Software Sneak Peeks or Overviews

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 25, 2023

• Cerebro: Desktop Search Assistant (Free software)

  Cerebro is a multi-platform desktop app that helps the user to search their machine or the internet with no more than a few clicks.

• Helix: A post-modern text editor. (Free app)

  Helix is a Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust. The editing model is very heavily based on Kakoune; during development * Vim-like modal editing * Multiple selections * Built-in language server support * Smart, incremental syntax highlighting and code editing via tree-sitter macOS Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, NixOS, AppImage, Flatpak), Windows

• Dia: Design flowcharts, UML diagrams and Databases (Free software)

  Dia is a free open-source program for designing and building technical diagrams. It is fairly easy to use and can be installed on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

• cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display (Free app)

  cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.

• 5 Best Free and Open Source Web Based Genome Browsers

  A Genome browser provides a graphical interface for users to browse, search, retrieve and analyze genomic sequence and annotation data.

• Shotwell 0.32.2 Adds Support for HIF (Yes, HIF) Images

  Photographers rejoice — a new stable version of open-source photo manager Shotwell has been released.

• Beekeeper Studio: Modern and easy to use SQL client for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more (Free app)

  Beekeeper Studio is a cross-platform SQL editor and database manager available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Beekeeper Studio Community Edition is GPL licensed so it is free (libre) and free (gratis).

• Calibre: ebook reader (Free app)

  calibre is an e-book manager. It can view, convert, edit and catalog e-books in all of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to e-book reader devices.

• PDF4Teachers: The PDF Editor That Every Teacher Should Have (Free app)

  PDF4Teachers is a free open-source app specifically designed for teachers to annotate assessments returned in PDF with high productivity. As of V1.1.0, PDF4Teachers is now fully translated into English, making it even more accessible.

• OCRmyPDF: OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched (Free software)

  OCRmyPDF is a free open-source command-line tool that adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted. It is already being used to scan and search millions of heavy PDF files.

• MarkText: A Simple and elegant markdown editor (Free software)

  MarkText is an MIT licensed open source project, and the latest version will always be downloadable for free from the GitHub release page. Realtime preview (WYSIWYG) and a clean and simple interface to get a distraction-free writing experience.

• Onivim: Native, lightweight modal code editor (Free software)

  Onivim 2 is a reimagination of the Oni editor. Onivim 2 aims to bring the speed of Sublime, the language integration of VSCode, and the modal editing experience of Vim together, in a single package.

• qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt. (Free software)

  qutebrowser is a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI. It’s based on Python and Qt and free software, licensed under the GPL.

• Colorpicker: A mininal but complete colorpicker desktop app (Free software)

  Colorpicker is a desktop tool with Electron to get and save colors code quickly for OSX, Windows and Linux!

• neovim: hyperextensible Vim-based text editor (Free app)

  neovim is a free open-source hyperextensible Vim-based text editor * Modern GUIs * API access from any language including C/C++, C#, Clojure, D, Elixir, Go, Haskell, Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/Node.js, Julia, Lisp, Lua, Perl, Python, Racket, Ruby, Rust * Embedded, scriptable terminal emulator * Asynchronous job control

• Helpy: GDPR-Compliant Free Self-hosted Tickets Management System for Agencies and Teams

  Helpy is a highly advanced helpdesk platform which has been developed using the powerful Ruby on Rails framework, and is available for use under the MIT license.

• micro: a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor (Free software)

  micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the capabilities of modern terminals. It comes as a single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies; you can download and use it right now!

• 3dfier: The open-source tool for creating 3D models (Free program)

  Takes 2D GIS datasets (e.g. topographical datasets) and "3dfies" them (as in "making them three-dimensional") by lifting every polygon to 3D. The elevation is obtained from a point cloud (we support LAS/LAZ at this moment), and the semantics of every polygon is used to perform the lifting.

• ImageOptim: makes images load faster (Free software)

  ImageOptim allows you to remove bloated metadata. Save disk space & bandwidth by compressing images without losing quality.

• Bdash: Simple SQL Client for lightweight data analysis. (Free program)

  Simple SQL Client for lightweight data analysis.