Musicly is billed as a simple and elegant music player. It’s cross-platform software written in JavaScript. Here’s Luke’s review.
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Category: Software
Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux – Part 5 – Multimedia
For this part in the series, we investigate the multimedia performance of the Lenovo T470 laptop including power management.
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Excellent Utilities: Cerebro – productivity tool
Cerebro is billed as a launcher to improve your productivity and efficiency. This is free and open source software.
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Excellent Utilities: KOReader – versatile document viewer
KOReader is a document viewer for a wide variety of file formats. It’s available for Linux, Android, and E Ink devices.
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Mimic 3 – neural Text to Speech (TTS) engine
Mimic 3 is a neural text to speech engine that can run locally, even on low-end hardware. It’s free and open source software.
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Excellent Utilities: Sticky – note-taking app
Sticky is a note-taking app for the Linux desktop that simulates the traditional “sticky note” style stationery on your desktop.
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Excellent Utilities: Kooha – simple screen recorder
Kooha is billed as a simple GTK-based app to “elegantly record your screen”. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.
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Excellent Utilities: AES Crypt – file encryption tool
AES Crypt is file encryption software that uses the industry standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to easily and securely encrypt files.
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Excellent Utilities: Imagine – image optimization
Imagine is software to compress PNG, JPEG and WebP images. This graphical utility sports a modern interface.
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Essential System Tools: kmon – manage Linux kernel modules
kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the Linux kernel modules and to monitor the kernel activities.
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Linux Candy: No More Secrets – data decryption effects
No More Secrets (nms) is a command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 thriller film Sneakers.
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Essential System Tools: GreenWithEnvy – NVIDIA graphics card utility
GreenWithEnvy (GWE) is a system tool for NVIDIA graphics cards. This free and open source tool is written in Python.
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Spotube – Flutter based lightweight Spotify client
Spotube is billed as a “fast, modern, lightweight and efficient Spotify music client”. Here’s our verdict.
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TIDAL Hi-Fi – Electron-based software for TIDAL
TIDAL Hi-Fi is a third-party music streaming program using Castlabs’ version of Electron for widevine support.
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Excellent Utilities: CopyQ – advanced clipboard manager
CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager. This software stores content of the system clipboard whenever it changes.
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spotify-player – command driven Spotify player
spotify-player is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.
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Streaming with Linux: Myuzi
This is the second article in a new series that surveys popular streaming services and software from a Linux perspective. Myuzi is billed as a Spotify-like client with no ads.
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ncspot – ncurses Spotify client
ncspot is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.
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Kasts – convergent podcast software
Kasts is billed as a “convergent podcast application”. It is written in C++ and QML and uses the Kirigami UI Framework. It’s free and open source software.
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spotify-qt – lightweight Spotify client
spotify-qt is billed as a lightweight Spotify client. As its name indicates it’s built using Qt. Here’s our review of this open source client.
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