General Software Discussion

Do you want to record music or audio playing on your PC for free? It's easy and simple than you imagine.

You need

1. Audacity - a free and open source software

2. A PC capable of playing audio

3. Some patience

Official guide from Audacity on how to record desktop audio for free.

You can do this on Windows, Linux and Mac, for free.

Customise Windows effectively with WinaeroTweaker

Winaero

At the edge of tweaking

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Kodi 21 " Omega " stable release is now available for Windows, Linux, Android, Mac, iOS, Raspberry Pi and more.

Kodi 21 adds support to webOS and comes with FFMPEG 6, DolbyVision On-the-Fly Profile Conversion and many other improvements over the free version.

Kodi is a free and open source software.

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Found this fake background software for Linux on GitHub. The fact that the code lies in the open makes it a better choice

GitHub - fangfufu/Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam: Faking your webcam background under GNU/Linux, now supports background blurring, animated background, colour map effect, hologram effect and on-demand processing.

Faking your webcam background under GNU/Linux, now supports background blurring, animated background, colour map effect, hologram effect and on-demand…

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It was last updated 2 months ago.

However, the fact that you will have to disable UEFI Secure Boot is a bit patchy for non-technical users. So I will let us decide on this one.

Even though there are many options within services like Google Meet, Zoom and others, it is good to have an alternative.

Want to make screencast videos? Streaming on YouTube or other platforms? Look no further. OBS Studio is one tool that can swing it for you

Open Broadcaster Software | OBS

OBS fan

I have used it a lot and love it. It has some learning curve, but there are many resources available for free. The good thing is it works, without much trouble and has no strings attached.

Run classic games with ease using RetroArch

RetroArch

Apple again beats Microsoft as the most valued tech company. This change comes after it's partnership with ChatGPT.

Looks like ChatGPT can make or break dreams in the tech world.

Open Board, free and open-source white board software

OpenBoard, the best interactive whiteboard for schools and universities

Say goodbye to paid PDF tools. Stirling PDF offers a bunch of features for free. It is open-source, locally hosted and does not take your data away

GitHub - Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF: #1 Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files

#1 Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files - Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

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Stirling PDF is so powerful that it can handle a variety of PDF tasks like acts a free PDF editor, PDF converter and more

Stirling PDF install instructions

.exe and .jar files

Are you a developer trying to add PDF functions inside your application? Stirling PDF's API might be a life saver for you.