Good Freeware Stuff

[Quin]

What's even worse is people are SOOoo stupid they just accept the term smartphone without even realizing it is not a phone at all. Rant rant. Uuugh.

It's like I've been known to say, we've now made "phones" that can take crystal clear pictures of the moon, but also sound like you're calling from there when you use them for their original purpose

[Piero]

"phones"

But… but… aren't they wonderful?
Imagine if while jogging ur fon suddenly malfunctions: how can you find your way back home?

[Piero]

Dedicated to Quin (freeware Mac Os 9)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWmIreJf5Yo

[Randy Walker]

FINALLY a FREE PDF app you're going to like that allows you to TRULY edit and save. It is Nagware but Powerful and Free and it's in your Microsoft Store on your Win 11 machines. Presumably the paid edition stops nagging when you launch. I like it and think you will too. Official safe installer is in the MS Store -- It's called "PDF X" or you can get it here:
https://www.pdfxapp.com/

[AZJIO]

Freeware "Clic"

My IconEditor looks more interesting

[Randy Walker]

Freeware "Clic"

My IconEditor looks more interesting

Does it capture any icon from your screen like Clic can?

[Piero]

Dynamic Audio Normalization via ffmpeg; also for multichannel/multitrack VIDEO files…

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ffmpeg -v 32 -hide_banner -i 'FILE.MP4' -af 'dynaudnorm=g=3:c=1:m=20' -map 0 -c:v copy -y 'FILE'_AN.MP4

Edit/Note: 'dynaudnorm=g=3:c=1:m=20:f=10' will make it "extreme" (similar to LoudMax audio plugin)
https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#dynaudnorm
https://muldersoft.com/docs/dyauno_readme.html

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-- (*
(*
Quick AppleScript example to process a small number of files…
*)
-- *)
on open | my Video (or Audio) files |
	tell application "Terminal" -- process files simultaneously in Terminal windows
		launch -- no new empty window
		activate
		repeat with i in | my Video (or Audio) files |
			set dotp to offset of "." in (reverse of (characters of (POSIX path of i)) as text)
			do script ¬
				"ffmpeg -v 32 -hide_banner -i " & ¬
				quoted form of POSIX path of i & ¬
				" -af 'dynaudnorm=g=3:c=1:m=20' -map 0 -c:v copy -y " & ¬
				quoted form of ((characters 1 thru -(dotp + 1) of (POSIX path of i)) as text) & ¬
				"_AN" & ¬
				(characters -1 thru -dotp of (POSIX path of i) as text) & ¬
				"; exit" -- keeps file .extension (no conversion) and exits (see Terminal prefs/profiles/shell)
		end repeat
	end tell # if processing the original file again, overwrites (-y) the previously processed copy
end open

on run
	open (choose file with multiple selections allowed) -- launched without any dropped files
end run

[AZJIO]

Does it capture any icon from your screen like Clic can?

Yes.
And also has a button for opening a file that Clic does not have.

[Randy Walker]

Yes.
And also has a button for opening a file that Clic does not have.

Ok, AZJIO. You convinced me to take a look so I downloaded it. THANKS!

[Randy Walker]

I found a super great app for people like me that don't know how to type properly. I'm always looking at the keyboard as I type. Only to find when I look up that I typed everything in caps. I hate when that happens. Now I found a tool that helps me fix that problem. I'm still typing caps. But now I can convert what I type back into lower case. I just launched the app. Highlight the text I want to change. And click how I want to change it. The app is free in your MS store. The app is called AnyCase. I think you can find it online, but the easiest way to get it is just go to your Microsoft store. I put it on a WinHotKey hotkey So it's very handy. I tested it in Skype and in the pure basic IDE. Worked perfectly. Upper to lower. Lower to upper. sentence case, first word only.

I was thinking about trying to create such a tool myself. But then it occurred to me that I could not be the only one that having this problem. So maybe somebody else has already developed it. And I can get it free somewhere. So I went looking. and that's where I discovered it was in the MS store. Just go there and search for it by name. "AnyCase".
If you want to put it on a hotkey like I did, you might want to go get the free WinHotKey app. It's really great.. I use it for all kinds of things: https://directedge.us/content/winhotkey/

[AZJIO]

AnyCase

TextCorrection
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=76625
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=80206
https://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?fo ... =49747&glp

Why do I always try to persuade you to use this cool tool that I use every day, every hour. And still no one knows about it.
If you have a single keyboard layout, then disable the layout switching hotkeys. If you have two keyboard layouts, first correct the ini-file by specifying your language there instead of Russian. You need to specify a combined letter in the same position opposite the Latin letters, which is located on the same keyboard button

[Randy Walker]

AnyCase

TextCorrection
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=76625
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=80206
https://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?fo ... =49747&glp

Why do I always try to persuade you to use this cool tool that I use every day, every hour. And still no one knows about it.

Wow! Sounds complicated. 3 links just to explain it. Disable all hotkey shortcuts and edit ini file so you can use it. Maybe if I spoke Russian and frequent Russian websites. I'm just not there yet.

[AZJIO]

3 links just to explain it

1. The program written on Autoit3 is very reliable and tested by time (10 years).
2. The program written on Purebasic works normally, but some things are not taken into account. And it takes time and desire to improve.
3. There are many languages ​​in which Latin letters are not used at all. For such users there is a big problem when you write in the same language, and this is typed in another layout. This problem happens 1000 times more often than if you forgot to press the "Caps lock". For you, the main functionality of the program is useless. But you can use the other functionality of the program.

The version written on Autoit3 can switch the layout between 3 languages. In the version written on Purebasic, only 2 languages ​​are used. The version written on Autoit3 has an additional flag, which can determine the type of "Edit" window and get the text without performing hot capture keys.

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LangR1=00000409
LangR2=00000419 (either leave the field empty, or specify your language number)
LangR3=00000422

[Randy Walker]

3 links just to explain it

1. The program written on Autoit3 is very reliable and tested by time (10 years).
2. The program written on Purebasic works normally, but some things are not taken into account. And it takes time and desire to improve.
3. There are many languages ​​in which Latin letters are not used at all. For such users there is a big problem when you write in the same language, and this is typed in another layout. This problem happens 1000 times more often than if you forgot to press the "Caps lock". For you, the main functionality of the program is useless. But you can use the other functionality of the program.

The version written on Autoit3 can switch the layout between 3 languages. In the version written on Purebasic, only 2 languages ​​are used. The version written on Autoit3 has an additional flag, which can determine the type of "Edit" window and get the text without performing hot capture keys.

OK, sounds like it could be quite useful to someone that could use it and probably a good suggestion for them.

[Psychophanta]

Hi all.
Does anyone know of any audio cutter/joiner for .m4a, .aac, etc. formats that doesn't recompress?