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Drawing on Success
What's new in Krita 3.0
Krita, a free sketching and painting program, has new features and improvements in version 3.0.
Frame by Frame
Animated slideshows with PhotoFilmStrip
Easy-to-use PhotoFilmStrip produces high-quality videos and offers plenty of useful features.
Go Find It
An indexing search engine with Nutch and Solr
Build you own search engine using Apache's Nutch web crawler and Solr search platform.
How Free Software Got Its Fonts
A History of Open Source Fonts
With the advent of free software for non-programmers, users ran into a licensing dilemma in a world of proprietary fonts.
Reinforcements
Desktop backup software
Backup strategies in IT are essential and expensive in terms of planning and administration, but individuals have simpler solutions. We look at five backup solutions for the desktop.
Incredible
Bitwig Studio 1.3.5 digital audio workstation tested
Bitwig Studio 1.3.5, together with the JACK sound server, gives users the freedom to produce professional-quality tracks.
Go with the Flow
Analyzing network flow records
Detect operating systems, installed software, and more from easily collected metadata.
Crystal Clear
Crystal – A Ruby-esque programing language
Crystal is an open source project that seeks to combine the best of two worlds: the simplicity of a language syntax similar to Ruby and the speed and capabilities of the LLVM platform.
Krita: Coming Attractions
Krita 3.0
Krita, a free sketching and painting program, has new features and improvements in version 3.0.
Better Finds
Fuzzy text searches with agrep
The agrep tool expands on grep by adding fuzzy search capabilities to text string-matching operations.
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