Streamlink is a free and open source command line utility which pipes live video streams to players like VLC, mpv, MPlayer, OMXPlayer or MPC-HC, with the purpose of avoiding resource-heavy websites (and on Linux, to use hardware-accelerated video playback).…

MellowPlayer is a free and open source Qt-based desktop application for using and integrating cloud music services (and more) with your desktop, available for Linux and Windows.

Bashtop is a TUI Linux resource monitor written in... Bash. It shows the usage / stats for the CPU (including temperature), memory, disks, network and processes.

This is an application that can be used to display, record and control Android devices connected via USB or wirelessly, from a macOS, Windows or Linux desktop. The application focuses on performance and quality, offering 30~60 FPS with a resolution of 1920x1080…

This article explains how to install Pop Shell tiling extension on Ubuntu 20.04, Debian Bullseye or Sid, and Arch Linux / Manjaro.

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On a fresh Pop!_OS 20.04 installation, users may be taken by sursprise by the fact that most videos from streaming websites don't work in Firefox. This article explains how to fix this.

The pack includes the latest Adwaita refresh for GNOME 3.36 for which only the accent color was changed, in the following colors: gray, red, orange, yellow, grass, green, teal, cyan, indigo, violet, magenta and pink.

Inkscape 1.0 has been released with an updated user interface that now uses GTK3, HiDPI support, and new Live Path Effects, among many other changes. There's also a new native application for macOS available as a preview.

This article shows how to encrypt cloud storage files using Rclone.

Screenkey is a tool that shows keystrokes on the screen, great if you're recording screencasts, video reviews or demos.

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Ventoy is a fairly new open source tool to create bootable USB drives using Linux or Microsoft Windows ISO files. You install this tool to a USB drive, then simply copy some ISO files to the USB drive and you can boot from it with no other changes (so without…

Yaru Colors, a theme pack containing Yaru theme (the default Ubuntu GTK, icon, GNOME Shell and cursor themes) in 12 colors, was rebased recently on the Ubuntu 20.04 Yaru theme, which has 3 variants: mixed (default), light and dark, and new folder icons.

Espanso is a free and open source text expander written in Rust, available for Linux, Windows and macOS. It features support for most applications, custom scripts, code snippets, Emoji, and it can be extended through extra packages.

Shutter Encoder is a free and open source media transcoder for Windows and macOS, which was recently made available for Linux.

sndcpy is like scrcpy, but for audio. This new tool forwards audio from an Android 10 device to a desktop computer running Linux, Windows or macOS.

Go For It! productivity application has been updated to version 1.8.0. The new release adds Pomodoro timer mode, configurable keyboard shortcuts, an option to log the time spent working on a task to the todo.txt files, and more.

GreenTunnel is a free and open source anti-censorship tool that bypasses deep packet inspection (DPI) used by many Internet Service Providers to block certain websites. The application can be used with a graphical user interface or from the command line,…

qrcp is a command line tool to transfer files from a desktop to a mobile device (and the other way around) over Wi-Fi, by scanning a QR code. It's available for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux.