With Zotero 6, you can now: Open PDFs in a new built-in reader within the main Zotero window, in a new tabbed interface Clean up metadata for items while viewing their PDFs Mark up PDFs with highlights, notes, and image annotations Add annotations to Zotero notes with automatic citations, in a powerful new note editorContinue reading “Zotero 6”
Category Archives: Software
Contributing to Complex Projects
As a frequent open source maintainer and contributor, I’m often asked: where do you start? How do you approach a new project with the goal of making meaningful changes? How can you possibly understand the internals of a complex project? These questions apply to any software project regardless of whether they are open source orContinue reading “Contributing to Complex Projects”
HOT DOG Linux: Live Image Based on Slackware Live
The design goals of HOT DOG Linux include: Graphical user interface based on retro computer systems including Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand, Amiga Workbench, Atari ST GEM, and Mac Classic and Aqua Custom lightweight Objective-C foundation Bitmapped graphics, low DPI displays No Unicode support by design HOT DOG Linux uses a custom lightweight Objective-C foundationContinue reading “HOT DOG Linux: Live Image Based on Slackware Live”
Go 1.18 is released
Today the Go team is thrilled to release Go 1.18, which you can get by visiting the download page. Go 1.18 is a massive release that includes new features, performance improvements, and our biggest change ever to the language. It isn’t a stretch to say that the design for parts of Go 1.18 started overContinue reading “Go 1.18 is released”
ThinkComposer: Create advanced Concept Maps, Mind Maps, Flowcharts, Models and Diagrams
As a professional, student or creative person, you probably work analyzing, creating and exposing entities with complex attributes, relationships and dependencies; struggling to make effective solutions on time, needing to explain and convince an audience; and facing diverse perspectives on different problems. With ThinkComposer you can apply the power of comprehensive visual documents to getContinue reading “ThinkComposer: Create advanced Concept Maps, Mind Maps, Flowcharts, Models and Diagrams”
How Podman can transfer container images without a registry
The new ‘podman image scp’ command makes it easier to transfer container images between users on the same system or machines over the network. Read more…
Barrier: Use a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers
Barrier is software that mimics the functionality of a KVM switch, which historically would allow you to use a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers by physically turning a dial on the box to switch the machine you’re controlling at any given moment. Barrier does this in software, allowing you to tell itContinue reading “Barrier: Use a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers”
LilyPond: “Compiling” Music
LilyPond is a compiled system: it is run on a text file describing the music. The resulting output is viewed on-screen or printed. In some ways, LilyPond is more similar to a programming language than graphical score editing software. Read more…
Blender 3.1
Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.1, a solid update to an already outstanding release Read more…
Booting ARM Linux the standard way
Tow-Boot is a relatively new project for bringing some consistency to the way we boot Linux on ARM. This is both aimed at the Linux single board computers but also the new wave of Linux phones. On these devices the most common platform firmware is U-Boot. In some cases the U-Boot provided with the deviceContinue reading “Booting ARM Linux the standard way”
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