Firefox
- AdBlock - Blocks annoying video ads on YouTube, Facebook ads, banners and much more.
- FoxyProxy - Plugin to quickly change the proxy.
- Disable
Ctrl + Q- disable the shortcut to close all the tabs. Ctrl + Shift + T- restore last tab closed.Ctrl + Shift + E- group tabs view- VideoDownloadHelper - Download video files, from any website
- Video Speed Controller - Control youtube video speed.
- DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials - Privacy, simplified. tracker blocking, smarter encryption, DuckDuckGo private search, and more.
- JsonView - Parses json string into objects and arrays.
- Redux DevTools - Firebug plugin for jQuery development
Chrome
- Folder upload option - Upload complete forlders by dragging and droping into chrome, not available in firefox
- Prophet - extension to find email ids of people from LinkedIn
- Postman - Make different types of request on URL which are not possible through browser like delete, put, post etc. Must have when you are building an API
- Proxy switcher - extension to quickly change the proxy.
- Save to Pocket - Save articles directly to Pocket read later service from chrome.
- Be Limitless - Beautiful dashboard to easily identify where your time is spent and gives productivity.
- Momentum - Another beautiful dashboard featuring todo, weather, and inspiration
- Hola Free VPN - Access blocked website, youtube videos.
Common to Both Browsers
- Incognito mode - Private browsing
Ctrl + Shift + N(Chrome),Ctrl + Shift + P(Firefox) - Push Bullet (Chrome) (Firefox) - Sync media, messages across multiple devices.
- Grammarly (Firefox) (Chrome) - Corrects the grammar while you type.
Websites
- Dayt.se, khatrimaza, Couchtuner, Shush, KissAnime - Get all the tv series and movies in HD.
- StackOverflow, StackExchange - Best QA sites
- GeeksforGeeks - Learn algorithms and data structures
- InterviewBit - For programming interview preparation. Complete this before starting of the final year for excellent placements
- Bitport.io, Seedr.cc - 2GB of torrent direct download
- Appxv - get free paid apps for Android
- https://it-ebooks.info/- Download free ebooks.
- Filehippo.com - Get all software for free.
- Slack - Group chat for projects
- Quora, Reddit - sites to read interesting content and get your queries answered.
- Search for “index of serial” on Google - you would get one click download option in the results.
- Ideone - online code editor.
- Oduso - install multiple application in one go, using scripts made by this site.
- Tlk.io - site to create a chat room and chat anonymously or sign-in.
- IRC - chat site for professionals.
- Pushbullet - cross platform notification sharing
- Github student’s account, gist, bitbucket
- Weiyun, Dropbox, MegaShare, GooglePhotos - 1 TB cloud storage
- Urbandictionary - get the meaning of each and every slang/shortform used today.
- Xdadevelopers.com - everything related to android.
- Heroku, AWS, hostinger - hosting serivies for your projects
- Koding.com
- Stumbleupon - explore web new pages based on likes and dislikes and save pages.
- Google forms - create simple and user friendly forms for submission of entries.
- Feedly - RSS feed aggregator
- Ssyoutube - download youtube videos.
- Pininterest
- Tripoto - Trip experience sharing site (TripLived android app)
- Music.cliggo.com - Provides music from youtube (app also)
- Requestmaker.com - like postman but online.
- www.codinghorror.com - Blog of stackoverflow co founder Jeff
- https://bento.io/ - Shows you the links and paths of various tools and languages.
- Watch video in youtube without login: nsfwyoutube.com/link
- SecurityKiss.com
- http://www.linuxcommand.org -This site gets you familiar with linux terminal commands.(Beginners should definitely visit this.)
- blackboxrepack.com - Download games in one click
- kumpulbagi.id- Download music,movies,games.
- 8tracks.com- Make and discover playlists.
- 10minutemail.com- To avoid spam create a temporary email.
- Hackerrank Calender - Schedule of every competitive competitions in the world
Single Page Web Application
- HasteBin (Open Source Paste Bin )
- gluPaste (glug nith paste bin )
- VolaFile (Live File Sharing and chat)
- http://www.koding.com/
- Talky (Google Hangout without registration)
- Flask.io (To do list without registration)
- Pen.io (Write Blog without registration)
- Rainy mood - soundrown.com like sites. Listen any youtube video in rainymood:
- just open the video on youtube
- Replace the www.youtube.com/... link as www.rainymood.com/...
- e.g.: Your youtubevideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHz9ephYTw.Change it to: https://www.rainymood.com/watch?v=NTHz9ephYTw and here you go!!
- 4.For more information visit : (http://rainymood.com/howto.html)
- Codeshare - Share live code editor without registration
Linux Software and Utilities
- Guake - Drop down terminal
- Pidgin - Chat client
- Proxychains - work behind proxy easily4. Polipo - tunnel to http proxy
- Terminator - advanced linux terminal
- Genymotion - Fastest Android emulator.
- Xdm - Xtreme Download Manager like IDM but free.
- Conky, Docky - Lightweight system monitor and dock
- Gimp - photo editing software in linux.
