Mac Open Web

A collection of open and indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help promote the open web.

Source: Mac Open Web, by Brian Warren

How to Manage Packages with APT on Ubuntu

This tutorial will explain how to manage packages using the APT command line tool on Ubuntu. The commands have been tested on Ubuntu versions 22.04 to 16.04

Source: How to Manage Packages with APT on Ubuntu (Howtoforge)

Whishper – Open-source, local-first audio transcription and subtitling suite with a simple web UI.

Whishper Open-source, local-first audio transcription and subtitling suite with a simple web UI.

Features

Open Source – Whishper is 100% Open Source software.

Self-Hosted – Thanks to open-source technologies, Whishper can run 100% offline. Your data never leaves your computer.

Transcribe – Transcribe any media to text. Thanks to faster-whisper, transcriptions are lightning fast.

Translate – Whishper allows you to translate your transcriptions to and from more than 60 languages thanks to Argos Translate and LibreTranslate.

Subtitles – Download the transcriptions in many formats (json, txt, vtt, srt).

Subtitle editor – Easily edit your subtitles right in the Web-UI.

Whishper is a web application that runs inside a Docker container. This means that you can install it on any machine that supports Docker.

Source: Whishper

OCR PDFs with Free Open Source Tools on a Mac with a Shell Script

Linux and Windows users can also do some of this – see the opening paragraphs of the linked article for details.

Source: OCR PDFs with Free Open Source Tools on a Mac with a Shell Script – Podfeet Podcasts