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Secure File Transfer for Windows with Cerberus by RedwoodCerberus supports unlimited users and connections on a single IP, with built-in encryption, 2FA, and a browser-based web client — all deployable in under 15 minutes with a 25-day free trial.
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Stop Cyber Threats with VM-Series Next-Gen Firewall on AzureGain integrated visibility across all traffic in a single pass. Deploy Palo Alto Networks VM-Series to determine application identity and content while automating security policy updates via rich APIs.
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Font Awesome
Get vector icons and social logos for your website or blog
Font Awesome was created in a successful Kickstarter and is an easy way for web developers to add icons and logos to their website. There is both a free version and a pro version for extra features and icons. You can support the developers by buying a custom FontAwesome T-Shirt! https://fontawesome.com/shirts -
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FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app to control volume for each app
FineTune is a macOS menu bar application that gives users fine-grained control over system audio by allowing them to adjust volume levels for individual applications independently, route audio streams to different output devices, and apply personalized equalizer settings. It fills a gap in macOS audio control by providing more advanced routing and audio shaping capabilities than the default system controls, making it useful for power users, audio professionals, and anyone needing precise management of their sound environment. Through a clean, minimal interface accessible from the menu bar, FineTune lets users isolate and balance application volumes, assign specific outputs (like headphones versus speakers), and tweak equalization to enhance or tailor audio based on content or personal preference. Its integration into the OS workflow means that these adjustments persist across sessions and respect the user’s choices without requiring constant interaction with deeper system settings. -
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MicroG RE
GmsCore fork for ReVanced with Material You, features and improvements
GmsCore fork designed for ReVanced with Material You design, along with some improvements and features. -
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WhiteSur GTK Theme
MacOS like theme for all gtk based desktops
WhiteSur-gtk-theme brings a macOS Big Sur–inspired look to Linux desktops by providing a polished GTK theme with light and dark variants, rounded shapes, and refined translucency. It includes assets and installer scripts to apply the theme across GTK applications and desktop shells that support GTK theming, aiming for a cohesive, high-contrast interface. The project pays attention to details like window controls, titlebars, selection states, and widget hover effects so apps feel consistent from toolkits to system settings. Configuration options typically allow tweaking accents and choosing variants that match different desktop environments and icon sets. Documentation guides users through installing prerequisites, applying the theme, and resolving common edge cases across distributions. For Linux users who prefer Apple’s visual style but want open platforms, WhiteSur offers a maintained, community-driven path to a modern, visually unified desktop. -
Auth0 B2B Essentials: SSO, MFA, and RBAC Built InAuth0's B2B Essentials plan gives you everything you need to ship secure multi-tenant apps. Unlimited orgs, enterprise SSO, RBAC, audit log streaming, and higher auth and API limits included. Add on M2M tokens, enterprise MFA, or additional SSO connections as you scale.
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QuickPic Gallery Mod
QuickPic Gallery Mod
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Penpot
The first open source design and prototyping tool
Penpot is the first open-source design and prototyping platform for product teams that allows true collaboration between designers and developers. What will designers and developers find in Penpot? - Powerful UI tool for the team. All stakeholders can access a complete set of interactive prototypes, design systems, components, feedback loop and pixel designs. - Design and development collaborate for real. Penpot brings both code-ready design capabilities and the familiarity of developer tools to the same workspace. - Open Standards for the design work. This means zero vendor lock-in and high interoperability. - Unique Flex Layout that allows you to create flexible designs that can adapt automatically -
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Thaw
Menu bar manager for macOS 26
Thaw is a macOS menu bar management app focused on hiding, showing, and organizing menu bar items, with the broader goal of being a versatile customization toolkit rather than a single-purpose hider. It is a fork of the Ice project created to keep the concept actively maintained, fix bugs, and stay compatible with the latest macOS releases, especially newer versions where menu bar behavior and APIs have changed. At its core, Thaw provides multiple ways to reveal hidden items (hover, click empty space, scroll or swipe) and can automatically rehide items to keep the menu bar clean without constant manual toggling. It also supports a dedicated “always-hidden” section, drag-and-drop arrangement of items, and options to display hidden items in a separate bar, which can be particularly useful on MacBooks with notches. -
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WhiteSur Icon Theme
MacOS Big Sur style icon theme for linux desktops
WhiteSur-icon-theme is a Linux icon theme that faithfully recreates the macOS Big Sur icon set’s look and feel, giving your desktop a sleek, polished visual identity inspired by Apple’s design language. It includes a broad selection of icons for many popular applications, utilities, and system features, ensuring most graphical elements on your desktop adopt the unified appearance. The theme is designed to integrate seamlessly with GTK- and icon-themed desktops, helping users achieve a consistent aesthetic across panels, launchers, and app menus. Installation scripts provide easy methods to deploy the icons into your system or local user directory, and options let you tweak the icon style or destination. Because it mimics a well-known visual design, it’s particularly popular among users who want to bring macOS-like polish to their Linux desktops without sacrificing performance. -
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DB Designer Fork is a fork of the fabFORCE DBDesigner 4. It integrates entity relationship design,front-end (you can run queries) and SQL exporting.DB Designer Fork generates SQL scripts for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, FireBird, SQLite and PostgreSQL.
