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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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cointop

Digital Assets – cryptocurrencies prices and statistics

August 31, 2020 Steve Emms Financial, Reviews, Software

Digital Assets is a GUI that lets you monitor movements in the prices of cryptocurrencies. The program is written in Python.

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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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Download manager

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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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: pipes.sh – animated pipes terminal screensaver

August 21, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

pipes.sh is a bash script which draws randomly pathed pipes over the terminal. pipes.sh is free and open source software. Harmless fun, and a screensaver.

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Vooki

Vooki – lightweight image viewer offering fast image preview

August 17, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

One of our favorite adages is “A picture is worth a thousand words”. It refers to the notion that a still image can convey a complex idea. Images can portray a lot of information quickly and more efficiently than text.

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cointop

cointop – monitor cryptocurrencies in the terminal

August 14, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Financial, Reviews, Software, Utilities

cointop is a fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking and monitoring cryptocurrency coin stats in real-time.

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Byte

Byte – music player designed for elementary OS

August 10, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Byte is a GTK-based music player. It was created with the desire to make a good music player for elementary OS. It focuses on two aspects: features and design.

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Termgraph

Termgraph – draw basic graphs in the terminal

August 7, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software, Utilities

Termgraph is a command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal. Termgraph is free and open source software and written in Python.

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Stretchly

Stretchly – reminder to take breaks

August 3, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Stretchly is a cross-platform Electron program that reminds you to take breaks when working on your computer. Stretchly is free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Buoh – online strips comics reader

July 31, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Buoh is a reader for online strips comics. It’s free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Boxes – command line ASCII boxes

July 24, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Boxes is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. It can spice up news posting, emails, documenting files, and much more.

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ExifCleaner

ExifCleaner – image metadata tool

July 20, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

ExifCleaner lets you remove privacy-invading information from your photos. It’s a cross-platform tool that runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

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tint2

tint2 – simple and light open source taskbar

July 17, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar made for window managers. It was specifically made for Openbox, a popular stacking window manager.

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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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Regolith Desktop Environment

Regolith – modern desktop environment built on Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3

June 8, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software

Looking for a new desktop environment that places emphasis on the keyboard input device over the mouse? Check out Regolith in this review.

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Tartube

Tartube – Watch And Download Videos from YouTube and more

June 1, 2020 Luke Baker Internet, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Tartube is a GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3. Tartube is free and open source software.

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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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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Watson – CLI tool to track time

May 11, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews, Software

Watson is a CLI-based open source utility that helps you track the time spent on projects. It’s free and open source goodness.

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