You don’t need to be a professional photographer (protographer?) to find photo management software digiKam helpful, as the canny crop of new “AI” powered features on offer in the latest release proves. Note: this is a news item coveri…
A new version of the Raspberry Pi Imager, an open source and cross-platform image writing tool, has been leased for macOS, Windows and Linux.
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Removing backgrounds from video in Kdenlive, the free, open-source video editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, is about to get a whole lot easier. Developers are adding a “modern background removal tool” that uses machine learning to create …
A sizeable update to the free, open-source video editor Kdenlive is now available to download. Kdenlive 24.12 arrives stuffed like a seasonal bird with bug fixes, performance tweaks, and usability enhancements. Additionally, the editor’s develope…
Calibre ebook manager, converter, and reader is out with a new update, and it adds an enticing sounding new feature. For a while now Calibre has offered a ‘read aloud’ feature that does exactly what you think it does: a computer voice reads…
Open source ebook manager Calibre has a new release out. Calibre 7.2.0 ships with a brand new PDF input engine (used to convert PDF files into other ebook formats, such as EPUB or MOBI). It’s now able to handle “automatic detection of heade…
Remember Clementine music player? Well, it appears to be back – some 8 years after its last stable release. If Clementine feels like it’s slipped out of public consciousness it’s understandable: the last stable release was in 2016 (v1.3.1)….
You don’t need to own a Raspberry Pi to make use of the Raspberry Pi Imager. This nifty image writer makes flashing ISO, IMG, and similar files to USB drives and SD cards mighty easy. A new update, Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9, was released this week …
A couple of Qt-based apps popular with Linux users, not just those running KDE Plasma, recently received some notable updates. Rather than putting out a post for each, I figured I’d collate them in a single post to. Plus, they all kind of link (s…
A new version of Qt-based music player Amarok is available to download. Amarok 3.1 lands three months after Amarok 3.0, which was the first release in nearly 6 years and saw the audio player’s developers complete their port to Qt 5 (which receive…
A new version of open-source video editor OpenShot is available to download. OpenShot 3.2 is the first update to the app since early last year, and the editor’s chief developer, Jonathan Thomas, describes this release as a “game-c…
KDE Plasma 6 has arrived. The first stable release in an all-new series of the phenomenally popular Linux desktop environment is now available to download. KDE Plasma 6 improves security, performance, usability, and hardware support Naturally, a major …
It’s been a long time since I last wrote about Musique, a desktop music player for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Amazingly, the app is still going, and it just got its first major update in nearly 3 years. “This Musique update is the first Qt …
Speech Note is an offline, AI-powered app able to transcribe your speech into text in a variety of different languages. A reader got in touch to point me towards the…
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When I watch videos on KDE Plasma I do so using Haruna, a Qt-based media app with a pleasant UI and a potent feature set. Haruna 0.12.0 is the latest…
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A new version of Tokodon, a Qt-based Mastodon app for KDE Plasma, features in the latest KDE Gear release. And what an update it is! Tokodon 23.08.0 comes with a…
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If you regularly use YouTube to listen to music you may enjoy using a dedicated YouTube music player on your desktop. On Linux, there are several to choose from. I…
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When it comes open-source image organizers and photo tag editors open source app digiKam is the most well regarded — and the app just got its first big update in…
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When you feel ready to tackle that mountain of eBooks you bought but never read, give Arianna a try. No, they’re not a therapist trained to help people with literary…
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Users of the Falkon web browser will soon be able to take advantage of hardware acceleration when using the browser on Linux. A dev commit adds an option to enable…
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