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How to install Midnight Commander on Ubuntu – Text based File Manager

Post last modified:November 26, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Midnight Commander is a free and open source command line based file manager with a text user interface for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is released under GNU General Public License v3. Using this your can manage your files in your terminal. You can do delete, copy, move your files and directory. Some other features are search files and run commands in subshell. You can view the file and edit that file with the build in midnight commander editor mcedit. you can also change to your favorite editor to edit the file. Other features are view the directory size, compare files and directories, unicode support and lot more. Using midnight commander you can recover deleted files from an ext2 or ext3 partitions.

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How to install cmus music player on Ubuntu

Post last modified:November 25, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

cmus is a free and open source command-line music player for Linux and MacOS. cmus (C* Music Player) is a light weight but powerful command line music player.It supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Opus, Musepack, MP4, WavPack, WAV, AAC, audio CD and more file formats. It also uses ffmpeg, libmodplug and BASS for input file support. Some of the important features are gapless and resume on startup playback, playlist filters, dynamic keybinding and replaygain support. You can stream MP3 and Ogg throught SHOUTcast and Icecast. It supports extensions. Using this you can extend its features. Some of the useful extensions are status display programs, UI themes, cmus-sync, cmus-mediakeys and cmus-youtube.

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How to install Kitty on Ubuntu – Kitty Terminal Emulator

Post last modified:November 23, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Kitty is a free open source GPU based terminal emulator for Linux and MacOS. It uses lower system resources and threaded rendering to run kitty faster. It comes with mouse , uni-code, true-color and focus tracking support. It also comes with extensions support. Using this you can enable some advanced features in your kitty terminal. You can tile multiple kitty terminal windows side by side. It also comes with graphics, scripts, startup sessions and shell prompt support.

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pwall Photo Viewer and Organizer – How to install pwall on Ubuntu

Post last modified:November 22, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

pwall is a free and open source photo viewer and photo organizer for Linux. It converts your photos in a square thumbnail and shows as a photo wall where you can manage your photos. you can view the images by folder wise and it comes with some basic features as open, copy or move photos to another directory, delete, share and change dates in your photos. It also offer a option to search and get GPS data of the image and show on google map. currently it supports only png and jpeg file types. It is still in early stage.

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Planet Blupi Strategy and Adventure Game – How to install Planet Blupi on ubuntu

Post last modified:November 21, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Planet Blupi is a free and open source strategy and adventure game for linux, Windows and macOS. It is released under GPLv3+ license. In this game you need to use your planet resources and save the planet from invaders. The invaders are the robot and its alien forces.It comes with 30 missions and you can also create your own mission. In this game you need to help Blupi to build houses, cut trees, transport, grow tomatoes, pick flowers, cure your friends from weird virus and more. It is an original creation of Epsitec SA and Daniel Roux.

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Qtractor Multitrack Audio Sequencer – How to install Qtractor on ubuntu

Post last modified:November 20, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Qtractor is a free and open source multi track non linear audio sequencer for Linux. You can use it for any audio and MIDI files for recording also. Supported audio files are OGG, MP3, WAV, FLAC, AIFF and more via libsndfile library.It uses Jack Audio Connection Kit for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for MIDI files. It is released under GNU General Public License (GPL) version licence. It is written in C++ and Qt. It comes with build in audio mixer and monitor controls and connection patchbay control. Some other features are Unlimited effect inserts per track or bus, tempo map and MIDI clip editor.

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RedNotebook Diary and Journal App – How to install RedNotebook on ubuntu

Post last modified:November 19, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

RedNotebook is a free and open source journal and diary application for Linux, Windows and macOS. It is released under GPLv3+ licence. In this modern desktop diary and journal app, you can add your notes with pictures, links, email address and templates. It comes with tagging function with hashtags, build in spell check, automatic save and search. RedNotebook Journal and Diary app stores your data in plain text format and you can export your data to plain text, HTML or Latex file formats.

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LFTP Command line File Transfer Program – How to install LFTP on Ubuntu

Post last modified:November 18, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

LFTP is a free open source command line file transfer software for Linux. It supports FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, HFTP, FISH, SFTP and BitTorrent protocols. It also supports Fast, DHT, PEX, Multi-tracker, Metadata, magnet bittorrent extensions, WebDAv, SRV DNS records, reget and reput support. Some other important features are transfer rate limiting and number of connections limit. It also comes with Job queuing and background jobs support, job execution at specified time, bookmarks and aliases support.

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How to install Winstars 3 on Ubuntu – Planetarium app

Post last modified:November 18, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Winstars 3 is a planetarium software for Linux, Windows, macOS and Android. It is completely free for Linux users and don’t need to pay for anything. But windows version is not completely free you need to pay for user’s licence to activate some program features. It comes with OpenNGC, EDD and Gaia DR2 catalogues support. Using this you can access more then 1.7 billion stars, 30,000 galaxies, nebulae and star clusters. In Winstars 3 you can control direction of observation by mouse. It comes with 3D interface and 3D outline of the planetary orbits. You can also control a large range of telescopes in this program.

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How to install nnn on Ubuntu – Terminal File Manager

Post last modified:March 12, 2020
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Post author:Manikandan

nnn is a free and open source command line terminal file manager for Linux, macOS and BSD. It is very small buy fast and powerful terminal based file browser. you can also use this terminal file manager app as batch file renamer and disk usage analyzer. It supports plugins. Using this you can extend its features. Some of the important features are sort files by file name, modification and access time, size and extension, filter, search and Unicode support. you can also do basic functions like create, rename, duplicate files and directories in nnn terminal file manager.

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