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Backup software

Pika Backup – app focused on backups of personal data

January 15, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Pika Backup is designed to save your personal data and does not support complete system recovery. It’s free and open source software.

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OCR Tools

Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit

January 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

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Home Automation

5 Best Free and Open Source X10 Home Automation Software

January 14, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Utilities

X10 is an open standard for controlling home electrical equipment remotely. It works across home power lines and is extremely low-bandwidth.

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Main Menu

Synology Hyper Backup Explorer – desktop tool

January 13, 2024 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, Software

Hyper Backup Explorer is a desktop tool for browsing, decrypting, and extracting different versions of backup data in Hyper Backup repositories.

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Natural Language Processing

16 Best Free and Open Source Natural Language Processing Tools

January 13, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Scientific

Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages.

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Application Launchers

Gear Lever – utility to manage AppImages

January 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Gear Lever is a Python utility which lets us manage AppImages.

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Adobe InCopy

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe InCopy

January 12, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Adobe InCopy is a fully-fledged word processor that enables you to put together standalone text documents. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Video Tools

Media Downloader – frontend to multiple CLI-based tools

January 10, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to multiple CLI-based tools that deal with downloading online media.

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PDF

CapyPDF – library for generating PDF files

January 9, 2024 Steve Emms Programming

CapyPDF is a fully color managed PDF generation library written in C++. It aims to be very low level.

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YouTube

pipe-viewer – lightweight YouTube client

January 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

pipe-viewer is a lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key. It’s free and open source software.

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Spreadsheets

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Sheets

January 7, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of the free, proprietary Google Docs Editors suite. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Adobe Lightroom

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Lightroom Classic

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Adobe Lightroom Classic is a creative image organization and image manipulation software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Television

Glide – simple and minimalistic media player

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Glide is designed to be a simple media player. It doesn’t have a ton of features. That’s by design. It’s free and open source software.

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Library Tools

7 Tools to Empower Librarians

January 4, 2024 Steve Emms Books, Education, Roundup

Open source software is a popular choice for libraries and librarians. We recommend the finest tools for librarians.

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Cloud

Pick of the Bunch: Cloud Development Tools

January 2, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Cloud computing is not simply a popular phrase; it is a very important part of how we use technology. We pick some great tools.

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Video Editing

GridPlayer – play multiple videos simultaneously

January 1, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

GridPlayer is Python-based software which lets you watch videos side-by-side.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2023 Updates

December 31, 2023 Steve Emms Software

December 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Software

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems

December 30, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, System Software

Caches are employed in a variety of different ways. Here’s our recommended free and open source caching systems.

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News

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple News

December 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Apple News is a news aggregator application that helps you to stay up to date with news and information. We recommend FOSS alternatives.

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Internet Forum Software

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Internet Forum Software

December 28, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

An internet forum application is a discussion platform where individuals hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

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