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AB Download Manager – manage and organize downloading files

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

AB Download Manager is software which is designed to make it easier and quicker to download files from anywhere.

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NerdFetch – fetch script using Nerdfonts

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

NerdFetch is a simple shell script which fetches information about your system.

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Parabolic – tool to download web video and audio

December 24, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Parabolic is a Qt and GTK-based utility which is a frontend for yt-dlp, a feature-rich audio/video downloader.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Clock

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Apple Clock helps you manage your time. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Digital Clock 5 – modern digital clock application

December 18, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Digital Clock 5 is billed as a very customizable and beautiful clock. It lives up to its billing and more besides.

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Mission Center – monitor CPU, memory, disk, network and GPU usage

December 13, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Mission Center is a multi-featured system monitor. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.

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Revisited: kew – terminal-based music player

December 12, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

kew is a music player with gapless playback. It’s written in C and published under an open source license.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Simplexity – simple Perplexity AI desktop app

December 10, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Simplexity is a cross-platform app that lets you get answers courtesy of the Perplexity AI project.

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Rosary Music – internet radio player

December 9, 2024 Luke Baker Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

Rosary Music is a simple radio player that lets you listen to a variety of online radio stations.

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Zenith – turbo-charged top utility

December 5, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Zenith is software that’s similar to top but displays histograms, and a wealth of other information such as CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: yosay – like cowsay but less cow

December 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

yosay is a tiny utility that displays a picture of Yeoman with accompanying text.

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wttr.in – curl the weather

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific

wttr.in is a console-based weather forecast service that offers lots of options including various information representation methods.

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DreamQuest N100 Mini PC

DreamQuest N100 Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this instalment in the series, we examine the power consumption of the DreamQuest N100 Mini PC and compare it to four other machines.

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pwall – photo/video viewer and organizer

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

pwall is billed as a modern style photo/video viewer and organizer.

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Feeds – news reader for GNOME

November 28, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Feeds is a minimal RSS/Atom feed reader built with speed and simplicity in mind.

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DreamQuest N100 Mini PC

DreamQuest N100 Mini PC Running Linux: Benchmarks

November 26, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This article benchmarks the DreamQuest N100 Mini PC with Ubuntu 24.10.

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Mousam – weather at a glance

November 25, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Mousam is a GUI-based app that provides you with weather forecast information.

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OpenWeather Refined – GNOME shell extension which displays weather information

November 21, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

OpenWeather Refined is a GNOME shell extension which displays weather information for any location. It’s written in JavaScript.

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RSS Feeds

Alligator – feed reader for mobile devices

November 20, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, News, Reviews

Alligator is a convergent, cross-platform feed reader, supporting standard RSS/Atom feeds. It’s built using KDE Frameworks and Qt

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News

CAST-text – full-text rss terminal reader

November 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Reviews

CAST-text is billed as a zero latency, easy-to-use full-text rss terminal reader. This is free and open source software written in Go.

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