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Password Managers

Bitwarden – password management solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Bitwarden is a secure and free password manager. The software stores all of your logins in an encrypted vault that syncs across devices.

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Internet Radio

Banshee – music player

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia

Banshee is music management and playback software for GNOME. Import, manage, and play selections from your music collection.

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Internet Radio

Rhythmbox – music playing application for GNOME

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Multimedia

Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple’s iTunes.

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Video Conversion

HandBrake – video transcoder

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

HandBrake is a hugely popular multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter.

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Video Conversion

avconv – audio and video processing tools

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Libav is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec.

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Video Conversion

VLC – cross-platform multimedia player and framework

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

VLC media player is a portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

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Video Conversion

mpv – cross-platform media player

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpv is an open source media player. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

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Video Conversion

Mencoder – movie encoder software

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Mencoder is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies to other MPlayer-playable formats.

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File Managers

Midnight Commander – feature rich full-screen text mode file manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Midnight Commander is a user-friendly yet powerful text-mode file manager and visual shell.

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File Managers

CliFM – shell-like, command line terminal file manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

CliFM is a Command Line Interface File Manager: all input and interaction is performed via commands. This is its main feature and strength.

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File Managers

Vifm – file manager with curses interface, which provides Vi[m]-like environment

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Vifm is an ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings. This application is designed as a two-pane file explorer.

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File Managers

WCM Commander – mimicking the look-n-feel of Far Manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

The aim of WCM Commander is to create a multi-platform open source file manager mimicking the look-n-feel of Far Manager.

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Recording Studio

OBS Studio – video recording and live streaming

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is software for video recording and live streaming. OBS provides real-time source and device capture.

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Recording Studio

FFmpeg – record, convert and stream audio and video

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

FFmpeg is a hyper fast real time free audio/video encoder, a streaming server and a generic audio and video file converter.

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DNA

WashU Epigenome Browser – visualization, integration and analysis tools for epigenomic datasets

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

The WashU Epigenome Browser provides visualization, integration and analysis tools for epigenomic datasets.

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CDROM

grip – cd-player and cd-ripper for the Gnome desktop

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

grip is a cd-player and cd-ripper for GNOME. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia builtin, but can also use external rippers.

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CDROM

ripperX – rip CD audio tracks

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

ripperX is an open source graphical interface for ripping CD audio tracks and encoding them to Ogg, MP2, MP3, or FLAC formats.

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CDROM

Sound Juicer – audio CD extractor

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Sound Juicer is a lean CD ripper using GTK+ and GStreamer. It extracts audio from CDs and converts it into audio files.

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Bioinformatics

bedtools – powerful toolset for genome arithmetic

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

The bedtools utilities are a swiss-army knife of tools for a wide-range of genomics analysis tasks.

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Bioinformatics

EMBOSS – software analysis package for molecular biology

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

EMBOSS is The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite developed for the needs of the molecular biology (e.g. EMBnet) user community.

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