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.
Read moreJBR Genome Browser is a general purpose genome browser with integrated semi-supervised peak calling support using SPAN. The browser is optimized to work with large session containing BigWig and BigBed tracks. A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is bundled with the
Read moreEagleView is an information-rich viewer for next-generation genome assembles with data integration capability. EagleView can display a dozen different types of information including base qualities, machine specific trace signals, and genome feature annotations. It provides an easy way for inspecting
Read moreThe GenomeBrowse visualization tool delivers stunning visualizations of your genomic data that give you the power to see what is occurring at each base pair in your samples. A high performance backend is paired with an intuitive user interface to
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Curseradio is a curses interface for browsing and playing an OPML directory of internet radio streams.
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mdless is a utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in a console. The software is free and open source.
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Abricotine is an open source, cross-platform Markdown editor built for the desktop with inline preview functionality.
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MapSCII is a Node.js based Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals. It’s billed as the whole world in your console.
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PyRadio is a command line internet radio player written in the Python programming language. Here’s my assessment of this open source software.
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Halo lets you view the weather in your town/city and check out the forecast and historic temperature trends. Halo identifies your location based on your IP address. But you can also add other locations.
Read moreKEEL (Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning) is an open source Java software tool that can be used for a large number of different knowledge data discovery tasks. KEEL provides a simple GUI based on data flow to design experiments
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Paperwork is designed to simplify the management of your paperwork. The software lets you scan or import your documents, and quickly find what you want, wrapped together in a GTK interface.
Read moreFoxit Reader is a small, fast, and feature-rich PDF viewer that allows you to open, view, and print any PDF file. Unlike other free readers, it enables you to create PDFs, participate in a shared review, and more. Note: This
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Tauon Music Box (Tauon) is an open source music player based around disposable playlists and the assumption that folders are albums. Luke puts it through its paces and loves it tons!
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QMPlay2 can play most video formats and audio formats. It plays all codecs supported by FFmpeg, and supports YouTube videos too. With internet radio, Audio CD, and a lot more besides, there’s lots of functionality on offer. Here’s our review of the software.
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ncmpy is a curses based Music Player Daemon client written in the Python programming language. Luke puts the software through its paces with a detailed review.
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Unison is a file-synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
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In the past few months, I’ve covered a whole raft of music players. This time I’m going to walk through Cantata. Cantata is billed as a feature-rich and user friendly client for Music Player Daemon (MPD).
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Nulloy is a cross-platform Qt 4 based music player released under an open source license. A music player you may not have heard of, but one worth checking out!
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Museeks is an Electron based cross-platform music player using React.js as its user interface framework, as well as Node.js and TypeScript.
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