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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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Linux Candy: XDecorations – Holiday lights and more

October 9, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

XDecorations is a small utility that lets you add decorations to your desktop. It’s our latest addition to the fun Linux Candy series.

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Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool

September 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.

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dupeGuru

dupeGuru – find duplicate files

September 28, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

dupeGuru finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. Here’s our review of this open source program.

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Apostrophe – distraction free Markdown editor

September 23, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Apostrophe is a distraction free Markdown editor written in Python. Apostrophe is free and open source software.

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Terminal Image Viewer

Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal

September 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.

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Linux Candy: eDEX-UI – sci-fi computer terminal emulator and system monitor

September 7, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface.

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BpyTOP

BpyTOP – resource monitor tool

September 4, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

BpyTOP is a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It’s a Python port of bashtop. Here’s our review.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Variety – wallpaper changer software

August 28, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Variety is a wallpaper manager for Linux systems. It supports numerous desktops and wallpaper sources, including local files and online services: Flickr, Wallhaven, Unsplash, and more.

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Annie – video downloader built with Go

August 24, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Annie is an open source video downloader. It’s written in the Go programming language. Here’s our verdict on this tool.

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