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From improving customer experience through seamless sign-on to making MFA as easy as a click of a button – your login box must find the right balance between user convenience, privacy and security.
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Discover and manage administrator, service, and web app passwords, keys, and identities. Automate management with approval workflows. Centrally control, audit, monitor, and record all access to critical IT assets.
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Dual Monitor Tools
Tools for Windows users with dual or multiple monitors.
Tools for Windows users with dual or multiple monitors. Has hotkeys for moving windows around, restrict mouse/cursor movement between screens, application launcher, wallpaper creator and changer and a screen capture tool. -
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Kvaesitso
A search-focused Android launcher
Kvaesitso is a search-focused, free and open source launcher for Android. The preferred way of installation is using the F-Droid application. That way you will always be notified about updates. Kvaesitso is available in the official F-Droid repository, but all features depending on non-foss external APIs were removed. For feature-complete builds, you can add MM20's repository. -
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SyncTrayzor
Windows tray utility / filesystem watcher / launcher for Syncthing
SyncTrayzor is a little tray utility for Syncthing on Windows. It has a built-in web browser and several other great features. It works by hosting and wrapping Syncthing, making it behave more like a native Windows application and less like a command-line utility with a web browser interface. -
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Rekado
Payload launcher and serial number checker for Nintendo Switch
Payload launcher is written in Kotlin for Nintendo Switch. The application doesn't require Root on your device. -
Managing your therapy and rehab practice is a time-consuming process. You spend hours on paperwork, billing, scheduling, and more. Raintree’s Therapy & Rehab EHR is here to help you manage your practice more efficiently. With our all-in-one solution, you’ll get the tools you need to streamline your therapy and rehab practice, improve patient care, and get back to doing what you love.
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Prism Launcher
Custom launcher for Minecraft to easily manage installations
An Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts, and mods. Focused on user freedom and free redistributability. Install and launch modpacks easily, while keeping them clean. No longer do you need to manually install them, and easily update mod packs, Prism Launcher can do these tasks for you, without installing tons of separate launchers. Prism Launcher is able to download & update individual mods from outside of modpacks using Modrinth and CurseForge. Each Minecraft instance has its own folder, with separate mods, resource packs and other things. You don't need an embedded web browser as a game launcher. Prism Launcher uses the Qt toolkit, which requires little system resources. Prism Launcher also lets you customize the menu and supports custom themes. -
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Bloxstrap
An open-source, feature-packed alternative bootstrapper for Roblox.
BloxStrap is An open-source, feature-packed alternative bootstrapper for Roblox. This a drop-in replacement for the stock Roblox bootstrapper, working more or less how you'd expect it to, while providing additional useful features. This does not touch or modify the game client itself, it's just a launcher! So don't worry, there's practically no risk of being banned for using this. -
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GDLauncher
GDLauncher is a simple, yet powerful Minecraft custom launcher
GDLauncher is a simple, yet powerful Minecraft custom launcher with a strong focus on the user experience. Our main focus is to provide a powerful launcher but keeping the UI clean and modern. You'll be able to browse and download any mod pack directly from within the launcher! You can play vanilla, forge and fabric directly from the launcher, without needing to download anything else. You can easily download mods and keep them up to date. You don't need to have java installed on your pc. We will automatically download the best java release to ensure complete compatibility. You don't need to have java installed, a suitable version will be downloaded automatically. It's as easy as pie to install the vanilla game, forge, fabric, and all curseforge modpacks. No further action from the user is required. -
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Heroic Games Launcher
A Native GOG and Epic Games Launcher for Linux, Windows and Mac
Heroic is an Open Source GOG and Epic games launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS. Also available on the SteamDeck! Check game details like description, publisher, download and install size, time played and more. On Linux and on MacOS you can select to install the Windows version of a native game. This might be handy in case the native version is not supported anymore. On Linux you can choose that for GOG games only. Go to the Epic or GOG store without even leaving Heroic. Get free games or buy new ones directly from Heroic's interface! Add games to favorites or simply hide the games you already played or will never play at all! If you don't like the default colors, you have the ability to change them. It also includes the famous Dracula theme. On Linux, download the latest version of Wine-GE, Wine-Lutris or even Proton-GE using the Wine Manager. These selection of Wine version are focused on improving the gaming experience and compatibility. -
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mulder
MuldeR's OpenSource Projects
OpenSource development since 2004. Featured projects: * LameXP - audio encoder front-end * MPlayer for Windows - custom MPlayer installer for Win32 * Simple x264 Launcher - simple GUI front-end for x264 * Many more... -
The progression to modern application stacks and microservices architectures has resulted in orders of magnitude more logs, metrics, events, and traces. Like gravity, data attracts more data, making it increasingly difficult to move and process as it accumulates over time. More than ever, there is a need to be able to stream-process, filter, mask, transform, aggregate, analyze, and route that data to various data tier destinations optimized for specific usage.