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MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhereMongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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Vieb
Vim bindings for the web by design
Free, open source, fast and secure. Local first adblocking, auto-complete, AMP protection, custom redirects and more, all without web requests. Privacy with strict permission system, navigator overrides, custom useragent, custom WebRTC policy and more. Accessible with custom themes, full interface & fontsize scaling, page zooming, spellcheck and mouse support. Security settings with permissions, cache usage, cookie management, (auto-)download settings and more. Window splitting with buffer, split, Vexplore and Ctrl-w bindings, for multi-window browsing. Map commands for completely custom keyboard sequences, keystrokes, commands and actions. Viebrc config file for all custom/Vim/Vieb commands to configure settings permanently. Set command for runtime setting configuration exactly like Vim. Vim-compatible options: showcmd, timeout, colorscheme, maxmapdepth, spelllang, splitright, smartcase etc. Container tabs with colored grouping, auto-clearing. -
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Materialize
Materialize, a web framework based on Material Design
Materialize, a CSS Framework based on Material Design. Using VanillaJS and as less dependencies as possible to keep it fast and simple. We use TypeScript since it builds upon JavaScript and enhances the type- and code safety. You don't have to learn or integrate any new or crappy stuff. The goal here is to stick to the roots. Just copy and paste from the documentation and you are good to go. Most of the Features work event without JavaScript. Components should be useable by mobile devices and easily accessible by keyboard too. Try it out. User-centric approach with established design principles mainly from Google's Material guidelines. Our Components should work on nearly every device with a monitor. User-centric approach with many members all around the world, which helps bring Materialize forward and improve usability for everyone on the web. You can be a part too. -
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GRUB2 THEMES
Modern Design theme for Grub2
GRUB2 THEMES is an open-source collection of modern, visually appealing themes for the GRUB2 bootloader that enhance the graphical interface users see during system boot on Linux machines. Instead of the plain default GRUB menus, this project offers a set of sleek theme variants with custom backgrounds, icons, layouts, and resolutions that bring a more polished aesthetic to the early boot experience. Installation scripts provided in the repository automate applying themes to a system’s GRUB configuration, including options for different resolutions and screen sizes, and users can add custom backgrounds or tweak configurations. The repository is licensed under GPL-3.0 and has an active user base, making it one of the more popular sources for bootloader theming. It includes assets, configurations, and helper tools to simplify adoption, and supports variant customization so users can tailor the look to their preferences. -
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System Design Primer
Learn how to design large-scale systems
System Design Primer is a curated, open source collection of resources that helps engineers learn how to design large-scale systems. The project is structured as a comprehensive guide covering core system design concepts, trade-offs, and patterns necessary for building scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems. It offers both theoretical foundations—such as scalability principles, the CAP theorem, and consistency models—and practical exercises, including real-world system design interview questions with sample solutions, diagrams, and code. The repository also contains study guides for short, medium, and long interview timelines, allowing learners to focus on both breadth and depth depending on their preparation needs. In addition, it includes flashcard decks designed to reinforce learning through spaced repetition, making it easier to retain key system design knowledge. -
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Bulma
Modern CSS framework based on Flexbox
Bulma is a free and open source, modern CSS framework based on Flexbox. It is a collection of CSS classes, with the end result being a single .css file. Because of this, you can write the HTML code you want and it would have no impact on the styling of your page. It has no JavaScript included, and can be considered “environment agnostic”, as it offers just a style layer over the logic. Bulma is 100% responsive, built to be mobile-first and modular, with 39 .sass files which you can individually import. It’s easy to learn and customize, and is compatible with recent versions of most common browsers, and even some earlier browser versions thanks to its autoprefixer. -
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Pinta
Simple GTK# Paint Program
Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, Windows, and BSD. Use easy drawing tools to draw freehand, lines, rectangles, ellipses, and more. Pinta includes over 35 adjustments and effects for tweaking your images. Use Pinta in your language. Pinta is at least partially translated into over 55 languages. Don't be afraid to experiment, Pinta tracks your full history so you can always undo. Use layers to help separate and group elements of your image for easy editing. Like docked windows? No problem. Floating windows? No problem. You can even mix and match. Original Pinta code is licensed under the MIT License, see license-mit.txt for the MIT License. Code from Paint.Net 3.36 is used under the MIT License and retains the original headers on source files. -
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Gojekyll
A fast Go implementation of the Jekyll blogging engine
Gojekyll is a partially-compatible clone of the Jekyll static site generator, written in the Go programming language. It provides build and serve commands, with directory watch and live reload. -
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Beer CSS
