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Ymuse

Ymuse – GTK front-end (client) for Music Player Daemon

November 20, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Ymuse is a simple and quick client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) using the GTK toolkit.

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GoTTy – turn CLI tools into web applications

November 16, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

GoTTY turns CLI tools into web applications. GoTTY uses xterm.js and hterm to run a JavaScript based terminal on web browsers.

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markets

markets – track stock, currency, and cryptocurrency

November 13, 2020 Steve Emms Financial, Reviews, Software

markets is a simple tool that lets you track stocks, currencies and cryptocurrencies.

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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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