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Mimic 3 – neural Text to Speech (TTS) engine

November 21, 2022 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Mimic 3 is a neural text to speech engine that can run locally, even on low-end hardware. It’s free and open source software.

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Excellent Utilities: Sticky – note-taking app

November 16, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Sticky is a note-taking app for the Linux desktop that simulates the traditional “sticky note” style stationery on your desktop.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Kooha – simple screen recorder

November 14, 2022 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Kooha is billed as a simple GTK-based app to “elegantly record your screen”. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: AES Crypt – file encryption tool

November 9, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Security, Software

AES Crypt is file encryption software that uses the industry standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to easily and securely encrypt files.

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Awesome Linux Game Tools: Heroic Games Launcher – GOG and Epic Games

November 7, 2022 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Utilities

Heroic Games Launcher (“Heroic”) is a free and open source games launcher for Epic Games and GOG. It’s a cross-platform tool.

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Excellent Utilities: Imagine – image optimization

October 28, 2022 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Imagine is software to compress PNG, JPEG and WebP images. This graphical utility sports a modern interface.

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Essential System Tools: kmon – manage Linux kernel modules

October 26, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the Linux kernel modules and to monitor the kernel activities.

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Linux Candy: No More Secrets – data decryption effects

October 19, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

No More Secrets (nms) is a command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 thriller film Sneakers.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: GreenWithEnvy – NVIDIA graphics card utility

October 14, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

GreenWithEnvy (GWE) is a system tool for NVIDIA graphics cards. This free and open source tool is written in Python.

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Spotify

Spotube – Flutter based lightweight Spotify client

October 12, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Spotube is billed as a “fast, modern, lightweight and efficient Spotify music client”. Here’s our verdict.

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Streaming Music

TIDAL Hi-Fi – Electron-based software for TIDAL

October 7, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

TIDAL Hi-Fi is a third-party music streaming program using Castlabs’ version of Electron for widevine support.

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Streaming Music

Streaming with Linux: TIDAL

October 3, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

TIDAL is a global music streaming platform. It was the first streaming service to offer hi-res audio thanks to its adoption of MQA technology.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: CopyQ – advanced clipboard manager

September 30, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager. This software stores content of the system clipboard whenever it changes.

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Deezer

Streaming with Linux: Deezer

September 21, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Deezer is a French online music streaming service. It allows users to listen to music content from record labels, as well as podcasts on various devices online or offline.

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Spotify

Streaming with Linux: Spotify

September 14, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

This is a new series that surveys popular streaming services from a Linux perspective. We look at the semi-official Linux client and third-party clients.

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Spotify

spotify-player – command driven Spotify player

September 7, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

spotify-player is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.

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Music Streaming

Streaming with Linux: Myuzi

September 2, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

This is the second article in a new series that surveys popular streaming services and software from a Linux perspective. Myuzi is billed as a Spotify-like client with no ads.

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Spotify

ncspot – ncurses Spotify client

August 29, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

ncspot is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.

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Spotify

Spotify TUI – Spotify client for the terminal

August 26, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

For this review, we’re looking at Spotify TUI. It’s a Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.

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Podcast

Kasts – convergent podcast software

August 24, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Kasts is billed as a “convergent podcast application”. It is written in C++ and QML and uses the Kirigami UI Framework. It’s free and open source software.

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