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Messaging

Delta Chat – messaging software that works with e-mail

February 13, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Delta Chat is a chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt.

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Speech

Machine Learning in Linux: Tortoise TTS – text-to-speech program

February 12, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Tortoise TTS is a multi-voice text-to-speech system trained with an emphasis on quality.

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Recording Studio

Blue Recorder – simple screen recorder written in Rust

February 9, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Blue Recorder is billed as a simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. It’s built using GTK4 and FFmpeg.

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fooyin

fooyin v0.3.7 – customisable music player

February 8, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Here’s our updated review of fooyin. We’re looking at v0.3.7.

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Think outside the box

explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text

February 7, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

explainshell is a tool (with a web interface) which parses man pages, extracts options and explains a given command-line by matching each argument to the relevant help text in the man page.

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Task Manager

Dooit – TUI to-do manager

February 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews, Software

Dooit is billed as a todo manager that you didn’t ask for, but needed. It’s free and open source software written in Python.

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Download manager

Lux – download library and CLI tool

February 5, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Lux is an open source downloader. It supports sites such as YouTube, Tumblr, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and more.

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fooyin

fooyin – customisable music player

February 4, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Fooyin is billed as a customisable music player. It’s based on Qt 6.6.1, written in C++ and published under an open source license.

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Task Manager

Aion-Task – cyclic TODO task manager

February 2, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Software

Aion-Task is a free and open source cyclic TODO task manager.

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Backup software

borgmatic – Python-based wrapper for Borg Backup

January 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

borgmatic is simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations

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Dusk Player

Dusk Player – Electron-based music player

January 29, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Dusk Player is software that’s billed as a minimalistic music player.

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Files

Yazi – terminal file manager

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Yazi is billed as a blazingly fast TUI file manager with asynchronous support. It’s written in Rust.

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Video Editing

ClipGrab – downloader for YouTube and other sites

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

ClipGrab is billed as a fast Qt-based standalone tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other streaming websites.

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YouTube

FreeTube – privacy-based YouTube app

January 24, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

FreeTube is a cross-platform, free and open source YouTube client built around using YouTube more privately.

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Music sketch

RMuP – TUI music player

January 23, 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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Hard disk

Vorta – desktop client for Borg Backup

January 22, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment.

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Music

Nora is billed as an elegant music player

January 21, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Nora is billed as an elegant music player. It’s built using Electron and React. This is free and open source software.

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Application Launchers

AppImageLauncher – integrate AppImages to your application launcher

January 19, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

AppImageLauncher is C++ software which integrates AppImages to your application launcher with a single click.

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System Administration

bauh – manage your Linux applications

January 18, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

bauh is a graphical interface that lets you manage your software.

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Video Tools

Video Downloader – frontend for yt-dlp

January 17, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Video Downloader is a tool which lets you download videos from YouTube and other websites.

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