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Sherlock is billed as a powerful command line tool to find usernames across a large number social networks. It requires Python 3.6 or higher.

In networking, tunnels are a method for discretely transmitting data across a network using protocols that are not supported by that network.

CoverGrid is a client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). It concentrates on albums, and focuses on offering a different experience.

For this article, we’re testing the gaming capabilities of this tiny PC using Ubuntu 23.10.

Like many types of software, the selection of a favorite music player is, to some extent, dependent on personal preferences. Nevertheless, we are confident that the applications featured in this article represent the most appealing music players.

xfmpc is a graphical GTK+ Music Player Daemon (MPD) client focusing on a low footprint.

fooyin is a customisable music player that strongly resembles foobar2000. Unlike foobar2000, fooyin is open source and available for Linux.

Durdraw is a command-line ASCII, Unicode and ANSI art editor which seeks inspiration from classic ANSI software such as TheDraw, Aciddraw and Pablodraw.

A photo collage is a collection of pictures that are put together to make a single picture. PhotoCollage is a small tool which lets you create your very own photo collage posters.

This article spotlights alternative tools to chmod, software that changes file mode bits.

Thorium Reader is a cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit. It’s written mostly in TypeScript and published under an open source license.

Webcams spice up online communication by offering real-time video chat and webcasting.

This is the fourth article in our series looking at a FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC running Linux. This machine has an Intel N100 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD. It’s an extremely inexpensive machine costing little more than a Raspberry Pi 5 yet it’s much more powerful. It sounds like an ideal low cost machine to run Linux on the desktop.

This article focuses on font renderers for Linux. Font rendering is the process by which operating systems take text and turn it into display text.

ASCII Art Converter converts images into ASCII art. It takes an image file as input, resizes it according to specified width and height parameters, and then converts the image into ASCII characters.

March 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

This article spotlights alternative tools to uptime, a utility which tells you how long the system has been running.

A screen recorder is software which lets you capture a digital recording of computer screen output, typically carrying audio narration.

Plattenalbum (formerly known as mpdevil) is a GTK front-end for MPD. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

For this instalment in the series, we’re going to examine the power consumption of the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC and compare it to three other machines.