CRON-O-Meter is free, open source, and cross-platform dieting software. CR (Calorie Reduced) diets require a lot of information to perform optimally. In order to restrict caloric intake, but remain healthy, users of the diet must track their vitamin, mineral, and
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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.
Read moreElephant – notetaker with a classic interface
Elephant is a notetaker sporting an attractive interface. Elephant is in a fairly early stage of development. Elephant is free and open source software. Features include: Keep your notes to yourself. No accounts or clouds. For syncing use Dropbox, Github,
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – File Management – Week 21
This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on file managers, recommending the best console and GUI-based file managers for this tiny machine.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – OBS Studio – Week 20
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. This week, I test OBS Studio on the RPI4.
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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn F#
F# (pronounced F sharp) is a general purpose, strongly typed, multi-paradigm programming language that encompasses functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming methods. Here’s our recommended free F# books.
Read moreMimic Classic – lightweight Text to Speech engine
Mimic Classic is a fast, lightweight Text to Speech engine developed by Mycroft and VocaliD, built on top of Carnegie Mellon University’s FLITE technology. Mimic takes in text and reads it out aloud to create a high quality voice. By
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dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space
dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Lua
Lua is a lightweight, small, compact, and fast programming language designed as an embeddable scripting language. Here’s our recommended Lua tutorials.
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Deepin Music – a beautiful and simple music player
Deepin Music is a free and open source beautiful and simple music player. It supports viewing lyrics during playback, and plays lossless audio. Luke reviews the software.
Read moreBOUML – UML 2 tool box including a modeler
BOUML is a free UML 2 tool box including a modeler allowing you to specify and generate code in C++, Java, IDL, PHP, Python and MySQL. There’s a good range of plug-outs available. The software is free to use. Features
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Reading Comics – Week 12
The best open source comic book readers for Linux are YACReader, MComix, and QComicBook. Let’s see how they perform on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Melody – music player written in Vala
Melody is a music player designed for elementary OS but runs on other Linux distributions. Luke puts Melody under the microscope.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, scripting, dynamic programming language. Here’s our recommended Perl tutorials.
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gorss – simple RSS/Atom reader written in Golang
gorss is a simple free and open source RSS/Atom reader. It’s written in the Golang language. The program offers support for highlighting specific words.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Office Software – Week 6
This week I’m summarizing my experiences of another fundamental desktop activity: running an office suite.
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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn TypeScript
Here’s our recommended free books that’ll you master TypeScript.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Web Browsing – Week 4
This week’s blog focuses on an absolutely essential desktop activity. Surfing the web. A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. Everyone needs one, and there is not a desktop Linux distribution around that does not make a web browser available.
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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn TeX
TeX is a system for typesetting documents. It’s a powerful low-level markup and programming language that creates professional quality typeset text. Here’s our recommended free TeX books.
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15 Excellent Free Books to Learn LaTeX
Here’s our recommended LaTeX books. Most of the books are published under an open source license, and all of them are free to read. LaTeX is a professional document preparation system and document markup language written by Leslie Lamport. It’s a very mature system with development starting more than 30 years ago.
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