Dinky is GUI-like with tabs and themes; Ne is keyboard-forward. Replace Nano with a modern alternative.

For Linux and MacOS, Fresh is the best of both worlds - a terminal text editor with GUI-like options. I'm all for it.

Portable and modular, Orbitiny runs on top of your existing window manager - such as KDE Plasma or GNOME - like a regular app.

The eza command line program, written in Rust, gives you quality of life features that ls makes you live without. They ...

Although the Mac offers fantastic support for opening and editing PDFs in the built-in Preview app, the simple act of copying and pasting text from a PDF can still be a nightmare. For instance, ...

For instance, we use Jeena's TextEd instead of Apple's text editor. For browsers, email, chat, productivity, writing, and so on, we use FOSS and freeware apps, and wherever possible, ones that also ...

Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering everything from mathematical operators and phonetic alphabets to emoji and ...

Sure, there are some big names on this list, particularly in the buzzy field of artificial intelligence, but the real ...

Some of the hints for older, unsupported OSes apply equally to both Mac and Windows. Both come with an assortment of bundled ...

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.

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