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Many investors prefer to make their own stock market investment decisions. This article focuses on the best free and open source software that help you make better decisions.

Here’s our review of the TEAMGROUP MP44 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD, a low-cost, DRAM-less NVMe tested under Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

A web framework offers the developer a choice about how to solve a specific problem. By using a framework, a developer lets the framework control portions of their application. While it’s perfectly possible to code a web application without using a framework, it’s more practical to use one.

Varia is billed as a quick and efficient download manager. It’s a GNOME-based utility written in Python and published under an open source license. The name “Varia” comes from the aria2 software it is based on.

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. We’ve really pulled all the stops out this month and published a gargantuan number of updates.

Application launchers play an integral part in making the Linux desktop a more productive environment to work and play.

DVD Player plays DVDs using your built-in DVD drive or an external DVD drive.

When it comes to music players, Linux offers a hugely impressive range to choose from. From evaluating everything out there, I’m still of the opinion that Tauon Music Box is the finest open source solution although fooyin is snapping at its heels.

KBackup is an application which lets you back up your data in a simple, user friendly way. The program is designed to be used by non-computer experts.

One-Click-Backup is a basic program to backup folders to an external location. It’s written in C++ and uses Qt.

With increasing financial turbulence it’s as important as ever to look after your finances, if only to make sure there are no nasty surprises when you receive your next bank statement.

We’ve reviewed the vast majority of music players for Linux. But there always seems more out there to explore.

Directory Utility lets you use a single set of credentials to access network resources by connecting your Mac to a directory service, such as Active Directory. This software is proprietary and not available for Linux.

Kup is created for helping people to keep up-to-date backups of their personal files. Connecting a USB hard drive is the primary supported way to store files, but saving files to a server over a network connection is also possible for advanced users.

QuickTime Player is a multimedia player which handles a wide range of picture, video, audio, and panoramic image formats.

Mastodon is a free and open source microblogging platform similar to X (formerly Twitter), but with user privacy and decentralization in mind. It’s one of many protocols that interacts with the Fediverse of protocols like Pleroma, GNU Social, and others. Unlike X, Mastodon is not one social network.

Character Map is used to view the characters in any installed font, to check what keyboard input is used to enter those characters, and to copy characters to the clipboard in lieu of typing them.

Scala is a modern, object-functional, multi-paradigm, Java-based programming and scripting language. It blends functional and object-oriented programming models.

When it comes to web development, there are a fairly small range of Scala frameworks to choose. The choice depends on finding the right tool for the job at hand. Here’s our pick of the finest Scala web frameworks.

We recommend the finest prose linters, software which checks your text against style guides.