A curated list of softwares, browser plugins, tools, tips and websites made by and for the student of NITH and maintained by the same.

Contents

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Common to Both Browsers
• Websites
• iOs
• Android Applications
• Linux commands and shortcuts
• Mac OS X

Firefox

1. AdBlock - Blocks annoying video ads on YouTube, Facebook ads, banners and much more.
2. FoxyProxy - Plugin to quickly change the proxy.
3. TabGroups - Plugin to view all opened tabs like in Safari.
4. Disable Ctrl + Q - disable the shortcut to close all the tabs.
5. Ctrl + Shift + T - restore last tab closed.
6. Ctrl + Shift + E - group tabs view
7. VideoDownloadHelper - Download video files, from any website
8. DownThemAll - Download manager for firefox
9. Firebug - Development tools for firefox, edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page
10. JsonView - Parses json string into objects and arrays.
11. FireQuery - Firebug plugin for jQuery development
12. Hide Caption Titlebar Plus - Hide titlebar in firefox. Maximize your screen space by adjusting Firefox window TitleBar, borders, Tabs, Toolbars, etc!

Chrome

1. Folder upload option - Upload complete forlders by dragging and droping into chrome, not available in firefox
2. Prophet - extension to find email ids of people from LinkedIn
3. Postman - Make different types of request on URL which are not possible through browser like delete, put, post etc. Must have when you are building an API
4. Proxy switcher - extension to quickly change the proxy.
5. Save to Pocket - Save articles directly to Pocket read later service from chrome.
6. Be Limitless - Beautiful dashboard to easily identify where your time is spent and gives productivity.
7. Momentum - Another beautiful dashboard featuring todo, weather, and inspiration
8. Hola Free VPN - Access blocked website, youtube videos.

Common to Both Browsers

1. Incognito mode - Private browsing Ctrl + Shift + N(Chrome), Ctrl + Shift + P(Firefox)
2. Push Bullet (Chrome) (Firefox) (Android)- Sync media, messages across multiple devices.

Websites

1. xPau.se, khatrimaza, Couchtuner, Shush, KissAnime, 123Movies, PutarFilm- Get all the tv series and movies in HD.
2. StackOverflow, StackExchange - Best QA sites
3. GeeksforGeeks - Learn algorithms and data structures
4. InterviewBit - For programming interview preparation. Complete this before starting of the final year for excellent placements
5. Bitport.io, Seedr.cc - 2GB of torrent direct download
6. Appxv - get free paid apps for Android
7. https://it-ebooks.info/ Download free ebooks.
8. Filehippo.com - Get all software for free.
9. Slack - Group chat for projects
10. Quora, Reddit - sites to read interesting content and get your queries answered.
11. Search for “index of serial” on Google - you would get one click download option in the results.
12. Ideone - online code editor.
13. Oduso - install multiple application in one go, using scripts made by this site.
14. Tlk.io,tawk.to - site to create a chat room and chat anonymously or sign-in.
15. IRC - chat site for professionals.
16. Pushbullet - cross platform notification sharing
17. Github student’s account, gist, bitbucket
18. Weiyun, Dropbox, MegaShare, GooglePhotos - 1 TB cloud storage
19. Urbandictionary - get the meaning of each and every slang/shortform used today.
20. Xdadevelopers.com - everything related to android.
21. Heroku, AWS, hostinger - hosting services for your projects
22. Koding.com
23. Stumbleupon - explore web new pages based on likes and dislikes and save pages.
24. Google forms - create simple and user friendly forms for submission of entries.
25. Feedly - RSS feed aggregator
26. Ssyoutube - download youtube videos.
27. Pininterest
28. Tripoto - Trip experience sharing site (TripLived android app)
29. Music.cliggo.com - Provides music from youtube (app also)
30. Requestmaker.com - like postman but online.
31. www.codinghorror.com - Blog of stackoverflow co founder Jeff
32. https://bento.io/ - Shows you the links and paths of various tools and languages.
33. Watch video in youtube without login: nsfwyoutube.com/link
34. SecurityKiss.com
35. http://www.linuxcommand.org -This site gets you familiar with linux terminal commands.(Beginners should definitely visit this.)
36. blackboxrepack.com - Download games in one click
37. kumpulbagi.id- Download music,movies,games.
38. 8tracks.com- Make and discover playlists.
39. 10minutemail.com- To avoid spam create a temporary email.
40. codepen.io- Edit HTML,CSS,JS online. Playground for front end web development.
41. Zeta Uploader- Zeta Uploader is used to send large files to any email address without any login/signup and you can protect your uploaded or sent data by password. For more detail visit Zeta Upolader site.
42. Youtube Multi Downloader - Download a complete playlist on youtube.
43. Hotstar for Free- You can watch live match or anything else without having premium account on HotStar
44. draw.io - Draw flowcharts, ER Diagrams easily.

