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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: projectM – music visualizer originally based on Milkdrop

May 27, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

projectM is a music visualizer originally based on Milkdrop. The software enters our Linux Candy series.

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Warble

Warble – word-guessing game

May 16, 2022 Lee Walker Games, Reviews, Software

Fancy playing Wordle on your desktop? Warble is inspired by (and not affiliated with) by Wordle. It differs from Warble in a few respects, notably that you’re not limited to one puzzle a day.

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Moosync

Moosync – music player

May 13, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Moosync is a simple open source music player designed to play local audio as well as from YouYube and Spotify. Here’s our verdict.

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Amberol

Amberol – small and simple music player

May 6, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Amberol seeks to be a small and simple music players. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s written in Rust and built with GTK4.

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Music player

termusic – terminal-based music player

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

termusic is a music player written in Rust. Here’s our review of this open source software.

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Rembg – background segmentation tool using machine learning

April 25, 2022 Erik Karlsson Graphics, Reviews, Software

Rembg is a tool to remove the backgrounds from images. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

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daedalOS – desktop environment in the web browser

April 20, 2022 Erik Karlsson Desktop, Reviews

daedalOS takes a different approach to the traditional desktop environment such as GNOME and KDE. The aim of the daedalOS project is to make a web-based desktop environment that’s suitable for everyday use.

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36 Excellent GNOME Desktop Extensions (Updated 2022)

April 4, 2022 Steve Emms Desktop, Productivity, Reviews, Roundup, Utilities

Add additional functionality to a GNOME desktop with these great GNOME extensions. This roundup showcases 36 excellent GNOME extensions.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: emoj – find relevant emoji from text

March 25, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

emoj is a utility that lets you find relevant emoji without having to leave your terminal. This open source tool is written in JavaScript.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Emote – modern popup emoji picker

March 18, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Emote is billed as a modern emoji picker. The software is free and open source and written in the Python programming language.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Rusty Aquarium – monitoring by visualization

March 4, 2022 John O'Donnell Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Rusty Aquarium is a utility that’s billed as a “monitoring visualization as an aquarium” program.

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Spring

Blanket – focus and productivity tool

March 2, 2022 John O'Donnell Multimedia, Reviews, Utilities

Blanket is a free and open source utility written in Python that aims to help you improve focus and enhance productivity.

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rockarrolla

Review: Rockarrolla – jukebox emulator

February 25, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Rockarrolla is a song player that seeks to emulate a music jukebox. It’s written in Vala.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: terminal-parrot – party parrot time

February 24, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

terminal-parrot displays a parrot in your terminal. There’s even an Australian option for those living down under!

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Harmonoid

Review: Harmonoid – music app

February 18, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Harmonoid is billed as an elegant music app to play local music and YouTube music. It’s written in the Dart programming language. Here’s our review.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: croc – securely transfer files and folders

February 4, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

croc is a command-line utility to send files and folders from one computer to another.

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Stock Market

Quoter – The Console Based Stock Quote Tool

January 21, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Reviews

Quoter is a command-line tool that fetches stock prices. It’s written in Java and published under an open source license.

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Stockmarket

tickrs – terminal realtime ticker data

January 14, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Reviews, Software

tickrs is a terminal-based realtime ticker. It’s written in Rust and sources data from Yahoo! Finance.

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Stockmarket

mop – terminal-based stock market tracker

January 7, 2022 Steve Emms Financial, Reviews, Software

mop is a command-line stock market tracker. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license. Here’s our review.

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Sunset

Gamestonk Terminal – investment research tool

December 29, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Reviews, Software

Gamestonk Terminal provides a modern Python-based integrated environment for financial investment research. Here’s our review of this open source software.

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