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Music

Musique – different take on the music player

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Musique is a small but sophisticated graphical music player. Musique unclutters your music listening experience with a clean and innovative interface.

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Lollypop – music playing software

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Lollypop is an open source music playing application implemented in Python/GTK+. It is designed for the GNOME desktop environment.

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Music

DeaDBeeF – ultimate music player

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is billed as the ultimate music player for Linux systems. It is a very basic and simple player with a small footprint.

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Slate – pixel art editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Slate was built for pixel art. It aims to simplify the creation of sprites and tilesets by offering a user-friendly, customisable interface.

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rx – modern and minimalist pixel editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

rx is a modern and minimalist pixel editor. This is free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.

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mtPaint – painting program to create pixel art and manipulate digital photos

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

mtPaint is a simple GTK+1/2/3 painting program designed for creating icons and pixel based artwork.

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PikoPixel – draw and edit pixel art images

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

PikoPixel is software for drawing and editing pixel art images. It runs under Linux using the GNUstep framework.

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Piskel – animated sprites and pixel art

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Piskel is an easy-to-use sprite editor. It can be used to create game sprites, animations, pixel-art, and more.

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csprite – tiny pixel art tool

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

csprite is a tiny pixel art tool written in C++ and C. It’s a fork of Sixel.

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Pixelorama – pixel art editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Pixelorama is a pixel art editor. It is created with the Godot Engine. This is free and open source software.

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zplug – plugin manager for zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

zplug is billed as a next-generation plugin manager for Zsh. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh.

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Podcast

neon-podcaster – listen to podcasts using RSS

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

neon-podcaster is a command line podcast client to listen to any podcast episode using RSS. This is free and open source software.

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zuluCrypt – simple, feature rich and powerful solution for hard drive encryption

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

zuluCrypt is a simple, feature rich and powerful solution for hard drives encryption. This is free and open source software.

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Encryption

cryptsetup – disk encryption

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Cryptsetup offers a command-line interface to set up cryptographic volumes. This is achieved using the Linux kernel device mapper target dm-crypt.

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Encryption

dm-crypt – kernel device-mapper crypto target

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Security

dm-crypt is a transparent disk encryption subsystem in the kernel that provides a generic way to create virtual layers of block devices.

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Diary

ThotKeeper – hierarchical personal journal manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

ThotKeeper is a free, open source, easy to use, cross-platform and hierarchical personal journal manager. ThotKeeper is written in Python.

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Diary

Almanah Diary – small diary application

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Almanah Diary is software that lets you keep a diary of your life. This is free and open source software written in C.

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Diary

jrnl – command line journal software

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

jrnl is a simple journal application for your command line. Journals are stored as human readable plain text files.

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Diary

Lifeograph – journal and note taking software

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Lifeograph is an off-line and private journal and note taking application. It offers all standard features expected from a diary application.

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Diary

RedNotebook – modern journal

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

RedNotebook is a graphical diary and journal to keep track of notes and thoughts throughout the day. It includes a calendar navigation.

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