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Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. 44 in total making our biggest update ever!

ImaginAIry is Python-based software for generating Stable Diffusion images. It’s primarily designed for the command-line but there’s a web frontend in development.

Noise suppression is a pretty old topic in speech processing, dating back to at least the 1970s. As the name implies, the idea is to take a noisy signal and remove as much noise as possible while causing minimum distortion to the speech of interest.

Apple Launchpad is a central location where you can view all your apps and easily open them.

grump is a billed as a very minimal CLI audio player. grump is an acronym for “Great but Really Ugly Media Player.

GodMode is billed as a dedicated chat browser giving instant access to the full webapps of ChatGPT, Bard, Claude 2, Perplexity, Bing, Quora Poe and other AI services all accessible with a single keyboard shortcut. In essence the software simply lets you simultaneously chat with a range of AI services.

Cue is a command line music player written in the C programming language. It’s free and open source software.

GOverlay is a GUI tool used to manage MangoHud, vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery on Linux. It’s free and open source software.

Immich is a self-hosted photo storage and sharing service with backup functionality. If you don’t want your photos firmly under someone else’s control, you might like Immich. The software makes your media accessible for all your devices including mobile devices.

Google Fonts is a computer font and web font service. It offers font families and an interactive web directory for browsing the library. The library of 1561 open source font families also offers APIs for use via CSS and Android.

Help Viewer is a WebKit based HTML viewer for macOS aimed at displaying help files and other documentation. Help Viewer is proprietary software and not available for Linux

Let me whisk you back to the 1997 Worldwide Developer Conference when the late Steve Jobs tackled a difficult and rudely phrased question about Java from an audience member. His response was profound and really drives at the heart of my angst.

Amethyst is billed as a powerful node-based audio player. The aim of the project is quite interesting: to develop a music player in TypeScript to see how far the language can be stretched to prove it’s possible to provide pro-level features. This is mature software.

Do you ever run a command from a terminal and forget to check when it’s completed or continually monitor the window for completion? Maybe you need noti. It’s a small utlity written in Rust that monitors a command or process and triggers a notification.

Ollama is software in an early stage of development that lets you run and chat with Llama 2 and other models. It’s cross-platform software running under Linux, macOS and Windows. Unlike Llama 2, Ollama actually is open source software, published under the MIT license.

Kronos is a terminal-based music player that’s designed for playing locally stored audio files. This is not an internet streaming player. It’s written in Rust and published under an open source license.

Archive Utility creates and decompresses .zip files and other compressed files. It provides several options for you to have more control over file compression and expansion.

Text generation web UI is software that offers a web user interface for a variety of large language models such as LLaMA, llama.cpp, GPT-J, OPT, and GALACTICA. It has a lofty objective; to be the AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui of text generation.

ProtonUp-Qt is software which helps you install custom builds of Proton such as GE-Proton. ProtonUp-Qt sports a graphical front-end (yes, you guessed it using Qt) and is published under an open source license.

Keychain Access is an app that stores your passwords and account information, and reduces the number of passwords you have to remember and manage.