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 – Music Player with Waveform Progress Bar
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 – web-technologies based music player
Museeks is an Electron based cross-platform music player using React.js as its user interface framework, as well as Node.js and TypeScript.
Read moreTemps – simple but smart weather app
Temps is a clean and minimalistic weather menubar application for any desktop. Temps uses code from several open source projects including Electron, Menubar, Chart.js and OpenWeatherMap. The software is released under an open source license. You need a free API
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Pragha Music Player – GTK+3 lightweight music player
Pragha Music Player is a music player is written in the C programming language, uses the GTK+ widget toolkit, and stores database in a SQLite3 database.
Read moreClockywock – ncurses analog clock
Clockywock is billed as a cool ncurses analog clock. The software is written in the C++ programming language. The software is released under an open source license. Features include: Mono or color mode. Change characters used for hands. Change background
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Translate Shell – excellent command-line translator
Translate Shell is a command-line translator. It’s powered by Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, and Apertium.
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Qt File Managers Roundup: Excellent Ways to Manage your Filesystem
It makes sense to use Qt based software with KDE. Benefits include memory savings, and better integration with the KDE desktop. However, if you prefer other desktop environments, these Qt file managers still work admirably. We review 15 Qt file managers.
Read moreBitcoin Core – correctly identify valid blocks on the blockchain that contains valid Bitcoin transactions
Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core
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qoob – excellent foobar-like music player for Linux
Are you debilitated by the countless music players that use web technologies with a massive RAM footprint? Maybe you want a lean yet slick audio player with a good range of features?
Read moreSteem SSE – Steven Seagal Edition
Steem is a legendary Atari ST emulator, both accurate and easy to use thanks to its great user interface. Its development was stopped in 2004, at v3.2. Steem SSE is an updated version of Steem based on that source release.
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Shortwave – GTK3 internet radio software
Shortwave (previously known as Gradio) is open source goodness that lets you find and listen to 20,000 radio stations over the net.
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Genesis Plus GX – open-source Sega 8/16 bit emulator focused on accuracy and portability
Genesis Plus GX is a Sega multi-system emulator originally for the Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii.
Read moreKiwi IRC – web based IRC client
Kiwi IRC is a web based IRC client. It’s designed to be simple to use. The software is released under an open source license. Features include: Themes – there are several themes included within Kiwi IRC to cover a wide
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Essential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor
nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux. It’s a very versatile tool that can be shaped to your exact requirements. It fully warrants its place in our Essential System Tools feature.
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Best Linux Multi-Core Compression Tools
This article surveys compression software that makes full use of multi-core processors when compressing files. Many of the tools also offer decompression speedups too.
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Essential System Tools: fdupes – find or delete duplicate files
fdupes finds duplicate files in the given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. The utility offers a lot of options to list, delete and replace files.
Read moreUlauncher – great application launcher for Linux
Ulauncher is a fast application launcher for Linux. It has a minimal design, dependent on only a few resources, very fast, and works on virtually all Linux desktops. The software is written in Python, using GTK+. The software is released
Read moreTrinity Desktop Environment – desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems
The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) project is a computer desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems with a primary goal of retaining the function and form of traditional desktop computers. TDE was born as a fork of the K Desktop Environment
Read morePantheon Desktop Environment – showcasing the elementary OS
Pantheon is the desktop environment originally created for the elementary OS distribution. It’s written from scratch in Vala, using GTK3 and Granite. With regards to usability and appearance, the desktop has some similarities with GNOME Shell and macOS. Pantheon is
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