Watson is a CLI-based open source utility that helps you track the time spent on projects. It’s free and open source goodness.
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Category: Reviews
Linux Candy: oneko – animal chasing fun
oneko is a silly bit of candy that creates a little cat which chases after your mouse cursor. It serves no useful purpose; but it’s amusing!
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Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.
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Linux Candy: gti – typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive
gti catches accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git.
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Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database
Beets is a media library management system. Beets is free and open source software. It’s a tool for getting your music into shape. Here’s my verdict.
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Linux Candy: Steam Locomotive – fun command for your terminal
Steam Locomotive is a fun command that’s designed to teach you one thing. Stop mistyping ls!
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youtube-viewer – lightweight application that searches and streams videos from YouTube
youtube-viewer is a lightweight application for searching and streaming videos from YouTube. youtube-viewer is free and open source software.
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You-Get – downloader that scrapes the web
You-Get is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web. It’s free and open source software, with a huge number of GitHub stars.
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Linux Candy: tetris – terminal interface for Tetris
tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.
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Excellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager
nnn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.
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