Fraidycat acts as a central hub for internet content. It supports a wide variety of services including Twitter, YouTube, SoundCloud, web sites, and more.
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Category: Utilities
Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Desktop Searching – Week 34
For this week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog, Luke puts a desktop search tool under the microscope.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Personal Information Managers – Week 33
For this week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog, Luke examines selected personal information managers.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Dear Diary – Week 32
Keeping a diary of your daily life is an activity that is held dear by many people. In this week’s blog, Luke checks out RedNotebook, Lifeograph, jrnl, and Org on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Linux at Home: Brew Great Beer with Linux
Step forward Linux software that’ll help you brew great beer. Cast aside guesswork, laborious calculations, and expensive disasters.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Calculators – Week 31
There’s sophisticated software available for the Raspberry Pi 4 which offers the ability to process complex mathematical functions, plot 2D and 3D graphs, and much more.
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Minase – SIXEL-based terminal file manager
Minase is a terminal file manager that uses libsixel, an encoder/decoder implementation for DEC SIXEL graphics. Minase is free and open source software.
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Linux at Home: DIY security solutions for the home
Here’s our recommended open source solutions to create your own Linux-based surveillance system. ZoneMinder, Motion, and Kerberos.io are featured.
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5 Best Free Linux Simple Backup Software
For Linux we recommend that home users install software that hides the complexity of doing backups. To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 best Linux simple backup software. Hopefully, there will be something here of interest to anyone who wants to take the effort out of ensuring the safety of their data.
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Excellent Utilities: fontpreview – search and preview fonts
Are you looking for a simple command-line tool that lets you search for fonts and preview them with no fuss and bother? fontpreview might just be the ticket.
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Linux at Home: Cross-stitching with Linux
In this article, we recommend some great open source software for cross-stitching. Create great patterns from image files. Simple to use.
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Linux Candy: oneko – animal chasing fun
oneko is a silly bit of candy that creates a little cat which chases after your mouse cursor. It serves no useful purpose; but it’s amusing!
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Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.
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Linux Candy: gti – typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive
gti catches accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Taking Notes – Week 25
Turn the Raspberry Pi 4 into a low power writing machine. Capture thoughts, ideas, to-do lists, and lots more with these notes applications.
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Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database
Beets is a media library management system. Beets is free and open source software. It’s a tool for getting your music into shape. Here’s my verdict.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing Photos – Week 23
This week, I’m examining photo viewer software on the RPI4. There’s lots of open source photo viewers, so I focus on gThumb, feh, GPicView, and QuickViewer.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Podcasts – Week 22
Podcasts are big business. We see celebrities, influencers, journalists, academics, one man and his dog owning a microphone and mixing desk produce regular podcast shows. How does the RPI4 fare as a podcast player?
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – File Management – Week 21
This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on file managers, recommending the best console and GUI-based file managers for this tiny machine.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – OBS Studio – Week 20
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. This week, I test OBS Studio on the RPI4.
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