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.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Streaming radio – Week 30
For this week’s blog, Luke conducts a detailed survey of open source internet radio players that purr on the Raspberry Pi 4.
Read moreRaspberry 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.
Read moreRaspberry 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.
Read morefSpy – still image camera matching software
fSpy is a free and open source app for still image camera matching. fSpy is written in Typescript using Electron, React and Redux.
Read moreManage your Photos: JPEG Photo Compression
JPEG is an image file format that’s been around since the early 1990s, and it uses lossy compression. We compare and contrast Guetzli, MozJPEG, and Lepton. They are all open source tools that run from the command-line.
Read moreIFStile – Iterated Function Systems – visualize substitution tilings
IFStile is software that generates fractals using the Iterated Function System. It’s freeware (not open source) software.
Read moreLatte – Excellent KDE Dock based on Plasma Frameworks
Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.
Read moreBest Linux Desktop Environments: Strong and Stable
A desktop environment is a collection of disparate components that integrate together. They bundle these components to provide a common graphical user interface with elements such as icons, toolbars, wallpapers, and desktop widgets. This article takes an in-depth look at 9 popular Linux desktop environments.
Read moreimgp – multi-core batch image file resize and rotate
imgp is a Python-based command-line tool that lets you resize and rotate JPEG and PNG files. The software can resize (or thumbnail) thousands of images with a single command. The software is a standalone utility, it’s not tied to a file manager or other software.
Read morepeek – animated GIF screen recorder
Peek is designed to make short screencasts. It’s not a general purpose screencast application like OBS Studio.
Read moreflameshot – simple to use screenshot program
Being able to take a screenshot comes in handy so many times. Linux is blessed with a good range of competent screenshot software. One which has recently caught our attention is Flameshot, an easy to use, open source, Qt-based screenshot utility which is adept at capturing custom areas of a desktop.
Read moreSailcut CAD – sail design and plotting software
Sailcut CAD is an open source sail design and plotting software. This application allows you to design and visualise your own sail.
Read moreKSnapshot – simple application for taking screenshots
KSnapshot is a simple utility for taking screenshots. It can capture images of the whole desktop, a single window, a section, or a selected region.
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