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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Buoh – online strips comics reader

July 31, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Buoh is a reader for online strips comics. It’s free and open source software.

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Excellent System Utilities: Glances – CLI curses-based monitoring tool

July 27, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

Glances is a system administration tool that replaces a whole host of command-line utilities. Here’s our review of Glances.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Boxes – command line ASCII boxes

July 24, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Boxes is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. It can spice up news posting, emails, documenting files, and much more.

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ExifCleaner

ExifCleaner – image metadata tool

July 20, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

ExifCleaner lets you remove privacy-invading information from your photos. It’s a cross-platform tool that runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

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tint2

tint2 – simple and light open source taskbar

July 17, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar made for window managers. It was specifically made for Openbox, a popular stacking window manager.

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Linux at Home - Family History

Linux at Home: Research Your Family Tree

July 3, 2020 John O'Donnell Software, Utilities

The Linux at Home feature continues with a great pastime – researching your family tree.

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Raspberry Pi 4 - Collection Managers

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Manage your Personal Collections – Week 36

July 1, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

For this week’s blog, Luke looks at a few best-of-breed collection management programs. Free and open source goodness as usual.

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DownZemAll!

DownZemAll! – Qt-based download manager

June 29, 2020 Luke Baker Internet, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

This article reviews DownZemAll! (DZA!), an open source standalone download manager.

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Raspberry Pi 4 - Terminal Emulators

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Terminal Emulators – Week 35

June 24, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

For this week’s blog, Luke examines terminal emulators on the Raspberry Pi 4.

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Fraidycat

Fraidycat – organize your content

June 22, 2020 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Utilities

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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Search

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Desktop Searching – Week 34

June 17, 2020 Luke Baker Desktop, Software, Utilities

For this week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog, Luke puts a desktop search tool under the microscope.

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Raspberry Pi 4 - Personal Information Managers

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Personal Information Managers – Week 33

June 10, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Software, Utilities

For this week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog, Luke examines selected personal information managers.

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Diary software

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Dear Diary – Week 32

June 3, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, CLI, Desktop, Software, Utilities

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 - Brewing beer

Linux at Home: Brew Great Beer with Linux

May 29, 2020 John O'Donnell Software, Utilities

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 - Calculators

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Calculators – Week 31

May 27, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

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

Minase – SIXEL-based terminal file manager

May 25, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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 - CCTV

Linux at Home: DIY security solutions for the home

May 22, 2020 John O'Donnell Software, Utilities

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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Backup

5 Best Free Linux Simple Backup Software

May 21, 2020 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

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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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: fontpreview – search and preview fonts

May 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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-stitch

Linux at Home: Cross-stitching with Linux

May 8, 2020 John O'Donnell Software, Utilities

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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