Adobe Scan provides a portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple files formats including PDF and JPEG.
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Author: Steve Emms
Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Installing Manjaro
For this article in the series, we explore installing and configuring Manjaro on the NUC 13. Manjaro is an Arch-based Linux distribution.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google News
Google News is a news aggregator service. It offers a continuous flow of links to articles from thousands of publishers and magazines.
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libjxl – reference implementation of JPEG XL
JPEG XL is a royalty-free raster-graphics file format that supports both lossy and lossless compression.
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Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Gaming
For this first gaming article about the Intel NUC 13 Pro, I’m going to revisit some of the games I previously tested on the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini PC.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Digital Color Meter
Digital Color Meter lets you find the color value of a color on your screen. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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QOI – The Quite OK Image Format
QOI is an image encoder which claims to be fast 20-50 times compressing and 3-4 times faster decompressing compared to the Libpng library.
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Best Free and Open Source Software October 2023 Updates
October 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: P-Cores and E-Cores
This article focuses on the two different cores present in the Intel NUC 13 Pro. They are Performance-cores (P-Cores) and Efficient-Cores (E-Cores).
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Crunch – lossy PNG image file optimization
Crunch is a command line executable that performs lossy optimization of one or more PNG image files with pngquant and zopflipng.
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Excellent Utilities: eza – replacement for ls
eza is a modern, maintained replacement for ls, built on exa. It has some new features such as hyperlink support.
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fselect – find files with SQL-like queries
fselect is a command-line utility to find files with SQL-like queries. This is free and open source software written in Rust.
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Fastfetch – fetch system information
Fastfetch is a system information tool written in C. It aims to be a faster alternative to the hugely respected Neofetch tool.
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Machine Learning in Linux: Terminal GPT – ChatGPT 3.5 with no API keys
Terminal GPT (tgpt) is a cross-platform command-line interface (CLI) tool that allows you to use ChatGPT 3.5 in your terminal without needing API keys.
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ruplacer – find and replace text in source files
ruplacer is a command-line tool to find and replace text in source files. This is free and open source software written in Rust.
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Gnote – port of Tomboy to C++
Gnote is a free and open-source desktop note-taking application. It uses a Wiki-like linking system to connect notes together.
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Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
For this instalment in the series, we’re going to examine the power consumption of the NUC 13 Pro Mini PC and compare that to a couple of desktop machines.
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g – powerful and cross-platform ls
g is an alternative to ls with lots of configurability. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Media Encoder
Adobe Media Encoder is an encoding engine for Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Character Animator.
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Meet ONLYOFFICE Docs v7.5: a built-in PDF editor, automatic hyphenation, Morph transitions and more
The newest version of the open-source office suite developed by the ONLYOFFICE team is available.
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