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Snipping Tool is a screenshot utility. It can take still screenshots of an open window, rectangular areas, a free-form area, or the entire screen.

A static site works very well in certain use cases. For example, it’s great for documentation. And static sites can be just as engaging as dynamic sites. The only real difference is that all the HTML is generated before being uploaded.

Google Finance is a website focusing on business news and financial information. It provides real-time market quotes, international exchanges, financial news, and analytics. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives to Google Finance.

HBud is billed as a simple music/video/karaoke app. It’s written in Python, uses GTK4 for its GUI framework, and GStreamer for its multimedia backend. HBud is published under an open source license.

Jamboard is a digital interactive whiteboard developed by Google to work with Google Workspace. Sketch your ideas whiteboard-style while benefiting from the access and connectivity of an interactive canvas, on mobile or directly from your web browser. Drop images, add notes and pull assets directly from the web while collaborating with team members.

Apple Calendar (previously known as iCal) is a personal calendar app supporting multiple accounts, colour code work, family and personal events, event support, as well as calendar invitations.

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. This month’s focus has been on expanding our features on games and web apps. These sections are now fairly comprehensive.

Apple Dictionary is a small utility that lets users easily get definitions of words and phrases from a variety of sources.

Oracle Business Intelligence is business analytics software that offers an integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System.

G4Music is billed as a beautiful, fast, fluent, lightweight music player. The software is written in Vala and uses GTK4, a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.

What caught our eye about Mélodie? It was predominately because it’s billed as a no frills music player. Too many music players are burdened with tons of features that aren’t really that useful or interesting. Let’s see if Mélodie has what it takes to become our default music player.

Autodesk ReCap lets you create rich and accurate digital models of existing conditions. It lets users work with actual point clouds from laser scans.

Notes is a notetaking app designed to jot down quick thoughts or to save longer notes filled with checklists, images, web links, scanned documents, handwritten notes, or sketches. It’s proprietary software.

A web content management system (WCMS) is software designed to simplify the publication of Web content. In particular, it enables content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files. A CMS is most commonly used in creating an intranet or in establishing a presence on the Web.

Apple Maps is a web mapping service that’s available in over 200 regions around the world offering curated guides.

yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl that’s under active development. It focuses on adding new features and patches and maintaining compatibility.

Xcode provides developers a unified workflow for user interface design, coding, testing, and debugging. It supports source code for many programming languages including Swift, C, C++, Python, Ruby and more.

This is a new series showcasing Linux around the world. For the past few years, COVID has largely curtailed gatherings of Linux enthusiasts with only virtual meetings being possible. But as physical meetings are starting to resurface, now is the time to launch this series.

gWakeOnLAN is a small graphical utility that lets you wake up machines using the Wake on LAN (WOL) feature. WOL lets you wake a computer from a low-power state when a network adapter detects a WOL event. Typically, such an event is a specially constructed Ethernet packet, often known as a “magic packet”. When the packet is received, the target machine’s network device (Network Interface Controller or NIC) wakes up the rest of the machine.

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. For this month, we have hugely expanded our features on games. But there are also new articles in the areas of coding, audio, utilities, and documents.