Anyone else still miss Google's Picasa photo viewer before google killed it?

I did, so I built Licasa, an open-source image viewer and editor for Linux inspired by that experience. It has just one base aim, show a preview of the image as soon as you click open.

What it does today:

• Open photos straight from your file manager, fullscreen or in a floating window.
• Handle modern image formats: HEIC/HEIF, AVIF, JPEG XL and JPEG 2000, alongside JPEG, PNG, TIFF and WebP. It also supports RAW previews.
• Play Motion Photos and animated APNGs, so there's more to see than a still frame.
• Crop, adjust and export when a photo needs a quick touch-up.
• Stay ready for the next photo with an optional background mode for faster repeat opens. It's off by default.

It's free and open source under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Website: https://licasa.app

I'd love feedback from people who miss Picasa too, or just want a straightforward Linux photo viewer. if you try Licasa, I'd be interested in how it handles the photos and formats you actually use, especially opening times on your hardware. Bug reports and contributions are welcome.

Hey guys,

I require to select colors of a video. I am looking for a software (best webapp) which is easy to use and can pick color from videos. I would like to scroll through the video and in a given frame pick a color. Do you know any?

Gemini recommended me: A color picker and a video programm and just do it with screen but I look for a method which I can use everywhere.

I bought the C-PEN Connect BT10 on eBay, hoping to use it with my computer. I got it and tried to download and find the software for it, but I ran into some trouble. I cannot, for the life of me, find software for PC that will actually connect with this pen. I found an unlisted Android app that I remotely installed, which let the pen work on my phone, but I cannot find a way to get this thing working on my PC. I need help, please and thank you.

Sleek and comprehensive auto typer I made, this is for you students wanting to paste in ChatGPT lmfao

I like the simplicity of Airtable but I keep running into limits around permissions, user roles and more customized workflows.

Instead of finding another spreadsheet-style database, I'm wondering if it makes more sense to build a lightweight internal app around the data with AI.

Has anyone gone this route for a tool that needs proper RBAC and user management?

Got tired of bloated overlay apps just to see my FPS and temps, and I always loved the classic Rainmeter dark glass look, so I built FrameRate.

It's a tiny native Windows overlay with 3 built-in HUDs:

- Core HUD: FPS counter, live frame time graph, and CPU/GPU/RAM ring gauges

- System Bars: Classic compact CPU / RAM / SWAP progress bars

- Competitive Micro-Bar: Minimal single-line strip (`FPS | 1% Low | MS | GPU temp`)

It sits in your system tray, stays out of Alt+Tab, and lets you drag or pin HUDs on top of your games.

GitHub / Download: https://github.com/zombieinjuly

Let me know what you think!

Edit: I undersold the part I'm proudest of. With the Android app you can watch your PC's screen live from your phone, from any network, dictate or type into a window you pick, ask your PC's assistant, and run voice commands on it. The PC has to approve each phone first, the live video is end-to-end encrypted over WebRTC, and speech and the assistant can run fully locally with no API key. (Live view needs a Windows PC for now.)

Hi all, I'm the developer of Talvio, so full disclosure that this is my own project.

I write a lot (emails, Slack, code comments) and Windows' built-in voice typing kept stopping every time I paused to think. The good alternatives are subscriptions that send your audio to their servers. So I built my own.

How it works: hold Ctrl+Win, talk, let go. The text gets typed wherever your cursor is, in any app. Speech recognition runs on your own machine (Whisper, Parakeet and others, on your GPU if you have one), so it works offline and there's no account needed.

Some other things it does:

- Ask out loud: a second shortcut asks an assistant a question and it answers by voice. It can read the text you have selected, so "translate this" or "reply to this" works.

- Voice commands: "play Believer on YouTube", "turn the volume down", "email Ram that I'm running late"

- Meeting notes: records your mic and the call audio as separate lanes and writes notes afterwards

- Phone as a mic: the Android app lets you dictate into your PC from across the room

The AI features use your own API key, a local model, or the $1 of free credit you get if you sign in. Plain dictation needs none of that.

Windows and Linux builds are out now, macOS is coming. MIT licensed.

GitHub: https://github.com/ishangautam7/Talvio

It's still early, so bug reports are very welcome.

Not affiliated in any way. Came across Deskflow today looking for a decent KVM/KB/USB switch. Saved me like $60.

What it does: Use one mouse and keyboard across multiple physical computers (not screens, computers). My home office situation is niche in that I need access to multiple computers at the same time but I have individual monitors for all of them. This program lets me use them as easily as if I'm just using multiple monitors on one PC. It seems to be able to support up to 9 systems (1 acting as keyboard/mouse server, plus 8 clients), though I don't know what impact on performance there'd be.

Why I love it: I don't have to do anything "extra" to use a keyboard on another machine; I just move my mouse to that screen, no needing to click, and voila, that's where my keyboard also works.

Where to get it: GitHub. Available for Linux and Windows. Maybe Mac OS?

Grats and thanks to the Deskflow team and contributors. That's all. Don't really have much else to say.

i made a web app that runs on your browser, you pick apps then copy winget commands for it, paste to cmd and done, here is the link, https://fsamod.github.io/openwin/ Github: https://github.com/fsamod/openwin (a star would help!)

I hate the spotify media bar disappearing in the native app. So I created this tool which fixes it, it is fully open source and you can download it from my github, there are download links there :)

https://github.com/Colbyco/spotify-classic-lyrics

Where can I learn Python for free? Which YouTube channel or other free platform is best for learning Python from beginner to advanced level? Please share your recommendations based on your experience.

how did people search or find useful or free software in github how did they search it

I need a copy of virtual dj

What it is: 24 free tools to scan, merge, split, sign, compress, redact and password-protect PDFs, plus a document scanner that finds the page edges and makes scans searchable, and a built-in viewer where you can search and copy text. Everything runs on your phone. No account, no ads, no tracking. Optional Google Drive sync.

LINK:- https://github.com/sammyZi/pdf-tools

I am a freshman in high school in honors algebra 2. What math classes/ electives should I take for the rest of my high school career to become a Software Architect