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For this week’s blog, I’ve been putting diary software through its paces on the Raspberry Pi 4. Keeping a diary of your daily life is an activity that is important to many. It represents an effective way of storing personal or business information on a day-to-day-basis.

Tartube is a GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3. Tartube is free and open source software.

There’s lots of terminal file managers available for Linux. One that we’ve not covered previously is Minase. It’s written in C++ and relatively unknown. Minase is a terminal file manager that uses libsixel, an encoder/decoder implementation for DEC SIXEL graphics. Minase is free and open source software.

There’s sophisticated software available for the Raspberry Pi 4 which offers the ability to process complex mathematical functions, plot 2D and 3D graphs, and much more. In this article I’m surveying some of the notable calculator software available for the tiny machine.

I spend most of the day with some form of multimedia burbling in the background. Streaming radio over the net is often heard around my house. The RPI4 is an extremely frugal tiny machine that consumes so few watts I leave it on permanently. This makes it an ideal machine to source the radio.

Are you looking for a simple command-line tool that lets you search for fonts and preview them with no fuss and bother? fontpreview might just be the ticket.

In this article we recommend three open source programs that help to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury.

digiKam is billed as an advanced digital photo management program. Here’s my findings of digiKam on the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”).

Watson is a CLI-based open source utility that helps you track the time spent on projects. The program also lets you generate reports to provide to clients as and when needed.

Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture. The stitcher counts the threads on a piece of evenweave fabric (such as linen) in each direction so that the stitches are of uniform size and appearance. There’s some good open source software that helps create cross stitch patterns. Here’s our recommendations.

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). How does it fare on the Raspberry Pi 4?

You couldn’t get anything more candy like than oneko, a program that creates a cat chasing after your mouse cursor. Makes me want to watch some Tom & Jerry cartoons.

This weekly edition showcases software for the Raspberry Pi 4 that teaches young people how to use a computer. Basic computing skills and beyond.

OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.

In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can play its part, making the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged, safeguarding our physical, mental and emotional health. We need activities that give a zest for living and the sense of contentment. The change of lifestyle enforced by Covid-19 is also an opportunity to expand our horizons, and spend more time on activities we have neglected in the past.

I’m a big fan of Firefox. But I’ve been disappointed with the performance of this web browser on the Raspberry Pi 4. Does the latest version in the Raspbian repositories change my opinion?

gti is intended to catch accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git. Any parameters or arguments given to gti are passed through to git.

In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can play its part, making the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged. The change of lifestyle enforced by Covid-19 is an opportunity to expand our horizons, and spend more time on activities we have neglected in the past.

This week, I’m examining software that lets you turn a Raspberry Pi 4 into a low power writing machine. There’s a ton of open source notes software available for Linux. Tons and tons in fact.

This is a crash course in data science designed for the absolute beginner. Get up to speed in 20 minutes.