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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Sound Recorder

June 29, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

Sound Recorder is an app for recording lectures, conversations, and other sounds. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Calendar

Calindori – touch friendly calendar application

June 29, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Calindori is a touch friendly calendar application. It has been designed for mobile devices but it can also run on desktop environments.

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Motherboard

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple System Information

June 29, 2024 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple System information provides a system report containing detailed information about a Mac. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Big Data

Apache Flink – framework and distributed processing engine

June 29, 2024 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: HyFetch – neofetch with LGBTQ+ pride flags

June 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

HyFetch is a fork of neofetch that displays distro ASCII art in LGBTQ+ pride colours. It’s written in Python.

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Desktop Environments

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Dock

June 28, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

The Dock on the Mac desktop is a convenient place to access apps and features you’re likely to use every day. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Book

6 Best Free and Open Source Address Book Managers

June 28, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup

We recommend the best free and open source address book managers.

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Calendar

StarCalendar – full-featured international calendar

June 28, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

StarCalendar is a full-featured international calendar supporting Jalali/Persian, Gregorian and Islamic calendars.

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Reco

Recorder – audio recorder

June 27, 2024 Steve Emms Software

Recorder (also known as KRecorder) is a simple, Qt-based, cross-platform open source audio recording application.

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Big Data

Apache Spark – unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing

June 27, 2024 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

Apache Spark is a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters.

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Book

khard – console vcard client

June 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI

khard is an address book for the console. It creates, reads, modifies and removes vCard address book entries at your local machine.

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ebook reader

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Digital Editions

June 26, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Adobe Digital Editions is an e-book reader software program from Adobe. It lets you acquire, manage, and read e-books, digital newspapers, and other digital publications.

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Animation

Inochi Creator – tool to create and edit Inochi2D puppets

June 26, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Inochi Creator is an editor for the Inochi2D puppet format. Rig models for use in games or for other real-time applications such as VTubing.

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Calendar

calcure – modern TUI calendar and task manager

June 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

calcure is a modern TUI calendar and task manager with a customizable interface.

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TEAMGROUP T-Force M200 1TB External SSD Review

June 25, 2024 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

Looking for a very fast external SSD? Check out our review of the TEAMGROUP T-Force M200 1TB portable SSD.

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Calendar

gsimplecal – simple and lightweight GTK calendar

June 25, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

gsimplecal is a lightweight calendar application using GTK.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Sticky Notes

June 24, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Microsoft Sticky Notes is a utility to create notes, type, ink or add a picture, add text formatting, and stick them to the desktop.

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Animation

Friction – motion graphics software for vector and raster animations

June 24, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create stunning vector and raster animations

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Files

vimv – mass rename files using Vim

June 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

vimv is a terminal-based file rename utility that lets you easily mass-rename files using Vim.

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Search

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Desktop Search Engines

June 23, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.

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