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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Tag: Python
Introduction to Python for Data Science
This is a short introductory training session on the use of Python in data science using Jupyter, pandas library and plotnine package. We focus on a common task in data science: import a data set, manipulate its structure, and then visualise the data. We shall use Python and a Jupyter Notebook to accomplish this task.
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Tartube – Watch And Download Videos from YouTube and more
Tartube is a GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3. Tartube is free and open source software.
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Excellent Utilities: Watson – CLI tool to track time
Watson is a CLI-based open source utility that helps you track the time spent on projects. It’s free and open source goodness.
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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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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 – 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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You-Get – downloader that scrapes the web
You-Get is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web. It’s free and open source software, with a huge number of GitHub stars.
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conrad – conferences and meetups on your terminal
conrad is a free and open source command-line tool designed to help you track conferences and meetups. The tool is written in Python.
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Gemini – audio player with wallpaper changer
Gemini is a simple audio player that sports an integrated wallpaper changer.
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Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Python
Python is a high-level, general-purpose, structured, powerful, open source programming language that’s used for a wide variety of programming tasks. Here’s our recommended Python tutorials.
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kitty – hardware-accelerated terminal emulator
kitty offers GPU-acceleration and is targeted at power keyboard users. It’s billed as a modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator. Here’s a concise review of this terminal emulator.
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Excellent Utilities: Ananicy – auto nice daemon
Ananicy is a shell daemon created to manage processes’ IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications. Here’s our review of this free and open source program.
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Safe Eyes – protect your eyes from eye strain
Safe Eyes protect your eyes from eye strain using a simple and extensible break reminder. It’s designed to reduce and stop repetitive strain injury. It’s not just your eyes that need to take a break.
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Linux Candy: WallGen – image generator tool
Let’s start our candy adventure with WallGen. It’s a small command-line utility that generates HQ poly wallpapers with only a few text arguments for inputs. Depending on these arguments, you can create shape-based patterns, randomly filled surfaces, and even image-based patterns.
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