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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: croc – securely transfer files and folders

February 4, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

croc is a command-line utility to send files and folders from one computer to another.

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Stock Market

Quoter – The Console Based Stock Quote Tool

January 21, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Reviews

Quoter is a command-line tool that fetches stock prices. It’s written in Java and published under an open source license.

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Stockmarket

tickrs – terminal realtime ticker data

January 14, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Reviews, Software

tickrs is a terminal-based realtime ticker. It’s written in Rust and sources data from Yahoo! Finance.

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Stockmarket

mop – terminal-based stock market tracker

January 7, 2022 Steve Emms Financial, Reviews, Software

mop is a command-line stock market tracker. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license. Here’s our review.

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Sunset

Gamestonk Terminal – investment research tool

December 29, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Reviews, Software

Gamestonk Terminal provides a modern Python-based integrated environment for financial investment research. Here’s our review of this open source software.

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Stockmarket

ticker – terminal stock ticker

December 24, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Reviews, Software

ticker is simple software that lets you track stocks, currencies, cryptocurrencies, commodities and indexes.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: PDF Mix Tool – perform common editing operations on PDF files

December 17, 2021 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

PDF Mix Tool is free and open source software that lets you perform common editing operations on PDF files.

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radio active

radio-active – listen to radio from the terminal

December 10, 2021 Luke Baker Internet, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

radio-active is Python software to listen to internet radio stations on the terminal. It’s free and open source software.

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Clapper

Clapper – GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit

November 17, 2021 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Clapper is a GNOME media player. It’s built using GJS with the GTK4 toolkit so you’ll see some of the new GTK4 features in action.

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Encryption software

age – simple file encryption tool by Google

November 12, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

age is a simple, modern and secure command-line file encryption tool written in Go. Let’s check out this open source utility written by Google

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Cloud computing

Linux in the Cloud: Hostworld VPS Review

November 3, 2021 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

For this review, we are looking at a VPS plan from hostworld.uk.

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Music Radar

Music Radar – music recognition application

November 2, 2021 Luke Baker Internet, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Music Radar is a simple music recognition application for Linux. Here’s our review.

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CudaText

CudaText – cross-platform text editor

October 29, 2021 Lee Walker Documents, GUI, Programming, Reviews

CudaText is a versatile, extensible free and open source editor with a design reminiscent of Sublime Text. Here’s our review.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: Czkawka – data cleaner

October 22, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

Czkawka is a free and open source multi functional program to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images, and more.

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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: Pingnoo – traceroute/ping analyser

October 15, 2021 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software, Utilities

We look at Pingnoo, an open-source cross-platform application for analysing and measuring the round trip time (latency) between two hosts.

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Text Editing

KeenWrite – Java-based desktop text editor

October 8, 2021 Steve Emms Reviews, Software

KeenWrite is a Java-based desktop text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and formulas.

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Drums

FLB Music – music player and downloader

October 4, 2021 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

FLB Music is billed as a ‘beautiful cross platform music player’. It’s written in TypeScript and uses Vue.js

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Video Editing

Video Trimmer – quickly trim videos

October 1, 2021 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps without any re-encoding. Free and open source software.

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Comic Books

Komikku – manga reader for GNOME

September 24, 2021 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Komikku is a GTK-based manga reader for GNOME. The application is is written in Python. Komikku is free and open source software.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Deskreen – live streaming desktop to a web browser

September 17, 2021 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software

Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer.

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