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Synthesizers

VCV Rack – modular synthesizer

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

VCV Rack is a Eurorack modular synthesizer simulator. This is free and open source software although there are proprietary plugins.

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Synthesizers

FluidSynth – a SoundFont synthesizer

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

FluidSynth is a console based real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.

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Synthesizers

ZynAddSubFX – fully featured open source software synthesizer

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

ZynAddSubFX is a powerful real-time, software synthesizer with many features, including polyphony, multi-timbral and microtonal capabilities.

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Photo Metadata

Phatch – photo batch processor and Exif renamer

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

PHoto bATCH Processor (Phatch) is a simple to use open source GUI Photo Batch Processor which handles all popular image formats.

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Photo Metadata

jExifToolGUI – graphical frontend to ExifTool

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

jExifToolGui is a graphical frontend (GUI) for ExifTool. It’s written in Java and published under an open source license.

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Photo Metadata

Exiv2 – C++ library and command line utility to manage image metadata

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command line utility to manage image metadata (Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata).

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Photo Metadata

Photini – digital photograph metadata editing application

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Photini is an easy to use digital photograph metadata (EXIF, IPTC, XMP) editing application.

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Monitor Calibration

LPROF – ICC profiler with a graphical user interface

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

LPROF is a color profiler that creates ICC compliant profiles for devices such as cameras, scanners, and monitors.

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Monitor Calibration

GNOME Color Manager – color management integration for GNOME

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

GNOME Color Manager is a set of open source graphical utilities for color management to be used in the GNOME desktop.

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Monitor Calibration

DisplayCAL – display calibration and characterization powered by ArgyllCMS

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

dispcalGUI is a graphical user interface for display calibration and profiling using ArgyllCMS.

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Monitor Calibration

DisplayCAL Modernization Project

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

This project intended to modernize the DisplayCAL code including Python 3 support.

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Emacs Software

JOVE – Jonathan’s Own Version of Emacs

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

JOVE (Jonathan’s Own Version of Emacs) is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems.

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Emacs Software

ce – Chet’s Editor – small, fast, Emacs-like text editor

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

ce is a customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor similar to the GNU version of Emacs.

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Emacs Software

mg – Micro Emacs derivative

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mg is a Micro Emacs derivative. It’s a portable version of mg maintained by the OpenBSD team.

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Emacs Software

Remacs – community-driven port of Emacs to Rust

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Remacs is a community-driven port of Emacs to Rust. Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

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Emacs Software

JOE – Joe’s Own Editor

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

JOE or Joe’s Own Editor is a full-featured ncurses-based text editor for Unix systems.

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Emacs Software

Zile – small Emacs alternative

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Zile Is Lossy Emacs (Zile) is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

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Compression

ncompress – fast, simple LZW file compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

ncompress is a fast, simple LZW file compressor. This software is in the public domain. It’s written in the C programming language.

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Compression

p7zip-zstd – p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

p7zip-zstd is a p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements. It’s written in the C and C++ programming languages.

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Compression

XZ Utils – data compression software

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

XZ Utils is open source general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio.

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