Best Windows Apps You Should Use In 2020
There is no shortage of apps when it comes to Windows but finding fresh apps isn't that easy so here is a list of must-haves essential apps for Windows and spoilers all of them are free
The first app we have here is Franz cool name by the way what it lets you do is group a range of messaging apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, slack, Gmail into one single screen so instead of opening five applications I just have to open one with all my apps inside it what I really like about the app apart from that, it's free is that the interface of the services running inside it remains the same and you have to spend zero time to understand because the UI is exactly the same and if you are wondering no it doesn't see anything you send or receive the caveat though is France will nudge you to upgrade to premium version by making you wait a few seconds from time to time of course you can remove this delay with a 4 euro subscription
The windows search doesn't help which is why I use an app called Wox consider Wox a spotlight alternative for Windows that is an app launcher to help you quickly find files and folders I can go ahead and search apps Google queries perform calculations open hitting an alt + space triggers the app from any screen there are tons of possibilities with this app but my favorite thing about Wox is the third-party plugin support so you can do everything from searching YouTube to translating languages right from your launcher my favorite one is a plug-in called everything and the file search is so smooth that nothing comes close to that you will get instantaneous results as you type I believe Microsoft should offer everything natively as well
The next one is soundswitch sounds which let you switch between
Bluetooth devices just by using a hotkey suppose you have your Bluetooth
speaker and headphone both connected to your computer now you want to switch
the audio output from the headphone to the speaker takes several steps to do
that in Windows with soundswitch all I have to do is press ctrl alt + f11 and
you can effortlessly switch between the audio devices
We all go through those times installing a fishy App later regretting
it mostly the solution is to uninstall the app or at times even format your
system one easy way to fix that is by using a small utility called Sandboxie
consider it as a virtual machine but barely eats any system resources it
creates a virtual environment for you to run apps within it, now the app cannot
harm any files and we'll have to use resources granted to Sandboxie see only
you can literally run any app inside Sandboxie see it's as simple as
right-clicking the app and choosing a run Sandboxie if the app creates any mess
then you can close Sandboxie see anytime and you're back to good the app has
few books and you will see a pop-up now and then which you can ignore.
The free version allows you to run one Sandboxie environment
at a time in case you want to run two environments simultaneously you better
upgrade it costs 21$ annually
Every time I format my computer I have to install the same set of apps like Chrome, VLC, Photoshop, etc. now some of you might be using the knight for this when you click the programs you want it creates one installation file to install all of your selected programs saves you a lot of time but chocolatey here goes one step further than denied it is a package manager where you can not only install apps but also update anyone and install them for example after Windows installs if I want to install Chrome, Skype, and VLC, etc. I will install chocolaty and go to the command prompt right-click on it and select run as administrator then type in choco install Google Chrome and hit enter similarly choco install VLC on another command prompt and so on chocolaty is free to try it out
Talking about multitasking I forget my password account
number or is useful stuff so noting down things is a habit I have developed
with time you have the inbuilt sticky notes for that in Windows but really it
has its own problem and I mean a lot of problems I switch to simple sticky notes
the best thing is the hotkeys I can quickly hide them show them pin a sticky
delete recover like I'm so used to this stuff I want one in my phone as well.
Ever wondered what are you gonna do with two shift keys to control
keys and the caps lock button pretty useless so here is an app called sharp Keys
which lets you remap these keys to a different action for instance I have mapped
my caps lock key to open the calculator and pressing the right Alt key will
open my computer this can also be achieved manually by editing the registry key
entries but too much manual fits you know
Talking about manual effort editing or converting a PDF is a
task in itself Adobe PDF Reader is free to use but it lets you only read the
pdf one workaround is to use PDF escape a free online PDF editor which is good
but it requires an internet connection a better alternative I am using is sejda
PDF desktop lets you edit PDFs convert them to a word file, excel sheet and
the list of features goes on you can add text and forms in the existing PDFs
well yes the app is free and no you don't get any watermark but the limit for
the free variant is three PDFs a day with 200 pages each
Another Android emulator boring wait hear me out NOx not
only lets you run Android apps on PC like Blue Stacks but gives you root access
as well you don't have to go through the tedious process of routing the ADB console
super it's just there one click and you can use all the root applications
overall you get a totally different experience to playing a game with the help
of a mouse and a huge screen and root, the feature is just an added bonus it lets
you create multiple instances of the emulator and it really helps me out as I
don't have to switch to a rooted app to test the applications the only problem
is NOx runs on Android for lollypop
You should really try this one if you didn't already know
Plex is a media server app simply speaking it lets you serve your music and
movies to multiple devices all you have to do is choose a device to be the server which obviously should be a computer as the device needs to be connected
to the Internet and powered on all the time now from this computer you can host
movies, films, photos, and this will be available on all of your devices but
what I really use it for is to watch my favorite shows and movies on firestick
using the plex app. Plex supports every device that you can imagine the only caveat is that your computer needs to be connected to the internet all the time
you can buy Plex premium prices start at $5 per month
Notes:-
Let me know which of the apps are using from this list and
if I have missed out on any of your favorites let us know in the comment box
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