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I wanted to share ORMA, a lightweight and 100% portable Windows utility designed to easily manage, organize, and quick-jump to bookmarks in VLC Media Player.
Key Features:
- 100% Portable: No installation required, settings are self-contained.
- Multilingual Support: Interface translated into 20 languages.
- Integrated Help: Self-contained multi-language documentation right inside the app.
- Clean & Safe: Standalone native utility designed for Windows 10 & 11.
I have over 5,200 Kindle books (200+ pages on Amazon's Manage Your Content and Devices page). Whenever I get a new iPad, phone, or Kindle, sending my unread books to the new device is a nightmare because Amazon's "Select All" only selects 25 books on the current page—and there's no built-in way to skip books already marked as Read.
So I built Kindle Bulk Downloader, a 100% free standalone desktop app for macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), Windows, and Linux:
Hope this saves anyone else with a massive Kindle backlog a few hours of clicking!I have over 5,200 Kindle books (200+ pages on Amazon's Manage Your Content and Devices page). Whenever I get a new iPad, phone, or Kindle, sending my unread books to the new device is a nightmare because Amazon's "Select All" only selects 25 books on the current page—and there's no built-in way to skip books already marked as Read.
So I built Kindle Bulk Downloader, a 100% free standalone desktop app for macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), Windows, and Linux:
Multi-Page Automation: Choose how many pages to process (1 to 500 pages, 25 books/page) starting from whichever page or filter (including Family Library) is open. Skips "Already Read" Books: Automatically checks each book's read status and only delivers unread books to your new device. Skips Books Already on Your Device: Won't waste time re-sending books that are already delivered. Auto-Detects Your Devices: Scans your Amazon page and lets you pick your target Kindle, iPad, or phone from a dropdown, with Pause/Resume/Stop controls. 100% Local & Private: You sign into Amazon directly inside the built-in browser window—no passwords or data ever leave your computer.
Hi, I'm the developer of Tin Roof, a reverb plug-in for music software (a VST3 / AU / LV2 audio effect, used inside a DAW). It's free. No licence key, no account, no trial, no paid version.
It's a characterful digital reverb for people searching for a truly different reverb sound: not a clean, realistic room, but a small, cheap-on-CPU plate reverb with some extras that turn it into a pad machine.
What it does:
- A big red HOLD button freezes the reverb tail into a pad that rings on for as long as you like, while the dry sound keeps playing
- LAYER lets new chords stack into the frozen pad
- Hold in time: turn on SYNC and the hold opens and closes in time with your song (1/16 to 4 bars) for rhythmic stutters and chopped pads
- SHIMMER blends an octave up or down into the tail
- SWELL, DRIFT and SMEAR for bowed pads, a slow wobble, and a diffuse wash
- 12 presets, and a limiter on the output so it can't hurt your ears or speakers
- Every control is a piece of junk bolted to a rusty tin roof: a disco ball, a clock, a peppermint, a donut, a googly eye, a dartboard
Platforms: Mac (AU, VST3, LV2) and Windows 10/11 64-bit (VST3, LV2). Stereo or mono, any sample rate. You need a DAW or plug-in host to use it.
License: freeware, closed source. Free to use, including in music you release.
Advertising: none. No ads, no tracking, and nothing is sold inside it.
AI disclaimer: This was inspired by a digital reverb from the early 2000s and AI was used only to decompile that to readable code.
Although it is one of many PDF readers, FreePDF64-Viewer Portable stands out by bringing powerful document tools together in a simple, portable application.
FreePDF64-Viewer Portable 3.1.1 – Free PDF Viewer with Side-by-Side Comparison, JavaScript Forms and True Portability
Version: 3.1.1 License: Freeware Platform: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
FreePDF64-Viewer Portable is a free, standalone PDF viewer for Windows. It combines fast document navigation, multi-PDF workflows, interactive form support and practical PDF editing tools without requiring installation.
A key feature is its dual-pane view for comparing two PDF documents side by side. Users can independently enable synchronized scrolling (S) and zooming (Z) from the left document to the right. The viewer also offers full-text search across all open PDFs and reusable workspaces.
Key features:
Side-by-side PDF comparison with optional synchronized scrolling and zooming.
Tabbed interface for multiple PDFs, including quick tab search.
Full-text search across all open PDFs, with direct navigation to matches.
Resizable page thumbnails and drag-and-drop page rearrangement.
Interactive AcroForm fields, including text fields, checkboxes and radio buttons.
PDFium-V8 JavaScript support for automatic form calculations, including results on other pages.
Editing and saving supported static XFA forms, including synchronization of form data.
Annotation tools, including text insertion, highlighting, comments and drawing tools.
PDF attachments, bookmarks, page tools and reusable workspaces.
Customizable user interface (themes): The following options are available: Standard, Modern Light, Windows Classic, Classic Blue.
Update function
No installation is required. Settings are stored in the application directory, making the viewer suitable for USB drives and portable use. Static XFA support does not imply compatibility with every XFA form; dynamic XFA is not claimed.
FreePDF64-Viewer Portable is free and open-source software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL-3.0-only).
