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Chess

En Croissant – GUI chess toolkit

August 6, 2024 Steve Emms Games, Reviews

En Croissant is a cross-platform chess GUI that’s billed as powerful, customizable and easy to use.

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Turkey

Railway – look up travel information

August 5, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Railway lets you look up travel information for many different railways without needing to navigate through different websites.

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DreamQuest with Ubuntu

DreamQuest N95 Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption

August 1, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this instalment in the series, we examine the power consumption of the DreamQuest N95 Mini PC and compare it to three other machines.

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Photo Metadata

Oculante – hardware-accelerated image viewer

July 31, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

Oculante is billed as a fast and simple image viewer and image editor. This is free and open source software.

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Impression – create bootable drives

July 30, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Impression is a straightforward and modern application to create bootable drives.

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DreamQuest with Ubuntu

DreamQuest N95 Mini PC Running Linux: Benchmarks

July 29, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This article benchmarks the DreamQuest N95 Mini PC. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite unless otherwise stated.

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PreviewQt – preview all kinds of files

July 28, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

PreviewQt is a file previewer that strives to be lightweight, very fast, and simple. It supports a huge range of files and formats.

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Linux

electerm – terminal emulator and much more

July 27, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

electerm is a terminal emulator with bags of additional functionality. It’s free and open source software.

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Photo Metadata

BeeRef – simple reference image viewer

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

BeeRef is Python-based software which lets you quickly arrange your reference images and view them while you create

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Documentation

Papers – document viewer for the GNOME desktop

July 25, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

Papers is a versatile document viewer for the GNOME desktop. You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats.

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