Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. Ledger, begun in 2003, is written by John Wiegley and released under the BSD license. It has also inspired several ports to other languages.

To get started with Ledger, add transactions to a text file in Ledger’s own textual format. Here’s what a single transaction might look like:

2015/10/12 Exxon
Expenses:Auto:Gas $10.00
Liabilities:MasterCard $-10.00

You use the ledger command line program to see the balance of your accounts:

Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line. It is flexible, fast, and unobtrusive. It does its job then gets out of your way.

WuMgr (Update Manager for Windows) is a tool to manage updates of Microsoft products on the Windows operating system. It uses the "Windows Update Agent API" to identify as well as download and install missing updates. It allows the user fine control of updates on modern (Windows 10) operating system versions, comparable to what windows 7 and 8.1 offered.

This tool is inspired by the Windows Update Mini Tool, however in contrast to WUMT it is written in .NET instead of C/C++ and it is open source; thus its continued maintenance is ensured.

Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.

• Encrypted, deduplicated and compressed backups using Borg as backend.
• No vendor lock-in – back up to local drives, your own server or BorgBase, a hosting service for Borg backups.
• Open source – free to use, modify, improve and audit.
• Flexible profiles to group source folders, backup destinations and schedules.
• One place to view all point-in-time archives and restore individual files.

Installation

Vorta should work on all platforms that support Qt and Borg. This includes macOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux and many others. Windows is currently not supported by Borg, but this may change in the future.

These indicate most of the areas you may wish to consider.

• you can use a colour picker to get the exact colours should you wish, or simply choose ones that suit you. You might prefer a range of dark colours, or everything the same...

Rclone - rsync for cloud storage

Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from:

• Amazon S3
• Backblaze B2
• Owncloud
  ....
• Wasabi

Features

• MD5/SHA1 hashes checked at all times for file integrity
• Timestamps preserved on files
• Partial syncs supported on a whole file basis
• Copy mode to just copy new/changed files
• Sync (one way) mode to make a directory identical
• Check mode to check for file hash equality
• Can sync to and from network, eg two different cloud accounts
• Encryption backend
• Cache backend
• Union backend
• Optional FUSE mount (rclone mount)
• Multi-threaded downloads to local disk
• Can serve local or remote files over HTTP/WebDav/FTP/SFTP/dlna
• Experimental Web based GUI

Users of older versions of Adobe Creative Cloud apps including Photoshop have been told to stop using them or face potential "infringement claims" from third-party companies who are unnamed but suspected to be Dolby. Adobe cites only "ongoing litigation" as the reason for the abrupt announcement. //

While Adobe has not said who the dispute is with, the company is presently being sued by Dolby. Through a legal complaint filed in March 2019 with the US District Court and the Northern District of California, Dolby is seeking a jury trial over issues of "copyright infringement and breach of contract" against Adobe.

Prior to the creation of the Creative Cloud subscription service, Adobe licensed certain technologies from Dolby with an agreement based on how many discs of certain apps were sold. Now that the software is distributed online, the companies reportedly renegotiated their agreement to be based on how many users are actually running the software.

According to Dolby's legal filing, this agreement was subject to the figures Adobe reported being examined by a third-party audit. "When Dolby sought to exercise its right to audit Adobe's books and records to ensure proper reporting and payment, Adobe refused to engage in even basic auditing and information sharing practices; practices that Adobe itself had demanded of its own licensees," says the filing."Adobe apparently determined that it was better to spend years withholding this information from Dolby than to allow Dolby to understand the full scope of Adobe's contractual breaches," it continues. "Yet the limited information that Dolby has reviewed to-date demonstrates that Adobe included Dolby technologies in numerous Adobe software products and collections of products, but refused to report each sale or pay the agreed-upon royalties owed to Dolby."

Adobe this week began sending some users of its Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, Premiere, Animate, and Media Director programs a letter warning them that they were no longer legally authorized to use the software they may have thought they owned.

“We have recently discontinued certain older versions of Creative Cloud applications and and a result, under the terms of our agreement, you are no longer licensed to use them,” Adobe said in the email. “Please be aware that should you continue to use the discontinued version(s), you may be at risk of potential claims of infringement by third parties.”

Users were less than enthusiastic about the sudden restrictions. //

...consumers now live in a world in which consumers almost never actually own anything that contains software. In this new reality, end users are forced to agree to “take it or leave it” end user license agreements (EULAs), in which the licensor can change its terms of service without notice.

