Simple Scan is an open source tool that offers a very simple way to scan both documents and photos. You can crop out the bad parts of a photo and rotate it if it is the wrong way round. You
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MKVToolNix – Matroska tools
MKVToolNix is a set of free and open source tools for the Matroska media container format by Moritz Bunkus including mkvmerge.
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Natron – compositing software for VFX and motion graphics
Natron is a node-based compositing software. It has been influenced by digital compositing software such as Nuke.
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Bomi – powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player
bomi is a powerful and easy-to-use free and open source multimedia player. It can play a wide range of audio and video format.
Read moreCatfish – GTK+ search utility written in Python
Catfish is a surprisingly versatile and underrated open source file searching tool. This Python tool is powered by locate and find. It sports a very lightweight and simple interface. You can configure it to your needs by using several command
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Soundgrain – draw and edit trajectories to control granular sound synthesis
Soundgrain is a graphical interface where users can draw and edit trajectories to control granular sound synthesis.
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Yoshimi – software synthesizer
Yoshimi is an open source software synthesizer, a live soft-DSP audio signal generator.
Read moreXnViewMP – photo viewer, image resizer, batch image converter and more
XnViewMP is the enhanced version to XnView. The suffix MP stands for Multiple Platforms. XnViewMP is a powerful cross-platform media browser, viewer and converter. The software supports more than 500 formats. It supports machines with multiple processors, as well as
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9 Top Alternative Linux Music Players
Our Audio Software Group Test identified a number of other quality audio players worthy of attention besides the aforementioned trio. For this feature, we wanted to identify top-notch audio players which receive even less attention in Linux publications.
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5 Excellent Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. The format includes a subset of the PostScript page description programming language, a font-embedding system, and a structural storage system.
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5 Highly Promising Music Players
There is an extensive amount of free audio software available on the Linux platform which is both mature and sophisticated. Linux has many audio tools which offer enhanced functionality and integration with internet music services. With most desktop environments having several audio players, together with cross-platform applications, integrated media players, there is a plethora of music players to choose from.
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5 Top Console Linux File Managers
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 high quality console based free file managers. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone who wishes to revel in the power of the command-line.
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Speccy – ZX Spectrum emulator
Speccy emulates the once popular Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer, its upgraded versions, and its clones.
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Chukwa – data collection system for monitoring large distributed systems
Chukwa is a data collection system for managing large distributed systems. It is a Hadoop subproject.
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NSAT – Network Security Analysis Tool
NSAT is a fast, stable bulk security scanner designed to audit remote network services and check for versions, security problems, and more.
Read more4 Cutting Edge Web Browsers
The purpose of this article is to highlight interesting open source web browsers that are in a very early stage of development. They have very different target audiences.
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Bloated Audio Players? No Thanks!
The purpose of this article is to identify the finest open source audio players that are designed to make the important part – the listening experience – to be a pleasure without all of the feature bloat.
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Google Reader Replacements
The focus of this article is to highlight the finest news aggregators for web browsers. Some of these services also have apps for mobile devices running Android and iOS.
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Essential Utilities to Boost Productivity
Linux offers a vast collection of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the obvious to the bizarre. It is the quality and selection of these tools that help Linux stand out as a productive environment. A good utility cooperates with other applications, integrating seamlessly.
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Romp Home with these 21 Peerless ASCII Games
Linux has a raft of open source games. The vast majority of these games are atheistically pleasing. Popular games often have full motion video, vector graphics, 3D graphics, realistic 3D rendering, animation, texturing, a physics engine, and much more. Computer graphics have been advancing at a staggering pace. At the current rate of progress, in the next 10 years it may not be possible to distinguish computer graphics from reality.
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