Single Page Web Application

1. HasteBin (Open Source Paste Bin )
2. VolaFile (Live File Sharing and chat)
3. http://www.koding.com/
4. Talky (Google Hangout without registration)
5. Flask.io (To do list without registration)
6. Pen.io (Write Blog without registration)
7. Rainy mood - soundrown.com like sites. Listen any youtube video in rainymood:
   1. just open the video on youtube
   2. Replace the www.youtube.com/... link as www.rainymood.com/...
   3. e.g.: Your youtubevideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHz9ephYTw.Change it to: https://www.rainymood.com/watch?v=NTHz9ephYTw and here you go!!
   4. For more information visit : (http://rainymood.com/howto.html)
   5. Codeshare - Share live code editor without registration

Linux Software and Utilities

1. Guake - Drop down terminal
2. Pidgin - Chat client
3. Proxychains - work behind proxy easily4. Polipo - tunnel to http proxy
4. Terminator - advanced linux terminal
5. Genymotion - Fastest Android emulator.
6. Xdm - Xtreme Download Manager like IDM but free.
7. Conky, Docky - Lightweight system monitor and dock
8. Gimp - photo editing software in linux.
9. Tor Browser - Anonymous web browsing, bypass proxy.11. Sublime, Atom, VS Code editor
10. Wine - open windows files and softwares in linux
11. PlayOnLinux: windows files in linux
12. Ssh - get inside another person’s computer
13. SSH shuttle - no proxy SSH tunneling
14. Creating an ad-hoc
15. Privoxy - Routing everything via tor
16. VPN - network manager, open VPN
17. Synaptic package manager
18. Synapse Launcher - keystroke launcher, open applications, files using ust keyboard
19. Zsh - an alternative to bash, but much better
20. Virtual Box - run another OS within a OS
21. MegaSync - Mega client to sync files with MEGA cloud storage24. Byobu / tmux - Terminal multiplexers
22. Gparted - Partition editor for graphically managing your disk partition
23. Unetbootin, YUMI - Live USB creator
24. Kde-connection manager/creating hotspot(not ad hoc)
25. Samba - sharing files/folder in linux
26. Variety - automatically change wallpapers for linux. The source of wallpapers can be customized.
27. Crontab: Scheduling events
28. Apptik - A Tool to Backup/Restore Your Favourite PPAs and Apps in Ubuntu
29. TestDisk Data Recovery
30. Software For Recovery of data - Grsync, pybackup
31. Kodi - Complete home theater solution
32. ppa:noobslab - Best linux themes
33. Angry IP scanner - Scan IP subnets
34. gnome-tweak-tool - Tweak gnome
35. Ambiance - rainy mood alternative for desktop
36. Screen - used on a remote server to create multiple terminals
37. Easy Stroke Gesture recorder - control your desktop using mouse gestures
38. fzf - a genral purpose command line fuzzy finder, install it nd press Ctrl + R or Ctrl + T or ALT + C in terminal to see the magic.

Windows softwares and Utilities

1. Putty - ssh tunnelling in windows.
2. Rainmeter - cool themes for windows
3. Cygwin - Linux like environment for windows
4. Bitvise SSH server - Create free SSH server
5. Open VPN
6. Git bash - git command line interface for Windows
7. Ext2explorer
8. Virtual Box, VMware - run different OS in windows.
9. Proxyfire
10. Privoxy - Routing everything via tor
11. Saavn,Gaana , Elpis, Audials - Songs related apps
12. LastPas - Stores password
13. IDM - Download Manager, faster than browser downloader.
14. Universal USB installer - create bootable pendrives
15. Visual Code - Code editor
16. Creating an ad-hoc
17. Netscan - easily detect which systems on LAN are open.
18. Ease US partiion manager and recovery - recovers partition and changes the partition length.
19. Format Factory - convert any format to any format
20. Visual Studio Community Edition - Best C/C++ ide for MS Windows
21. Everything - Super fast Desktop search engine
22. Team Viewer - Desktop sharing application

IOS

1. Get wifi working in iphones - Add gdr.local to the search domain of the network connected after adding the proxy.
2. Alienblue - reddit app
3. iMusic - Automatically saves youtube video once played.
4. Fing - Scan services n all the devices that are connected to the same network as your phone(iPhone).

