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Sound City
Exploring the Audacity 2.1 audio editor
The Audacity free audio editor is evolving from a hobby app into a professional sound tool.
Digital Incubator
A look at the Apache Software Foundation
Apache incubates hundreds of major software projects and brings together thousands of developers – all without ensuing chaos. How do they manage it?
In Step
Synchronizing data between computers and mobile devices using Syncthing
Syncthing is a free alternative to BitTorrent Sync for synchronizing data on computers and mobile devices.
Master Key
Keep access data secure with Cryptonify
Keep track of your login information for web services with Cryptonify.
Fast and Fluid
Digital audio workstation Tracktion T6 at a glance
The Tracktion digital audio workstation is finally taking off as it reaches version 6.
On the Canvas
The latest ad tracking tricks and what to do about them
We'll tell you about some powerful new ad tracking techniques and how you can stop them.
Open Emu
QEMU 2 as a versatile virtualization platform
The new version of QEMU is a free virtualization solution that offers excellent stability and flexibility. We show how to deploy QEMU 2 in a Live environment.
Sparklines
Conditional formatting in LibreOffice spreadsheets
Integrate graphical information alongside the data it represents with conditional formatting and sparklines.
Skillfully Packaged
Migrating Debian and Ubuntu packages to systemd
You might need to tweak your Debian or Ubuntu packages to get them to work with systemd.
Better Finds
Fuzzy text searches with agrep
The agrep tool expands on grep by adding fuzzy search capabilities to text string-matching operations.
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