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Questions to [mailto:davrot@uni-bremen.de David Rotermund]

== Why is my hard disk / SSD so full? ==
[https://windirstat.net/ WinDirStat] and [https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat QDirStat] will help you answering this question.

== Digitale Lehre ==
[https://obsproject.com/ OBS]: Open Broadcaster Software is a tool for video streaming (e.g. recording and switching between sources)

[https://vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/ VoiceMeeter]: Not “free” (shows ads) but important companion tool for OBS to mange audio streams

[https://www.ffmpeg.org/ FFmpeg]: command line tools for manipulation (inclusive conversion of formats) nearly every aspect of MPEG video files

== [https://octave.org/index.html Octave] (replacement for Matlab) ==
[[wikibooks:MATLAB_Programming/Differences_between_Octave_and_MATLAB|MATLAB Programming/Differences between Octave and MATLAB]]

== LaTex ==
'''[https://www.overleaf.com/ Overleaf]:''' “The easy to use, online, collaborative LaTeX editor”. '''[https://overleaf.fb1.uni-bremen.de/ We have our own overleaf server.]'''

[https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-iso.html TeX Live Collection]: It is a collection of tools essential for compiling tex files. I suggest to use the DVD for installation otherwise you will grow very old before installation ends.

[https://www.texniccenter.org/ TeXnicCenter] (Windows): Latex Editor (that prefers [https://miktex.org/download MikTex] instead of Tex Live)

[https://kile.sourceforge.io/ Kile] (Linux): Latex Editor which is provided by many Linux distributions

[https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html Ghostscript]: (Not Open Source but… ) PostScript interpreter

[http://www.ghostgum.com.au/software/gsview.htm Ghostview]: Viewer that uses Ghostscript

[https://klatexformula.sourceforge.io/downloads KLatexFormula]: Allows to convert individual equations into pdf, ps, jpg, png…

== Editors (for source code and such) ==
[https://code.visualstudio.com/ VS Code]: Well this is not the open source version but there is one which is called [https://vscodium.com/ vscodium].

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ (Fully Open Source ; Hardcore to learn but religiously defended by its users )

[https://midnight-commander.org/ http://midnight-commander.org/]: (Fully Open Source) More then JUST a simple editor!

== SSH ==
[https://filezilla-project.org/ FileZilla '''Client''']: Not really Open Source but essential tool for transferring files via SSH. One of the few tools that can resume a failed transaction.

[https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ MobaXterm] (Windows) : (not Open Source but kind of “free”) SSH Client with X included

== [https://www.zotero.org/ Zotero] ==
(Open Source alternative for managing citations and bib manager)

== Interesting online services ==
[https://www.deepl.com/translator DeepL]: Online translation

[https://www.deepl.com/write DeepL Write]: Online text optimization

[https://www.wolframalpha.com/ Wolfram Alpha]: Helps with math and other scientific questions

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