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goread is a terminal-based RSS/Atom feed reader

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Reviews, Software

goread is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the terminal. It’s written in Go.

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tori – terminal-based music player

May 29, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

tori is a promising music player in a very early stage of development. In terms of functionality, it’s a long way from musikcube.

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Mind Mapping

h-m-m – create mind maps in the terminal

April 5, 2023 Eilidih Parris CLI, Productivity, Reviews, Software

h-m-m is billed as a simple, fast, keyboard-centric tool for working with mind maps.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Terminal

October 17, 2022 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Terminal provides a command line interface to control the UNIX-based operating system that lurks below macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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ncspot – ncurses Spotify client

August 29, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

ncspot is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.

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Spotify

Spotify TUI – Spotify client for the terminal

August 26, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

For this review, we’re looking at Spotify TUI. It’s a Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.

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Chafa – terminal graphics image viewer

June 22, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

This review looks at a terminal-based image viewer that supports the Kitty Graphics Protocol. It’s named Chafa, shorthand for Character Art Facsimile.

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viu – Terminal Image Viewer with Kitty Graphics Protocol support

June 13, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

viu is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.

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Music player

termusic – terminal-based music player

April 29, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

termusic is a music player written in Rust. Here’s our review of this open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: terminal-parrot – party parrot time

February 24, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

terminal-parrot displays a parrot in your terminal. There’s even an Australian option for those living down under!

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Docker

Getting Started with Docker: Dry – interactive CLI for Docker containers

November 16, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Software

Dry is a terminal application to manage and monitor Docker containers. It’s free and open source software.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Files and Permissions – Part 10

July 21, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI

In this article we’ll take you through the basics of files and permissions. We’ll use the ls command. Part of the Linux for Starters series.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Get Started with the Terminal – Part 9

July 12, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI, Software

What’s a shell? What’s a terminal? The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform.

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Termux

Best Free Android Apps: Termux – terminal emulator and Linux environment

March 6, 2021 Eilidih Parris Android

Termux offers both a capable terminal emulator and a extremely useful Linux environment on your Android device.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: cornyjokes – corny jokes for the terminal

January 22, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Harmless fun with corny jokes in your terminal. Part of the Linux Candy series.

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butterfly

butterfly – web terminal based on websocket and tornado

December 28, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software

butterfly is an xterm compatible terminal that runs in your web browser. butterfly is free and open source software.

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Utility Software

GoTTy – turn CLI tools into web applications

November 16, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

GoTTY turns CLI tools into web applications. GoTTY uses xterm.js and hterm to run a JavaScript based terminal on web browsers.

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Utilities

colorls – turbocharged alternative to ls

October 26, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

colorls is a Ruby script that enhances ls with color and font-awesome icons. colorls is free and open source software.

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Terminal Image Viewer

Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal

September 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.

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Moving Forward with Linux

Now and Then: What happened to 3 promising open source Linux terminal emulators?

September 12, 2020 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

This is a new feature that looks at the progress made by open source software which appeared highly promising. Have they reached production quality, are they best-of-breed in their field, or only remembered like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail? We look at 3 terminal emulators.

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