Monthly Archives: November 2022

Safety-Related

[v6.0] USB Secure Erase – Erase all data in your USB drive

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In order to erase a USB drive, some users may just delete files or format it. However, neither simple deletion nor formatting can completely erase files, because many data recovery programs can easily and quickly recover deleted or formatted files. Therefore, computer users need to be careful when discarding or selling USB drives, as a large amount of data involving personal privacy and even company secrets can be found on many recycled used flash drives.

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[ Linux Software ], System-Related

[v17.x.x] VMware Workstation Player – Fast and simplified edition of VMware Workstation Pro

When a virtual machine solution is mentioned, most of use probably think of the celebrated VMware Workstation (which always stays ahead of the VirtualBox from Germany on performance and compatibility). Compared with VMware Workstation Pro, VMware Workstation Player (AKA: Player Pro, VMware Player for short) is more lightweight in both file size and function (can be seen as the simplified edition of VMware Workstation Pro), runs faster, and is free and more suitable for personal, home or non-commercial use.

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Auxiliary & Enhance

[v16.1.2] NaturalReader – Powerful Text-to-Speech for at home, work, or on the go

Looking at the computer screen for a long time in our daily work and life not only tires our eyes, but also prevents us from leaving the screen to do something else. In this case, we can use tools like NaturalReader to read aloud the text in various documents, e-books, web pages, emails, etc. This can not only improve work efficiency and quality to a certain extent, but also allow your eyes to rest and free your hands to do other things.

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File & Manage

[v4.1] PictureEcho – Find visually same and exact duplicate pictures

The biggest killer of disk space is duplicate files (such as videos, music, and pictures). Especially all kinds of photos, if they are not sorted and organized during the transfer process, it is easy to generate duplicate files. The result is often many duplicate images exist in one folder or different folders, wasting a lot of disk space. To solve this problem, we can use a tool like PictureEcho to scan and delete duplicate images, thus effectively freeing up disk space.

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Castlevania

[v4.0] Blasphemous – A metroidvania game that looks very different but has no future

Blasphemous is a Metroidvania (Castlevania-like) and Soulslike action adventure video game for both PC and game consoles, developed by The Game Kitchen from Spain in 2019, using Unity. Although the religiously charged plot and beautiful pixel-style graphics earned it high praise, the monotonous action design and inferior control feel make players lose interest and patience quickly.

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Office & Edit

Google Pinyin – Only best Chinese Pinyin input method in the world

Google Pinyin (AKA: Google Pinyin IME, 谷歌拼音输入法, Google拼音输入法) is an excellent Chinese and English input method program for Windows and Android platforms, developed by Google China Labs in 2007. Google released Google Pinyin V2.0 with a lot of new features and improvements in 2008; released its Android version in 2009; and released Google Pinyin V3.0 with English writing assistant feature in 2011. Although its development stopped long ago and the product page was finally removed in 2019, even today (more than 10 years later), it is still the #1 app of all its kind.

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[ Mobile ]

[v10.2] SoundHound – Music searching/identifying edge tool for Android

Sometimes, we accidentally found a nice song, but don’t know its title or singer name, even could not remember any lyrics. In cases like this, how to identify and finally find it? We think the preferred way is to use SoundHound ∞ (AKA: SoundHound Infinity, relying on the vast library support of midomi).

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