I’ve been a long-time reader and love learning about different topics, mostly enjoying reading on my laptop (sadly, I can’t afford a Kindle 🥲) using desktop applications like Okular or Foliate. Despite offering exceptional features while being free and open-source, one thing I dislike the
If you’re familiar with Scratch, then you’re already acquainted with TurboWarp, as it’s nothing more than a client for Scratch in Linux, offering additional benefits such as a compiler for faster project execution, a dark mode, an extensive library of extensions, and much more. For
Szyszka (pronounced as “Shish-kah“) is a simple yet powerful bulk file renamer tool that enables you to rename files based on custom rules, add numbers/text, replace or trim text, convert fancy characters to normal ones, and many more. It can rename files (including their extensions)
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,
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
Are you encountering the same error message while installing and accessing Zipalign from the official repository in the latest version of Kali Linux? Then, don’t worry; in this article, I’ll guide you through a solution that I’ve found and that has worked. [Reason] Causes of
