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NEWS / LINKS



PC Tools

Linux Mint
Perhaps you've heard of the Linux Operating System. It's simply an alternative to Windows or Apple but with more control for the user. Linux ain't what it used to be either if maybe you've heard of it before! It's interfaces are modern, intuitive and can be customized to a high degree! (Installation guide/walkthrough)

And if you just want to try it without actually installing, you can always just put it on a flash drive and boot from there as a "trial mode" !

RUFUS
Make USB boot drives


qbittorrent
simple and easy torrent program that always worked for me. Instal guide/help here.

Opera Browser
I'm not a real fan, but for regular PC users the build-in VPN can be very nice to get started.

4k Video Downloader
Downloader for YT & others. Has free options, but I honestly recommend looking for 'modified' versions. It's been an amazing tool for downloading massive playlists of Youtube.

Snappy Driver Installer
A wonderful software updater I found a bit ago. It looks very old-school and can be a little bit of a multi-colored flashbang on first startup, but it just updates everything it can, as opposed to something like IO Bit Driver Booster which arbitrarily will refuse to update some things. It also has no annoying pop-ups for desktop!

HW Monitor
Keep tabs on your PC stats, like heat, fan speed and other useful stuff.

SoulSeek
Music sharing. SoulSeek is a massive P2P media sharing tool. You can find the most obscure and old school demo's and everything else music here!

WinHTrack
Download whole sites!

Winaero Tweaker

Program that can help customize your Windows OS's visual style and many more under-the-hood things! Also has quiet a few options to bring back certain functionality from older windows versions!

Websites

Sci-Hub
Great site offering tons and tons of academic papers and studies.

The Gutenberg Project
Free books from all over the place! A massive library of books, ebooks and many more!

Get into PC
Site with lots of programs.

IT Ebooks
Large offering of PC manuals, software manuals and more!

Igglybuff's resource list
A long github page with many resources for many things. While no longer updated and some pages have gone down, there's still plenty of working links to warrant a visit!

10 Minute Email
Quick, disposable email adress provider. A lot of popular sites won't accept this one though.

OVAgames

Games

Gog-Games
Sometimes goes private after it gets a heavy traffic

Vimm's Lair
Great emulation site.

Old Games Download
Site offering old and niche PC games.

FitGirl
FitGirl

MangaDex
Large offering of old and new manga


Firefox Browser Plugins

Ublock Origin

blocks ads and trackers

Tampermonkey
custom scripts, tons of applications

Decentral Eyes
Make it harder to be tracked

Age Restriction Bypass for Youtube
see everything

FramelessApp Ext
Make a browser tab frameless

Privacy Badger
helps prevent online tracking

Purple Ads Blocker
blocks twitch ads

Save WebP as PNG or JPG -
saves images NOT as webp

SCDL SoundCloud Downloader -
download Soundcloud files

Tumblr NSFW redirect Bypass -
Ignore the warnings

Twitch Live -
see who is live right now

Twitter Media Downloader -
download files easy off twitter

Twitter Latest -
force twitter to use latest timeline

Youtube Nonstop -
Stops Youtube from stopping after a certain amount of time while asking if you're still there.

Youtube Search Fixer
removes random reccomendations in searches.

Youtube-Shorts blocker
makes shorts display as normal vids and remove the shorts feed from the Home page.


Android Phone Tools

DevCheck
check the real stats of your phone

NewPipe
watch YT with extra options and no ads

Freetube
Another YT frontend app

7Zipper
Winzip, but for android!

System App Remover
can delete baked-in programs and heavily restrict other apps.