Recently, I was installing a couple of programs using Chocolatey and stumbled upon a few interesting tools.
Here you go:
Have you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialog box which doesn’t provide such functionality?
Textify was created to solve this problem: you can point your mouse over the text, click on the mouse shortcut (Shift + Middle click by default), and get a selectable view of the text.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/textify
RunAsDate is a small utility that allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/runasdate
SpeedyFox is specially designed to speed up Firefox, Skype, Chrome, Thunderbird and other web programs bogged down by the fragmentation of SQLITE profile databases that naturally occurs over time.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/speedyfox
WebCookiesSniffer is a packet sniffer tool that captures all Web site cookies sent between the Web browser and the Web server and displays them in a simple cookies table.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/webcookiessniffer
Suggests and completes words as you type! Write faster and more efficiently.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/autocomplete
Let’s say you must test something that involves a lot of different variables. Configuration testing is like that: different printers, different print options, different documents. Who knows what combination will fail? But you can’t try all combinations of all variables together, because that would be too many tests.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/allpairs
Generally, SVG files produced by vector editors contain a lot of unused elements and attributes that just blow up their size without providing better visible quality.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/svgcleaner
Dropboxifier helps you share saved games and application data between computers by simplifying the process of adding folders to Dropbox and creating symbolic links.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/dropboxifier
SuperCollider is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition,
used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/SuperCollider
VClip is a simple tool to capture short video clip + loopback audio (speaker sound) from your screen pixels and speaker waves.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/vclip
PCSX2 is an open source Playstation 2 emulator.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/pcsx2
Clumsy makes your network condition on Windows significantly worse, but in a managed and interactive manner.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/clumsy
WaveSurfer is an open source tool for sound visualization and manipulation.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/wavesurfer
Reddit Wallpaper Changer is a lightweight Windows application that takes your paramaters and use them to find you fresh desktop wallpapers at chosen intervals from any Reddit sub(s) you specify.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/reddit-wallpaper-changer
The simplest way to try, install, and manage fonts.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/skyfonts
Cheat Engine is an open source tool designed to help you with modifying single player games running under window so you can make them harder or easier depending on your preference(e.g: Find that 100hp is too easy, try playing a game with a max of 1 HP), but also contains other usefull tools to help debugging games and even normal applications.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/cheatengine
Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/cemu
A compose key allows to easily write special characters such as é ž à ō û ø ☺ ¤ ∅ « ♯ ⸘ Ⓚ ㊷ ♪ ♬ using short and often very intuitive key combinations.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/wincompose
You can install all of them easily with Chocolatey 🙂
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