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TreeSheets – free form data organizer

December 14, 2020 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Software

TreeSheets is an open source tool that organizes data. Suitable for any kind of data organization, such as todo lists, calendars, project management, and more.

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Gromit-MPX – desktop annotation tool

December 11, 2020 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Gromit-MPX (GRaphics Over Miscellaneous Things) is a utility to make annotations on the desktop.

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Now and Then - What happened to DFIleManager

Now and Then: What happened to DFileManager?

December 9, 2020 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Now and Then looks at what happened to a really interesting file manager, DFileManager.

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ampd

ampd – web-based MPD client

December 7, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

ampd is a web-based client for MPD. It is built with Angular and Spring Boot. Here’s our review.

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Pogo

Pogo – minimalist music player

December 4, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Pogo is billed as a fast and minimalist audio player for Linux. Here’s our review.

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Now and Then - Linux Distributions Part 2

Now and Then: The Fate of 15 More Linux Distributions

December 2, 2020 Steve Emms Software

The fate of 15 distributions that were fairly popuar in 2006. Did they rise to the top or are they long forgotten relics?

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – November 2020 Updates

December 1, 2020 Steve Emms Software

November 2020 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Minder

Minder – mind-mapping tool

November 30, 2020 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Software

Minder lets you use the power of mind-mapping to make your ideas come to life. Minder is free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: XScreenSaver – Framework and collection of screensavers

November 27, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software

XScreenSaver is a screen saver collection and a framework for blanking and locking the screen.

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myMPD

myMPD – standalone and lightweight web-based MPD client

November 25, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

myMPD is a standalone and lightweight web-based MPD client. Luke puts myMPD through its paces.

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Ymuse

Ymuse – GTK front-end (client) for Music Player Daemon

November 20, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Ymuse is a simple and quick client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) using the GTK toolkit.

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Utility Software

GoTTy – turn CLI tools into web applications

November 16, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

GoTTY turns CLI tools into web applications. GoTTY uses xterm.js and hterm to run a JavaScript based terminal on web browsers.

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markets

markets – track stock, currency, and cryptocurrency

November 13, 2020 Steve Emms Financial, Reviews, Software

markets is a simple tool that lets you track stocks, currencies and cryptocurrencies.

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Regards

Regards – modern photo viewer

November 11, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Reviews, Software

Regards is billed as a modern photo viewer. It supports a very large range of formats including video.

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PosteRazor

PosteRazor – create your own posters

November 9, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

PosteRazor cuts raster images into multipage PDF documents.

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Data Mining solutions

Three Beginner-Friendly Data Mining Solutions

November 6, 2020 John O'Donnell Blog, Software

Data mining is no longer a mythical thing that only a handful of data scientists understand. Everyone leverages data to do their work.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Pywal – color schemes on the fly

November 6, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Pywal is Python software that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image.

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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: Ventoy – create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

November 2, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – October 2020 Updates

November 1, 2020 Steve Emms Software

October 2020 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software.

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asciiworld

asciiworld – world map depicted in ASCII

October 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

asciiworld offers world maps depicted in ASCII. asciiworld is free and open source.

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