Accessibility Tools
Software and programs designed to increase accessibility in some manner.
Dancing Dots
"Accessible Music Technology for Blind & Low Vision Performers since 1992."
NVDA Screen Reader
"[A] free, open source, globally accessible screen reader for the blind and vision impaired."
Audio and Video
Programs for creating, editing, and accessing audio and video.
Audacity
"Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free, open source software."
Ice Cream Apps
When setting up Windows 10 and 11, Microsoft not only installs the operating system alone, but also a whole range of additional apps – some useful, some less so. O&O AppBuster allows you to remove the unwanted apps easily and quickly. Or, if you accidentally uninstalled one of these apps, you can also retrieve them with one click.
Over a clear and concise interface, O&O AppBuster shows you which of these Microsoft-supplied apps with Windows are installed on your computer and which you can install on request – even hidden apps are displayed here.
Levelator
"The Levelator is a software that runs on Windows and OS X that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It’s not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It’s much more than those tools, and it’s much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler’s application window, and a few moments later you’ll find a new version which just sounds better."
JDownloader2
"JDownloader is a free, open-source download management tool with a huge community that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be. Users can start, stop or pause downloads, set bandwith limitations, auto-extract archives and much more. It’s an easy-to-extend framework that can save hours of your valuable time every day!"
Open Broadcaster Studio
"Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux."
VLC Media Player
"VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols."
Images
Image creation and processing.
Glaze
"Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry. At a high level, Glaze works by understanding the AI models that are training on human art, and using machine learning algorithms, computing a set of minimal changes to artworks, such that it appears unchanged to human eyes, but appears to AI models like a dramatically different art style."
Nightshade
"[A] tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training. More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space."
Other
Miscellaneous other software.
7-zip
"7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio... You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip."
Alternative To
"AlternativeTo is a crowd-sourced and free site that helps you find better apps and services."
JSesh
"JSesh is a word processor, for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. It’s used in many professional egyptological publications: the IFAO, the JARCE, and all kinds of books."
Rarebit
"A free, open-source WEBCOMIC TEMPLATE. Built in HTML and JavaScript".