One of our favorite adages is “A picture is worth a thousand words”. It refers to the notion that a still image can convey a complex idea. Images can portray a lot of information quickly and more efficiently than text.
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ExifCleaner – image metadata tool
ExifCleaner lets you remove privacy-invading information from your photos. It’s a cross-platform tool that runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
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Now and Then: The Fate of 5 Open Source Integrated Development Environments
In 2014, we identified 5 promising free and open source Integrated Development Environments. How did they fare?
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Regards – modern photo viewer
Regards is billed as a modern photo viewer. It supports a very large range of formats including video.
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Minase – SIXEL-based terminal file manager
Minase is a terminal file manager that uses libsixel, an encoder/decoder implementation for DEC SIXEL graphics. Minase is free and open source software.
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Qt File Managers Roundup: Excellent Ways to Manage your Filesystem
It makes sense to use Qt based software with KDE. Benefits include memory savings, and better integration with the KDE desktop. However, if you prefer other desktop environments, these Qt file managers still work admirably. We review 15 Qt file managers.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Running Linux – Week 1
In the first of a weekly series, Luke puts the AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC under the microscope. This tiny PC sports a Celeron J4115 processor, 8GB DDR4 RAM, triple display 4K@60Hz and NVMe SSD. The AWOW Mini PC has its Windows installation wiped and replaced with Linux.
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Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database
Beets is a media library management system. Beets is free and open source software. It’s a tool for getting your music into shape. Here’s my verdict.
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Deepin Music – a beautiful and simple music player
Deepin Music is a free and open source beautiful and simple music player. It supports viewing lyrics during playback, and plays lossless audio. Luke reviews the software.
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33 Excellent Free Books to Learn all about R
This article recommends 33 free books which will teach you the basics of R, how to produce amazing plots, how to apply R to lots of disciplines, and how to efficiently program in R. Many of the books are open source.
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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn TypeScript
Here’s our recommended free books that’ll you master TypeScript.
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Stacer – system optimizer and monitoring software
Stacer is an open source system optimizer and application monitor for users needing an easy way to manage systems with different aspects. It’s an all in one system utility featuring a responsive design. Stacer welcomes the user with a modern window featuring a variety of tabs.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing Photos – Week 23
This week, I’m examining photo viewer software on the RPI4. There’s lots of open source photo viewers, so I focus on gThumb, feh, GPicView, and QuickViewer.
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Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet
cheat.sh offers unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world via curl/browser interface. There’s also an installable utility for more flexibility.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, scripting, dynamic programming language. Here’s our recommended Perl tutorials.
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