Danie van der Merwe

The Verge's list of the best free (or low-cost) tools for video editors (mostly cross-platform)

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 13:40:39 +0100

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Some of these are really well-known favourites for many people already, but there were also some I'm looking into a bit further that look really useful, and which I was not aware of.

It is good to see that most of them are also cross-platform, so they can be used by most people, and many are also open source software.

See The best free (or low-cost) tools for video editors

#technology #video #videoediting #crossplatform

Here’s a list of my favorite video tools for veteran video editors and newbies that don’t cost an arm and a leg.

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FLOSS alternatives to Visual Basic - Notable that many non-Windows specific apps run across Windows, Linux and macOS

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:04:49 +0100

Danie van der Merwe

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Visual Basic is a fully proprietary software programming platform, that means, the language, the IDE, the resulting programs, and the OS where it can run, are all proprietary. This makes programs created with VB proprietary, and can only run on Windows.

This is a list of free/libre open source software (FLOSS) alternatives to Visual Basic (part of Microsoft Visual Studio) computer programming platform. If your school is still teaching VB 6, or if you now use Ubuntu for programming classroom, we strongly suggest you to switch to either one of these alternatives. With these, one can create computer programs visually by drag and drop as well as coding just like what one can do with VB.

I'm a big fan of open source software, but along with that, also cross-platform applications as they do not lock you into one OS or a single vendor. This just keeps all your options open, maximises competition (innovation), and covers the broadest possible potential user base.

See Alternatives to Visual Basic

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This is a list of free/libre open source software (FLOSS) alternatives to Visual Basic (part of Microsoft Visual Studio) computer programm...

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SonoBus is an open source cross-platform application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network

Tue, 11 May 2021 13:11:43 +0200

Danie van der Merwe

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Connects multiple users together to send and receive audio among all in a group, with fine-grained control over latency, quality and overall mix. Includes optional input compression, noise gate, and EQ effects, along with a master reverb. All settings are dynamic, network statistics are clearly visible.

So this could be for a band or music practice, a meeting, etc without audio passing through any central server or reliant on any Internet service. Works as a standalone application on macOS, Windows, iOS, and GNU/Linux, and as an audio plugin (AU, VST, and AAX) on macOS and Windows. Use it on your desktop or in your DAW, or on your mobile device such as Android or iOS.

See SonoBus

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Connects multiple users together to send and receive audio among all in a group, with fine-grained control over latency, quality and overall mix. Includes optional input compression, noise gate, and EQ effects, along with a master reverb. All settings are dynamic, network statistics are clearly visible. Works as a standalone application on macOS...

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Barrier is a free and open source alternative to Synergy for sharing a keyboard and mouse cross-platform

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:07:36 +0200

Danie van der Merwe

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Yes I did post about this application a good two years back, but it is well worth repeating. Yes you could run VNC or similar remote manager, but that is often a lot of overhead as it's also replicating the display.

I use Barrier when I want to do something on my Macbook Air and the Macbook is connected to one of my desktop screens, and I can then use my mouse and keyboard that I'm using on my main Linux desktop machine, with the advantage of clipboard copy-and-paste between the two as well. This will work just as well with a dedicated Raspberry Pi that you just attach to one of your screens. It works across Windows, Linux (inc Pi), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and MacOS.

Synergy went paid model only and Barrier was forked from it, so it is fully open source and free to use.

See Barrier Is the new Free and Open Source Synergy - share keyboard and mouse cross-platform - NEXTOFWINDOWS.COM

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With COVID and the new work from home norm, your home office setup is going to trumps everything else. For those of us that have multiple devices to work

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Canonical Chooses Google’s Open Source Cross-Platform Flutter UI SDK to Build Future Ubuntu Apps

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:05:12 +0100

Danie van der Merwe

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

For those not in the know, Flutter is an open-source UI SDK (software development kit) created by Google to helps those who want to build quick and modern applications for a wide-range of operating systems, including Android, Linux, Mac, iOS, Windows, Google Fuchsia, that work across desktop, mobile, and the Web.

The company behind Ubuntu is writing another page of history by targeting Flutter as the default UI (user interface) framework for building their own Ubuntu apps, which will work across a wide-range of hardware and configurations.

See Canonical Chooses Google's Flutter UI SDK to Build Future Ubuntu Apps - 9to5Linux

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