Build material design interfaces in record time
Build material design interfaces in record time without stress for devs. -
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Material Dashboard 2
Open Source Bootstrap 5 Material Design Admin
The most complex and innovative Dashboard Made by Creative Tim. Check our latest Freebie Bootstrap 5 Dashboard with a fresh, new design inspired by Google's Material Design 2. Designed for those who like bold elements and beautiful websites, Material Dashboard 2 is ready to help you create stunning websites and web apps. We created many examples for pages like Sign In, Notifications, Profile, and so on. Just choose between a Basic Design, an illustration, or a cover and you are good to go. Material Dashboard 2 is built with over 60 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining. All components can take variations in color, which you can easily modify using SASS files and classes. -
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MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit
Google's Material Design in XAML & WPF, for C# & VB.Net
This toolkit brings Google’s Material Design aesthetic to WPF applications. It provides a comprehensive set of styles, themes, palettes, icons, and custom controls like cards, dialogs, clock, and FABs. Supports runtime palette switching, integrates with MahApps.Metro and Dragablz, and includes demo apps and documentation. Installable via NuGet for easy integration into C# or VB.NET WPF projects. -
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SkyWater PDK
Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology
The SkyWater PDK is the first broadly available open-source process design kit for a commercial-grade CMOS node, enabling researchers, startups, and students to design real ASICs without proprietary NDAs. It provides the essential artifacts for digital and analog flows: SPICE models, DRC/LVS rules, extraction decks, and technology files for open tools like Magic and KLayout. Standard-cell libraries and IO pads are included so digital designers can use open synthesis and place-and-route to reach a manufacturable GDS. Because the PDK is open, it becomes a common target for community reference designs, open tapeouts, and teaching curricula. Documentation and example flows show how to assemble complete toolchains, from RTL to sign-off, using open EDA components. The project effectively lowers the barrier to custom silicon, catalyzing an ecosystem around an accessible 130-nm process. -
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pastel
A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate color
pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. It supports many different color formats and color spaces like RGB (sRGB), HSL, CIELAB, CIELCh as well as ANSI 8-bit and 24-bit representations. pastel provides a number of commands like saturate, mix or paint. To get more information about a specific subcommand (say mix), you can call pastel mix -h or pastel help mix. Many pastel commands can be composed by piping the output of one command to another. You can also explicitly specify which colors you want to read from the input. -
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Draggabilly
Make that shiz draggable
The Draggabilly project is a lightweight JavaScript library that enables draggable interactions for web elements. It allows developers to add drag-and-drop functionality to HTML elements with minimal configuration and overhead. The library is designed to be simple and efficient, providing a straightforward API for handling drag events and constraints. It supports features such as axis locking, containment boundaries, and event callbacks, giving developers control over how elements behave during interaction. Draggabilly is commonly used in interactive UI components, dashboards, and design tools where draggable elements enhance usability. It is also compatible with modern browsers and integrates easily with other JavaScript frameworks. Overall, it provides a clean and reliable solution for implementing drag interactions on the web. -
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GitHub themes for Neovim
Github's Neovim themes
Github's Neovim themes. GitHub Theme's palettes and specs can be extended with your own values. This is useful for users who want to distinguish a spec value being used for multiple group definitions. GitHub Theme is a highly customizable and configurable color scheme. This does however come at the cost of complexity and execution time. GitHub Theme pre-computes the result of your configuration and saves the lua bytecode in a cache to be used on the next load. This significantly speeds up Github theme's execution time. Changes to your configuration will be re-computed and cached automatically. -
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Hexo
A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js
Hexo is a blazing fast and yet simple blog framework powered by Node.js. It supports all features of GitHub Flavored Markdown, as well as most Octopress plugins. Hexo is quite powerful, able to build hundreds of files in a matter of seconds, and equipped with amazing APIs for unlimited extensibility. It offers hundreds of themes and plugins for you to choose from and achieve exactly what you want, and takes just one command to deploy to GitHub Pages, Heroku or other platforms. -
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Hydejack
A boutique Jekyll theme for hackers, nerds, and academics
Hydejack's cover page on a variety of screens. Hydejack is a boutique Jekyll theme for hackers, nerds, and academics, with a focus on personal sites that are meant to impress. It includes a blog that is suitable for both prose and technical documentation, a portfolio to showcase your projects, and a resume template that looks amazing on the web and in print. Ever since the introduction of Dark Mode, link styles have been a bit of an issue. Specifically, finding an accent color that worked on both light and dark backgrounds was the problem. With Hydejack 9, the link style has been revamped so that legibility is no longer tied to the choice of accent color, giving you much more freedom in creating a unique design flavor for your site.
