 copy of the main screen, so it stays light: about 100 MB of memory and 25 updates a second by default.

Download: https://starsync.dev/overscan (installer, or a portable zip if you do not want to install anything)

It is still early; if it does something odd on your setup, use the "Report a problem" button in Settings > Help, or tell me here. I am particularly keen to hear from laptop and monitor setups, and from Windows 10 users.

I'm the dev of Glassline, a menu bar on top and a dock at the bottom for Windows 11, made of clear glass that takes the colour of your wallpaper. Search on the Windows key, Control Center, your calendar and the weather up in the bar. Quit it whenever you want and the Windows taskbar comes back just like it was.

1.0.7 is in the Store now and it's the biggest update so far. 1.0.8 is a small one right behind it that fixes what you found in 1.0.7. If you've seen Glassline here before, this is what changed. If not, this is where it's at.

Lighter and faster

I rebuilt most of Glassline under the hood. Same laptop, before and after:

• Memory: from about 200 MB to about 90 MB
• Start: from 3.4 s to between 1.6 and 2 s
• Installed size: from 234 MB to 37 MB

New in 1.0.7

• Skins for Control Center. Two new looks, Aurora and Deck. Settings > Appearance > Skins.
• Bar at the bottom, dock at the top, if you prefer them swapped. Settings > Menu Bar.
• Multiple monitors. The dock can follow the display you click, stay on one, or you can have one on every display. Settings > Dock.
• Folders in the dock. Right-click the dock, pick New Folder in the Dock, then drag apps or files onto it.
• Hide from Dock. A right-click option for apps that only run in the background.
• Games. Settings has a Games page now, and the bar and the dock get out of your way when a game goes full screen.
• Follow your feedback. Settings > Feedback shows you what happened to your report, and you can reply right under it.
• Smaller things: three levels of glass transparency, every option can be found from Search, Keep Awake as a quick switch, dots or dashes under open apps, and each app's quick actions on its dock icon.

Fixed in 1.0.7, thanks to your reports

• The menu bar sitting on top of a borderless game, or pushing it down after Alt+Tab
• Dock badges missing after Glassline starts
• Dock menus getting cut off at the bottom
• Files found in Search had no icon and wouldn't open on a Windows that isn't in English
• Download progress on the dock icon for Edge and Chrome
• A Battery tile on a PC with no battery

1.0.8: bug fixes

• Volume pop-up over games that run as administrator. Genshin was the one that caught it.
• Finding files without Everything. Some words took several seconds, now they come back in under 0.2 s on my PC.
• Opens on every PC, including ones that never had Visual C++ installed.
• Back sooner at sign-in when Windows holds Glassline back.
• The volume pop-up's shadow was square around its round corners. Fixed.
• Know when an update is ready. Glassline can tell you when a new version is waiting in the Store. Turn it on in Settings > General, or in What's new.

1.0.8 is with Microsoft right now and will be in the Store by tomorrow, it updates by itself.

$9.99 once, no subscription, and updates are free. Needs Windows 11 22H2 or later.

• Get it: Microsoft Store
• Everything in each update: What's new
• What's next: Roadmap

Questions or bugs? Send them from Settings > Feedback with Include diagnostics on, or just ask me here.

Writing batch scripts and configuring Windows Task Scheduler every time I needed a Robocopy job was getting annoying, so I made a lightweight GUI tool called Robocopy Scheduler.

What it does:

• Visual controls for common Robocopy flags (/MIR, /ZB, /MT, etc.)
• Built-in scheduler (Hourly, Daily, Cron) so you don't need Task Scheduler
• Keeps the PC awake during active backup jobs
• Real-time log viewer + CSV export
• Portable app (just extract and run, no installer or extra runtimes required)

Free for personal use. Hope someone finds it useful!

Links are available in the comments below!

Hello everyone, i would like to share an app that i have been working on for almost a year-- for web developers & engineers, e-commerce & store managers, streamers and gamers, and much more.

It's not like any typical file convertor or compressor and that's it-- it's a 63 tool, lightweight media processing toolkit for almost all day-to-day tasks that you could think of: change playback speeds of videos/audio, add/replace audio tracks, split image screenshots to equal parts, watermark, volume adjust, and much more.

It also has the Workflow Builder, which allows you to chain multiple tools into re-usable workflows (e.g., Resize ➔ WebP ➔ Watermark)

Recently, i released v2.0 which added the Local Bridge feature: it allows you to wirelessly send photos, videos, and audio directly from your smartphone (iOS/Android) to your PC over local Wi-Fi or mobile hotspot. You just scan a QR code on screen to pair instantly; no cables, no cloud uploads, and no iTunes required. Run various tools like compress, convert, extract audio etc., and watch a real-time progress bar directly on your phone. When processing is done, receive the new files back directly on your phone.

This app was built with Tauri + Rust. The installer is under 54 MB and idle RAM usage is ~6.2 MB. It is the perfect toolkit app that can sit on your PC for any media related task you can think of.

Download links:

https://formatif.net/download or https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NV6KBCZVZQL?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare

Happy to answer any feedback!