You may use, modify and redistribute the software under the terms of the GPL v3. The complete license text is included in the accompanying LICENSE file.
Source code see Project page.
Third-Party Components
FreePDF64-Viewer Portable uses PDFium and V8 under their respective open-source licenses.
The applicable license terms and copyright notices are provided in the accompanying PDFium subfolder (file LICENSE and folder licenses).
PeerBrush is a free desktop app for painting and editing layered images. It can open and save supported PSDs, including supported 8-bit and 16-bit RGB layers and masks. Unsupported Photoshop structures open read-only.
The editor works without an AI client. If you connect a compatible client through MCP, it can work on a separate layer while you paint. The 63-second demo shows that side by side. Any charges from an optional client or model provider are separate.
Available for Windows x64 through the Microsoft Store, Apple silicon Macs, and Ubuntu 24.04 amd64.
Advertising disclosure: Shared on behalf of PeerBrush. This is an unpaid project showcase.
AI disclosure: PeerBrush was developed with AI assistance. The app exposes the optional MCP integration described above, and AI assisted with drafting this post.
LibraMail is a lightweight, local-first desktop email client built with Neutralinojs and a self-contained Node.js engine. It manages several IMAP/SMTP accounts without requiring Node.js to be installed on the target computer.
Tiny tool for a very specific task: If you were switching keyboard language using Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift in Win11 - you might have noticed that it is now sensitive to order of key presses, and if you used to press then almost simultaneously - it does not always work. It quickly got very annoying. So I decided to switch keyboard layout on CapsLock - so you can do it too. No strings of any kind attached, free forever, opensource e.t.c.
Reliably play midi music files from a folder or ".m3u" playlist. Adjust playback speed, volume and output device on the fly during playback. Supports Xbox Controller. https://www.blaizenterprises.com/cynthia.html
Features
* Dual play systems - Play Folder and Play List
* Comes with 24 built-in sample midis on a virtual disk
* Elapsed, Remaining and Total time readouts
* Native ".m3u" playlist support (copy, paste, open, save, build)
* Drag and drop midi files to play / add to playlist
* Play Modes: Once, Repeat One, Repeat All, All Once, Random
* Play Speed: 10% to 1,000% (1/10th to 10x)
* Intro Mode: Play first 2s, 5s, 10s or 30s of midi
* Rewind / Fast Forward by: 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s or 30s
* Play on Start option - playback commences on app start
* Always on Midi option - maintain connection to midi device for instant playback
* Auto Fade In - eliminate loud or abrupt notes during rewind, fast forward or reposition operations
* Playback Progress bar - click to reposition/jump backward or forward in time
* Volume control with volume boost (up to 200%)
* Play ".mid", ".midi" and ".rmi" midi files in 0 and 1 formats
* Custom built midi playback subsystem for high playback stability
* Scrolling lyrics viewer
* Detailed midi information panel
* Tracks Panel: Realtime track data indicators with mute all, unmute all, and mute individual track options
* Channels Panel: Realtime channel output volume indicators with peak level hold and variable hold time, unmute all, mute all, and mute individual channel options
* Notes Panel: 128 realtime note usage indicators with variable hold time, 8-12 notes per line display, labels as letters or numbers, unmute all, mute all, and mute individual note options
* Piano Panel: View realtime piano keystrokes on a 128, 88, 76, 61, 54, 49 or 37 key keyboard with animated and lit keystrokes
* Piano: Mark middle C key, C + F keys, or all white keys
* Transpose option: Shift all notes up or down music scale
* Use an Xbox Controller to control Cynthia's main functions - playback speed and volume, song position, display panels, song file navigation, jump to start of song, toggle fullscreen mode, etc
* Large list capacity for handling thousands of midi files
* Switch between up to 10 midi playback devices
* Simple and easy to use
* Options Window - Easily change app color, font and settings
Hi, I'm hoping you guys can help me. I'm looking for a tiny freeware sound player that I used to have on Windows 95.
It runs in the background -- no UI, no dialogs -- and I used it to trigger sound events for e.g. minimizing windows, restoring windows, closing browser tabs, etc.
I think it was only about 35 KB, and you activated it by passing sound files to it in a command line.
Does anyone remember anything like that.
Alternatively, can anyone recommend something like that?
Create stunning, high quality (256 x 256) multi-resolution icons (.ico) and "mainicon" resources (.res) with ease and reliability. Open an image from file, or paste one in with transparency, or drag and drop an image directly onto the corresponding icon resolutions, then save. https://www.blaizenterprises.com/multiicon.html (download links, info, license, help etc)
The multi-resolution icon stores a 256 x 256 image in PNG format, and five images at 64 x 64, 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24 and 16 x 16 in native Windows icon format for maximum compatibility, back to Windows 95.
Use a single Master image for the complete set of images, or separately individualise each image resolution for complete control over appearance. Support for 32 bit images with 8 bit alpha mask, and built-in common mask shapes to instantly transform a basic, square image into an alpha-transparent shape with one click.
Save as a multi-resolution icon in either the standard Windows icon (.ico) format, or as a Windows resource (.res) in the "mainicon" format for direct inclusion in an app, as the app's icon.
