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Essential System Tools: VeraCrypt – Strong disk encryption software

March 27, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

VeraCrypt is a free open source cross-platform disk encryption software that builds on the discontinued TrueCrypt.

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Xplorer is a modern file explorer written in TypeScript

October 4, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Xplorer is a modern take on the navigational file manager. It’s free and open source software written in TypeScript and Rust.

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Kopia – backup/restore tool

May 20, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Kopia is a fast and secure backup/restore tool creating encrypted snapshots of your data and saving the snapshots to remote or cloud storage

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luckyBackup – backup & sync tool

June 17, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

luckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. It’s free and open source software.

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UrBackup – client/server backup system

March 26, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

UrBackup is an easy to setup open source client/server backup system offering a combination of image and file backups.

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Déjà Dup – simple backup software

March 20, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. The software hides the complexity of doing backups the ‘right way’ (encrypted, off-site, and regular).

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fooyin

fooyin v0.3.7 – customisable music player

February 8, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Here’s our updated review of fooyin. We’re looking at v0.3.7.

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Music

Amethyst is an Electron-based music player

August 10, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Amethyst is billed as a powerful node-based audio player.

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Excellent Utilities: AES Crypt – file encryption tool

November 9, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Security, Software

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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Music

Kronos Is A Terminal Music Player Written in Rust

August 2, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Kronos is a terminal-based music player that’s designed for playing locally stored audio files. It’s written in Rust.

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