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Regards

Regards – modern photo viewer

November 11, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Regards is billed as a modern photo viewer. It supports a very large range of formats including video.

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PosteRazor

PosteRazor – create your own posters

November 9, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

PosteRazor cuts raster images into multipage PDF documents.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Pywal – color schemes on the fly

November 6, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Pywal is Python software that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image.

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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: Ventoy – create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

November 2, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

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asciiworld

asciiworld – world map depicted in ASCII

October 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

asciiworld offers world maps depicted in ASCII. asciiworld is free and open source.

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Utilities

colorls – turbocharged alternative to ls

October 26, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

colorls is a Ruby script that enhances ls with color and font-awesome icons. colorls is free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Hollywood – fill your console with Hollywood melodrama technobabble

October 23, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software

Hollywood is a 102 line script that occupies your console with tech geekery.

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mpz

mpz – open source music player

October 19, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

mpz is a music player that’s designed for large, locally stored, music collections. Here’s our review on this open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Evolvotron – interactive generative art software

October 16, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Evolvotron is an interactive “generative art” application to evolve images/textures/patterns/animations.

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imagededup

Image Deduplicator – find duplicate images

October 14, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Image Deduplicator is a Python package that simplifies the task of finding exact and near duplicates in images.

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Nyxt - Web Browser

Nyxt – keyboard-oriented extensible open source web browser

October 12, 2020 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software

Nyxt is a keyboard-oriented, extensible web-browser designed for power users.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: XDecorations – Holiday lights and more

October 9, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

XDecorations is a small utility that lets you add decorations to your desktop. It’s our latest addition to the fun Linux Candy series.

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International Space Station

TermTrack – Track satellites in your terminal

October 2, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific

TermTrack is a terminal-based program that lets you track the orbits of artificial satellites. The program is written in Python.

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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool

September 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.

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dupeGuru

dupeGuru – find duplicate files

September 28, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

dupeGuru finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. Here’s our review of this open source program.

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Musiko

Musiko – cross-platform music player

September 25, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Musiko is a free to use, open source and cross platform music player. It supports a good range of audio formats including both lossy and lossless formats. Here’s our review.

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Markdown

Apostrophe – distraction free Markdown editor

September 23, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Apostrophe is a distraction free Markdown editor written in Python. Apostrophe is free and open source software.

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Terminal Image Viewer

Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal

September 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.

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AWOW AK41 - SNES emulation

AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – SNES emulation – Week 11

September 16, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this week’s blog, Luke checks out how Snes9x performs on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC. Snes9x is an emulator for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System 16-bit home video game console.

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Markdown

Mark Text – simple and elegant open source Markdown editor

September 14, 2020 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews, Software

Mark Text is billed as a simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focuses on speed and usability.

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