Are you looking for a simple command-line tool that lets you search for fonts and preview them with no fuss and bother? fontpreview might just be the ticket.
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Category: Reviews
Excellent Utilities: Watson – CLI tool to track time
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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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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Linux Candy: xcowsay – displays a cow on your desktop with message
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
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 – space shooting game in your terminal
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 – a beautiful and simple music player
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 – music player designed for the minimalist
LXMusic is a music player designed for the minimalist. It’s written in the C programming language, and uses GTK+.
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Melody – music player written in Vala
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
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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Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls
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: nyancat – Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat Animation
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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