I believe that poor friends should have bought some useless, but very cute some gadgets ~
The meaning of these things may only need one reason: cuteness.
Shichao usually shares some practical gadgets with poor friends, but forgets that the meaning of the existence of some tools does not need to have any effect at all, they only need to be cute and loveable on your desktop!
So today, Shi Chao made a cat collection for everyone, after all, no one can refuse cute cats and cats.
/ Stand-in Cat >
On a magical website, there is an open source project called: Bongo Cat The author of this project is kuroni, a high school student abroad, and the main role is also very simple:
Generate a cat "avatar messenger" on your computer, which can make the cat move with your mouse and keyboard.
There is a saying that this "cat stand-in" messenger, the effect on the desktop, that can only be described in one word: cute.
The following Shichao will come to show the poor friends, this "stand-in cat" of Shichao.
Overall, this simple gadget is still very good in sensitivity, you move the mouse, press the keyboard, this "stand-in cat" will copy your operation to the letter.
After this open source project was discovered by the UPs of Station B live, it was expected to catch fire. After all, who can refuse such a cute cat when watching a live broadcast?
And since it is an open source project, this cat can be infinitely modified! So there was a large number of strange "stand-in cats" based on Bongo Cat modifications on Station B.
Image source: @Water Desert Tofu ▼
These "stand-in cats" that originally had no practical effect met the live broadcast, and unexpectedly produced a wonderful chemical reaction.
@tanoki Ran-tung ▼
However, due to the open source project of Bongo Cat, it has not changed for too long, and if you want to modify this kitten, you still need some basic code knowledge reserves.
Therefore, the B station UP master, holding up the heavy responsibility of spreading the "tinder" in the country, made a column on the B station, continuously updated the version, and has been updated to the 0.1.6 version.
And also added a lot of new features, such as: handle mode, tray, minimize live broadcast...
And also out of a very detailed tutorial, so that those 0 basic whites, but also can smoothly modify a favorite "stand-in cat", his teaching video has been played on the B station millions of times.
It can be said that this open source project of kuroni gave this cat life, but the UP master's constant modification and patient tutorial gave the cat soul.
If you only need a cute original cat and put it on the table to work with you, just need to download this open source project.
In short, this is a useless gadget that makes people want to download it.
Project Address: https : //github.com/kuroni/bongocat-osu
/ Countdown to Cat >
The gadget shared next is also two cute kittens, this seemingly useless gadget is actually a timing alarm clock that can be placed on the desktop.
After the download is complete, open this timer to set a time (no more than 60 minutes), this cute little alarm clock will start counting down, after counting down to the specified time, there will be an alarm alarm reminder.
That's all this is for this alarm clock.
This simple timing tool, as its name goes, is Easy Cat Timer and this gadget has its own official website and even hits Steam.
As a completely free tool, these two cute cats can completely make a pair of "stand-in cats" on the desktop without any sense of violation.
This way the messengers can have three cats on the table
Your favorite errand boy can search on Steam: Easy Cat Timer to download this free gadget.
/ Running Cat >
The last cat was previously only available to MacOS users, but the good news is that RunCat has recently launched for Windows!
This gadget, called RunCat, is nothing but good-looking and cute.
After installing RunCat, a running kitten will appear in the top menu bar of your Mac.
This cat will always monitor the status of your computer, such as the working status of the CPU, memory status, hard disk space, network usage and so on.
The point is! It will move with the working state of your CPU, the higher your CPU occupation, the faster it will move, and even when the CPU occupation is too high, the cat will also run out of the ghost animal effect.
And RunCat has a lot of different animation effects built in, and there are many different cats to choose from, such as this pickpocket cat that only wags its tail with the CPU working state.
In addition to 4 cute cats, there are also different animation effects such as puppies, frogs, gears, etc.
In short, RunCat once became one of the favorite tools for cat lovers in the newsroom.
This gadget is also a free and open source project on github, and interested friends can download it directly:
MacOS Project Address: https : //github.com/runcat/cat
Windows Project Address: https://github.com/Kyome22/RunCat_for_windows
The above is the three useless but cute cat gadgets that are sorted out by this issue of Shichao for everyone.
If you have any cute but useless cat gadgets that you usually use, you are also very welcome to show a wave in the comment area!