Zathura is a free, lightweight, highly customizable plugin-based document viewer. It provides a minimalistic, easy-to-use, and space-saving user interface. Plugins are available for pdf through poppler or MuPDF, PostScript, etc. In this article, I will discuss how to install and use the Zathura document viewer in Ubuntu. You can also follow this guide for installing … Read more
MuPDF is a free and open-source document viewer. It is lightweight, fast, and supports various document formats such as PDF, XPS, OpenXPS, CBZ, EPUB, etc. It consists of a software library, command-line tools, and viewers for various platforms which can be used to render and convert documents from one format to another. In this article, … Read more
Okular is a free, cross-platform document viewer developed by the KDE community. It is based on Qt and KDE framework libraries. It comes default in KDE desktops. It is one of the best document viewers available for the Linux platform which supports various file formats including PDF, XPS, ePub, Postscript, CHM, etc. In this article, … Read more
Empathy is an instant messaging and VoIP client app that supports text, audio & video chats, file transfer by using different instant messaging protocols which include Jabber, Google Talk, etc. It was created by the forking Gossip project by Michael Hallendal and Richard Hult. In this article, I will discuss how to install and use … Read more
CherryTree is an open-source hierarchical note-taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single XML or SQLite file. This helps in organizing information and sets of documents that could be quickly referred to. It is very much similar to Microsoft OneNote if you are familiar with it. In this article, I will discuss … Read more
BleachBit is a free and open-source tool that helps in the optimizing system by removing unnecessary junk files. It can also manage the privacy of a system. If you are familiar you can compare it to Ccleaner which is used for optimizing a Windows system. In this article, I will discuss how to install and … Read more
The wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are open source (LGPLv3) command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the Qt WebKit rendering engine. These tools run entirely headless and don’t require a graphical user interface. In this article, I will discuss how to install wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage in Ubuntu Linux. Prerequisites To follow this guide you … Read more
CherryTree is an open-source hierarchical note-taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single XML or SQLite file. This helps in organizing information and sets of documents that could be quickly referred to. It is very much similar to Microsoft OneNote if you are familiar with it. In this article, I … Read more
The fwbackups is a feature-rich, free and open-source program for backing up your system and restoring it in case of system failure or data loss. It has a simple powerful graphical interface that supports scheduled backups and can back up local or remote systems. In this article, I will discuss how to install and use … Read more
SQLite is a free, lightweight, fast relational database management system contained in a C library. It is a highly reliable and fully featured SQL database engine. It generally follows PostgreSQL syntax. SQLite is built into Android and other smartphones and comes bundled with other computer applications that people use every day. In this article, I … Read more
