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How to install Giada on Ubuntu – Free DJ Software

Post last modified:November 29, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Giada is a free open source DJ software for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is released under open source GNU General Public License version 3+ licence. You can use this Giada as audio loop machine, sequencer, live sampler or drum machine. It is very useful tool for DJs and electronic musicians. It comes with 32 bit multithread support floating point audio engine, VST and MIDI support, built-in wave editor, the action recorder and editor, piano Roll editor,BPM and beat sync. You can use unlimited number keyboard controlled channels and several playback combinations in giada. It supports ALSA, CoreAudio, ASIO, JACK + Transport and DirectSound.

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How to install Neovim on Ubuntu – Vim based Text Editor

Post last modified:April 8, 2023
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Neovim is a free and open source vim based text editor for Linux, Windows, MacOS and BSD. It supports more Modern GUIs. using this you can integrate Neovim to all other latest text editors. Another important feature is you can…

How to install Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Game on Ubuntu

Post last modified:November 27, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a free and open source roguelike adventure game for Windows, macOS, Android and linux. In this game you need to find and rescue rescue the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot by defeating all various types of dangerous dungeon monsters in your path. You also need to do some exploration and treasure-hunting in this game. You can choose your character’s species, occupation and weapons. The game comes in console UI and Graphical UI versions. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a branch of original Dungeon Crawl Reference game.

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

Post last modified:November 26, 2019
Post category:Linux
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
Post category:Linux
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
Post category:Linux
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
Post category:Linux
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
Post category:Linux
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
Post category:Linux
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
Post category:Linux
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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