Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Winhance

Winhance is a PowerShell utility for optimizing and customizing Windows 11.

https://4sysops.com/archives/optimize-and-customize-windows-11-with-powershell-and-winhance/

https://github.com/memstechtips/Winhance

https://www.howtogeek.com/created-a-custom-bloat-free-windows-11-installer/

https://www.howtogeek.com/ways-create-bloat-free-windows-11-installation/

https://www.howtogeek.com/free-tool-lower-windows-11-ram-usage/

Portmaster

Portmaster is an application firewall that is available for Windows and Linux.  A limited free version is available.

https://safing.io/

https://www.howtogeek.com/this-is-my-favorite-network-security-app-on-linux/

https://www.howtogeek.com/these-open-source-firewalls-do-what-windows-defender-cant-and-theyre-free/

https://www.howtogeek.com/i-finally-found-a-windows-firewall-app-that-doesnt-get-in-my-way/

Explorer Tab Utility

Explorer Tab Utility is a free add-on to offer additional functionality to Windows Explorer.

https://github.com/w4po/ExplorerTabUtility

LosslessCut

LosslessCut is a free multi-platform video editor.

https://mifi.no/losslesscut/

Buttercup

Buttercup is a password manager that has multi-platform support.

https://buttercup.pw/

Nativefier

Nativefier is an utility that creates desktop apps out of web pages while separating them from browsers into their own processes.

https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier

https://www.howtogeek.com/turn-any-website-into-a-standalone-app-with-nativefier-and-why/


Saturday, March 1, 2025

ddgr

ddgr is a command-line tool for Linux that allows searches via DuckDuckGo.

The application can be installed within Linux Mint using the following command:

sudo apt install ddgr

https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-tool-lets-you-search-duckduckgo-in-the-terminal/





Filelight

Filelight is an application to visualize the disk usage on your computer.  It is available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

https://apps.kde.org/filelight/

https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-february-20/

TSforge

TSforge is an utility to activate Windows and Office products.

https://github.com/massgravel/TSforge

https://massgrave.dev/blog/tsforge


WinScript

WinScript is an open-source utility to help build custom scripts for Windows 10 and 11. It includes debloat, privacy, and performance scripts.

https://github.com/flick9000/winscript

https://4sysops.com/archives/debloat-windows-11-with-winscript/