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…
Read More Geany text editorMany digital camara’s nowadays allow creation of panorama images by choosing the panorama scene setting and then sweeping the camera around while keeping the shutter depressed. Overal the results are OK, but the resolution usually is not higher than that of the standard images. The advantage of taking a series of full size images taken…
Read More Hugin panorama image stitcherMariaDB 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…
Read More MariaDB and MySQL databasesWordPress 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…
Read More WordPressLibreOffice 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…
Read More LibreOffice and OpenOfficeJoomla! 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…
Read More Joomla! content management systemCutePDF 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…
Read More CutePDF Acrobat PDF file printer7-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…
Read More 7-zip compression and archivingWeather Underground is one of the international providers of worldwide weather information. And almost all the weather information they provide does apply to the weather as we experience it ‘above ground’. No clue why they call themselves ‘underground’, other than that they also provide some information on earthquakes. There are various apps for mobile phones…
Read More Weather UndergroundBuienradar NL is a Netherlands weather service which also provides good data on European and global weather. In addition their site has a nice collection of weather photos. Besides offering apps for Windows, iOS and for mobile phones, they provide free widgets (see the menu item ‘Buienradar op jouw website’ at their page footer) that…
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