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Heimdall
An Application dashboard and launcher
As the name suggests Heimdall Application Dashboard is a dashboard for all your web applications. It doesn't need to be limited to applications though, you can add links to anything you like. Heimdall is an elegant solution to organize all your web applications. It’s dedicated to this purpose so you won’t lose your links in a sea of bookmarks. Why not use it as your browser start page? It even has the ability to include a search bar using either Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo. You can use the app to link to any site or application, but Foundation apps will auto-fill in the icon for the app and supply a default color for the tile. In addition, Enhanced apps allow you to provide details to an apps API, allowing you to view live stats directly on the dashboard. For example, the NZBGet and Sabnzbd Enhanced apps will display the queue size and download speed while something is downloading. -
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PolyMC
Custom launcher to manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once
An Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts, and mods. Focused on user freedom and free redistributability. Install and launch modpacks easily, while keeping them clean. No longer do you need to manually install them, and an updating feature is coming soon. PolyMC can do that for you, without installing tons of separate launchers. Are you sick of finding and adding that one mod you need? PolyMC is able to download & update individual mods from outside of mod packs using Modrinth and CurseForge. -
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Steam Tinker Launch
Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch
Steam Tinker Launch is a versatile Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client which allows for easy graphical configuration of game tools, such as GameScope, MangoHud, modding tools, and a bunch more. It supports both games using Proton and native Linux games and works on both X11 and Wayland. An incredible wrapper with a menu that lets you easily toggle and modify various settings for games on Linux. Anything from proton versions to startup and exit scripts, proton/dxvk/etc. settings, FSR, reshade, and even options for various tools like game mode, replay-sorcery, game scope, etc. Tons more too. I just set my default proton version to "steam tinker launcher" and then every game launches with a 2-second menu that allows you to easily change any of the settings. If you don't press any buttons it just goes with the defaults and launches the game. -
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JasperStarter
Running JasperReports from command line
JasperStarter is a command line launcher and batch compiler for JasperReports. -
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MaxLauncher
A simple tabbed application launcher.
MaxLauncher is an open source tabbed launcher. Its primary goal is to reduce the amount of time to run a program/file. It is capable of creating multiple configuration files, each of which can have a maximum of 10 tabs. Each tab and button are assigned keys corresponding to a standard keyboard. A user can click on the buttons/tabs or simply press the corresponding key to run the program or file. -
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This an application launcher for removable drives (although it can also be used as a normal application). Rather than organizing the apps as a list like the Windows Start menu, they are organized in a tool bar a bit similar to the Mac OSX dock bar.
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Wox
A cross-platform launcher that simply works
Wox is a cross-platform launcher that simply works. It's an alternative to Alfred and Launchy. -
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MadAppLauncher
A simple application launcher.
A simple application launcher. Group applications, folders, scripts, etc. Supports drag and drop. No need to remember all those hot keys; just activate and press one number key to select a tab(group) and another key(letter/symbol) to launch. *** CHECK OUT THE NEWER PROJECT MaxLauncher at http://maxlauncher.sourceforge.net/ *** -
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ShorterCut
Minmalist, ProgMan-like app launcher and organizer
ProgMan is reborn as ShorterCut, an open source, no-frills app launcher and desktop organizer. ShorterCut is a free & lightweight program that provides a minimalist-view alternative to desktop folders. Window colors, sizes, and positions are preserved, and icons for each group are programmatically assigned and added to the Desktop. How to use: - Create a group name with Group Manager - Add shortcuts via drag & drop or [+] button to search Start directory - Hover over an icon and press "delete" on your keyboard to remove a shortcut - Double click the lower panel to adjust the color - Adjust the window size to your preference -Replace the desktop icon (with an ICO file) if you wish via Right-Click -> Properties -> Change Icon - Changes you make to the color and window size/position will save each time you close To transfer groups to a new PC, reinstall your apps (including ShorterCut) and transfer C:\ShorterCut + the desktop group -
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wsldl
Advanced WSL launcher / installer. (Win10 FCU x64/arm64 or later.)
Advanced WSL launcher/installer. (Win10 FCU x64/arm64 or later.) Requires Windows 10 1709 Fall Creators Update or later(x64/arm64). Windows Subsystem for Linux feature is enabled. -
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Lawnchair
No clever tagline needed
Lawnchair is a free, open-source home app for Android. Taking Launcher3 — Android’s default home app — as a starting point, it ports Pixel Launcher features and introduces rich options for customization. This branch houses the codebase of Lawnchair 12.1, currently in alpha and based on Launcher3 from Android 12.1. For Lawnchair 9, 10, 11, and 12, see the branches with the 9-, 10-, 11-, and 12- prefixes, respectively. Lawnchair. It's a bad pun, we know. Lawnchair is a supercharged version of the Pixel Launcher you know and love. Being an open-source project, you get all the latest Pixel Launcher features shipped by Google in their latest Android release, plus added customizability. The best part? No root required! -
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WinRun4J is a Windows native launcher for your Java application. The goal is to provide a more professional deployment mechanism for Java apps on Windows.
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jdMinecraftLauncher
Unofficial classic styled Minecraft Launcher
jdMinecraftLauncher is a Minecraft launcher which Look and Feel is close to the the good old official Launcher. You need a Microsoft Account which owns Minecraft to use this Launcher This Launcher is completly fanmade and not supported by Mojang/Microsoft -
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ASuite is an application launcher to manage an unlimited number of files, folders and webpage for quick access. It is designed to work with removable storage (uses relative paths) media like USB sticks, hard drives, iPods, etc.
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Android-SwitchIcon
Google launcher-style implementation of switch (enable/disable) icon
Google launcher-style implementation of switch (enable/disable) icon. This library is compatible from API 15 (Android 4.0.3). SwitchIconView extends from AppCompatImageView so you can set icon with app:srcCompat. Set any icon (vector or image) to SwitchIconView and enjoy a switchable icon in your app. Use app:si_tint_color to set color to icon. The default color is black. Use app:si_animation_duration if you want to change switching state animation duration. Use app:si_no_dash if you don't want to draw dash, when icon is disabled. Use app:si_disabled_alpha to set alpha when icon disabled. The default alpha is .5. -
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Rofi
A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
Rofi started as a clone of the simple switcher, written by Sean Pringle - a popup window switcher roughly based on a super switcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. Rofi (renamed, as it lost the simple property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in menu replacement, making it a very versatile tool. Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script. It's not an application that can support every possible use case. It tries to be generic enough to be usable by everybody. Rofi has several built-in modes implementing common use cases and can be extended by scripts (either called from Rofi or calling Rofi) or plugins.