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Cairo-Dock – desktop interface

September 29, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Cairo-Dock is an attractive, lightweight eye-candy dock. It has a family-likeness with the OS X dock, but with more options.

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Docky – full fledged dock application

September 29, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Docky is a fully fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.

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Plank – simple, fast and beautiful dock

September 29, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more.

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Reference Management

BibLaTeX – sophisticated bibliographies in LaTeX

September 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

BibLaTeX provides advanced bibliographic facilities for use with LaTeX in conjunction with BibTeX. It’s free and open source software.

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I, Librarian – PDF manager and PDF organizer

September 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

I, Librarian is a free and open-source web app to build an annotated library of scientific PDF articles, optimized for users and groups.

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Docear – academic literature management software

September 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Docear (“dog-ear”) is an academic literature suite. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature.

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Zotero – collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources

September 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Zotero is a tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. At the most basic level, it’s a citation manager.

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JabRef – bibliography reference manager

September 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

JabRef is a graphical Java application for editing BibTeX (.bib) databases. The application does not use an internal file format.

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KBibTeX – reference management software primarily for BibTeX

September 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

KBibTeX is a bibliography editor and shell for KDE and Kile. Its main purpose is to provide a user-friendly interface to BibTeX files.

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Linux Candy: pscircle visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree

September 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.

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Big Data

Sedna – native XML database

September 27, 2023 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

Sedna is a free and open source native XML database which provides a full range of core database services.

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Berkeley DB – family of embedded key-value database libraries

September 27, 2023 Steve Emms Big Data, Database, Internet

The Oracle Berkeley DB family of open source, embeddable databases provides developers with fast, reliable, local persistence.

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Maths

Geometria – graphic interface for creating and solving problems in solid geometry

September 26, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Geometria is interactive software for creating and solving problems in 3D geometry. It provides an attractive graphical interface.

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Maths

Kig – software for exploring geometric constructions

September 26, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Kig is an application for interactive geometric construction, allowing students to draw and explore mathematical figures and concepts.

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Maths

Geomview – interactive 3D viewing program

September 26, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Geomview is interactive geometry software for mathematics research and education. It’s free and open source software.

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C.a.R. – dynamic geometry program

September 26, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

C.a.R. is a dynamic geometry program simulating compass and ruler constructions. The software is ideal for basic constructions.

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GeoGebra – graphing, geometry, 3D, and more

September 26, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

GeoGebra is a free and open source, multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for learning and teaching.

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Dr. Geo – design & manipulate interactive geometric sketches

September 26, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Dr. Geo is interactive geometry software. This software allows users to create geometric figures that can be manipulated to geometric rules.

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polymake – open source software for research in polyhedral geometry

September 26, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

polymake is software for research in polyhedral geometry. It deals with polytopes, polyhedra and fans as well as simplicial complexes.

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Imagewriter – write RAW images and ISO images to USB keys

Imagewriter is a utility for writing raw disk images and hybrid isos to USB keys. The software also has the capability to be used in “kiosks” that may have external harddrives. To run in kiosk mode, which both ignores large

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