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noScribe is an AI-based software designed for transcribing audio, particularly useful for qualitative social research and journalistic interviews. The software is free, open-source (licensed under GPL-3.0), and operates entirely offline, meaning no data is sent to the cloud, ensuring privacy. It can recognize up to 99 languages and distinguish between different speakers, which is particularly helpful for interviews with multiple participants.

The software includes an editor that allows users to review, verify, and correct the transcriptions manually. It utilizes advanced AI models, such as OpenAI’s Whisper, faster-whisper by Guillaume Klein, and pyannote by Hervé Bredin, for the transcription process.

It requires a relatively up-to-date computer to function efficiently, slower systems may result in long transcription times. The software is around 3.7 GB, poor audio quality may lead to transcription errors.

noScribe aims to reduce the difficulty of transcription for researchers and journalists, offering a reliable, private, and easy-to-use tool for processing interviews.

Find a review of noScribe (in German) here: https://sozmethode.hypotheses.org/2315.

Source: https://github.com/kaixxx/noScribe

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Karen’s Directory Printer, the File Cataloging Utility for Windows, prints the name of every file on a drive, along with the file’s size, date and time of last modification, and attributes (Read-Only, Hidden, System and Archive) into a file: https://www.karenware.com/powertools/karens-directory-printer.

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The magazine computerwoche.de published a list of handy Open Source Intelligence Tools, incl.:

  • Maltego – comprehensive tool for graphical link analyses that offers real-time data mining and information gathering, as well as the representation of this information on a node-based graph, making patterns and multiple order connections between said information easily identifiable
  • Recon-ng – gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources
  • theHarvester – emails, subdomains and names Harvester
  • Shodan – world’s first search engine for Internet-connected devices
  • Metagoofil – metadata harvester
  • searchcode – search 75 billion lines of code from 40 million projects
  • SpiderFoot – automates OSINT so one can find what matters, faster
  • Babel X – discover and decipher geographically diverse, multilingual data into actionable insights in real time, babel street’s platform helps interpret real-time data, so one can make clear, decisive decisions that impact any mission
  • Mitaka – browser extension for OSINT search
  • BuiltWith – search tech stack of specific websites
  • Wappalyzer – find the technology stack of any website
  • DarkSearch.io – self-declared “first real” “dark web” “search engine” (yet, no longer publicly available)
  • Grep.app – tool for searches across git repos

The list seems compiled from pcwdld.com, where more detailed descriptions of each tool can be found.

Furthermore, the OSINT Framework helps gathering information from free tools or resources by providing a very good overview of available applications, platforms, methods etc.

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Powerful suite of software to run entire businesses with 45+ integrated applications. With Zoho one can manage, connect, and automate business processes across whole organizations: zoho.com.

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A (German) list of the top 100 open source software applications including some nifty little tools, by Computer Bild: https://www.computerbild.de/fotos/Software-besten-kostenlosen-Open-Source-Programme-herunterladen-3266766.html.

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“Everything” is search engine that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search “Everything” initially displays every file and folder on your computer (hence the name “Everything”). You type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed: https://www.voidtools.com.

Thanks, T., for the hint.

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Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd.

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