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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: mdless – formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files

June 10, 2019 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Utilities

mdless is a utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in a console. The software is free and open source.

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StreamTuner2 – internet radio station and video browser

June 7, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Streamtuner2 is a GUI for browsing internet radio directories, music collections, and video services – grouped by genres or categories. It runs your preferred audio player or streamripper for recording.

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Excellent Utilities: Abricotine – open source Markdown editor

June 5, 2019 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Utilities

Abricotine is an open source, cross-platform Markdown editor built for the desktop with inline preview functionality.

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MapSCII

MapSCII – console based Braille and ASCII map renderer

June 3, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

MapSCII is a Node.js based Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals. It’s billed as the whole world in your console.

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Real Linux Desktop Experience with X410 and WSL?

May 29, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Office, Productivity, Reviews, Software

X410 is an X Window server for Windows 10. When you want to use X Window GUI apps on remote servers, simply run X410 and connect to your server via SSH with X11 forwarding. Here’s our review of X410 using ‘The Windows Subsystem for Linux’.

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Internet-Radio

PyRadio – curses based internet radio player

May 24, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

PyRadio is a command line internet radio player written in the Python programming language. Here’s my assessment of this open source software.

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Internet-Radio

Radiotray-NG – rustic internet radio player

May 8, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Radiotray-NG is a continuation of the discontinued Radio Tray. It seeks to embrace the same philosophy, fixing some of its flaws, and adding a few new features along the way.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Paperwork – personal document manager

April 26, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Paperwork is designed to simplify the management of your paperwork. The software lets you scan or import your documents, and quickly find what you want, wrapped together in a GTK interface.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: lnav – the log file navigator

April 22, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the second in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. For this article, we’ll put lnav under the spotlight.

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Tauon Music Box – Excellent desktop music player

April 19, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Tauon Music Box (Tauon) is an open source music player based around disposable playlists and the assumption that folders are albums. Luke puts it through its paces and loves it tons!

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