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PaintTool SAI 1 is my beloved, I don't care how old it is, I love it and it's just so comfy to me!
For those who may be wondering, PaintTool SAI is a lightweight drawing program developed by Systemax Software that was released in 2008. The "SAI" part of its name is unrelated to AI, and is an acronym for Systemax Advanced Illustrator. It was developed by one person, Koji Komatsu, and he runs Systemax all by himself. What a guy!
Little snitch
For my work, Bluebeam.
Currently, Notesnook and Proton Pass.
Encryption.
Shove-it, an ancient Windows utility by Phord Software that shoves any half-offscreen windows back onto the monitor so that you can get to all the gadgets. Phenomenally useful. First thing I install on any new build.
Gvim. I even write documents in it and then paste them into Word for final formatting.
Linux. Luckily we have such a great FLOSS kernel to free is from the Gates and the Jobs of this world.
Outlook. /s
Sadly, OneNote. (I have a stylus)
Twenty, even fifteen years ago I would've said Windows Notepad / vim. Now I rarely use basic text editors.
I don't think there's any technology that can never be superseded.
Ditto clipboard manager Xmbc Explorer patcher Moonlight sunshine Everything search Wiztree Altsnap Powertoys KiTTY
That's a long name
Reeder RSS client.
JPEGView It's a simple but powerful image viewer (don't be misled by the name, it can view most any standard image formats).
It feels weird to even have an opinion on such a simple piece of software, but this is the type of tool that reminds you of what software could be like. When you open an image, you see the image. No loading time. No unnecessary toolbars. No fucking pop-ups to update the software to get the latest AI tools.
Don't get me wrong, it's plenty powerful. It's got all the tools you'd expect: viewing EXIF data, cropping, rotating, brightness/color correction. It even has some more advanced tools: navigating collections of photos (including nested folders), viewing a collection as a slideshow or movie, perspective correction, batch-renaming... The impressive part is that it does all this without getting in the way of it's job: viewing images.
Unfortunately, the project has been abandoned, though it appears to have been forked here (I haven't actually used this version, but hopefully they haven't changed too much).
PieDock
photoshop. i've used it pretty much daily for 30+ years.
it's my magic wand, and there's just nothing quite like it.
www.start.me launcher page. I have all my links on all devices in the same place. My first step when i install a browser.
There are too many so I've compiled them here: Mostly excellent βfreeβ software.
When obligated to pick one it'd be AutoKey: βa desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.β Relatively and subjectively speaking, without it I feel hampered like crazy while most other software is βjustβ convenient.