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.

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

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.

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.

I had just released Naughty Keyboard, it's a tool for testing input fields, the idea is simple:

The app comes with values packs, each value pack is a set of problematic data, with one shortcut we can write the problematic data, with other we can switch the pack, the app is cross-platform, full GUI + CLI (there is nkb emit, so we can export the values and use in own tests form the code). Like the project? Please give it a star. GitHub If you got any questions, features requests feel free to share them :-) The technologi is Rust + slint. The memory ussage is 5-6mb?

Right now there are 208 values, and packs like export breakers, extreme numbers, some specific data, in the future there are plans for 1000+ values, you can read here: full list of packages. Like I said it's simple, keep it in background, use when needed, in the feature I will expand the ability for creating own packages and shortcuts, let's say we would automate whole input fields on website with one shortcut :D And I think the tool can automate some boring work too, because right now I'm using the copy/write mode for testing values, but if in easily way other pepole could create own packs for work, so there is potential.

Please, don't ask me about some girls emojis or anything like that, the "naughty" in the name is in sense of "testing" not some girl things :( You now like a big list of naughty strings. I mean, in theory it's possible, but it's not in the scope of the project.

Full features list:

• One shortcut, one value - Alt+Shift+N (Option+Command+N on macOS, Ctrl+Alt+N on Linux) clears the line and types the next value of the current pack into whatever window has the keyboard. Previous and restart are one chord away, and every chord can be changed.
• Values that explain themselves - each one carries breaks (what it usually breaks, and why) and expect (what a correct application does). The pack file, nkb show and the report block all say so.
• Invisible characters made visible - the palette draws one as a marker, ␣, instead of showing nothing, and counts every value four ways: graphemes, code points, bytes and UTF-16 units.
• Know where you are - the palette shows the value that comes next and a counter of how far through the pack you are, and the value window searches the values of every pack at once.
• A bug report in one chord - Alt+Shift+B copies a block for the last value: which value, from which version of the pack, typed as what, how large, and whether all of it arrived. The value is written in a form someone else can type back, never as the marker the palette drew.
• Never takes the keyboard - the palette is a display driven by shortcuts and does not take focus, so the cursor never leaves the field you are testing.
• Clipboard mode - put values on the clipboard to paste yourself, for one window or for all of them.
• Packs you can check - a pack is a plain TOML file, nkb lint checks it against the format rules, nkb fmt puts it in canonical shape, and nkb new-pack writes the skeleton.
• Made for scripts too - nkb emit prints a pack as JSON, CSV or one value per line, escaped or raw, optionally as base64. Every command has exit codes you can branch on.
• Offline, free, no telemetry - GPL-3.0, no account, and it opens no network connection.

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

I need a copy of virtual dj

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

Hi everyone,

Standard desktop calculator apps often disrupt your workflow because they force you to switch to the mouse to click visual buttons when computing multi-step expressions.

To solve this, I developed ViCalc—a lightweight, open-source scientific calculator built for users who prefer muscle memory, rapid touch-typing, and seamless history tracking.

Key Features:

• Full Touch-Typing Control: Execute scientific, trigonometric, complex arithmetic, and Programmer-mode operations (bitwise & Base-N Hex/Dec/Oct/Bin) entirely from your keyboard.
• Automatic HTML History Logging: Calculation sessions are automatically saved and structured into clean HTML files, making it simple to copy, archive, or paste step-by-step logs into notes or technical documentation.
• Flexible Layouts: Easily switch between full visual controls, a compact scientific layout, or a zero-UI minimalist mode.

Details:

• Platform: Windows (Installer available)
• License: Open Source (MIT License)
• Tech Stack: Python 3

Links:

• GitHub Repository: github.com/Kudaschov/ViCalc
• Homepage: kudaschov.de/en/vicalc-4

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback! What feature or shortcut do you find most essential in a desktop calculator app?

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

Hey guys, just wondering, what's the best way to promote my desktop apps? I have several listed on Gumroad and Itchio, but I can't seem to convert any to sales. I don't know if they're not useful enough or if I have to pay to advertise and see if there's any changes.

Any feedback or experiences are welcome!

I got tired of waiting for Google to implement "AI mode" well for Google Docs, so I ended up writing it myself.. because you can! The result is https://mcpdocs.freeflow.im . It comes as both a local app for local file viewing/Office doc editor (like traditional Office), and a deployable web app. It also includes: Markdown preview, editing/signing PDFs, OCR scan of PDFs to markdown, and image editing including background removal. Sort of combines like 4 or 5 separate tools into one.

All the editing tools are exposed through MCP, so you can "AI edit" either via a built-in assistant or by connecting your own MCP client (Claude Code, Codex, etc...) My biased opinion is that the AI mode works better (faster, more functional, supports multiple models) than Google's. I haven't used Copilot much so I can't compare to MSFT.

I would love people to try it, give me feedback, contribute to OSS if you want. Even just raising Issues (bugs or feature requests) would be awesome. Or fork it and customize it for what *you* need.

I personally think it's amazing that you can build your own very, very good software like this. This is already becoming a trend - people vibe coding apps to scratch their own itch. I'm realistic that this isn't solving some huge market problem. But I think we are entering sort of a golden period where you can break your dependence on Big Tech and build the stuff you need - break out of the "you are the product" trap.

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!)