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Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database

April 6, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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

March 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Steam Locomotive is a fun command that’s designed to teach you one thing. Stop mistyping ls!

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Video Tools

youtube-viewer – lightweight application that searches and streams videos from YouTube

March 16, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

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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Video Tools

You-Get – downloader that scrapes the web

March 9, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

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

Linux Candy: tetris – terminal interface for Tetris

March 2, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Games, Reviews, Software

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

February 24, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Reviews, Utilities

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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Linux Candy: xcowsay – displays a cow on your desktop with message

February 17, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Utilities

xcowsay is a tiny utility that displays a cow with a speech bubble containing some text. It’s free and open source goodness.

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dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space

February 10, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?

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Terminal Phase

Terminal Phase – space shooting game in your terminal

February 3, 2020 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software

Terminal Phase is a space shooting game that runs in your terminal. It’s free and open source written in the Racket programming language.

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Deepin Music

Deepin Music – a beautiful and simple music player

January 27, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Deepin Music is a free and open source beautiful and simple music player. It supports viewing lyrics during playback, and plays lossless audio. Luke reviews the software.

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LXMusic

LXMusic – music player designed for the minimalist

January 20, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

LXMusic is a music player designed for the minimalist. It’s written in the C programming language, and uses GTK+.

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musical-notes

Melody – music player written in Vala

January 13, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Melody is a music player designed for elementary OS but runs on other Linux distributions. Luke puts Melody under the microscope.

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conrad – conferences and meetups on your terminal

January 6, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Reviews

conrad is a free and open source command-line tool designed to help you track conferences and meetups. The tool is written in Python.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls

December 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: nyancat – Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat Animation

December 16, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. It’s free and open source candy.

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Golly – exploring cellular automata like the Game of Life

December 13, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

Golly is a free and open source cross-platform application for exploring Conway’s Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata.

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gorss

gorss – simple RSS/Atom reader written in Golang

December 9, 2019 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Utilities

gorss is a simple free and open source RSS/Atom reader. It’s written in the Golang language. The program offers support for highlighting specific words.

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Gemini

Gemini – audio player with wallpaper changer

December 2, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Gemini is a simple audio player that sports an integrated wallpaper changer.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern

November 25, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: CMatrix – terminal based “The Matrix”

November 22, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.

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