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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Dear Diary – Week 32

June 3, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, CLI, Desktop, Software, Utilities

Keeping a diary of your daily life is an activity that is held dear by many people. In this week’s blog, Luke checks out RedNotebook, Lifeograph, jrnl, and Org on the Raspberry Pi 4.

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Minase

Minase – SIXEL-based terminal file manager

May 25, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Minase is a terminal file manager that uses libsixel, an encoder/decoder implementation for DEC SIXEL graphics. Minase is free and open source software.

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Excellent Utilities: fontpreview – search and preview fonts

May 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Are you looking for a simple command-line tool that lets you search for fonts and preview them with no fuss and bother? fontpreview might just be the ticket.

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Excellent Utilities: Watson – CLI tool to track time

May 11, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews, Software

Watson is a CLI-based open source utility that helps you track the time spent on projects. It’s free and open source goodness.

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Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs

April 27, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Office, Reviews, Utilities

OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.

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Linux Candy: gti – typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive

April 20, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

gti catches accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git.

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beets

Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database

April 6, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Beets is a media library management system. Beets is free and open source software. It’s a tool for getting your music into shape. Here’s my verdict.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Steam Locomotive – fun command for your terminal

March 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Steam Locomotive is a fun command that’s designed to teach you one thing. Stop mistyping ls!

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youtube-viewer – lightweight application that searches and streams videos from YouTube

March 16, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

youtube-viewer is a lightweight application for searching and streaming videos from YouTube. youtube-viewer is free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: tetris – terminal interface for Tetris

March 2, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Games, Reviews, Software

tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.

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