If Windows is your preferred operating system, consider these open-source apps. There are numerous open-source apps available for almost any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows.

This little graphic viewer is free and can-do things that other sophisticated apps can't.

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Say goodbye to sluggish thumbnail generation with this open-source solution for Windows users.

If you want to de-enshittify Windows 11 but find starting over from scratch to be daunting, then this is for you.

Engelmayer agreed with the Justice Department that he lacks authority, as the judge assigned to Maxwell’s criminal case, to supervise compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The law, ...

The quality of the conversion is dependent upon the quality of the original document. Poor quality documents (marked up, very grainy, scanned crooked) will most likely result in poor quality ...

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The tool uses optical character recognition (OCR) to convert images of text into editable or selectable digital text. This is useful if you want to magnify the text, listen to it, edit it, or view it ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It's officially time to let go. Windows 10 has been over as we know it for some time now, only for Windows 11 to have taken over. To finalize things even further, Microsoft ended support for the ...

At present, I think the best Windows laptop for most people is the 13.8-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 powered by the Snapdragon X Elite chip. It's a stylish workhorse with enough power to handle ...