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Feishin is billed as a modern self-hosted music player. It’s written in TypeScript and published under an open source license.

Index is a Qt-based file manager that works on desktops, Android and Plasma Mobile. It’s one of the applications in the Maui ecosystem.

Clipcat is a clipboard manager which supports X11 and experimental support for Wayland. It uses a client-server architecture.

Launched in August 1983, the 8-bit Acorn Electron microcomputer sported a Synterek SY6502A CPU clocked at 2MHz (only 1MHz when accessing RAM).

ungoogled-chromium is a web browser with privacy in mind. It’s a variant of Chromium that aims to retain the experience of Chrome without the Google-specific web services. This is free and open source software.

ocrs is a Rust library and CLI tool for extracting text from images, also known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

hihat is software that’s billed as a minimalistic offline music player. It uses Electron, a framework designed to create desktop applications using web technologies that are rendered using the Chromium browser engine.

EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images. It is a general OCR that can read both natural scene text and dense text in documents.

Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is built as a front-end to BorgBackup, a powerful and fast de-duplicating backup program.

Bluetooth File Exchange is a utility to view the Public folder on the device, retrieve files from the device, and send files to the device.

Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s a CLI-based utility that can be used with a CPU or GPU.

Deep Learning is a subset of Machine Learning that uses multi-layers artificial neural networks to deliver state-of-the-art accuracy in tasks such as object detection, speech recognition, language translation and others. Think of Machine Learning as cutting-edge, and Deep Learning as the cutting-edge of the cutting-edge.

The ZX80 was groundbreaking in many respects such as being the spark the ignited the home computer market in the UK. It was the first computer to use Sinclair’s legendary touch-sensitive keyboards with BASIC tokens accessible with a single keypress.

Coqui TTS (TTS) is a library for advanced Text-to-Speech generation. It offers pretrained models in more than 1,100 different languages, together tools for training new models and improving existing models. There are also utilities for dataset analysis.

Delta Chat is a chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt. There’s no sign up procedure as you can use your existing e-mail account with Delta Chat.

Tortoise TTS is a multi-voice text-to-speech system trained with an emphasis on quality. It seeks to provide strong multi-voice capabilities, and highly realistic prosody and intonation.

Audio MIDI Setup is a utility to describe the configuration of your MIDI devices. There’s a default configuration already created, but you can set up your own.

Blue Recorder is billed as a simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. It’s built using GTK4 and FFmpeg.

We recently posted a review of fooyin, a music player sporting a layout editing mode which lets you customise the entire user interface.

The system’s man pages contain a wealth of useful information. But sometimes it’s hard to see the wood for the trees. Even experienced users can be bamboozled by the sheer complexity of some man pages