Category: Linux
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 additions to my graphic tool-sets. […]
Health, Exercise, and Nutrition Apps for Linux
I do a lot of tracking on my health, mostly on my phone, but what about the Linux desktop or mobile flavors? Here is a list of Linux health apps. There certainly is room for more. GoldenCheetah Cycling tracking and health data crunching. Stretchly Timer that reminds you to stretch. GBrainy Exercises for the brain. […]
Install NovelWriter in an isolated Environment with Pipx
novelWriter is a Python GUI program used for authoring novels and short stories. Pipx will isolate all the various libraries and source code without the need to create a virtual environment or simply installing in the system’s Python environment. For this how-to I will be installing on Fedora 37 but this should be a similar […]
Create an Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL DEV Container with Podman
I wanted to learn and create a web development container to play around in that will save me from installing all these tools locally on my day to day laptop. I have been messing around with Podman and I really like it. If you want to set this up as simple as possible this will […]
Containerize Calibre To Serve Up Your Books Using Podman.
That’s a mouthful. Anyway, I got bored last night and since I haven’t messed with Docker and such I decided what the hell. Well, Docker looked like it wanted my to create an account and maybe buy things later so I decided to play with Podman instead. Took me about an hour to figure it […]
PowerShell Code Written By ChatGPT AI.
I wrote a bash script for my son to convert his HEIC images to PNG so I decided to ask ChatGPT AI to do it in PowerShell for the hell of it. Well… I asked ChatGPT this question: “write a powershell script that will convert heic image files to png” Looks like it’s time to […]
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 and movies from iPhone and […]
List of Adobe Open Source Alternatives
Here is my list of open source alternatives to the Adobe product line up that cover most everything.
Thunderbird Mail 107 Beta 4 Short Review
Review up the upcoming Thunderbird email client 107.0b4, November 2022.
Development Environments With GUI Designers For Linux
Looking for IDEs with visual GUI designers on Linux? Here is a list.