TTT 47: Ever Wondered How to Replace Apple Contacts?

Best FOSS Alternatives to Apple Contacts
GPARTed News
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TTT 47.1 – FOSS Alternatives for Apple Contacts
1. KAddressBook
a. This is a default KDE app
i. Basic storage for contact details
ii. Syncs with
1. Nextcloud, Kolab, MS Exchange, Google Contacts, and anything else that uses the CardDav standard
2. CardBook
a. Part of Thunderbird
i. Syncs with both CardDav and vCard systems
3. Contacts
a. GNOME standard app
i. Similar features to the other two, more simplified, modern UI
4. Evolution
a. GNOME email, contacts, and calendar app
i. Think Thunderbird goes GNOME, pretty, functional
So, a handful of FOSS options, and depending on your use case, any or all of them could work just fine for you. If you really like the Apple UI, the GNOME based options will probably be more up your alley.
https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-apple-contacts/

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TTT 47.2 – What’s New in GPARTed?
Well, if you haven’t used Linux, you probably haven’t thought about partitions, but this is the GNOME Partition editor, which allows you to adjust, erase, and create partitions and logical volumes on your hard drive, SSD, or flash drives in Linux. It is the most common tool used in Linux installers (as it comes standard in Calamares, one of the most ubiquitous GUI based installers). Why would you need to partition your storage media? For one thing, if you want to dual boot with Windoesn’t, MacOS, or another Linux distro on the same system, you’ll need to split up your device into logical areas, which the system will read as essentially separate drives. Aside from that, if you want to experiment with more complex installations (not something I necessarily advocate for), you’ll need at least 3 partitions on the drive (boot, root, home). So, what’s new in this venerable and well-used utility?
· Mostly small tweaks
o Repair errors when working with exFAT devices
o NO more tiny <300 MB XFS partitions
o Fixed some issues that Alpine Linux had with FAT16/32 addressing and UUIDs
o Fixes some issues with Btrfs
o Fixes crashes with large partition copies in NTFS
o And other things
https://9to5linux.com/gparted-1-5-enables-repair-when-checking-exfat-file-systems

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TTT 47.3 – What’s New in Ardour 7.3?
You might be wondering what Ardour is, if you aren’t into audio production. It is a FOSS Digital Audio Workstation, which I use whenever I make a video. What does that mean? A DAW enables low-latency recording and editing, along with the ability to add realtime effects, such as filters, EQ, compression, reverb, and limiters, to make your voice and instruments sound as professional as you are able to make them sound. I believe that it is cross-platform, so even if you are messing around in Windoesn’t, you should be able to use it, for free. So, what’s new in this release? Hopefully a little better stability, as I have seen the current version crash randomly, but other than that:
· support for VST3 plugins with multiple I/O busses
o allow instrument plugins to have dedicated additional outputs
o sample rate independence so that audio hardware sample rate and session sample rate no longer have to match.
· UI Updates
o Support for search in logical but heretofore absent places
§ Global Preferences
§ Session Properties
o ability to reverse the polarity of an audio region
o working undo/redo in the recording page (hallelujah)
o ability to directly use the MIDI tracer on physical MIDI ports.
· Coming AVX512 support in 7.4
· Other Stuff
o Quick Export dialog to sort range markers by time
o ability to check all channel configurations before exporting
o tapping tempo with a MIDI keyboard
o Can now group system ports by a common prefix (e.g. by device)
o Plugin Setup dialog will now limit options to “stereo” and “all” when loading a plugin with more than two outputs
A solid couple of months’ work, I think. Some of these don’t mean much for my purposes, but others will be YUGE. Take a look if you want to record something in any kind of serious way.
https://9to5linux.com/ardour-7-3-open-source-daw-released-with-vst3-multi-bus-support-searchable-preferences
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