Frog is a free and open-source OCR tool for Linux, is capable of extracting text (in English, Spanish, German, etc.) and QR codes from images using the Google TTS online services. I’ve personally been using it for a while, testing its ability to extract English,
Recently, we wrote an article on DistroBox showcasing the advantages of using it, in which one was trying out the latest Linux desktop environment (DE) release before it officially arrives. In today’s article, we’ll try the latest Gnome 45, officially accessible for Ubuntu 23.10, on
As you all know, Linux is famous for its multiple variants in the name of distributions, each offering unique software repositories, package managers, desktop environments, release cycles, stability, and much more. The well-known Linux distributions are Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora, and Arch, with the major
uv is a Rust-based Python installer and resolver designed to replace “pip“, “pip-tools“, and “virtualenv” commands, offering great 10-100x speed and advanced features like dependency version overrides and alternative resolution strategies. It has already been tested at scale against the top 10,000 PyPI packages, supporting
Maxim Dounin, one of the longtime core developer of the NGINX web server, left the company due to a different ideology and announced a separate fork of the project named FreeNginx. In 2019, when NGINX was acquired by the US networking vendor F5, there was
Tbmk (a.k.a. Terminal Bookmarker) is a simple yet effective tool that can elevate your command-line experience to the next level by reusing frequently used commands through bookmarking. The usage is pretty simple: what you need to do first is bookmark the common commands that you
Nload is a simple networking tool that monitors your network traffic and bandwidth usage in real-time, visualizing the incoming and outgoing data results in two separate ASCII graphs. In addition to the graph, it also provides additional information, such as the total amount of transferred
NetHogs is a lightweight, open-source network bandwidth monitoring tool (similar to Top for process monitoring) that can help you identify the process or application consuming the most network traffic bandwidth in real-time. All detected processes will be listed with their PID, owner, program (PATH, IP
Floorp is a free and open-source fork of Firefox that offers the same experience as Vivaldi in relation to Chrome, providing incredible performance, promising privacy, and many other customizable features. It’s backed by a Japanese company, and to be honest, at first glance, I thought
Wave is a free, open-source, cross-platform (currently not available on Windows) fancy terminal emulator designed for the modern generation to become comfortable with the command-line. It offers some interesting features lacking in traditional terminal emulators such as GNOME or Konsole, and I’ve been searching for
If you’ve ever downloaded a video file using a popular download manager such as IDM or JDownloader, you might have received a TS (Transport Stream) video file from the server. If you want your video file to be in MP4 or any other file format,
LosslessCut is a free and open-source GUI front-end for the FFmpeg CLI tool, providing a seamless experience for converting, trimming, merging, extracting, and more with media files. If you feel uncomfortable with FFmpeg, you can utilize this tool for multimedia processing. While it may not
