#Nerdvent: Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things 2020
Every day until Christmas, I'll be posting about a software tool, website, utility or tip that I think is cool.
- 01 December: Sizer
Sizer is a freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. • read more...
Website: http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/
- 02 December: WinDirStat
WinDirStat is an awesome visual tool to show you what's using your disk space and help you clean it. • read more...
Website: https://windirstat.net/
- 03 December: Camo
Camo turns your iPhone into a HD USB webcam (and it actually works!) • read more...
Website: https://reincubate.com/camo/
- 04 December: X-Box Game Bar
Did you know there's a screen recorder, CPU meter, volume control and chat system built into Windows? • read more...
- 05 December: WClock
Wclock is a free, customisable, always-on-top world time clock for Windows computers. • read more...
Website: http://www.di-mgt.com.au/wclock/
- 06 December: Franz
Franz is a desktop messaging app for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many many more. • read more...
Website: https://meetfranz.com/
- 07 December: ngrok
ngrok creates secure tunnels to your localhost server through any NAT or firewall. • read more...
Website: https://ngrok.com
- 08 December: Instant Eyedropper
Instant Eyedropper is a free tool that will identify and copy to the clipboard the HTML color code of any pixel on the screen with just a single mouse click. • read more...
Website: http://instant-eyedropper.com/
- 09 December: PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. • read more...
- 10 December: Fira Code
Fira Code is the best programming font in the world, ever. • read more...
Website: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
- 11 December: Audacity
Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, and Linux. • read more...
Website: https://www.audacityteam.org/
- 12 December: Open Hardware Monitor
Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer. • read more...
Website: https://openhardwaremonitor.org/
- 13 December: Chrome Dino Game
Yep, there's a dinosaur game hidden in Google Chrome's 'No Internet' error screen. • read more...
Website: chrome://dino
- 14 December: Typora
Typora is a beautiful, minimal editor for Markdown files. • read more...
Website: https://typora.io/
- 15 December: Paletton
Paletton is an online design tool for creating colour combinations that work together well. • read more...
Website: https://paletton.com/
- 16 December: 7-Zip
7-Zip is a file compression tool for Windows that read and write just about every compressed file format ever invented • read more...
Website: https://www.7-zip.org/
- 17 December: Carbon
Carbon creates beautiful images of source code. • read more...
Website: https://carbon.now.sh/
- 18 December: GitKraken
GitKraken is a visual desktop Git client for Windows, macOS and Linux, and it's free for open source projects. • read more...
Website: https://gitkraken.com
- 19 December: Canva and Unsplash
Canva is a web app that helps you design anything; Unsplash is a huge library of free stock photographs. • read more...
Website: https://canva.com
- 20 December: OBS
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is a free, open source software suite for recording and live streaming. • read more...
Website: https://obsproject.com/
- 21 December: EarTrumpet
EarTrumpet is a powerful volume control app for Windows. • read more...
- 22 December: Beyond Compare
Beyond Compare is a powerful file comparison tool for Windows, macOS and Linux. • read more...
- 23 December: Autoruns
Autoruns shows you every program, driver, and process that's configured to run when you start Windows. • read more...
Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
- 24 December: Mailtrap
Mailtrap is an online tool for testing and validating emails before your software sends them to real people. • read more...
Website: https://mailtrap.io/
- 25 December: Ninite
Ninite is the one-click installer for all the stuff you want on your new PC. • read more...
Website: https://ninite.com/