“Even if Adobe is fully in the right here with regard to the Dolby dispute, it has the power to force its customers to upgrade to newer more expensive versions at its whim, which illustrates the undue power and influence of EULAs over the lives of consumers,” Gilbert said. “We should be able to own the things we buy.”Activist, author, and copyright expert Cory Doctorow agreed, telling Motherboard in an email that this kind of thinking has increasingly permeated countless sectors, including DRM-based media, software as a service, and even client-server games.

Both Doctorow and Gilbert noted that this kind of shifting landscape can often be particularly problematic for artists and creators, who often don’t want to risk ongoing projects by suddenly jumping to new versions of software that may contain unforeseen bugs. “When your tools are designed to treat you as a mere tenant, rather than an owner, you're subject to the whims, machinations, and unforeseeable risks of the landlord from whom you rent,” Doctorow noted. “And your legal rights are likely defined by a ‘contract’ that you clicked through a million years ago, which says that you agree that you don't have any legal rights.”

It’s a comical, lopsided arrangement that copyright experts say isn’t changing anytime soon, leaving consumers with only one real option: when possible, don’t buy products from companies with a history of pulling the carpet out from beneath your feet.

I recently purchased Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition for my son to play. To my surprise, every time I tried running the game it insisted on running as an administrator. And of course, since the game requires Steam, if you’re not already running as an administrator, the game can’t find Steam and refuses to run. Seriously, Microsoft? I get the game has been around since Windows XP, but did it really need that even then? I have a computer with a shared user account for the family that my son uses for gaming, and I have it locked down pretty tight to reduce the chance of him causing too much damage. Yes, that account is a standard account. Yes, the administrator account on that computer has a password. And, no, I’m not sharing that password with my son. And I’m definitely not going to try to teach my wife how to run Steam as an administrator. I make things too difficult for her already.

So what to do?

Screenly OSE is the most popular open source digital signage software for the Raspberry Pi. Use it for free (it's a freeware after all) and save money.Screenly OSE, or Open Source Edition, is a free digital signage software backed by the community and maintained by Screenly, Inc.

Screenly is the best way to display content on your screens.

Use our software and hardware to power everything from small desk signs to screen deployments for nationwide gym chains. Screenly is simple, eco-friendly and secure.

As a service to the satellite user community, CelesTrak provides the Space Track TLE Retriever—a tool which allows users with an active Space Track account to easily download Space Track data sets and use them to generate standard CelesTrak data sets. The Space Track TLE Retriever is a standalone Windows-based application which can be run manually, as needed, or set up to automatically download and generate CelesTrak data sets. All downloaded data is automatically archived for the user.

Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion Windows program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy, and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!

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Setting personalized colors for folders/files views

Tray application and Dolphin/Plasma integration for Syncthing

• Qt 5-based tray application
• Dolphin/Plasma integration
• command-line interface
• Qt-ish C++ interface to control Syncthing

Supported platforms

• Designed to work under any desktop environment supported by Qt 5 with tray icon support
• No desktop environment specific libraries required (only for optional features)
• Tested under * X Window System

Wayland
Windows 10
macOS 10.14 Mojave

Linus Torvalds
"This is just very cool."

Linux apps that run anywhere

"As a user, I want to download an application from the original author, and run it on my Linux desktop system just like I would do with a Windows or Mac application."

"As an application author, I want to provide packages for Linux desktop systems, without the need to get it 'into' a distribution and without having to build for gazillions of different distributions."

Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Can also run in a sandbox like Firejail

Distribute your desktop Linux application in the AppImage format and win users running all common Linux distributions. Package once and run everywhere. Reach users on all major desktop distributions.

“a natural painting toolbox, perfect for everyone from artists to cartoonists, and beyond”

Krita is, and will always be, free software. There is a lot more to learn than this overview page, but you should be getting a good idea of what Krita can do.

Popular Alternatives to Adobe Flash Player for Linux, Windows, Firefox, Opera, Android and more. Explore 7 apps like Adobe Flash Player, all suggested and ranked by the AlternativeTo user community.

QTTabBar is a Shell-Extension to add Tab functionality to Windows Explorer - folder window.
Besides, QTTabBar provides various features that certainly help you deal with files and folders.

What can it do?

Most of the functionalities are activated when you enable the toolbars offered by QTTabBar in a folder window.

Tab Bar realizes ... the tabbed browsing of folders. Command Bars offer various command buttons including ones added by Plug-Ins. Extra Views show extra folder view in a folder window.

Basic concepts of Microsoft Word for beginners and those who want to start again

Basic concepts of Microsoft Word: An introduction

This page, and those that follow from it, present the Basic Concepts of using Microsoft Word. For new and experienced Word users. ///

8 articles on using Microsoft Word effectively