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Mimic 3 is a neural text to speech engine that can run locally, even on low-end hardware like the Raspberry Pi 4. The software speaks over 25 languages with over 100 pre-trained voices. Mimic 3 uses VITS, a “Conditional Variational Autoencoder with Adversarial Learning for End-to-End Text-to-Speech”.

Apple Stickies is a small utility that lets users keep notes, lists and pictures in sticky notes on the desktop.

Sticky is a note-taking app for the Linux desktop that simulates the traditional "sticky note" style stationery on your desktop. Sticky is written in Python, and uses the GTK3 toolkit.

Kooha is billed as a simple GTK-based app to “elegantly record your screen”. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.

Microsoft Planner is a planning application available on the Microsoft 365 platform. The software lets users create Kanban boards using content-rich tasks with features including files, checklists, and labels.

AES Crypt is file encryption software that uses the industry standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to easily and securely encrypt files.

Heroic Games Launcher (“Heroic”) is a free and open source games launcher for Epic Games and GOG. Epic Games is an American video game and software developer and publisher. GOG is a digital distribution platform.

Disk Utility is a system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks on macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

Gaming is often synonymous with guzzling electricity. We explore ways to minimise your energy footprint while still having great fun.

This is a personal post mostly representing anecdotal information sharing my personal experience with the ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card tested exclusively under Ubuntu 22.10. It captures issues I’ve experienced, together with a few workarounds.

Imagine is software to compress PNG, JPEG and WebP images. This graphical utility sports a modern interface. It’s free and open source software written in TypeScript.

kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the Linux kernel modules and monitor the kernel activities. With this tool, you can load, unload, and blacklist modules, as well as show a module’s information.

Corel PDF Document Writer lets users convert documents, emails, images and other file types into a PDF for viewing and sharing. This is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

Apple System Information provides a system report containing detailed information about a Mac including its hardware specifications, networking interfaces, and installed software.

No More Secrets (nms) is a command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 thriller film Sneakers. It’s free and open source software.

Apple Terminal provides a command line interface to control the UNIX-based operating system that lurks below macOS. Terminal offers several features that access macOS APIs and features offering access to macOS Help search function to find manual pages and integration with Spotlight.

GreenWithEnvy (GWE) is a graphical system tool for NVIDIA graphics cards. This utility provides information about the card present in a system together with the ability to control its fans and overclock the GPU and memory.

This review puts Spotube under the spotlight. It’s billed as a “fast, modern, lightweight & efficient Spotify music client”. The software is Flutter-based, a Dart-based toolkit that helps build an app’s front end. Spotube is published under an open source software.

Apple Stocks is software which lets you view stock quotes, interactive historical data charts and current breaking business news. Stocks is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

TIDAL Hi-Fi is a third-party music streaming program. It uses Castlabs’ version of Electron for widevine support. It’s free and open source software. You’ll need a subscription to TIDAL to use the software.