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fSpy – still image camera matching software

September 25, 2019 Steve Emms Graphics

fSpy is a free and open source app for still image camera matching. fSpy is written in Typescript using Electron, React and Redux.

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Excellent Utilities: Liquid Prompt – adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh

September 23, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Liquid Prompt gives you a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when you need it. It shows you what you need when you need it.

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16 Excellent Free Books to Learn Lisp

September 19, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Lisp (derives from “LISt Processing”) is one of the oldest programming languages. It was invented in 1958, with the language being conceived by John McCarthy and is based on his paper “Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine”.

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Sayonara Player – small, clear and fast audio player

September 13, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses GStreamer as audio backend.

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8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Fortran

September 10, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Fortran (Formula translation) is a multi-paradigm programming language invented by John Backus of IBM in the 1950s. Here’s our recommended free books.

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11 Excellent Free Books to Learn Scala

September 5, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Scala is a modern, object-functional, multi-paradigm, Java-based programming and scripting language that’s released under the Apache License 2.0. It blends functional and object-oriented programming models.

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JPEG Compression

Manage your Photos: JPEG Photo Compression

September 2, 2019 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

JPEG is an image file format that’s been around since the early 1990s, and it uses lossy compression. We compare and contrast Guetzli, MozJPEG, and Lepton. They are all open source tools that run from the command-line.

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23 Excellent Free Books to Learn Perl

August 29, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

The popularity of a book is influenced by personal feelings, tastes, and opinions. Programming books accord to this general rule. There is a wide range of Perl books. Here’s our recommended free Perl books.

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CaRMetal – interactive geometry software using the C.a.R. engine

CaRMetal is an interactive geometry program which inherited the C.a.R. engine. The software retains some of C.a.R’s functionality, but employs a different graphical interface which is designed to remove some intermediate dialogs. Constructions are done using a main palette, which

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Violin

Violin – minimalistic desktop music player

August 16, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Violin is billed as a fast, lightweight, and minimalistic desktop music player. It’s cross-platform software running on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Here’s Luke view of this music player.

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