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Program & Develop

SharpDevelop – Best free, super lightweight alternative of Visual Studio

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For learning or formal development of C#, there are only two best IDE for choice at present: either the 10+ GB size of Visual Studio or SharpDevelop with only 10+ MB file size. The latter is an open-source IDE with layout similar to IDEA for Java and high flexibility & extensibility, which lets a user find everything new and fresh. It never wants to be an IDE that tries to support everything as Eclipse. Instead, it just gives you an interface, and you can do all the rest by yourself.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], Industry & Professional

FreeCAD – Free and full-featured alternative of commercial CAD software

AutoCAD is undoubtedly the most popular and powerful CAD modeling software. But as a commercial software, it is really, really expensive. FreeCAD is a free, open-source, cross-platform and general-purpose 3D CAx (CAD, CAM, CAE), PLM modeling tool specially designed for home user/hobbyist, experienced CAD user, programmer or educator.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], Upload & Download

qBittorrent – Free, fast and reliable alternative of uTorrent & BitTorrent

It was originally written in C++ by Christophe Dumez (from France) in 2006 when he was a student. Now it’s maintained by worldwide volunteers on their spare time. qBittorrent is a free, open-source and cross-platform BitTorrent client (torrent file downloader) with nice UI based on Qt and built-in search engines.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], Internet Freedom Program

SoftEther VPN – World’s only best, long-term effective and unblockable free VPN

We all knew that, Lantern just abandoned the most perfect and mature P2P work mechanism it initially used, turned into another normal commercial VPN client with excuse: their IPs were blocked too often, they can’t afford. I want to ask – how is it possible for the original P2P mechanism to be blocked? AppNee should say – this commercialized world is never in short of excellent commercial VPN services. So, if Lantern refused to turn around, we could only watch it become a passing meteor. And, it’s time to turn to SoftEther VPN again.

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Hardware-Related

AMCAP – Microsoft Official universal camera viewer

AMCAP (AKA: USB 2.0 Camera) is a classic but extremely practical universal camera previewing and video/audio recording tiny app (less than 50 kb) developed by Microsoft in 1997. It supports both USB and laptop built-in/integrated cameras.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], Office & Edit

Dia – Lightweight alternative of Microsoft Visio

Dia (full name: Dia Diagram Editor) is a vector-based and Visio-like structured diagram drawing tool made by Alexander Larsson from Germany. It’s lightweight, free to use and open-source, supports for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

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Game Tool

MAME Plus! – GUI variant edition of MAME with fastest ROM auditing speed

The official MAME is an application based on all platforms, for Windows it only runs in a classic DOS/CMD window. So this has given rise to many GUI front-end tools and derived editions based on MAME. Although MAME is still the best multi-console arcade machine emulator with the most exuberant vitality in the history of video game machine emulators, what made it is just those many variant editions.

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