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Qwertone Turns your PC into Musical Instrument

Post last modified:March 11, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Qwertone is a free and open source musical application for Linux. You can use this Qwertone application as piano application and play music using your keyboard. It is music synthesizer application with QWERTY keyboard for input support. It is released under The GNU General Public License v3.0. It is a simple and easy to use music synthesizer software. Currently it is available as a flatpak package. Using this you can install it on all Linux distros.

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Save your Personal Data with Pika Backup

Post last modified:March 11, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Pika Backup is a free and open source modern backup application for Linux. Using this app you can easily backup your data in your local disk, USB drive or remote server. It is based on Borg Backup application. It does not copy known data again to save your time and space. It comes with Encrypted backups and lists created archives. You can also recover files or folders via your file browser easily.

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Generate Project Avatars with Emblem

Post last modified:March 10, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Emblem is a free and open source project avatar generator for Linux. Using Emblem application you can create beautiful avatars for your Matrix rooms and git forges. It is released under GPL-3.0-or-later license. Just choose your symbolic icon and set color or gradient and you can also toggle between white and black. You can export the square and circle logo image in png and svg file format.

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Audok Music Player and Converter

Post last modified:March 10, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Audok is a free and open source music player for Linux. It comes with streamripper and build-in converter support. It is written in python and released under GPL-3.0 license. Using audok you can play mp3, wav and flac files and record wav files. It also comes with youtube-dl support and you can also download mp3 files. Using the build-in converter you covert wav, ts, flac, mp4 files to mp3.

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Write Interactive Fiction with Inform Application

Post last modified:March 9, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Inform is a free and open source interactive fiction editor for Linux, MacOS, Android and Windows. Using Inform, you can create very powerful works of interactive fiction. It comes with a build-in own programming language based on English language text. You can use this tool in your literary writing, games industry as a prototyping tool and also in your education. It comes with spell checker and extension support and more.

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Smile Emoji Picker Application

Post last modified:March 4, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Smile is a free and open source emoji picker software for Linux. It is written in Python and released under GNU General Public License v3.0. Smile comes with custom tags support. Just select any emoji using the arrow keys in your keyboard and press Alt + T to insert any custom tag. It also comes with keyboard shortcuts and build-in search bar. It is simple and easy to use application.

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KTuberling Fun Constructor Game

Post last modified:March 4, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

KTuberling is a free and open source simple constructor game for Linux and Android. It comes with 10 playgrounds with different game themes. These are Potato guy, Potato guy 2, Ancient Egypt, Butterflies, christmas, Pizzeria, Robin tux, Robot workshop, moon and Train valley. All game are more suitable for kids. The idea of the game is based around a once popular doll making concept. It is released under GNU General Public License v2.0 or later.

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Workbench Learn and Prototype with GNOME

Post last modified:March 3, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Workbench is a free and open source GNOME sandbox for Linux. Using Workbench, you can experiment with GNOME technologies in building and testing a custom GTK widget. it comes with real time GTK, CSS preview, javascript, syntax highlighting, undo/redo option, auto save, code fomatter and build-in terminal support. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0.

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Xubuntu 22.04 Wallpaper Contest

Post last modified:March 2, 2022
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Wallpaper Contest for Xubuntu 22.04 LTS is open for submissions. Xubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish desktop is due for release in this April. Wallpaper submission deadline is March 12th, 2022 and winner announcement in late March. The winners will get Xubuntu stickers and winning wallpaper inclusion on the Xubuntu 22.04.

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TextSnatcher Copy Any Text from Image on Linux

Post last modified:March 2, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

TextSnatcher is a free and open source OCR application for Linux. Using TextSnatcher you can copy any text from image, pdf, website, videos and save in your clipboard. Actually it takes the screenshot of the website, video and pdf and converts to text. It is based on popular Tesseract OCR Engine. Currently it supports English, Thai, Tamil, Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, French, Chinese(Simplified), Spanish languages. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0.

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