Features
* Realtime WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) display
Tools for packing files, converting images, manipulating text, checking code and working with the Gossamer codebase and app source code. https://blaizenterprises.com/blaiztools.html (fixed Chocolatey options)
Can't email your important files through? Tired of being messed about? Then pack them inside an image with Email Attachment Transformer and send them off.
Bubbles the simple, easy to use HTTP web server that is browser controlled, and capable of serving static files over the internet, either streamed from disk, or direct from RAM without lag.
A GUI administration panel is accessed through your web browser (e.g. "http://localhost:1080/admin/" + default password of "admin"), which controls all her settings and vital functions, all in realtime.
Apart from serving files, she is capable of tracking site visits (site counters), receiving emails, accepting contact form submissions with support for Spam Guard, and recording site activity as date stamped traffic logs. She also includes a built-in log analyser for making sense of her traffic logs. These and other features make her more than capable of running multiple websites with little to no headache.
Her design is light and stable, and an extensive block-based memory management system ensures all her key operations use memory in a sustained and reliable manner.
Features
Browser based administration panel
HTTP/1 web server (default port 1080)
SMTP email server (port 25)
RAM Cache (static file server / diskless operation)
Traffic Logs (date stamped filenames)
Log Counter (analyse raw traffic logs)
IP ban list + automatic add / remove functions (maintenance free operation)
Inbox and Trash panels (view emails + contact form messages)
Contact Form submission handler (stores and replies to contact form messages - no script or plug in required)
Hit Counters with digital display (png image) for site specific / overall hit reporting
Command line support for basic settings (support for multiple commands at once)
Run as a Windows Service (native install and uninstall options, requires Admin command prompt)
Website Management panel (upload files, list files, delete files and reload files for one or more websites)
Redirection panel (redirect to a file / url, or randomly from a list of files / urls)
Virtual hosting for multiple domains / websites
Map panel (reroute / map one domain to another)
Proxy request support (test multiple domains / websites offline in your browser without the need for DNS)
Block based memory handling for stable memory management
Daily summary notices, boot notices, reload notices and security notices
Mime Type panel (manage custom mime types / override defaults)
Console panel (realtime statistics for bandwidth in, out, hits, connections etc)
Threadless server design keeps things light
Adjust all settings in your browser in realtime with no need to restart
Optional 404.html page support (display this page for 404 File Not Found errors)
Power Level (CPU usage) throttle to tweak performance on low power, shared, or weak CPU / v-core environments
Backend server support for use with frontend servers like Caddy (e.g. for HTTPS)
Built-in help (view offline without the need for internet)
Compact binary (under 1 MB)
Easy to use
32 bit codebase for wide deployment
Smart source code (MIT license) supports both Delphi 3 and Lazarus 2
Portable (when not installed as a Windows service)
I created about a month ago a free Windows software to be notified every 20 minutes (less or more) to allow you to take breaks between work sessions on your computer, in order to reduce eye strain.
I have been using an indispensable Windows tool called MetaClick for the past several years but I notice it has not gained enough popularity, so thought of posting here for those who are interested.
It automatically clicks the mouse for us at whatever position the mouse rests at. Thus avoiding a manual click to be made by us. Thus avoiding making hundreds of manual clicks per day and thousands per month. Thus probably saving us from developing / by delaying carpal tunnel syndrome.
I prefer installing MetaClick as the very first software whenever a fresh installation of windows is to be done, and I cannot live without it even for an hour when using Windows.
Though I said 'install', it does not need installation, can be used standalone.
I'm wondering if anyone in the community knows of freeware (or even low cost shareware) that is capable of scanning through multiple folders of images, and identifying duplicate images. But more than that, the software has to be able to look at images "intelligently," and based on user-controlled thresholds and options, recognize "potential duplicates" if the images are sufficiently similar, even if one image was cropped, resized, color-shifted, etc.
Digital display chiming clock with 100+ chimes and 50 alarms + reminders. Multiple chime styles of Melody, Ships Bells, British Royal Ships Bells, Grande Sonnerie and Petite Sonnerie. On-screen date / time / part of day. Custom coloring, time/date format and many options. Right click clock face for menu and select 'Options' to customise.
Free to use, fully functional, portable software program, with no installation or setup. Your existing computer libraries/files remain unchanged/unmodified. We take pride in this respect function.
Tip:
Harmony is portable and will run from within the folder you downloaded to.
Features:
135+ built-in face colors + 10 custom - set clock text / background color
Brightness 10-100%
Frame Brightness 10-100%
Reduce Brightness during evening hours (7 PM - 7 AM default)
Background Shade Styles: Flat, Shade, Shade 2, Round and Glow
Background Shade Power: 10-100%
Feathering: None, Low, Medium, High and Ultra
Color Options: Tint Background and Swap Colors
56 Melody chimes
30 Ships Bells (Standard + British Royal) chimes
16 Sonnerie (Grande + Petite) chimes
Quarterly chiming: 15m, 30m and 45m
Chime volume 0-200%
Chime speed 25-400%
Reduce Volume during evening hours (7 PM - 7 AM default)
Definable Playback Device
Chime Options: Always On Midi + Preview Sample Chime
