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QOI is an image encoder which claims to be fast 20-50 times compressing and 3-4 times faster decompressing compared to the Libpng library.

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software.

This article focuses on the two different cores present in the Intel NUC 13 Pro. They are Performance-cores (P-Cores) and Efficient-Cores (E-Cores).

Images take up massive amounts of internet bandwidth because they often have large file sizes. They are the most popular resource type on the web. According to the HTTP Archive, the majority of the data transferred to fetch a web page are images composed of JPEGs, PNGs and GIFs. Crunch is a command line executable that performs lossy optimization of one or more PNG image files with pngquant and zopflipng. It’s free and open source software

eza is a modern, maintained replacement for ls, built on exa. It has some new features such as hyperlink support. Let’s check out eza.

The most well known system information tool is arguably Neofetch, a wonderfully versatile tool written in Bash. An alternative tool is Fastfetch which is written in C. This free and open source tool claims it’s must faster as a result.

Terminal GPT (tgpt) is a cross-platform command-line interface (CLI) tool that allows you to use ChatGPT 3.5 in your terminal without needing API keys. This is free software written in Go.

For this instalment in the series, we’re going to examine the power consumption of the NUC 13 Pro Mini PC and compare that to a couple of desktop machines.

g is an alternative to ls with lots of configurability. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.

Adobe Media Encoder is an encoding engine for Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Character Animator.

spectrum bills itself as a simple and intuitive terminal-based music player for tech enthusiasts. It comes with a visualizer, equalizer, and lyrics support.

For this article in the series, I’ll explore the simple process of installing Ubuntu 23.10 on the Intel NUC 13 Pro. First, I’ll explain how to write the Ubuntu ISO to a USB key, and then take you through the installation steps.

In my previous article, I walked you through the easy steps to install Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop. For this article in the series, I’ll start configuring Ubuntu 23.10. As this distro has been only out for a few days, I’ll be regularly updating/refining this particular article over the coming days and weeks. As always, comments are very welcome.

Adobe Scan provides a portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple files formats including PDF and JPEG.

For people that read lots of weblogs, a news aggregator makes keeping track of them effortless, and particularly useful if the weblogs are only updated occasionally.

In this article we benchmark the NUC 13 Pro. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite, unless otherwise stated. Together with the NUC 13 Pro, we’ve run the benchmarks on two fairly recent desktop machines hosting a 10th generation and 12th generation Intel processor.

Adobe Bridge is a creative asset manager that lets you preview, organise, edit and publish multiple creative assets quickly and easily.

Xplorer is a modern take on the navigational file manager. This type of file manager has two panes, with the filesystem tree in the left pane and the contents of the current directory in the right pane. Xplorer is free and open source software.

This is a multi-part blog looking at an Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC running Linux. In this series, we examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail from a Linux perspective. We’ll compare the machine with modern desktop PC counterparts along the way.

Adobe Fresco is a vector and raster drawing and painting app. It’s primarily used for digital painting by artists, illustrators, animators, and sketchers.