Annie is an open source video downloader. It’s written in the Go programming language. Here’s our verdict on this tool.
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Category: CLI
cointop – monitor cryptocurrencies in the terminal
cointop is a fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking and monitoring cryptocurrency coin stats in real-time.
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Termgraph – draw basic graphs in the terminal
Termgraph is a command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal. Termgraph is free and open source software and written in Python.
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Excellent System Utilities: Glances – CLI curses-based monitoring tool
Glances is a system administration tool that replaces a whole host of command-line utilities. Here’s our review of Glances.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Dear Diary – Week 32
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 – SIXEL-based terminal file manager
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
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
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
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
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 – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database
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: Steam Locomotive – fun command for your terminal
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
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: tetris – terminal interface for Tetris
tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.
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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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dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space
dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?
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17 Best Free Console Based Linux Multimedia Apps
The vast majority of Linux users would never be satisfied without access to a graphical user interface. However, even in 2020 there remain many reasons why console based applications can be extremely desirable. Although console applications are very useful for updating, configuring, and repairing a system, their benefits are not only confined to system administration.
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conrad – conferences and meetups on your terminal
conrad is a free and open source command-line tool designed to help you track conferences and meetups. The tool is written in Python.
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Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls
exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.
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Linux Candy: nyancat – Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat Animation
nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. It’s free and open source candy.
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