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Haruna Video Player for Linux

Post last modified:April 1, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Haruna is a free and open source video player for Linux. It is released under GPL-3.0-or-later license and built with Qt/QML and libmpv. Using you can play offline and online files on your system. It supports youtube dl for online playback. It comes with toggle playlist with mouse over, playlist overlays the video and automatically skip the video chapter containing certain words features. You can configure keyboard shortcuts and mouse buttons via the settings menu. Need to go to the next chapter, just middle click on progress bar.

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Pure Maps – Maps and Navigation Application for Linux

Post last modified:March 31, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Pure Maps is a free and open source maps and navigation application for Linux. It shows vector and raster maps and provide navigation instructions to the user. It also shows places and routes. You can select maps data from multiple sources. Currently it provides data from Mapbox, OpenStreetMap, HERE, HSL, OpenCycleMap, OpenSlopeMap, OpenTopoMap, Sputnik and Thunderforest Transport. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0. It is a fork of WhoGo Maps.

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Track time with Timecard Time Tracking Application

Post last modified:March 30, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Timecard is a free and open source time tracking application for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. Using this Timecard app you can track and find how much time you spend on your tasks. This is simple and easy to use app. You can access the app via application window or system tray. It comes with start and pause, stop timer options. It is released under BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License. You can save the log with activity notes and also sort and edit time log entries. It also comes with Quit protection to prevent accidentally closing the app.

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Midterm Note Taking & Flashcards application for Students

Post last modified:March 29, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Midterm is a free note taking application for Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android. This note taking application mainly focused on education and studying. The desktop version is free for everyone but the mobile version is not free. Using this you can write notes, create quizzes and smart flashcards. You can sync your notes, create nested folders and collaborate and study with your friends through the build-in role system. Some other useful features are dark mode support, comes with visual text editor and many mode. All notes are available for offline read.

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How to Edit /etc/apt/sources.list in Ubuntu

Post last modified:March 27, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

In Ubuntu the /etc/apt/source.list file is a configuration file for Advance Packaging Tool (APT). This file saves all URLs for remote repositories from where software packages and applications are installed.
When you install any software using the apt install or apt-get install then the apt tool looks inside the file /etc/apt/sources.list for the available remote repository links. And then it searches for the required software from that available remote repository and starts the download and installs it.

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Compress JPEG and PNG Images with Curtail Image Compressor

Post last modified:March 26, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Curtail is a free and open source image compressor software for Linux. Using Curtail you can compress JPEG and PNG files. It supports lossy and lossless compression. The application is simple and easy to use just drag and drop your image in the application and it automatically compress it. Using this you can remove file metadata, dark theme support and Progressive encode JPG support. You can also set the PNG lossy compression level, PNG lossless compression level and JPG lossy compression level in the settings.

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Session Open source Encrypted Secure Private Messenger Application

Post last modified:March 25, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Session is a free and opensource encrypted private messaging app for Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS. All session accounts are completely anonymous. It removes all sensitive metadata collection from your messages. You don’t need any phone number or email to signup and create new Session ID. According to session, it doesn’t collect any data, so there’s nothing to leak. All messages are Send through onion routing network.

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GNOME 40 Released

Post last modified:April 14, 2021
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

GNOME 40 is now officially available to download and use. According to Gnome team, this release gives you a focused distraction free and smoother computing. GNOME has a new versioning scheme in this release from previous 3.38 to this 40. The most notable features are completely redesigned horizontal workspace switcher and having the Dash launcher to the bottom of the screen from left.

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Manjaro 21.0 Ornara

Post last modified:March 24, 2021
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Manjaro team just released Manjaro 21.0 Code named Ornara. Manjaro is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the Arch Linux. In this Manjaro Ornara, the installer Calamares now supports best guess languages for each country and when GeoIP is enable and best guess for keyboard mappings. All there major editions Gnome, KDE and xfce got lot of important and improvements. Manjaro 21.0 Ornara comes with some new exciting features and with the new Linux Kernel 5.10 LTS.

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Kooha Screen Recorder Software for Linux

Post last modified:March 24, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Kooha is a free and open source simple screen recorder application for Linux. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0 and written in Python and GTK. It is a simple cute little screen recorder application. Using Kooha you can record your screen and audio from your desktop and your microphone. You can also capture the mouse pointer. You can record full screen or selected part of the screen from desktop. Some other important features are you can delay the starting of screen recorder by 5 or 10 seconds and save the output file in WebM and MKV file formats.

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