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Music player

Revisited: RMuP – terminal-based music player

September 18, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Rusty Music Player (RMuP) is a TUI music player. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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Sticky Notes

NoteSH – terminal-based sticky notes app

September 2, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews

NoteSH is a note-taking app that simulates the traditional “sticky note” style stationery.

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File Managers

superfile – modern terminal file manager

July 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews

superfile is billed as a very fancy and modern terminal file manager that can complete the file operations you need.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: navi – interactive cheatsheet tool

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

navi lets you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: HyFetch – neofetch with LGBTQ+ pride flags

June 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

HyFetch is a fork of neofetch that displays distro ASCII art in LGBTQ+ pride colours. It’s written in Python.

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rdiff-backup – reverse differential backup tool

June 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

rdiff-backup is a command-line reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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Text Editing

Vale – software to help you write with a consistent tone and style

May 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

Vale is open source software which enforces editorial style guidelines in documents. This syntax-aware linter for prose is built with speed and extensibility in mind.

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radion – internet radio TUI client

May 2, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

radion is an internet radio TUI client, written in Bash. This is free and open source software. There’s also a Python version available.

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Sound System

PMS – interactive console client for the Music Player Daemon

April 15, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Practical Music Search (PMS) is an interactive Vim-like console client for the Music Player Daemon. It’s written in Go.

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Music

pimpd2 – Perl Interface for Music Player Daemon

April 12, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

pimpd2 is a command-line based Music Player Daemon client. This is free and open source software written in Perl.

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Best Free and Open Source Social Networking Software

Sherlock – find social media accounts by username

April 10, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Reviews

Sherlock is billed as a powerful command line tool to find usernames across many social networks.

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Durdraw

Durdraw – ASCII, Unicode and ANSI art editor

April 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

Durdraw is an ASCII, Unicode and ANSI art editor which seeks inspiration from classic ANSI software such as TheDraw, Aciddraw and Pablodraw.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ASCII Art Converter

April 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

ASCII Art Converter converts images into ASCII art. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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Linux Chess Apps

chess-tui – text-based chess game

March 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Games, Reviews

There are many open source chess clients for Linux. What’s unusual about chess-tui is that the program has no fancy graphics.

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Think outside the box

Machine Learning: Shell Genie – interact with the terminal in plain English

March 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

Shell Genie is a command-line tool that lets you interact with the terminal in plain English.

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Speech

eSpeak NG – text-to-speech software

February 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

eSpeak NG (Next Generation) is a continuation of the eSpeak with more feedback from native speakers. It supports more than 100 languages and accents.

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OCR Tools

Machine Learning in Linux: ocrs – modern OCR engine

February 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

ocrs is a Rust library and CLI tool for extracting text from images, also known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

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OCR Tools

Machine Learning in Linux: EasyOCR – OCR that reads natural scene text and dense text in documents

February 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images.

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Backup software

Emborg – Front-End to BorgBackup

February 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is a front-end to Borg, powerful and fast de-duplicating backup software.

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OCR Tools

Machine Learning in Linux: Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit adds text recognition

February 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

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