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Application Launchers

Gear Lever – utility to manage AppImages

January 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Gear Lever is a Python utility which lets us manage AppImages.

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Video Tools

Media Downloader – frontend to multiple CLI-based tools

January 10, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to multiple CLI-based tools that deal with downloading online media.

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YouTube

pipe-viewer – lightweight YouTube client

January 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

pipe-viewer is a lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key. It’s free and open source software.

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Television

Glide – simple and minimalistic media player

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Glide is designed to be a simple media player. It doesn’t have a ton of features. That’s by design. It’s free and open source software.

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Electric Guitar

Dopamine – Electron-based music player

January 3, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Dopamine is an open source music player that uses Electron, a framework designed to create desktop applications using web technologies.

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Video Editing

GridPlayer – play multiple videos simultaneously

January 1, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

GridPlayer is Python-based software which lets you watch videos side-by-side.

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Hyper Backup

Synology Hyper Backup Tutorial

December 27, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, System Software

Hyper Backup is software included with Synology’s DiskStation Manager, a Linux-based operating system that runs exclusively on their NAS devices.

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Christmas

Linux Candy: christmasfetch – a festive command-line utility

December 22, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

As Christmas is fast approaching, it’s the right time for a small festive utility. Step forward christmasfetch.

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Asustor ADM 4.2

ASUSTOR Data Master 4.2 (ADM OS): App Central

December 20, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, Software

App Central is software that’s part of ASUSTOR Data Master (ADM) and offers a rich array of applications to install on your NAS device.

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Synology Container Manager

Synology Container Manager for Beginners

December 18, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, Software

Synology Container Manager is a lightweight virtualization application which lets you run thousands of containers.

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Asustor ADM 4.2

ASUSTOR Data Master: AiMaster – NAS management app for mobile devices

December 15, 2023 Steve Emms Android, Hardware, NAS, Reviews

AiMaster is ASUSTOR’s NAS management app for mobile devices that allows you to remote control your NAS devices.

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Performance

gopeed – modern download manager

December 13, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Gopeed is billed as a modern download manager. It supports HTTP, BitTorrent and Magnet protocol download. It’s written in Dart and Go.

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Synology

Overview of Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) 7.2.1

December 11, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews

The DiskStation Manager (DSM for short) is a Linux-based operating system developed by Synology exclusively for their NAS servers. I’m reviewing version 7.2.1, the latest release.

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Performance

Motrix – full-featured download manager

December 8, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Motrix is billed as a full-featured download manager. It’s written mostly in JavaScript and offers cross-platform support.

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Foreign Languages

translateLocally – translation on your local machine with a GUI

December 6, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

translateLocally is software which lets you translate text from one language to another.

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Asustor ADM 4.2

ASUSTOR Data Master Operating System (ADM OS) v4.2.5 Review

December 4, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, Software

ADM is a Linux-based operating system developed by ASUSTOR exclusively for their NAS devices. I tested version 4.2.5, the latest release.

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File Managers

Spacedrive – file manager powered by a virtual distributed filesystem

December 3, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Spacedrive is a file manager which seeks a different approach. It implements a VDFS (virtual distributed filesystem), a filesystem that works across multiple storage layers.

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Foreign Languages

Pot – text translation and recognize

November 29, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

Pot is a cross-platform translator application that offers translation by selection and input.

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Asustor ADM 4.2

ASUSTOR Data Master 4.2 (ADM OS): Getting Started

November 27, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews

The first article in this series walks you through the steps of setting up ADM 4.2 for the first time.

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Music

kew – command-line music player

November 26, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

kew is a music player with gapless playback. It’s written in C and published under an open source license. It was previously called cue. I review the latest release.

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