- Tor Browser - Anonymous web browsing, bypass proxy.11. Sublime, Atom, VS Code editor
- Wine - open windows files and softwares in linux
- PlayOnLinux: windows files in linux
- Ssh - get inside another person’s computer
- SSH shuttle - no proxy SSH tunneling
- Creating an ad-hoc
- Privoxy - Routing everything via tor
- VPN - network manager, open VPN
- Synaptic package manager
- Synapse Launcher - keystroke launcher, open applications, files using ust keyboard
- Zsh - an alternative to bash, but much better
- Virtual Box - run another OS within a OS
- MegaSync - Mega client to sync files with MEGA cloud storage24. Byobu / tmux - Terminal multiplexers
- Gparted - Partition editor for graphically managing your disk partition
- Unetbootin, YUMI - Live USB creator
- Kde-connection manager/creating hotspot(not ad hoc)
- Samba - sharing files/folder in linux
- Variety - automatically change wallpapers for linux. The source of wallpapers can be customized.
- Crontab: Scheduling events
- Apptik - A Tool to Backup/Restore Your Favourite PPAs and Apps in Ubuntu
- TestDisk Data Recovery
- Software For Recovery of data - Grsync, pybackup
- Kodi - Complete home theater solution
- ppa:noobslab - Best linux themes
- Angry IP scanner - Scan IP subnets
- gnome-tweak-tool - Tweak gnome
- Ambiance - rainy mood alternative for desktop
- Screen - used on a remote server to create multiple terminals
- Easy Stroke Gesture recorder - control your desktop using mouse gestures
- fzf - a genral purpose command line fuzzy finder, install it nd press
Ctrl + RorCtrl + TorALT + Cin terminal to see the magic.
Windows softwares and unilities
- Putty - ssh tunnelling in windows.
- Rainmeter - cool themes for windows
- Cygwin - Linux like environment for windows
- Bitvise SSH server - Create free SSH server
- Open VPN
- Git bash - git command line interface for Windows
- Ext2explorer
- Virtual Box, VMware - run different OS in windows.
- Proxyfire
- Privoxy - Routing everything via tor
- Saavn,Gaana , Elpis, Audials - Songs related apps
- LastPas - Stores password
- IDM - Download Manager, faster than browser downloader.
- Universal USB installer - create bootable pendrives
- Visual Code - Code editor
- Creating an ad-hoc
- Netscan - easily detect which systems on LAN are open.
- Ease US partiion manager and recovery - recovers partition and changes the partition length.
- Format Factory - convert any format to any format
- Visual Studio Community Edition - Best C/C++ ide for MS Windows
- Everything - Super fast Desktop search engine
- Team Viewer - Desktop sharing application
IOS
- Get wifi working in iphones - Add gdr.local to the search domain of the network connected after adding the proxy.
- Alienblue - reddit app
- iMusic - Automatically saves youtube video once played.
- Fing - Scan services n all the devices that are connected to the same network as your phone(iPhone).
Android applications
- OpenVPN Connect - connect to VPN from your phone
- CamScanner - Take photos of documents and save them as pdfs
- Wunderlist, Any.do - Managing todo lists.
- Merriam-webster - offline dictionary
- Evernote - Write, manage and sync notes
- Hooks - Notification alerts for various events like sports, youtube, tv shows, earthquakes, scores etc.
- If - automation app. Defining events which trigger different events like when add a contact save it to google spreadsheet.
- Moneyview
- KingRoot - root your phone(at your own risk).
- Google Keep - Write, manage and sync notes
- Chromer - open links in floating windows
- Define - word meanings from any app
- Dropbox, Mega - Cloud storage services
- JotterPad - for writing in markdown, with dropbox support
- LastPass - Save passwords
- Pocket - save articles to read later, even offline
- Airdroid, WiFi File Transfer - sync between phone and laptop.
- Rotation Control - force a certain rotation on android
- Greenify - resource manager for Android.
- ShareIt, Xander - File sharing service.
- Shazam, Sound Cloud - detects music
- MusicX - The best music player. Album arts, synced lyrics
- Psiphon - Painless VPN client
- Forkhub - Your git repos on your phone
- Cleartune - Painlessly tune your guitar
- Termux - Terminal emulator and Linux environment for Android
- LIfe360 - Locate your family and friends using GPS
- AdAway - Block most of Ads on your phone
- SplitWise - Split bills and expenses with friends
- BlockSite - For blocking websites in any browser.
- QualityTime - For managing time and locking the phone for your concentration.
Linux commands and shortcuts
- ps -el | grep <application name> - to get the process id of the process.
- Kill -9 pid - to kill the process whose pid can be obtained from the previous command.
- Killall <process_name> - to kill all the running process
- Nohup <command> & - to run the command in background.
- fg, bg
- Top - to see which process is taking how much memory.
- Ctrl + R - to search recursively
- Ctrl + U - delete line
- Use -E to add PPA
- Alt + F2 - run command with suggestions.
- Sudo !! - run last command with sudo.
- Set brightness
- Save a lot of battery - Go to Software and Updates -> Additonal Drivers and install latest stable proprietary release for NVIDIA or ATI
- Gnome-screenshot, shutter - Take screenshot easily and with a lot of customization
- Ctrl+Prt Sc: Screenshot without confirmation
- Alt+Prt S -> Click on any window -> Release Alt: Screenshot of only that window
- Shift+Prt Sc -> Select an area ->Release Shift: Screenshot of only that selected area
- Add alias for running softwares
- Chmod, chown - own a directory
- TTY
- Nbtscan - network discovery in linux
- Middle click - shortcut to paste the current selected text.
- cd -- - to get back to previous directory.