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cronopete – graphical backup utility based on Apple Time Machine

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Cronopete is a backup utility for Linux, modeled after Apple’s Time Machine. It aims to simplify the creation of periodic backups.

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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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ebook reader

Librum – modern e-book reader and library manager

April 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Reviews

Librum is billed as software designed to make reading enjoyable and straightforward for everyone.

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DXRacer MASTER XL Black Microfiber Leather

DXRacer MASTER XL Black Microfiber Leather Chair Review

April 9, 2024 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The DXRacer Master XL is an ergonomic gaming/office chair which aims to provide exceptional comfort and support.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Gaming

April 8, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this part in the series, we investigate the gaming performance of the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC under Ubuntu.

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Sound System

CoverGrid – client for the Music Player Daemon

April 8, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

CoverGrid is a client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). It concentrates on albums, and focuses on offering a different experience.

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Digital Audio Workstations

Zrythm – automated and intuitive digital audio workstation

April 7, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

Zrythm is a digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use.

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Compression

PXZ – parallel LZMA compressor using liblzma

April 7, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Parallel XZ (PXZ) is a compression utility that takes advantage of running LZMA compression of different parts of an input file.

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fooyin

fooyin’s new features in v0.4.0 make it the most promising music player

April 6, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

fooyin is a customisable music player that strongly resembles foobar2000. The latest version adds a directory browser widget and more.

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Time tracking

arbtt – automatic rule-base time tracker

April 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

arbtt, the Automatic Rule-Based Time Tracker is time tracking software.

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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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Digital Audio Workstations

Seq66 – MIDI sequencer and live-looper

April 6, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

Seq66 is a MIDI sequencer and live-looper with a hardware-sampler-like grid-pattern interface.

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Manage creative assets

PhotoCollage – make your own photo collage posters

April 5, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

PhotoCollage allows you to create photo collage posters. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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ebook reader

Thorium Reader – EPUB reading application

April 4, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Reviews

Thorium Reader is a cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Multimedia

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Multimedia, Reviews

For this part in the series, we investigate the multimedia performance of the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC under Ubuntu.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: chmod

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to chmod, software that changes file mode bits.

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Sound System

xfmpc – graphical GTK+ MPD client

April 2, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

xfmpc is a graphical GTK+ Music Player Daemon (MPD) client focusing on a low footprint.

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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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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uptime

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to uptime, a utility which tells you how long the system has been running.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: March 2024 Updates

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms Software

March 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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