See a Satellite Tonight

Great way to lookup what satellites are flying over your location on a given night.

https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/

Infinitely Zooming Botanical Painting

Mesmerizing

http://arkadia.xyz/

Max/MSP and ORCA

Max/MSP is used by artists to create interactive art installations.  You can hook up sensors and outputs to it, and it runs in real time, letting people interact with it.  I think it used to be called Max5 at some point?

https://cycling74.com/

Also see ORCA tracker software, created by 100 Rabbits.  They wrote some other software too, like Dotgrid, Ronin, Nasu and Nasu.

https://100r.co/site/home.html

Lots of Youtube videos on making music with ORCA.

Quickly and easily switch audio output device on Windows 10

Soundswitch is the app you're looking for.

https://soundswitch.aaflalo.me/

Windows 7/10 lockdown software for kiosk mode

Pay once, no subscription, software for turning Windows into a kiosk by locking it down and preventing any other apps from running.  Yes this can be done with clever GPOs, etc. but the product is only $20 and makes it really easy and foolproof.

https://www.inteset.com/

Snappy Driver Installer Origin

Snappy Driver Installer Origin, in spite of the cumbersome name, is a free/open source project that allows you to easily scan for and install/update drivers on Windows computers.  Like DriverEasy Pro, but free.

https://www.snappy-driver-installer.org/

Build a professional file transfer function with Powershell

 

https://blog.ipswitch.com/building-a-professional-file-transfer-script-in-powershell

Use Ookla speedtest.net CLI and track it with PRTG

This script runs on a schedule under PRTG, captures the results of the speed test and feeds all the useful metrics into PRTG. Now we have a reliable, trustworthy report of upload and download speeds, jitter, latency and packet loss.

https://greiginsydney.com/new-ooklaspeedtest-ps1/

Solid, from Tim Berners-Lee

 

Solid lets people store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods. Pods are like secure personal web servers for data. All data in a pod is accessible via the Solid Protocol. When data is stored in someone's pod, they control who and what can access it.

Solid is led by the inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to help realise his vision for its future.

https://solidproject.org/

FastAPI

FastAPI claims to be a fast, easy, robust, etc. way to create a Web API.  Uses Python.

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

Dropbox offline installer

In case you ever need it, you can get the Dropbox offline installer here.

https://www.dropbox.com/downloading?type=full