A perpetual license for this full PDF editor is now only $35 (MSRP $129)

TL;DR : SwifDoo is a full PDF editor, and a perpetual license now only costs $35. Paying monthly for a PDF editor doesn’t make much sense. If you don’t want to pay indefinitely just to use a common ...
MUO on MSN

5 extremely useful open-source apps I use from a web browser (no install required)

I rely on a handful of open-source web apps that handle everyday tasks without installing anything locally.
Make Tech Easier

Modern Windows Apps Are Too Heavy: 10 Lightweight Alternatives to Make Your PC Run Faster

The new crop of default Windows apps is too resource-hungry and inefficient — ditch them for these lightweight alternatives ...
MUO on MSN

I ditched my Windows software subscriptions by using these open-source apps

Free software replaced my paid tools—and I barely miss the subscriptions.
GitHub

A GTK GUI Application written in Python that simplifies compressing PDF files with Ghostscript

It essentially takes your GUI input and turns it into the following Ghostscript command: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.6 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH ...
IEEE

Variable Rate Deep Image Compression With Modulated Autoencoder

Abstract: Variable rate is a requirement for flexible and adaptable image and video compression. However, deep image compression methods (DIC) are optimized for a single fixed rate-distortion (R-D) ...