Violin is billed as a fast, lightweight, and minimalistic desktop music player. It’s cross-platform software running on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Here’s Luke view of this music player.
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Tag: JavaScript
18 Excellent Free Books to Learn JavaScript
JavaScript is possibly one of the easiest language to get up and running with. But to truly master the language requires a firm foundation of its intricacies. This compilation of free books ticks all the boxes.
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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.
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Excellent Utilities: fkill – kill processes quick and easy
One thing a newcomer to Linux learns quickly is that they’re never limited to a single way of performing a task. And killing processes is no exception. In this article, we’ll look at an alternative to kill. It’s called fkill. It’s billed as offering a quicker and easier way to terminating processes.
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Best Free Books to Learn about CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript is a very succinct programming language that transcompiles into JavaScript, so there is no interpretation at runtime. The syntax is inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell, and implements many features from these three languages.
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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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Poddr – podcast client built with Electron and Angular
Poddr is an open source podcatcher made with Electron and AngularJS. It sports a very user-friendly interface that really is easy to navigate.
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24 Excellent GNOME Extensions (Updated)
Here’s our recommended GNOME shell extensions. Most of the extensions are not officially supported by GNOME. But they all take the desktop to the next level, either by adding useful functionality, improving your workflow, or simply offering a touch of panache to the desktop. All the extensions all compatible with the latest release of GNOME. Naturally there’s only open source goodness on offer.
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aux.app – desktop music player
aux.app plays music from YouTube, SoundCloud and Deezer. It’s built with web technologies including Electron. How does it fare?
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Kaku – web technologies-based music player
Kaku bills itself as the next generation music client. Let’s see what this means. Does this music player float our boat?
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Headset – YouTube / Reddit desktop music player
Headset is a music player for the desktop that connects with the huge catalogue of music available from YouTube. Users can search through this collection of music, play what they find and save tracks/playlists. Headset can also read popular music subreddits and play the tracks in sequence.
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Essential System Tools: gtop – System monitoring dashboard for the terminal
This is the second in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. gtop is an open source system monitoring utility written in JavaScript.
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Aria2 WebUI: Clean Web Frontend for aria2
Aria2 WebUI is an open source web frontend for aria2. The software bills itself as the finest interface to interact with aria2. That’s a lofty goal considering the competition from the likes of uGet Download Manager (which offers an aria2 plugin).
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Winds – RSS and Podcast software created using React / Redux / Node
Winds is billed as a beautiful, modern, open-source RSS Reader and Podcast app. It’s certainly garnishing attention among open source enthusiasts. It’s picked up over 5,000 stars on GitHub, so I’ve been putting this JavaScript software through its paces.
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CPod – simple and elegant free podcast player
CPod (formerly known as Cumulonimbus) is a cross-platform, open source podcast player for the desktop. The application is built with web technologies – it’s written in the JavaScript programming language and uses the Electron framework.
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football-cli – World Cup football on the command line
If you’re a big fan of the command-line, what better way to keep track of the latest World Cup scores and standings with a small command-line utility. Let’s take a look at one of the hottest trending football utilities available. It’s goes by the name football-cli.
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Kube Web Framework – CSS & JS framework
Kube is a minimal, responsive, advanced web framework for professional developers and designers. Spend less time on mundane, repetitive tasks.
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Brackets – text editor
Brackets is an editor for web designers and front-end developers. Brackets is built on web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
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Nitro Tasks – task management software
Nitro is software which makes tasks management extremely easy and slick.The application is fast, easy to use.
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