Slow Variables: The Priesthood Behind Every Technology
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SmartCopy, the file mover that refuses to forget
A Windows file-copy and migration utility that queues jobs, resumes interrupted transfers, verifies copies, and deletes originals only after verification.
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Solar Time, a Small Universe in the Browser
An interactive orbital clock that links device time and adjustable simulations to a visual model of the Sun, planets, Earth, Moon, Europa, Pluto, and passing comets.
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Solovei: Patterns for the Kitchen Table
A ten-pattern digital sewing library for home dressmaking, with layered PDFs priced from £22 to £39.
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SpreadPaper, the wallpaper that crosses the bezels
A free, open-source macOS utility that turns one photograph into a continuous wallpaper across multiple monitors.
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Sprite Kitchen: Pixel Art That Survives the Engine
A pixel-art and 2D game-development resource pairing practical tutorials with assets and a forthcoming Windows sprite-sheet tool.
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StagePaz, a church presentation console built for Sundays
StagePaz is presentation software for churches, combining lyrics, Bible passages, video, cameras, stage displays, and streaming from one laptop.
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Stillhouse Turns Listing Photos Into Walkthrough Films
Stillhouse makes 60-to-90-second cinematic property walkthroughs from photographs already published on short-term-rental and home-listing pages.
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A Calendar for India's Corporate Actions
Stock Events tracks dividends, bonus issues, splits, rights, buybacks, bond coupons and other corporate actions across Indian stocks, funds and securities.
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Chinese with Asilbek
One-to-one online Chinese lessons for beginners, built around HSK 3.0 levels 1–3 and taught in English or Uzbek.
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Suminagashi, an ink painting that refuses to finish
An interactive collection of 1,111 generative Japanese marbling pieces whose ink keeps moving in the browser.
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Surfa Care, a Home-Nursing Workflow in Arabic
An Arabic-language home-care service that lets families request nursing visits, review nurse profiles, approve visits, and follow the process in one app.
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The Esperanto Works of Sylvan Zaft
A bilingual memorial archive collecting the books, poems, stories, translations, and lessons of Esperanto writer Sylvan Zaft.
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SYNAFLY and the Question of Continuity
An interactive fruit-fly neural simulation wrapped around a speculative proposal for preserving and resuming computational life.
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Tack+: A Mac utility at the edge of the screen
Tack+ puts app shortcuts, search, clipboard history, small utilities, and a keyboard-LED signal into a six-point strip along the bottom of a Mac display.
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Tactile Tales Turns Picture Books Into Shared Reading Experiences
A youth-led accessibility project proposes converting 10–20 popular picture books into twin-vision editions with full Braille text over the original pages.
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Tapalog, a Catalog Maker for Clicking Through Diagrams
A free catalog system that turns images into interactive hotspots, with separate editor and viewer apps for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Chromebook.
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Tap and Well maps the Treasure Valley's water
A public-data tool compares Idaho tap-water results with federal limits across five counties, while estimating private-well conditions from nearby samples.
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The Tattoo Artist Longevity Project
A free Phoenix project helps tattoo artists protect the hands, wrists, shoulders, and backs their work depends on.
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Tellstop, the audio guide that waits for the landmark
An offline audio-guide player for boats, buses, walking tours, and museums, built around one manually started track per stop.
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TeslaSync refuses to rent you your own driving history
An open-source, self-hosted Tesla telemetry console that routes vehicle data through MQTT and Timescale instead of a SaaS dashboard.
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That ECG Test, for the Tracings That Fool Everyone
A free, account-free ECG interpretation assessment built from published 12-lead case collections.
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The Better Trip Keeps the Hotel Shortlist Short
An independent hotel guide covering fifty stays across Monaco, Lisbon, Tenerife, Porto and London.
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The Catholic Gwei asks what technology must leave human
A Catholic social thought journal examining AI, cryptography, identity, distributed systems, and technological power.