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cronopete – graphical backup utility based on Apple Time Machine

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Cronopete is a backup utility for Linux, modeled after Apple’s Time Machine. It aims to simplify the creation of periodic backups.

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Sherlock – find social media accounts by username

April 10, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Reviews

Sherlock is billed as a powerful command line tool to find usernames across many social networks.

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ebook reader

Librum – modern e-book reader and library manager

April 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

Librum is billed as software designed to make reading enjoyable and straightforward for everyone.

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DXRacer MASTER XL Black Microfiber Leather

DXRacer MASTER XL Black Microfiber Leather Chair Review

April 9, 2024 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The DXRacer Master XL is an ergonomic gaming/office chair which aims to provide exceptional comfort and support.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Gaming

April 8, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this part in the series, we investigate the gaming performance of the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC under Ubuntu.

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CoverGrid – client for the Music Player Daemon

April 8, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

CoverGrid is a client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). It concentrates on albums, and focuses on offering a different experience.

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fooyin

fooyin’s new features in v0.4.0 make it the most promising music player

April 6, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

fooyin is a customisable music player that strongly resembles foobar2000. The latest version adds a directory browser widget and more.

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Durdraw

Durdraw – ASCII, Unicode and ANSI art editor

April 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

Durdraw is an ASCII, Unicode and ANSI art editor which seeks inspiration from classic ANSI software such as TheDraw, Aciddraw and Pablodraw.

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PhotoCollage – make your own photo collage posters

April 5, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

PhotoCollage allows you to create photo collage posters. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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Thorium Reader – EPUB reading application

April 4, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

Thorium Reader is a cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Multimedia

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Multimedia, Reviews

For this part in the series, we investigate the multimedia performance of the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC under Ubuntu.

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Sound System

xfmpc – graphical GTK+ MPD client

April 2, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

xfmpc is a graphical GTK+ Music Player Daemon (MPD) client focusing on a low footprint.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ASCII Art Converter

April 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

ASCII Art Converter converts images into ASCII art. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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Music

Plattenalbum – client for the Music Player Daemon

March 29, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Plattenalbum (formerly known as mpdevil) is a GTK front-end for MPD. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption

March 28, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series we examine the power consumption of the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC under different loads.

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Linux Chess Apps

chess-tui – text-based chess game

March 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Games, Reviews

There are many open source chess clients for Linux. What’s unusual about chess-tui is that the program has no fancy graphics.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Benchmarks

March 26, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This article benchmarks the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC. We compare the FIREBAT’s benchmarks with a couple of other tiny computers.

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Backup software

UrBackup – client/server backup system

March 26, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

UrBackup is an easy to setup open source client/server backup system offering a combination of image and file backups.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Introduction

March 25, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC is an extremely cheap computer. This is a multi-article series looking at this computer running Linux.

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Music

Quimup – client for the Music Player Daemon

March 22, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Quimup is a client for the music player daemon (MPD). The software is written in C++ and Qt 6.

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