McFly is a tiny utility that replaces the functionality offered by Bash’s ctrl-r with an intelligent search engine.
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GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds
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 – powerful open source cloud music player for the Linux terminal
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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Excellent Utilities: Tusk – Evernote desktop software
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 – general purpose genome browser
JBR 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 – information-rich genome viewer
EagleView 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 moreGenomeBrowse – deliver stunning visualizations of your genomic data
The 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 – curses interface for browsing and playing internet radio
Curseradio is a curses interface for browsing and playing an OPML directory of internet radio streams.
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Excellent Utilities: mdless – formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files
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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Excellent Utilities: Abricotine – open source Markdown editor
Abricotine is an open source, cross-platform Markdown editor built for the desktop with inline preview functionality.
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MapSCII – console based Braille and ASCII map renderer
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 – curses based internet radio player
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 – Weather software written in Python
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 – Java tool to assess evolutionary algorithms for data mining
KEEL (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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Excellent Utilities: Paperwork – personal document manager
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 – create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files
Foxit 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 – Excellent desktop music player
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 – Qt based video and audio player
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 – curses based Music Player Daemon client
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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Essential System Tools: Unison – Excellent Console and Graphical File Synchronization Software
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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