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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Crow Translate – free desktop translation software
Crow Translate bills itself as a cross-platform, lightweight, translator supporting 117 different languages.
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odio – free to download radio streaming software
odio is a free (no-charge) radio streaming software with more than 20,000 radio stations from around the world.
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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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MellowPlayer – multi-platform cloud music integration
MellowPlayer integrates a whole raft of music streaming services. It’s Qt-based software.
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Essential System Tools: Krusader – KDE file manager
Krusader is an advanced, twin-panel (commander-style) file manager designed for KDE Plasma. Krusader also runs on other popular Linux desktop environments such as GNOME.
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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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Strawberry – audio player and music collection organizer
Strawberry is an audio player and music collection organizer. It was originally forked from Clementine. The main goal was to create a player for playing local music files that looked a bit more like Amarok with advanced soundcard options. The music player is designed for music collectors, audio enthusiasts and audiophiles.
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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.
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Essential System Tools: Clonezilla – partition and disk cloning software
Clonezilla is a free and open source ncurses partition and disk imaging/cloning program. The software offers system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery.
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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: GParted – resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss
GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking, and copying disk partitions and their file systems. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks, and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
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moneyGuru – free personal finance management software
moneyGuru is an open source personal finance management application. With this software, you can evaluate your financial situation and then make informed financial decisions. It has the double-entry accounting system.
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Essential System Tools: Timeshift – Reliable system restore tool for Linux
This is the twelfth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable 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. For this article, we’ll look at Timeshift.
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DataExplore – free Python based data plotting and analysis software
DataExplore is an open source desktop application for data analysis and plotting intended for use in both research and education. It’s targeted at non-programmers who want to perform fairly advanced table manipulation methods. It also offers fast, dynamic plot creation from selected data suitable for publication. A variety of table analysis tools are provided.
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