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Painting tools

Tux Paint – drawing software designed for children

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Tux Paint is a free and open source, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6).

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GrafX2 – bitmap paint program

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

GrafX2 is billed as the ultimate 256-color bitmap paint program. This software includes a very large number of tools and effects.

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AzPainter – full color painting software

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

AzPainter is a full color painting software. A lightweight tool with tablet pressure support, with selection, layers, and filters.

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GIMP – free and open-source raster graphics editor

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

GIMP stands for the GNU Image Manipulation Program, a freely distributed program for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

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Krita – professional free and open source painting program

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Krita is a painting, photo retouching and raster image editing application. Krita contains both ease-of-use and fun features.

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MyPaint – tool for digital painters

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

MyPaint is a paint program with dynamic brushes for graphic tablets. This is a pressure sensitive Wacom tablet paint program.

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Flashcards

Pauker – flashcard software

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Pauker is a generic flashcard program. This application uses an innovative combination of ultra-short term, short term and long term memory.

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FlashQard – educational software

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Education

FlashQard is an educational software to help improve your learning process. It uses the well known Leitner System as the reviewing method.

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KWordQuiz – flashcard and vocabulary learning program

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Education

KWordQuiz is a general purpose flashcard program, typically used for vocabulary training. The basic layout is a two-column spreadsheet.

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granule – flashcard program

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Education

granule is a flashcard program that implements the Leitner cardfile methodology for learning new words.

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jVLT – vocabulary learning tool

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Education

jVLT is a tool that allows you to manage and to learn your vocabulary. You can specify examples that help you to memorize the usage of words.

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OpenCards – flashcard learning software for ppt-files

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Education

OpenCards is flashcard learning software. OpenCards uses PowerPoint presentations (*.ppt) or Markdown (*.md) files as flashcard sets.

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Mnemosyne Project – flash-card tool

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Mnemosyne software resembles a traditional flash-card program to help you memorise question/answer pairs.

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Calculators

insect – high precision scientific calculator supporting physical units

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

insect is a high precision scientific calculator. It offers a web version that needs no installation, as well as a command line version.

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dwdiff – diff program that operates at the word level

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dwdiff is a diff program that operates at the word level instead of the line level.

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Diff Tools

Wdiff – wordwise implementation of diff

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Software

wdiff is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis. A word is anything between whitespace.

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Diff Tools

ydiff – colored incremental side-by-side diff viewer

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ydiff is a view colored, incremental diff in a workspace or from stdin, with side by side and auto pager support.

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Diff Tools

diffr – word-by-word diff highlighting utility

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diffr processes diffs and outputs them (in the console) with additional diff information on top of the unified diff format.

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Diff Tools

colordiff – wrapper for diff with pretty syntax highlighting

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordiff is a wrapper for diff and produces the same output as diff but with coloured syntax highlighting at the command line.

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Diff Tools

diffoscope – in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diffoscope is a utility that offers in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories.

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