Software Recommendations Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, November 27, 2014

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Top new questions this week: A tool to store knowledge (mostly links with some notes) in a tree-like structure? Right now I use bookmarks as a way to store all useful websites, libraries, programming tools, lectures. And that works OK, but lacks some useful features. I have them nested i.e., "Programming → Java ... note-taking bookmarks knowledge-organization knowledge-base   asked by atok 5 votes answered by jay 3 votes Trusted timestamping: public proof that I knew something at a given time without revealing it I have found a few vulnerabilities that I want to sell (legally!). In case they get publicly revealed before I manage to sell them, I want to be able to prove that I knew about them before that for ... web-apps   asked by Ciro Santilli 4 votes answered by Grant 3 votes Cross platform disk encryption solution without admin privileges I am looking for a cross platform (OS X 10.10 + Windows 7) encryption solution which can fully encrypt, decrypt and modify a USB disk (full disk encryption). Truecrypt does this, but you need admin ... windows-7 osx cross-platform encryption portable   asked by ben 3 votes Software for analyzing lengthy, fixed perspective footage I have several hours of footage sitting on my hard drive that I need to analyze. Each recording is from a camera that's pointed towards a location and I'm looking for any software that can tell me ... windows video data-analysis   asked by nothisisn'tforghosts 3 votes Hourly screenshot taker I'd like to take a screenshot on an hourly basis (with an option for as short as minutely, or long as daily would be nice). And automatically delete previous day's/week's screenshots. It'd be nice ... windows screenshot   asked by laggingreflex 3 votes answered by Franck Dernoncourt 3 votes Availability Calendar for Finding Weekly Timeslot I have a relatively simple need but have been unable to find any software that can fill it. I am attempting to setup a system that will allow a group of people to each enter their personal ... collaboration calendar   asked by AJ Henderson 3 votes answered by Mugba 0 votes Track changes in a shared project folder I frequently work together with colleagues on projects. To make it easy we create project folders (network drives) which contain all kind of information to the project. Often these are new product ... project-management collaboration git svn   asked by Roman 2 votes answered by Woodrow Barlow 0 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Type special characters {!@#$%^&*()} directly without pressing shift key in win 7 and 8 I am using both windows 7 and windows 8 PC. currently I am writing a paper in latex and tired of pressing shift key to type special characters like $%^#& . Is there a software so that I can type ... windows-7 windows-8 keyboard-layout   asked by Nishant 6 votes answered by Franck Dernoncourt 2 votes Windows application for taking screenshot of current active window I know on Windows 8 you can use this hidden shortcut to take a screenshot of the screen and copy it to your clipboard, but I'm looking for an application where I can either set up a shortcut or has ... windows screenshot   asked by Kasra Rahjerdi 12 votes answered by iKlsR 34 votes Can you answer these? Program to convert document to .mp3 file Is there a program to convert a document (formats below) to an audio file (formats below)? I need: it to be <£20 (preferably free) it to convert from .doc, .docx, .pdf, and .txt (txt is ... windows-7 osx document-converter text-to-speech mp3   asked by ṧнʊß 1 vote Securely erase hard drives and SSDs from WinPE Are there any tools for securely deleting all data that: Will run from Windows PE (because I want to use it as part of an MDT deployment task sequence) Work on both hard drives and SSDs (SSDs aren't ... security hardware   asked by Grant 1 vote Desktop based project management/organizer for Linux? I need a really simple project manager for Linux (Lubuntu). I want to track to-do items, bugs, etc; and I also need to organize all the tasks in a Gantt diagram. Currently I'm using a plain txt file ... linux open-source project-management desktop-client   asked by mHouses 1 vote

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