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Apple Numbers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Numbers

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Apple Numbers is a spreadsheet application which uses a free-form “canvas” approach. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Adobe InCopy

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe InCopy

January 12, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Adobe InCopy is a fully-fledged word processor that enables you to put together standalone text documents. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Spreadsheets

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Sheets

January 7, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of the free, proprietary Google Docs Editors suite. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Adobe Lightroom

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Lightroom Classic

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Adobe Lightroom Classic is a creative image organization and image manipulation software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Glide – simple and minimalistic media player

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Glide is designed to be a simple media player. It doesn’t have a ton of features. That’s by design. It’s free and open source software.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2023 Updates

December 31, 2023 Steve Emms Software

December 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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News

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple News

December 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Apple News is a news aggregator application that helps you to stay up to date with news and information. We recommend FOSS alternatives.

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Apple Pages

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Pages

December 2, 2023 Steve Emms Office, Software

Apple Pages is a proprietary wordprocessor that lets you create and edit documents. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2023 Updates

December 1, 2023 Steve Emms Software

November 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Pot – text translation and recognize

November 29, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

Pot is a cross-platform translator application that offers translation by selection and input.

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Remote Display

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Screen Sharing

November 17, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop, Software

Apple Screen Sharing allows you to remotely access an Apple desktop system environment. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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OCR Tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Scan

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Software

Adobe Scan provides a portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple files formats including PDF and JPEG.

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Google Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google News

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Google News is a news aggregator service. It offers a continuous flow of links to articles from thousands of publishers and magazines.

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Grunge paint background

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Digital Color Meter

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Digital Color Meter lets you find the color value of a color on your screen. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software October 2023 Updates

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Software

October 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Adobe llustrator

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Software

This series recommends free and open source Linux alternatives to products included in Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Video Conversion

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Media Encoder

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

Adobe Media Encoder is an encoding engine for Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Character Animator.

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Music

spectrum is a terminal-based music player

October 19, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

spectrum says its a simple and intuitive terminal-based music player for tech enthusiasts. It comes with a visualizer, equalizer, and lyrics support.

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Media Center

Best Free and Open Source Media Centers

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 impressive free Linux media centers.

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Latest News

goread is a terminal-based RSS/Atom feed reader

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Reviews, Software

goread is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the terminal. It’s written in Go.

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