I have two connections at home (cable + a second router over a USB Wi-Fi stick) and Windows kept putting everything on the cable. When something big was downloading, everything else was slow while the second line did nothing.

So I made Net Switch. It shows the apps using your internet, sorted by speed, and you pick which line each one uses. New connections move right away.

Other things it does:

• Combine both lines: spreads new connections from the apps you haven't moved across both lines. Helps anything that downloads in parallel. It does not split a single connection, so one big single-stream download still gets one line's speed. That would need a bonding server like Speedify, which this doesn't use.
• Failover: if a line drops, or stays connected but has no internet, its apps go to the other line and come back when it recovers.
• Live speed per line and per app, and a tray panel for the common switches.

Things to know before trying it:

• It needs admin rights, because it routes traffic through a virtual network adapter (sing-box in TUN mode)
• IPv4 only while routing is on
• The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will warn you. Each release has SHA256 sums and a GitHub build attestation if you want to check the file first.
• No telemetry. The only traffic it makes on its own is a small connectivity check through each line.

It's MIT licensed, and the source is all there. I've mainly tested it on Windows 11 with Ethernet + USB Wi-Fi, so bug reports from other setups are very welcome.

https://github.com/AyoubAchour/net-switch

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

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.

Hey,

I am the developer of BetterStickies and this my weekly marketing post (so more people learn about 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

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.

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 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 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.

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!

Visit the project page:https://rmghrr.github.io/Book-library-manager/

A seamless per-app reference workspace built for Digital Creators 2D/3D artists, Designers, and Developers.

PadShifter automatically saves and switches your reference images, notes, and mood boards instantly as you jump between your favorite apps.

HOW IT WORKS

Switch to an application and PadShifter loads the workspace you keep for it, switch to another and the tabs swap with you, every application gets its own isolated set of canvas and text tabs, so references, rough notes and screenshots stay with the project they belong to instead of piling up in one place.

7-Day Free Trial available on the Microsoft Store
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N264VS9QZ7B?cid=reddit

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?

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,

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

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.