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Machine Learning in Linux: Reor – AI note-taking app

September 30, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Scientific, Software

Reor is a private AI personal knowledge management tool. Each note is saved as a Markdown file to a “vault” directory on your machine.

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Radio Recorder – command line internet radio player and recorder

September 25, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

Radio Recorder is a command line internet radio player and recorder. This is free and open source software written in Java.

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FeedDeck – RSS and social media feed reader

September 24, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, News, Reviews

FeedDeck is an open source RSS and social media feed reader, inspired by TweetDeck.

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Sound speakers

Revisited: MusicPod – music, podcast and internet radio player

September 23, 2024 Luke Baker Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

MusicPod is a cross-platform music, radio, television and podcast player. It’s free and open source software and is under active development.

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GpgFrontend – GUI frontend for GnuPG

September 19, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Security

GpgFrontend is a free, open-source, robust yet user-friendly, compact and cross-platform tool for OpenPGP encryption.

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Music player

Revisited: RMuP – terminal-based music player

September 18, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Rusty Music Player (RMuP) is a TUI music player. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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YouTube

SpMp – YouTube music client with a focus on customization

September 9, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

SpMp is billed as a YouTube Music client with a focus on customisation of colours and song metadata.

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YouTube

PlasmaTube – client to watch YouTube videos

September 6, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

PlasmaTube lets used watch YouTube videos on a phone or desktop using a elegant user interface.

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Sticky Notes

Sticky Notes – simple note taking program

September 4, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Sticky Notes is a simple note taking application for the GNOME desktop. Here’s our verdict.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Alpaca – chat with local AI models

September 3, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, Scientific

Alpaca is open source software which lets you chat with local AI models.

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Sticky Notes

NoteSH – terminal-based sticky notes app

September 2, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews

NoteSH is a note-taking app that simulates the traditional “sticky note” style stationery.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: nook – plays Animal Crossing hourly themes

August 30, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

nook is an application which plays Animal Crossing hourly themes. Animal Crossing is a social simulation video game developed by Nintendo.

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Gaming Chat

Dissent – lightweight Discord app

August 29, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Dissent (previously known as gtkcord4) is a third-party Discord client which bills itself as a “smooth, native experience on Linux desktops”.

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YouTube

AudioTube – stream music from YouTube

August 28, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

AudioTube is software which lets you search and listen to YouTube Music without needing a web browser.

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Art

Letterpress – create attractive ASCII art

August 14, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Letterpress converts your images into a picture made up of ASCII characters. Save the output to a file, copy it, and change its resolution.

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Video

Showtime – GNOME media player

August 13, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Showtime is billed as a media player that lets you watch videos without any distraction. It’s written in Python.

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Calligraphy – turn text into ASCII banners

August 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Calligraphy is a small utility which converts short texts into large, imposing banners made up of ASCII characters.

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XL Converter – easy-to-use image converter for modern formats

August 9, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

XL Converter is billed as an easy-to-use image converter for modern formats.

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wallet

Valuta – currency converter utility

August 8, 2024 Steve Emms Financial, Reviews

Valuta is billed as a simple and fast conversion tool. It’s designed for people who want to frequently convert between different currencies.

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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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