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Excellent Utilities: LanguageTool – style and grammar checker for 30+ languages

August 2, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

LanguageTool is a free and open source proofreading tool for English, German, Spanish, Russian, and more than 25 other languages.

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LyricPad

LyricPad – access lyrics over the web with this Qt based app

July 29, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

LyricPad is a free and open source lyrics viewer written in C++ and uses Qt, a free and open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.

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Excellent Utilities: McFly – navigate through your shell history

July 26, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

McFly is a tiny utility that replaces the functionality offered by Bash’s ctrl-r with an intelligent search engine.

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Excellent Utilities: Ulauncher – Sublime application launcher for Linux

July 22, 2019 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Ulauncher is a fast application launcher for Linux. It’s is written in Python, using GTK+. It’s free and open source software.

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GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds

July 18, 2019 Luke Baker Desktop, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

GLava is an OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer primarily used for desktop windows or backgrounds. It’s free and open source software.

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tizonia

Tizonia – powerful open source cloud music player for the Linux terminal

July 15, 2019 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Tizonia offers access to Spotify, YouTube, Google Play Music, SoundCloud and more all from the command line. Free and open source software. Here’s my review of the software.

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fre:ac – free audio converter and CD ripper

July 12, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between a variety of popular formats.

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Olivia

Olivia – Elegant, Powerful Cloud Music Player For Linux

July 10, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Olivia is an online/offline cloud-based music player like iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube Music. Olivia allows you to search any music online stream it, You can set the player to save your streams while playback. Olivia lets you create and manage your music library.

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Ninslash Team Deathmatch

Ninslash – a great fun open source 2D platform game needs YOU!

July 5, 2019 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software

Ninslash is a free multiplayer 2D survival shooter based on another game called Teeworlds, a highly revered retro multiplayer shooter. Read why you should download Ninslash today!

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Tusk – Evernote desktop software

July 1, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Office, Productivity, Reviews, Utilities

Tusk is billed as a feature-laden, open source, community-driven, free Evernote app used by people in more than 140 countries. Let’s put it this application through its paces, and why it warrants inclusion in our “Excellent Utilities” series.

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