Herrie is a minimalistic music player that uses the command line. It is written to support a variety of operating systems, audio subsystems.
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Regards – modern photo viewer
Regards is billed as a modern photo viewer. It supports a very large range of formats including video.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – October 2020 Updates
October 2020 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software.
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libHaru – library for generating PDF files
libHaru is a library for generating PDF files. libHaru is free and open source software published under the zlib license.
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Apache PDFBox – library for working with PDF documents
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. PDFBox is free and open source software.
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OpenPDF – Java library for creating and editing PDF files
OpenPDF is a Java library for creating and editing PDF files with a LGPL and MPL open source license. Fork of iText 4.
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Apache FOP – print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects
Apache FOP (Formatting Object Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter.
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Poppler – library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure
Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base. Poppler comes with multiple frontends (APIs): cpp, glib and qt5.
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PoDoFo – parse PDF files and modify their contents into memory
PoDoFo is a library to work with the PDF file format. The name comes from the first letter of PDF (Portable Document Format).
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Excellent Utilities: fd – superior alternative to the venerable find
fd is a utility that searches for files in a directory hierarchy. Here’s our review.
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Now and Then: The Fate of 5 Open Source Integrated Development Environments
In 2014, we identified 5 promising free and open source Integrated Development Environments. How did they fare?
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dbKoda – modern open source database development and admin tool
dbKoda is a modern IDE for MongoDB. It has features to support development, administration and performance tuning on MongoDB databases.
Read moreVesta – open source hosting control panel
Vesta is an open source hosting control panel. The control panel offers a clean and focused interface. All the core functionality is free and open source. Commercial plugins are available. Features include: Web interface – PHP and JavaScript based. Slick
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BpyTOP – resource monitor tool
BpyTOP is a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It’s a Python port of bashtop. Here’s our review.
Read moreMark Text – simple and elegant Markdown editor
Mark Text is a simple and elegant Markdown editor. This editor focuses on speed and usability. Mark Text shows you formatted text in realtime while you can simply write and edit text but also use markdown syntax. To improve your
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Annie – video downloader built with Go
Annie is an open source video downloader. It’s written in the Go programming language. Here’s our verdict on this tool.
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Vooki – lightweight image viewer offering fast image preview
One of our favorite adages is “A picture is worth a thousand words”. It refers to the notion that a still image can convey a complex idea. Images can portray a lot of information quickly and more efficiently than text.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Web Browsing – Week 6
Over the years, I’ve tried almost every web browser available for Linux. For the AWOW AK41, my focus has rested primarily with Chrome and Firefox. I’ve used them extensively on the AK41 for the past 6 weeks browsing hundreds of web sites that are laden to the hilt with JavaScript.
Read moreVeonim – simple modal IDE built on Neovim and VSCode extensions
Veonim is a simple modal IDE built on Neovim and VSCode extensions. The goal is to create an ideal programming environment. Veonim is bundled with its own custom vim color scheme and the Roboto Mono font. This allows for a
Read moreGonvim – Neovim GUI written in Golang
Gonvim is a graphical user interface for Neovim. It uses a Golang Qt backend. Gonvim is free and open source software. This software is no longer maintained. Features include: Modern user interface with tabline, statusline, lint message, command line, and
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