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The Geany text editor is a cross -platform text editor which can be expanded through plug-ins to understand different ‘languages’, such as programming languages (e.g. C++, Java, Python) or formatting sysstems (e.g. HTML, Markdown). It is lighter weight than a full blown word-processor, allows multiple tabs to be able to work on multiple files in…

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XnView MP is an excellent image management program with well developed capabilities to quickly update images, for example by auto-adjusting colour and lighting to remove haziness of underwater photographs. In addition it is a very capable Exif / IPTC editor allowing you to tag, comment, and provide author details into your photos. XnView can certainly…

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MariaDB is a drop in replacement for MySQL.  Combined these two SQL databases drive the Internet as the large majority of content management systems use either of them as back end. Interestingly MySQL was originally designed by the same developer who later started the MariaDB branch after Oracle acquired MySQL. And contrary to what you…

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WordPress is the most popular open source content management system at the moment, powering an estimated 28% of all websites. It is based mostly on PHP, although  a lot of interactive capabilities are provided by Java libraries. WordPress started as a blogging system, but there are more than 45000 plugins available to extend it’s capabilities…

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LibreOffice is an open source Office suite, which includes word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation tools, and more. It is a branch off of OpenOffice and uses open standards as default for its files. If you are used to the most recent versions of Microsoft Office, there will be a little bit of a learning curve…

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Joomla! CMS is the 2nd most popular content management system powering the internet according to some statistics, WordPress being the most popular, and Drupal the third. Like both competitors it is open source, PHP based, and requires a server (e.g. Apache), MySQL or MariaDB database, PHP and Perl. And similar to both it can be…

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CutePDF is a Acrobat PDF ‘printer’ for Windows. After a simple he free version works very well,  printing from Office programs, web browsers or other software. Although current versions of Windows and MS Office often already include the ability to save files to PDF, results are not always optimal, and this is not always the…

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7-zip is an open source  cross platform compression and archiving utility available for Windows, Linux, and there are also Android implementations. It can be set to use different compression algorithms creating e.g. zip or 7z files. It will recursively zip whole subdirectory trees and thus create single file archives. 7-zip is included in the repositories…

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Drupal content management system is the third most popular content management system driving the Internet. It is considered to be technically the most brilliant but that is mostly due to behind the scenes technology. It is also considered to have enterprise level security. Under the Obama administration it was selected to power the White House…

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