Software Recommendations Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, February 26, 2015

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Top new questions this week: Convert .fountain files to .pdf files Background Fountain files are markdown files for screenplays. Many websites have appeared, and many GUI applications exist, that convert .fountain files to various other formats (e.g., .fdx, .html, ... linux pdf document-converter command-line screenwriting   asked by Dave Jarvis 5 votes Chrome extension to delay web page loading I am looking for a chrome app that can delay web page loading by, say, 15 seconds or so, but only for specific pages. The idea is that this will reduce my incentive to browse productivity-reducing ... chrome productivity   asked by Wouter Kuijsters 4 votes answered by Pathum Anjana 1 vote Is there a default music editor/library that is used to display sheet music on the web? I have found this one abcjs, but I don't have enough information about this topic. Requirements: I want to use this with a markdown editor. Musicians should know how to edit sheet music on it. It ... music html-editor music-composing   asked by DanielTheRocketMan 4 votes answered by Dom 1 vote A GreaseMonkey fork/analog that won't collect my data I don't like GreaseMonkey's data collection policy. Short of forking it myself, what are the options for a non-invasive Firefox extension to implement user scripting? Requirements: Source code ... gratis javascript firefox   asked by Deer Hunter 3 votes answered by Deer Hunter 1 vote Which OSX software can show processes which are blocking my files? When I'm trying to move/remove some files in Finder, but I've got this message: Some of the items you are moving are in use by another application. Moving the items can cause problems with the ... osx   asked by kenorb 3 votes answered by kenorb 3 votes Arrangeable profile of github repositories I'm looking for a web-app to better present my Github profile. Being aware I cannot change the way Github itself presents it, it's of course acceptable having to point people to a different place ... web-apps github   asked by Andrew Grimm 3 votes Looking for simple software to track software\hardware maintenance warranty Something simple that you could possibly attach a document and it would alert when maintenance is about to fall off. windows   asked by mellerbeck 2 votes answered by TechMonika 0 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Offline map browser on Android with offline search I'm looking for an offline map browsing application for an Android phone. Absolute requirements: Runs on Android. Provides downloadable offline maps for the places I travel to. OpenStreetMap as a ... android gps maps offline openstreetmap   asked by Gilles 42 votes answered by Izzy 19 votes Maintained Ubuntu PDF reader with text highlighting Evince sucks (in my humble opinion). I'm looking for something like Foxit, but Foxit for Linux is so old. Maintained and updated. Free. Must have an option to highlight text, I save and quit the ... linux pdf ubuntu   asked by Fischer 8 votes answered by drfrogsplat 4 votes Can you answer these? Chrome extension to show page size in the title bar I'd like to get familiar with how large 'average' webpages are, but I don't want to dig for the information. Must: Run on Chrome 40.0.2214.111 (64-bit) on OS X 10.10 Tell me, at page load, how much ... chrome web-browser   asked by Undo 2 votes Microsoft Windows port forwarding? While there are no end of great tools for Linux/Unix, I seem to be having difficulty finding something which will run in MSWindows. I am aware of socat, however I need a port forwarder which can ... windows networking   asked by symcbean 1 vote iOS app that alerts user when approaching specified POI I am looking for an iOS app that serves as a geo-location service. What is needs to do is I enter a location (preferably latitude/longitude coordinates) and the app will sit in the background and ... ios maps   asked by N.Soong 1 vote

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