This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Tesseract OCR engine in all current Ubuntu releases via PPA. Tesseract is the most accurate open-source OCR engine that reads a wide variety of image formats and converts them to text ...
Blender 3.0 was finally released! Here’s what’s new and how to install it in Ubuntu. The new release of the animation creation software features 2x ~ 8x faster GPU rendering, magnitudes faster loading and saving compressed .blend file. Also, it ...
My Ubuntu laptop recently runs into a power-off issue. Every time when I shutdown or reboot the machine, it stuck at blank screen with text message “systemd-shutdown[1]: waiting for process: crond” for more than a minute. According to the keyword ...
Vivaldi web browser released version 5.0 today with exciting new features. The release makes it easy to change the app UI appearance via themes. Vivaldi comes with some themes with different colors, background image, blur, transparency and other settings. User ...
Adding an app shortcut icon to the Desktop in Ubuntu is not that easy for beginners by default. User has to first open the folder that stores the app shortcut files (usually /usr/share/applications). Then drag and drop the .desktop files ...
This is a step by step guide shows how to install the Lazarus IDE in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.10 and their derivatives, e.g., Linux Mint, Elementary OS and more. Lazarus is a free Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE for ...
Running applications via Docker in Ubuntu Linux? Dockeye is a free open-source tool to manage your containers and images via a graphical user interface. Dockeye is written in Rust programming language. It provides a dark UI (light mode is also ...
In Windows 10, user may right-click on the ‘File Explorer’ icon on panel to access pinned folders (e.g., Desktop, Downloads and Documents) quickly. Ubuntu has first implemented this feature in Ubuntu 21.10, though it seems to be not working properly ...
For people with dyslexia, scopic sensitivity, and related conditions, GNOME has an extension to adds a a translucent colored overlay over your desktop that may help. It’s ‘ColorTint’ that adds an indicator applet in system tray area. User may click ...
Designers and website developers may sometimes need to check WCAG color contrast to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities. Without using an online website each time, Linux has a stylish GTK4 app “Contrast” which allows to check ...
The beautiful Debian based Linux distribution Deepin 20.3 was released. Features Kernel 5.15, new features and optimizations for its core apps. The stable Linux kernel has been updated to v5.15 with better support for Intel 12th Gen processors and NTFS ...
Free and open-source clone of Paint.Net 3.0, Pinta, released version 1.7.1 a few days ago with improvements and bug-fixes. The release is the final version based on GTK2, as the GTK3 / .NET 6 version is nearly ready! Pinta 1.7.1 ...
More and more apps today publish Linux packages as Flatpak. Though the run-time libraries take hundreds of megabytes disk space, some apps are really good and useful. If you have some apps installed as Flatpak in Ubuntu or other Linux ...
Ghostwriter, free and open-source markdown text editor, released version 2.1.0 with some new features. Here’s what’s new and how to install in Ubuntu. Ghostwriter is a cross-platform, aesthetic and distraction-free Markdown editor works on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. It comes ...
KGX is a simple and user-friendly terminal emulator for GNOME. It aims to be a “Core” app for GNOME and Phosh, graphical shell for mobile devices like Purism’s Librem 5. Rather than replacing GNOME Terminal, it’s on target to serve ...