BeerSmith is a feature-laden home brewing software. The program is built on wxWidgets platform. BeerSmith is commercial software. There’s a free 21 day trial available. Features include: A streamlined and updated user interface that hides unused fields and customizes views
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kleiner-brauhelfer – brewing assistant
kleiner-brauhelfer (translation: little brewing assistant) is a Qt-based tool for hobby brewers to calculate and manage the beer brewing process. kleiner-brauhelfer is published under an open source license. Please note this software is only available in German. There is no
Read moreBrouwHulp – develop, document and exchange recipes
BrouwHulp (translation: BrewBuddy) is your fully functional brewing solution for home brewers and micro breweries. You can create your recipes, manage your stock, manage your brewing session and calculate all the things you need for a successful brew. Brewing your
Read moreOCRmyPDF – adds OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted. OCRmyPDF analyzes each page of a PDF to determine the colorspace and resolution (DPI) needed to capture all of the information on that
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Learning about Computers for Kids – Week 27
This weekly edition showcases software for the Raspberry Pi 4 that teaches young people how to use a computer. Basic computing skills and beyond.
Read moreRouteConverter – GPS tool to display, edit, enrich and convert routes, tracks and waypoints
RouteConverter is a free of charge open source tool to display, edit, enrich and convert routes, tracks and waypoints. Features include: Works with routes, tracks and waypoints. Displays, edits and converts GPS data. Supports more than 81 of the most
Read moreSportsTracker – track sport activities and view exercise files
SportsTracker is a desktop application for people who want to record and analyze their sporting activities. It is not bound to a specific kind of sport, the user can create categories for all sport types such as cycling, running, swimming
Read moreSweetHome3D – architectural design software application
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. Sweet Home 3D can also be used for other uses, such as planning a garden. This
Read moreOpenJardin – management of a permaculture oriented garden
OpenJardin is software for the management of a permaculture oriented garden. It uses Qt, a free and open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. OpenJardin allows interactive management of crop plots, with annual planning and crop rotation over 5
Read moreCRON-o-Meter – track your nutrition
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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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.
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Gogs – self-hosted Git service
The Gogs project aims to build a simple, stable and extensible self-hosted Git service that can be setup in the most painless way.
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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