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Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a large amount of monitoring information through a curses or Web based interface. The information dynamically adapts depending on the size of the user interface.

For this week, I’m going to look at an area very close to my heart. Multimedia. It’s a large topic to tackle. So I’ll confine this week to video and audio playback.

ExifCleaner lets you remove privacy-invading information from your photos.

tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar made for window managers. It was specifically made for Openbox, a popular stacking window manager.

For this week’s blog, I’ve run a variety of benchmarking tests on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC together with three other systems to put the results into context.

This is a short introductory training session on the use of Python in data science using Jupyter, pandas library and plotnine package. We focus on a common task in data science: import a data set, manipulate its structure, and then visualise the data. We shall use Python and a Jupyter Notebook to accomplish this task.

In the first of a weekly series, Luke puts the AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC under the microscope. This tiny PC sports a Celeron J4115 processor, 8GB DDR4 RAM, triple display 4K@60Hz and NVMe SSD. The AWOW Mini PC has its Windows installation wiped and replaced with Linux.

The Linux at Home feature continues with a great pastime – researching your family tree.

DownZemAll! (DZA!) is an open source standalone download manager. DZA! is written in C++ and based on the Qt5 framework. It embeds its own web engine.

For this week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog, Luke looks at a few best-of-breed collection management programs. Free and open source goodness as usual.

With more time at home, there’s never a better opportunity to embark on a new hobby. How about embroidery? Learning embroidery doesn’t have to be complicated, and it definitely shouldn’t feel like a huge investment of time and money. It’s actually an easy and inexpensive hobby. And there’s good free and open source software available that helps a lot with creating and modifying embroidery designs.

For this week’s blog, I decided to survey terminal emulators on the Raspberry Pi 4. A terminal emulator is computer software which emulates a dumb video terminal within some other display architecture.

If you’re looking for software that acts as a central hub for internet content, you should try Fraidycat. It isn’t a feed reader. And while it does gather news headlines from websites, it has much wider coverage letting you follow interesting people via YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, SoundCloud streams, and more.

When you work remotely, collaborating with colleagues in real-time is much more efficient than corresponding via email. The software featured in this article lets you edit documents collaboratively in real-time.

For this week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog, Luke puts a desktop search tool under the microscope.

Here’s our recommended GNOME shell extensions. Most of the extensions are not officially supported by GNOME. But they all take the desktop to the next level, either by adding useful functionality, improving your workflow, or simply offering a touch of panache to the desktop. All the extensions all compatible with the latest release of GNOME. Naturally there’s only open source goodness on offer.

With the aid of open source software, budding astronomers can learn how to ‘read’ the stars, to know which constellations lie overhead, their trajectory throughout the seasons, and the legends ascribed to them. In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can make the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged.

In previous weeks, I’ve explored software that improves productivity. For this week’s blog, I extend the scope to cover personal information managers (commonly known as PIMs) on the Raspberry Pi 4.

Regolith is a desktop environment which places emphasis on the keyboard input device over the mouse, compared with most other desktop environments. This is to improve productivity. Changing from mouse to keyboard and vice versa doesn’t increase time to complete an individual activity significantly. But it adds up quickly with frequent interactions.

Given that working from home is likely to remain popular, it’s essential we strike a balance. When working from home, it’s very easy to lose track of time. It’s important to take regular breaks. Playing video games offers one avenue. How about some Doom fun?