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Linux Candy: Fantascene – dynamic wallpaper

April 23, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews

Fantascene is a wallpaper changer. But it’s not a bog standard changer. It plays video wallpapers on your background.

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Music

Audioloader – web-based MPD client

April 21, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Web Apps

Audioloader is a web based Music Player Daemon (MPD) client with special focus on playing music organized in folders.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Installing and Configuring EndeavourOS

April 19, 2024 Steve Emms Distro, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, we explore installing and configuring EndeavourOS.

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Backup software

Grsync – graphical user interface for rsync

April 18, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Grsync is a graphical frontend for rsync. This GTK tool is designed to provide the most commonly used rsync options.

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fwbackups – simple backup software

April 16, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

fwbackups is a simple backup program that allows you to backup your data. It’s free and open source software.

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Faircamp – static site generator for audio producers

April 16, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Faircamp is designed to offer the best featured of Bandcamp, an online and app music distribution service for musicians.

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PMS – interactive console client for the Music Player Daemon

April 15, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Practical Music Search (PMS) is an interactive Vim-like console client for the Music Player Daemon. It’s written in Go.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

April 14, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

We see how Linux runs under Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL). This uses virtualization to run the Linux kernel inside a virtual machine.

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Music

pimpd2 – Perl Interface for Music Player Daemon

April 12, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

pimpd2 is a command-line based Music Player Daemon client. This is free and open source software written in Perl.

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Backup

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 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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Sound System

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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Manage creative assets

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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ebook reader

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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