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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Pages

December 2, 2023 Steve Emms Office, Software

Apple Pages is a proprietary wordprocessor that lets you create and edit documents. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2023 Updates

December 1, 2023 Steve Emms Software

November 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Pot – text translation and recognize

November 29, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

Pot is a cross-platform translator application that offers translation by selection and input.

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Asustor ADM 4.2

ASUSTOR Data Master 4.2 (ADM OS): Getting Started

November 27, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews

The first article in this series walks you through the steps of setting up ADM 4.2 for the first time.

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Music

kew – command-line music player

November 26, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

kew is a music player with gapless playback. It’s written in C and published under an open source license. It was previously called cue. I review the latest release.

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Music Festival

tap v0.4.11 – terminal-based music player

November 24, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts. Here’s my take on v0.4.11.

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Monitor System

ttop – system monitoring tool

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ttop is a system monitoring tool with historical snapshots and alerts. It has a top-like TUI. It’s written in Nim.

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Intel NUC

Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: BIOS

November 20, 2023 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Let’s turn our attention to the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). This is firmware used to start the PC system after it is powered on.

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Image Viewers

Loupe – image viewer

November 18, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Image Viewer (Loupe) is an image viewer application written with GTK 4, Libadwaita and Rust.

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Remote Display

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Screen Sharing

November 17, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop, Software

Apple Screen Sharing allows you to remotely access an Apple desktop system environment. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Internet Radio

Raddiola – simple radio app

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

Raddiola is billed as a simple radio with a clear and concise interface. Here’s our verdict.

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OCR Tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Scan

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Software

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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Intel NUC

Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Installing Manjaro

November 13, 2023 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

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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Google Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google News

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Software

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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Images

libjxl – reference implementation of JPEG XL

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

JPEG XL is a royalty-free raster-graphics file format that supports both lossy and lossless compression.

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Intel NUC

Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Gaming

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

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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Grunge paint background

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Digital Color Meter

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

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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SQL

10 Excellent Free and Open Source Linux Relational Databases

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Big Data, Office, Roundup

A relational database matches data using common characteristics found within the data set. The resulting groups of data are organized and are much easier for people to understand.

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Images

QOI – The Quite OK Image Format

November 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

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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Laboratory

Increasing Lab Efficiency with an Open Source LIMS

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is a software-based laboratory and information management system that provides streamlined workflow automation and management.

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