For this week’s blog, Luke conducts a detailed survey of open source internet radio players that purr on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Author: Luke Baker
Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Professionally manage your photo collection – Week 29
digiKam is billed as an advanced digital photo management program. Here’s my findings of digiKam on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Typeset beautifully with LyX – Week 28
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). How does it fare on the Raspberry Pi 4?
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Learning about Computers for Kids – Week 27
This weekly edition showcases software for the Raspberry Pi 4 that teaches young people how to use a computer. Basic computing skills and beyond.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Firefox Revisited – Week 26
I’m a big fan of Firefox. But I’ve been disappointed with the performance of this web browser on the Raspberry Pi 4. Does the latest version in the Raspbian repositories change my opinion?
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Taking Notes – Week 25
Turn the Raspberry Pi 4 into a low power writing machine. Capture thoughts, ideas, to-do lists, and lots more with these notes applications.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Educational Games for Kids – Week 24
With so many young children currently unable to follow their usual routine of going to school, playing with friends, and undertaking many hobbies, it’s vital to keep them happy and learning.
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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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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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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Podcasts – Week 22
Podcasts are big business. We see celebrities, influencers, journalists, academics, one man and his dog owning a microphone and mixing desk produce regular podcast shows. How does the RPI4 fare as a podcast player?
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