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How to install Timeline on Ubuntu – Show Events in Timeline

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

Timeline is a free and open source timeline application for Linux and Windows. Using this you can display the event and navigate events on a timeline. It is released under GNU General Public License version 3 license. you can scroll and zoom your events with mouse wheel. Some other features are navigate to a specific date in your timeline. you can also search and organize your events. You can set the events in hierarchical categories order and export your timeline to image. It also comes with duplicate, move and resize events features.

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How to install pngquant on Ubuntu – Command-line PNG compressor

Post last modified:August 25, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

pngquant is a free and open source command-line based lossy PNG compressor for Linux, MacOS and windows. It converts png images to a 8-bit PNG format with alpha channel file to reduce the size. It comes with quality palette generation, gamma correction and premultiplied alpha support. During the conversion process it reduces the noise. You can configure the image quality level and it is based on libimagequant. It is released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. It also supports batch conversion of PNG image files.

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How to install Glances on Ubuntu – System Monitoring Tool

Post last modified:March 10, 2020
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Post author:Manikandan

Glances is a free and open source system monitoring tool for Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows. It is released under GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 license and written in Python. It shows CPU usage, Memory details, system Load, complete Process list, all network interface, IRQ, Raid and Disk I/O information, available sensors, your system filesystem details, system Uptime details and lot more. It also comes with build in XML-RPC server and a RESTful JSON API. Some other features are export system details to CSV, InfluxDB, Cassandra, OpenTSDB, StatsD, ElasticSearch and RabbitMQ.

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How to install LambdaRogue game on Ubuntu

Post last modified:March 6, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

LambdaRogue is a free open source roguelike role playing game for Linux and Windows. This game come with story mode and coffeebreak mode. Story mode comes with chapters and quests and you need to find the book of stars and free and mankind. In coffeebreak mode without any story just go to dungeon and Defeat the evil Eris. Some of the main features are it comes with 4 professions and 5 religions, buy items in shop, hidden crystals and ASCII Mode gameplay. It is released under GPL v2 license. Some other roguelike games are Tales of Maj’Eyal, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

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How to install qFSView on Ubuntu – Storage Visualization app

Post last modified:August 25, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

qFSView is a free and open source storage visualization app for Linux. Using this you can view your system storage utilisation as a treemap charts and helps you to view which files are taking the most space in your system. It is released under GNU General Public License v2.0 license and a fork of KDE Konqueror plugin FSView. You dont need to install KDE dependencies to use this app. You can navigate each folder by clicking on a rectangle and right click to open the qFSView menu. Some of its features are colour modes, visualisation modifications and annotations for names, types, sizes.

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How to install imgViewON on Ubuntu – Distraction Free Image Viewer

Post last modified:March 4, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

ImgViewON is a free and open source image viewer for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Using this image viewer you can view your images without any border, editing options and completely distraction free. It is released under MIT license. It comes with invisible resize bars at bottom, right, bottom-right of the displayed image. Using this you can change image window size. It supports .bmp,.gif,.jfi,.jfif,.jif,.jpe,.jpeg,.jpg,.png,.svg,.svgz,.tiff and .webp file formats.

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How to install SolveSpace on Ubuntu – Parametric 2d and 3d CAD Software

Post last modified:March 2, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

SolveSpace is a free open source 2D and 3D CAD software for Windows, MacOS and Linux. it is released under GPLv3 license. Using this your do some basic CAD operations like modeling of 3d and 2d parts, 3d printed parts from STL.
You can export 2d vector art for a waterjet machine or laser cutter easily in SolveSpace. You can also generate STEP and STL and export in DXF, PDF, SVG, HPGL and EPS file format. It also comes with constraint solver and live dimensioned drawing support. For the complete list of features please check their website.

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How to install Insomnia on Ubuntu – API Testing REST client

Post last modified:February 28, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Insomnia is a free and open source REST and GraphQL client for Windows, macOS and Linux. Using this you can create HTTP requests and get details about the response like status code, body, headers, cookies. It comes with workspaces and drag-and-drop requests support. Some of the important features are you can create reusable API keys or session IDs, global environment variables, code snippet generation, OAuth 1.0, 2.0 auth, NTLM and AWS authentication support, keyboard shortcuts, SSL client certificates, JSONPath and XPath, HTML preview and configurable proxy support. It comes in three plans Free, plus and Teams. The free plan is enough for most users. Paid plans come with extra features like E2EE team sync, Workspace collaboration, User management and Priority support.

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How to install Titania X3D Editor on Ubuntu – X3D VRML Editor and Browser

Post last modified:February 27, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Titania X3D Editor is a free and open source X3D Graphics file format editor and build-in browser for linux.
X3D is a royalty-free open standards file format and maintained by the Web3D Consortium. Using this X3D file format you can render 3D models in browsers without the requirement for additional applications. Titania X3D supports VRML 2.0 standards. It comes with x3dv and .x3d file support, X_ITE support, new Route Graph Editor, integrated script editor, Animation editor, Render panel, outline editor and Polygon editing tools.

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How to install Tizonia on Ubuntu – Terminal cloud music player

Post last modified:February 26, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Tizonia is a free and open source command line cloud music player for Linux. It is released under GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 license. You can use this as a music client and server. It supports Spotify, Google Play Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Plex servers and Chromecast devices. Using this you also play your local MP2, MP3, AAC, OGG, VORBIS, FLAC, OPUS, and WAV/AIFF file formats. It is beased on OpenMAX IL 1.2 framework. Some other important features are you can set SHOUTcast and Icecast LAN server for local MP3 files and it provides MPRISv2 remote control interface for users.

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