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timg – Terminal Image and Video Viewer

June 17, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

timg is an image and video viewer with support for high resolution graphics in the terminal.

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Austria

viu – Terminal Image Viewer with Kitty Graphics Protocol support

June 13, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

viu is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.

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Surge XT – virtual synthesizer

June 10, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Surge XT is a hybrid polyphonic synthesizer which supports MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) and runs as an LV2 plugin, or as a VST.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: btop++ – resource monitor

June 3, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

btop++ is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: horcrux – file splitter with encryption and redundancy

June 1, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

horcrux is an open source tool that’s designed to split files and keep them secure with encryption.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Whoogle Search – self-hosted metasearch engine

May 30, 2022 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software

Whoogle Search is a privacy-focused search engine. It displays the same results as Google Search but without ads/sponsored content, JavaScript, cookies, or tracking.

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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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panoramic

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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sunset

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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GNOME Extensions

36 Excellent GNOME Desktop Extensions (Updated 2022)

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