Our recommended Python-based content management systems.
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Author: Steve Emms
Pika Backup – app focused on backups of personal data
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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Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit
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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5 Best Free and Open Source X10 Home Automation Software
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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Synology Hyper Backup Explorer – desktop tool
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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16 Best Free and Open Source Natural Language Processing Tools
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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Gear Lever – utility to manage AppImages
Gear Lever is a Python utility which lets us manage AppImages.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe InCopy
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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Media Downloader – frontend to multiple CLI-based tools
Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to multiple CLI-based tools that deal with downloading online media.
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CapyPDF – library for generating PDF files
CapyPDF is a fully color managed PDF generation library written in C++. It aims to be very low level.
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pipe-viewer – lightweight YouTube client
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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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Sheets
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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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Lightroom Classic
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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Glide – simple and minimalistic media player
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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7 Tools to Empower Librarians
Open source software is a popular choice for libraries and librarians. We recommend the finest tools for librarians.
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Pick of the Bunch: Cloud Development Tools
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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GridPlayer – play multiple videos simultaneously
GridPlayer is Python-based software which lets you watch videos side-by-side.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2023 Updates
December 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems
Caches are employed in a variety of different ways. Here’s our recommended free and open source caching systems.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple News
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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