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After 100 Days of Daily Updates, These Are the 10 Apps I Kept
After 100 straight days of covering useful tools, I narrowed the list down to Zen Browser, Mos, Handy, Kando, Recordly, Zed, MarkText, Syncthing, MOLE, and LuLu. The first eight are now part of my daily workflow, while the last two are highly practical Mac utilities.
ShareX 21.0 Hands-On: An Old, Reliable, Practical Windows Screenshot Tool
I tested ShareX 21.0 on Windows, including region capture, image annotation, after-capture tasks, and OCR. The interface looks dated, but it lets you decide everything from hotkeys to output actions. It is free, open source, and reliable.
VHS Hands-On: Turn Terminal Recordings into Replayable Code
Charmbracelet VHS uses .tape scripts to control terminal input, pauses, themes, dimensions, and output formats. I used a 662-byte Tape to generate a 16.92-second bilingual demo and extracted a PNG screenshot from the MP4.
TRex Review: Copy Screen Text on macOS with OCR, QR Codes, Raycast, and Automation
My hands-on review of TRex, an open-source macOS OCR tool that puts selected screen text straight into the clipboard. It also reads QR codes, supports Raycast, global shortcuts, CLI, Shortcuts, and Watch Mode.
HeyClicky Hands-on: A Screen-Aware AI That Goes Beyond Dictation
HeyClicky is an AI assistant that lives beside your macOS cursor. It combines screen context with voice commands; here are my quick test results, free-tier limit, and multi-monitor issue.
Kando Hands-On: My Favorite Cross-Platform Open Source Pie Menu Lately
Kando is a free, open source Pie Menu tool for macOS/Windows/Linux. You can bring up a radial menu with Ctrl + Space, then use mouse gestures to quickly open apps, websites, files, hotkeys, and macros. This post shares my actual experience using it and how I set it up.
Testing Horizon: Letting Codex Automatically Organize Daily AI News
I wired Horizon into my blog news workflow so it handles collecting sources, then hands them to Codex to write a daily AI news summary. This article records the installation method, basic usage flow, and what I thought after actually testing it.
Codex Record & Replay Hands-On: Demo It Once, Teach AI Your Local Workflow
OpenAI Codex recently added Record & Replay. I tested how, in a local environment, you can demo a workflow once and have Codex record and automatically run script-based workflows like video compression.
optimizerDuck Hands-on: An Open-source Windows Performance and Privacy Optimization Tool That Blocks Unneeded Background Telemetry
optimizerDuck is an open-source Windows system optimization tool built with .NET 10 and WPF. This article tests its performance tuning, privacy telemetry blocking, GPU power optimization, and other features, and also provides steps for resolving Windows SmartScreen blocking warnings plus a Traditional Chinese language setup guide.
Shannon AI Pentest Agent Installation and Hands-on Testing Guide (macOS/Linux)
I used 10 AI agents to attack my own website. Two hours later, they handed me a full security report. Shannon was more mature than I expected.
Installing Arnis, a Geographic GIS Data Conversion Tool, and Hands-on Minecraft 3D Real-World Map Generation
If you have ever wanted to generate your hometown, city, or even an entire landscape directly inside Minecraft, Arnis is pretty wild.
Hermes Agent x HyperFrames Hands-On: A Guide to Automatically Generating an AI Assistant Self-Intro Video
I asked Hermes to make its own self-introduction video. From copywriting and HTML animation to rendering an MP4, the whole process was automated. What is HyperFrames? Why is it a better fit for AI Agents than Remotion?
DeepSeek V4 Pro x Hermes Agent: Self-Written Intro Review and Deployment Guide
I asked Hermes to write this itself. 1M context, $0.87 per million tokens, cross-platform deployment, autonomous screenshots, writing, and git push. This article was handled by AI from research to publishing.
Installing Voicebox: A Local AI Voice Studio Guide
A developer-oriented guide to Voicebox — from macOS/Windows installation to voice cloning, and how to make your AI agent speak via MCP.