Android applications

1. OpenVPN Connect - connect to VPN from your phone
2. CamScanner - Take photos of documents and save them as pdfs
3. Wunderlist, Any.do - Managing todo lists.
4. Merriam-webster - offline dictionary
5. Evernote - Write, manage and sync notes
6. Hooks - Notification alerts for various events like sports, youtube, tv shows, earthquakes, scores etc.
7. If - automation app. Defining events which trigger different events like when add a contact save it to google spreadsheet.
8. **Moneyview **
9. KingRoot - root your phone(at your own risk).
10. Google Keep - Write, manage and sync notes
11. Chromer - open links in floating windows
12. Define - word meanings from any app
13. Dropbox, Mega - Cloud storage services
14. JotterPad - for writing in markdown, with dropbox support
15. LastPass - Save passwords
16. Pocket - save articles to read later, even offline
17. Airdroid, WiFi File Transfer - sync between phone and laptop.
18. Rotation Control - force a certain rotation on android
19. Greenify - resource manager for Android.
20. ShareIt, Xander - File sharing service.
21. Shazam, Sound Cloud - detects music
22. MusicX - The best music player. Album arts, synced lyrics
23. Psiphon - Painless VPN client
24. Forkhub - Your git repos on your phone
25. Cleartune - Painlessly tune your guitar
26. Termux - Terminal emulator and Linux environment for Android
27. LIfe360 - Locate your family and friends using GPS
28. AdAway - Block most of Ads on your phone
29. SplitWise - Split bills and expenses with friends

Linux commands and shortcuts

1. ps -el | grep <application name> - to get the process id of the process.
2. Kill -9 pid - to kill the process whose pid can be obtained from the previous command.
3. Killall <process_name> - to kill all the running process
4. Nohup <command> & - to run the command in background.
5. fg, bg
6. Top - to see which process is taking how much memory.
7. Ctrl + R - to search recursively
8. Ctrl + U - delete line
9. Use -E to add PPA
10. Alt + F2 - run command with suggestions.
11. Sudo !! - run last command with sudo.
12. Set brightness
13. Save a lot of battery - Go to Software and Updates -> Additonal Drivers and install latest stable proprietary release for NVIDIA or ATI
14. Gnome-screenshot, shutter - Take screenshot easily and with a lot of customization
15. Ctrl+Prt Sc: Screenshot without confirmation
16. Alt+Prt S -> Click on any window -> Release Alt: Screenshot of only that window
17. Shift+Prt Sc -> Select an area ->Release Shift: Screenshot of only that selected area
18. Add alias for running softwares
19. Chmod, chown - own a directory
20. TTY
21. Nbtscan - network discovery in linux
22. Middle click - shortcut to paste the current selected text.
23. cd -- - to get back to previous directory.

Mac OS X

1. double Twist- Bidirectional app for syncing media from Android to Mac.
2. Spectacle- Open source solution for moving and resizing windows with keyboard shortcuts.
3. Tomighty- A free and open source desktop timer for the Pomodoro Technique available for both mac and windows
4. Transmission- A fast,easy,and free bit torrent client.
5. Unarchiver- Compress/Uncompress apps. Supported file formats- Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, RAR, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other old and obscure formats.
6. Asepsis- get rid of annoying DS_store files. Prevent them from being created anywhere in the system.
7. Cheatsheet- Just hold the ⌘-Key a bit longer to get a list of all active short cuts of the current application.
8. iTerm2- Replacement for Mac OS terminal with functionality similar to Guake and Terminator.
9. Spectacle - Move and resize windows with ease.
10. Sequel Pro -Sequel Pro is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.
11. Shady - Shady puts a shade over your screen to help soothe your tired or dazzled eyes
12. Cakebrew - The Homebrew GUI App
13. Dash - An API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager.
14. GitHub Desktop - A GUI for using GitHub.
15. Sublime Text 3 - The sophisticated text editor.
16. Alfred - Boosts your efficiency and productivity.
17. Clip Menu - ClipBoard History Manager.