Beets is a media library management system. Beets is free and open source software. It’s a tool for getting your music into shape. Here’s my verdict.
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Category: Utilities
Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing Photos – Week 23
This week, I’m examining photo viewer software on the RPI4. There’s lots of open source photo viewers, so I focus on gThumb, feh, GPicView, and QuickViewer.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Podcasts – Week 22
Podcasts are big business. We see celebrities, influencers, journalists, academics, one man and his dog owning a microphone and mixing desk produce regular podcast shows. How does the RPI4 fare as a podcast player?
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – File Management – Week 21
This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on file managers, recommending the best console and GUI-based file managers for this tiny machine.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – OBS Studio – Week 20
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. This week, I test OBS Studio on the RPI4.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – News – Week 19
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
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
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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dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space
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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Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls
exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.
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gorss – simple RSS/Atom reader written in Golang
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: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – e-book Tools – Week 7
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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Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern
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: lolcat – rainbows and unicorns
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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Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet
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: cacafire – Color ASCII Fire
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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Excellent Utilities: Ananicy – auto nice daemon
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: ponysay – cowsay reimplemention for ponies
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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Excellent Utilities: Liquid Prompt – adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
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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Safe Eyes – protect your eyes from eye strain
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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