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Linux Candy: walrs – fast colorscheme generator

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

walrs is a command-line program that generates a color scheme from the dominant colors in an image.

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SunFounder Pironman 5 NVMe Mini PC Case Review

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The SunFounder Pironman 5 case transforms the Raspberry Pi 5 into a beautiful desktop mini PC with optional NMVe storage.

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Typhoon is an elegant weather program

May 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Scientific

Typhoon is billed as a beautiful weather application. It provides real-time weather updates and forecasts in a highly configurable and colorful widget.

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kew v3.2.0 improves internet radio support and more

May 9, 2025 Luke Baker Blog, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

kew has added a mini-player mode, a braille visualizer mode, a favorites list for radio stations, and shows bitrate information.

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XPipe is an awesome shell connection hub and remote file manager

May 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Productivity, Reviews

XPipe is open source desktop software which lets you create and manage connections to remote system from a central interface.

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jdSystemMonitor is a desktop-independent system monitor for Linux

May 5, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

jdSystemMonitor aims to provide as much information about your system as possible, focusing on process management.

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Linux Candy: ricksay – Rick and Morty quotes of the day

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ricksay builds on the work from ponysay. It provides funny quotes from Rick and Morty Adventures for your console.

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TagStudio is an impressive tag-based photo and file organization program

April 30, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Reviews

TagStudio is a photo and file organization application with an underlying tag-based system that focuses on freedom and flexibility.

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Backrest – web UI and orchestrator for restic backup

April 28, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software, Web Apps

Backrest is a web-accessible backup solution built on top of restic. Backrest provides a WebUI which wraps the restic CLI. Here’s our review.

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Linux Candy: Hidamari is fun video wallpaper for Linux

April 25, 2025 Steve Emms Other, Reviews

Hidamari is a Python-based app that offers video wallpaper for Linux and a bit more besides. It’s free and open source software.

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Podcast

poddl is a cross platform command line podcast downloader

April 21, 2025 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

poddl is a command line podcast downloader for batch downloading all, individual, or a range of podcast episodes from an RSS feed.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: doge – simple motd script

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other, Reviews

doge is a simple motd (message of the day) script based on the slightly stupid but very funny doge meme.

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tap v0.5.1 – audio player for the terminal

April 16, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts. There’s a new release out!

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Hard disk

Duplicati – store encrypted backups online

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Duplicati is a backup client that stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers.

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Internet Radio

PinePods is a Rust-based podcast management system

April 14, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

PinePods is a Rust-based podcast management system that supports multiple users and relies on a central database

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Web Browsers

Tangram is an interesting Linux web browser

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Tangram is a different type of browser. This software is designed to organise and run web applications.

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Linux Candy: Meme is a fun tool to create memes

April 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other, Reviews

Meme is a command line utility for creating image macro style memes. It’s free and open source software.

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Podcast

Cardo is a GUI podcast client written in TypeScript

April 8, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

Cardo is a Linux podcast client for desktop, seeking inspiration from Antennapod, a podcast aggregator for Android.

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fum is a TUI-based MPRIS music client

April 7, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

fum is a TUI-based MPRIS music client designed to provide a simple and efficient way to display and control your music.

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Time tracking

arttime is an intriguing clock, timer, time manager with text art

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews

arttime is a combination of art, clock, timer, and a time manager all from a single terminal-based application.

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