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DownZemAll!

DownZemAll! – Qt-based download manager

June 29, 2020 Luke Baker Internet, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

This article reviews DownZemAll! (DZA!), an open source standalone download manager.

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Fraidycat

Fraidycat – organize your content

June 22, 2020 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Utilities

Fraidycat acts as a central hub for internet content. It supports a wide variety of services including Twitter, YouTube, SoundCloud, web sites, and more.

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Minase

Minase – SIXEL-based terminal file manager

May 25, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Minase is a terminal file manager that uses libsixel, an encoder/decoder implementation for DEC SIXEL graphics. Minase is free and open source software.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: fontpreview – search and preview fonts

May 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Are you looking for a simple command-line tool that lets you search for fonts and preview them with no fuss and bother? fontpreview might just be the ticket.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: oneko – animal chasing fun

May 4, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

oneko is a silly bit of candy that creates a little cat which chases after your mouse cursor. It serves no useful purpose; but it’s amusing!

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs

April 27, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Office, Reviews, Utilities

OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: gti – typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive

April 20, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

gti catches accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git.

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beets

Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database

April 6, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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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System Administration

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

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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