Must Have Software

alavaz said:

Dang VLC is the absolute best media player. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the others out there used libvlc under the hood anyway. You can skin it if that's your issue with it - VLC media player - Skins - VideoLAN.

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It's the stupid ass icon mostly. Although I'm sure that can be changed. Just thought there might be other popular alternatives.

ShakyJake said:

Any recommendations on a media player? I used to use MPC-HC but looks like it's no longer being developed. Might as well update to something more recent. Also, I hate VLC Player. So not that.

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Fortunately, MPC-HC is now being actively developed/updated on Github

alavaz said:

Dang VLC is the absolute best media player. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the others out there used libvlc under the hood anyway. You can skin it if that's your issue with it - VLC media player - Skins - VideoLAN.

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I second VLC, it does everything.

ShakyJake said:

Any recommendations on a media player? I used to use MPC-HC but looks like it's no longer being developed. Might as well update to something more recent. Also, I hate VLC Player. So not that.

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mpc and madvr > vlc No reason to change

I use MPC with the Klite full package - VLC always been kinda lame

Kais said:

So i've been promoted recently and now instead of seeing one thing from start to finish, i touch on one stage of a about 40 different projects, all different. Small company so no budget for software. What i need is to replace multiple spreadsheets with some kind of issue tracker software that that can track multiple tasks under each job and be able to create lists based on issue, vendor, component, job, report date, complete date, completion status, pending action, custom_field, etc. Able to append pdfs, xls, pics, and emails to any tier.

Thoughts?

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You can try this: OpenProject: The open source alternative to Jira

Otherwise just google open source JIRA alternatives.

For Windows 10, I pretty much gave up on the standard file explorer if I actually need to organize things or work within a file structure, so for that I've had much better luck with Explorer++. I'm sure it has been mentioned as an alternative to Windows' default, but I'm much happier with it. As a side observation, it does not have the same Windows Explorer problem where it will potentially hog up resources or crash the entire Windows explorer process.

In a similar vein, ImageGlass is my new image viewer. It's customizable, there's a preview pane you can turn on that allows you to see images before and after the current one, and it's much faster than Windows Photo application. It's even faster than Windows trying to load up a large number of larger sized image icons if you're trying to preview that way. Just an all around much better alternative.

Kais said:

So i've been promoted recently and now instead of seeing one thing from start to finish, i touch on one stage of a about 40 different projects, all different. Small company so no budget for software. What i need is to replace multiple spreadsheets with some kind of issue tracker software that that can track multiple tasks under each job and be able to create lists based on issue, vendor, component, job, report date, complete date, completion status, pending action, custom_field, etc. Able to append pdfs, xls, pics, and emails to any tier.

Thoughts?

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Asana is king shit and has automation, my favorite.

Has anyone used an iPhone / iPad / Mac emulator? I searched around and there seems to be plenty, but just want some other info if possible. Looking for one which will allow me to download from the Apple Store.

YouTube Shorts are fucking cancer.
My PC YT subscription page has been getting increasingly clogged with this garbage of late, as more and more channels start spamming them for clicks/views.

Thank the Lord, there's an extension called "BlockTube" on the Chrome Web Store (edit) that completely blocks all shorts, including the YT Shorts page & menu, among other things.

Argarth said:

YouTube Shorts are fucking cancer.

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I've enjoyed YT a lot more since I changed my shortcut to my subscriptions page instead of the algorithm's feed.

Captain Suave said:

I've enjoyed YT a lot more since I changed my shortcut to my subscriptions page instead of the algorithm's feed.

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Shorts still show on the sub page, and the extension nukes them everywhere, which was the whole point.