Here are a few tools I have been using this year. I absolutely love these open source apps and I think you might too. Amberol Amberol is a music player with no delusions of grandeur. If you just want to play music available on your local system then Amberol is…
Show HEIC thumbnails in Gnome Files
This is all that is needed to get Apple HEIC image thumbnails in the Gnome file manager. I am currently running Ubuntu 23.04 but this should be similar in most distros using their package managers. It’s so easy a caveman could do it… sudo apt update sudo apt install libheif1…
Creating a simple radial percent gauge in Flet
I was cleaning up and found some old gauges I had built years ago. I created the images in Inkscape and likely deleted the Flash and JavaScript code. Anyway, since I am really digging working with Flet I thought it might be cool to re-purpose the images and create a…
Interesting Linux Graphics Applications
I love working with graphics on my Linux machine and in looking for new tools I found a couple fairly nice Linux graphics applications that I have not seen before, along with a few I have. I hope they are useful to you as I find them to be nice…
Convert Apple HEIC to JPG on Linux with this simple Bash script.
This Bash script will convert Apple HEIC to JPG. It will also save you a little space without losing image quality in the process. It will delete HEIC files that were successfully converted so if you don’t want that, comment the rm line. If you just want to copy photos…
List of Adobe Open Source Alternatives
Here is my list of open source alternatives to the Adobe product line up that cover most everything.
Quick Gimp 2.10 install on Pop! OS
The quick way to install Gimp with the good plugins and brushes.
Vector Keyboard Language Reference
Reference keyboard for Russian, French, Spanish, and German with English as the base language for language learners.
Icons That Work Well With Candy, Sweet, and BeautyLine Icon themes (and Garuda).
I created a few neon icons that fit the neon cyberpunk style. This includes the SVG files that can be edited in Inkscape or used to replace standard icons. I am using the Sweet-Rainbow, candy Icons, and BeautyLine icons chained but was missing these four so I made them. Enjoy!…
Adventure Time vector
I was digging through some old drawings and found this silly Adventure Time doodle. I do doodles when I get bored or stressed that I give away or trash, but not before taking a photo. You never know when something trivial can spark inspiration. Anyway, if you think it’s funny…
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