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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – News – Week 19

March 4, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other information from the web so that they can be read in a single location for easy viewing.

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Excellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager

February 24, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Reviews, Utilities

nnn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.

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Linux Candy: xcowsay – displays a cow on your desktop with message

February 17, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Utilities

xcowsay is a tiny utility that displays a cow with a speech bubble containing some text. It’s free and open source goodness.

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M.2 Solid State Drives

dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space

February 10, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls

December 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.

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gorss

gorss – simple RSS/Atom reader written in Golang

December 9, 2019 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Utilities

gorss is a simple free and open source RSS/Atom reader. It’s written in the Golang language. The program offers support for highlighting specific words.

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Raspberry Pi 4 e-book tools

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – e-book Tools – Week 7

December 4, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on excellent free and open source e-book software that runs on this single-board computer.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern

November 25, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: lolcat – rainbows and unicorns

November 4, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

lolcat applies rainbow colors to text output in the terminal. It works in a similar way to the venerable cat command but jazzes things up.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet

October 21, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

cheat.sh offers unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world via curl/browser interface. There’s also an installable utility for more flexibility.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: cacafire – Color ASCII Fire

October 7, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

The nights are drawing in. You want to feel warm and toasty. And nothing beats a log fire. cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Ananicy – auto nice daemon

October 4, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Ananicy is a shell daemon created to manage processes’ IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications. Here’s our review of this free and open source program.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ponysay – cowsay reimplemention for ponies

September 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ponysay is a rewrite of cowsay with lots of full-color characters from My Little Pony. There’s over 400 characters and character combinations.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Liquid Prompt – adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh

September 23, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Liquid Prompt gives you a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when you need it. It shows you what you need when you need it.

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eye care

Safe Eyes – protect your eyes from eye strain

September 20, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Safe Eyes protect your eyes from eye strain using a simple and extensible break reminder. It’s designed to reduce and stop repetitive strain injury. It’s not just your eyes that need to take a break.

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Terminal Emulators

Hyper – terminal emulator built with web technologies

September 6, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Hyper is one of the newer terminal emulators available. It’s built with web technologies – JavaScript, HTML, CSS. The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ASCIIQuarium – embrace marine life from the terminal

August 26, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It’s an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: WallGen – image generator tool

August 19, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Let’s start our candy adventure with WallGen. It’s a small command-line utility that generates HQ poly wallpapers with only a few text arguments for inputs. Depending on these arguments, you can create shape-based patterns, randomly filled surfaces, and even image-based patterns.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: peco – interactive filtering tool

August 9, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

peco is a CLI utility that filters text interactively. The tool is written in the Go programming language. It’s free and open source software.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: LanguageTool – style and grammar checker for 30+ languages

August 2, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

LanguageTool is a free and open source proofreading tool for English, German, Spanish, Russian, and more than 25 other languages.

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