Anamon
You'll find me most actively contributing on software related to my topics of research (video processing, camera technology, mobile development) as well as some of my hobbies (music and films, media production and editing, photography, design and layout, legacy software and old games).
- Grandmaster
- www.anamon.ch/
Comments & Reviews
Reviewed DxWnd★★★★★
Reviewed LittleBigMouse★★★★★This is an excellent tool! It's one of those where you both wonder why Windows doesn't offer it out of the box, because it seems like such essential functionality for a graphical operating system, but also know for sure that if it did, it wouldn't be done nearly as well as here. (How in the heck does Windows still not understand dpi in the year 2026? Probably for the same reason it still can't find local files.)
You get a great visual overview of your current setup, and helpful tools to...
Commented on Kexi
Commented on Collectorz.com Movie Collector2024 Update: The developers announced earlier this year that the desktop applications will not see any new feature development. There will only be maintenance updates "for as long as it is feasible". They strongly encourage users to move to their cloud-based, web-only applications.
Personally, this is a(nother) dealbreaker for me. For an application where I spend a lot of time entering data, it is completely unacceptable to me to not have this data stored locally and under my control. I'd...
Reviewed BurnAware★★★★★Don't Google Cast and AirPlay transcode the video? That would be a pretty considerable downgrade, especially since one of Vimeo's main selling points is that their video quality is better than the crappy low-bitrate encodes of YouTube.
I'm not sure if casting from my phone could reach the same bitrate as when my Ethernet-connected TV streams directly (not to speak of the fact that it's really not ideal to burn through your phone's battery just to watch videos on your TV). I guess accessing...
- Commented on This is why we can't have nice things. Selfish pe...
This is why we can't have nice things.
Selfish people causing services to implement rate limiting, mandatory registrations, and quality downgrades for everyone, just to keep the lights on.
Commented on Embarcadero Dev-C++On the Embarcadero website, you're asked to share your personal information before receiving the download link. However, you can download without registration from the project's GitHub releases.
Reviewed HxD★★★★★
Reviewed AnyDVD★★★★★AnyDVD HD works. Rarely is it almost sufficient to know that much about a software.
I own many relatively obscure commercial Blu-rays, but also sometimes want to watch rather new ones. Both of those properties can be a problem when trying to watch them on a PC the usual way, using a key database, because often the keys for those discs won't have been shared yet. I don't know how it does what it does, but simply having AnyDVD HD running in the background, so far I didn't encounter a single...
Commented on Bluhell FirewallUnfortunately, this add-on has so far not been ported to WebExtensions, so it's incompatible with Firefox Quantum (versions 57 and up).
Reviewed Messenger★
Commented on TeamViewer
Reviewed Bandcamp★★★★I would refer to Bodik's review for everything that is great about Bandcamp, both for artists and listeners. This is the way forward, and the way music distribution should be done. Moving away from the climate of threats, fear, distrust, bullying and downright scamming that the major labels and distributors have cultivated for decades, especially in light of their failure to adapt to a digital marketplace. Instead: mutual respect, trust and support, with a healthy and rational attitude. As I...
Reviewed Skype★Skype was pretty terrible from the start, but it has been completely devastated through recent updates. The UWP version of the client was (like almost every UWP app) an entirely unusable, feature-free toy that wasn't useful for anything, but at least we could use the legacy desktop version. Now my Windows 7 client was updated to a similarly horrible version that won't let me do any of the things I used to do in Skype anymore.
It's one of those mind-bogglingly bloated Electron applications,...
Reviewed gmaster★★★★
Commented on IDAIf you're a bit confused (as I was) why this is listed as "Free Personal": the main versions of IDA are not, they are offered as time-limited trials, only. However, if you open the Support section of the website and go to Downloads from there, you will find a version that is declared as Freeware, and free for non-commercial use. It's not the latest version (currently v7.0, almost a year old) and not the Professional edition – for those, you'll have to buy a license.
Reviewed Joplin★★★★★I think I have found my OneNote replacement. After Microsoft announced that OneNote is being deprecated, and its replacement is probably never going to support offline notebooks, I was looking for something new, mostly a tool that would still let me decide where I store my own data (the fact that it's 2018 and Microsoft still doesn't understand this need, or has forgotten about its importance, is baffling).
Joplin offers desktop clients as well as pretty full-featured mobile apps. This...
Reviewed Microsoft OneNote★Sunset – better stop using it now!
Microsoft has announced that OneNote is no longer going to be part of Office 2019, so OneNote 2016 will be the last ever version. It's going to be supported until 2020, then it's over. One of many sources: RCP Mag
What Microsoft wants you to use instead is the UWP/Windows 10 version of the OneNote app. Of course, as everyone who has ever tried using it knows, that little...
Reviewed RateBeer★★★★
Reviewed Qobuz★★★★★Qobuz is a music streaming service and download store focussed on audio quality. It's still relatively unknown, which has a lot to do with the fact that it hasn't been very widely available. So far, the service was only available in France, Benelux, Great Britain, and the German-speaking countries. However, with the January 2018 news that the service is going to be available in the United States before the end of the year, this felt like a good moment to add a first review here. Is Qobuz...
Reviewed Spotify★
Reviewed SpyHunter★The developers of SpyHunter, and/or their affiliates, are spamming the web with countless nonsensical pages that pretend to describe malware and how to remove it. What they do is copy all the names from the malware dictionaries of virus scanners like Microsoft Security Essentials, and paste that name into always the same walls of text containing the same nonsensical (sometimes in barely understandable English) content.
In effect, they try to scare people into installing their software. The...
Reviewed Microsoft Edge★★I appreciate the effort, but no.
The browser looks nice, feels fast, and the rendering engine seems decent. Microsoft obviously tried to catch up, and had some good intentions behind it. There are even some very nice features that feel new, like the tab stash that I haven't seen as a stock feature in any other browser yet (stash all of your open tabs and close them, then open that stash back later to go through it). It makes sense considering the way I browse the web, and I could very much...
Reviewed SketchUp★★★★
