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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Great Ways for Kids to Learn the Art of Coding
We are surrounded by coding (often known as programming). That’s why all the cool kids are coding, or they should be. However, computer classes in the UK are dictated by the national curriculum, with students limiting their computing activities to learning applications such as Word and PowerPoint, and using the internet to help with their school work. However, learning how to use Microsoft Office is often of little or no interest to kids. They are motivated by interactive activities such as programming, as they like to make things to find out how they work.
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Command-line FTP Clients
The desktop environment with its bundle of programs sharing a common graphical user interface (GUI) remains a firm favorite with users. Not surprising really given that a good desktop environment makes computing fun and simple. The graphical desktop environment has become so ingrained in almost everyone’s computer activities that it might seem the command line will wither away. Yet, there is still an important role to play for the humble command-line interface (CLI).
Read moreEasy Ways to Create Screencasts
A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, typically carrying audio narration. Screencasting software takes a series of screenshots of a running application, recording the user’s actions, and creating a video file.
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Top 4 Tools for Writers
Writing is one of the essential skills in modern society. Being able to communicate effectively is paramount both at work and at home. It makes your thinking visible to others, and is the main way in which work, learning, and intellect is judged by others.
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Play the Best Linux Puzzle Games
Linux has a prodigious library of free games many of which are released under an open source license. A large proportion of these open source games are eye catching. Popular games often have full motion video, vector graphics, 3D graphics, realistic 3D rendering, animation, texturing, a physics engine, and much more. Early computer games did not have these graphic techniques. The earliest video games were text games or text-based games that used text characters rather than vector or bitmapped graphics.
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Reminiscing the Wonderful ZX Spectrum
In the spring of 1982, one of the most popular 8-bit home computers ever made was released to the UK market – the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The basic model with 16KB of RAM cost £125, and the 48KB RAM model cost the princely sum of £175. Both came with a rubber keyboard. Later models offered proper keyboards with built in floppy disk drives.
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OneNote Alternatives
OneNote is a proprietary computer software package for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It enables a user to capture what is important in their personal and professional life, captured by making notes, to-do lists, photos, audio clips, or videos. Information is stored in a non-linear form. OneNote is developed by the behemoth, Microsoft. Whilst the program is available for Android, it has not been ported to Linux.
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Make Music with these Sublime Open Source Tools
Linux is an attractive platform for professional audio production. It is an extremely stable operating system that has good support for audio hardware. Using a Linux machine as the focus of your recording setup opens a world of possibilities for an affordable price.
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