You-Get is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web. It’s free and open source software, with a huge number of GitHub stars.
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Author: Luke Baker
Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – News – Week 19
A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other information from the web so that they can be read in a single location for easy viewing.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Firefox Upgrade – Week 18
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. UPDATE: In Week 26, I revisit Firefox again, as the Raspbian repositories offer a current version of this
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Excellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager
nnn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Retro Gaming – Week 17
For this week, I’m going to look at a few retro games, all nestling in Raspbian’s repositories. Free and open source gaming.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Screen Capture – Week 16
For this week’s blog, I turn to a desktop activity that I use fairly frequently. It’s screen capturing – sharing something on my computer screen with a colleague or friend. How does the Raspberry Pi 4 fare?
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Emulate Home Computers – Week 15
Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s. Emulate home computers on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Memory Usage – Week 14
The Raspberry Pi 4 has 3 models with 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB of RAM. We explore memory usage of Chromium, Mathematica, and other applications.
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Deepin Music – a beautiful and simple music player
Deepin Music is a free and open source beautiful and simple music player. It supports viewing lyrics during playback, and plays lossless audio. Luke reviews the software.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Screencasting – Week 13
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi. This week, we examine screencasting on the RPI4.
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LXMusic – music player designed for the minimalist
LXMusic is a music player designed for the minimalist. It’s written in the C programming language, and uses GTK+.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Reading Comics – Week 12
The best open source comic book readers for Linux are YACReader, MComix, and QComicBook. Let’s see how they perform on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Melody – music player written in Vala
Melody is a music player designed for elementary OS but runs on other Linux distributions. Luke puts Melody under the microscope.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Home Theater – Week 11
Kodi is free, open-source software for managing your local collection of movies, television shows, music, and photos. It’s the finest free home theatre software available.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Watching Video – Week 10
This week, I’m looking at straightforward video playback from locally stored media. Does the RPI4 have sufficient grunt to be a capable video player?
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing PDFs – Week 9
In this week’s blog, Luke puts a wide range of PDF viewers under the microscope on the Raspberry Pi 4. How do they compare to the pre-installed solutions offered by Raspbian?
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Remote Desktop – Week 8
Remote Desktop Control displays the screen of another computer on a local screen. For this article, the local screen is a Windows machine, the host is the RPI4.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – e-book Tools – Week 7
This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on excellent free and open source e-book software that runs on this single-board computer.
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Gemini – audio player with wallpaper changer
Gemini is a simple audio player that sports an integrated wallpaper changer.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Office Software – Week 6
This week I’m summarizing my experiences of another fundamental desktop activity: running an office suite.
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