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Translate Shell is a command-line translator. It’s powered by Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, and Apertium.

Here's our take on 15 Qt-based file managers examining their features, usability, searching, extensibility, and protocol support.

Are you debilitated by the countless music players that use web technologies with a massive RAM footprint? Maybe you want a lean yet slick audio player with a good range of features?

This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll look at QDirStat, a graphical application to show what’s devouring your disk space and help you tidy up the disorder.

Mind mapping is a fairly free flowing concept. This means you need software that is versatile, and can adapt to your requirements. Your idea of a neat and tidy mind map might be another person’s idea of bamboozling.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 14 excellent plotting tools. Many of the applications are very mature. For example, gnuplot has been in development since the mid-1980s.

Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.

This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll look at QJournalctl, a Qt-based Graphical User Interface for systemd’s journalctl command.

KDE Plasma widgets (also known as plasmoids) are a smart way of customizing the desktop. There’s an abundance of widgets available that act like building blocks, constructing a desktop that’s perfect for your needs and requirements. I’ve tried the vast majority of KDE Plasma widgets. In this article, I recommend 21 of them. There should be something for everyone. And there’s a few fun widgets along the way!

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled an updated list of 16 praiseworthy IRC clients, and our verdict on them. There’s a mix of graphical and console based applications included. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for all types of users.

f3 is a set of 5 open source utilities that detect and repair counterfeit flash storage. It achieves this by testing the media’s capacity and performance. It tests the real size and compares it to what the drive says.

You may have heard of Cloud-Player which was released under the GNU General Public License. It’s recently been relaunched/rebranded as aux.app. In this article, I’ll look at the native Linux player for aux.app. This streaming player plays music from YouTube, SoundCloud, and Deezer.

This article focuses on software which emulates home computers, a class of personal computer which reached the market in the late 1970s, and became immensely popular in the following decade, selling many millions of units. Leading home computer companies included Commodore, Sinclair, Atari, Apple, Acorn, Tandy Radio Shack, and Amstrad.

Shortwave (previously known as Gradio) is open source goodness that lets you find and listen to 20,000 radio stations over the net.

Crow Translate bills itself as a cross-platform, lightweight, translator supporting 117 different languages.

This article selects the best free and open source software to emulate classic video consoles, such as the Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Wii, Sega Mega Drive, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, and many others.

odio is a cross-platform, no-charge radio streaming software with more than 20,000 radio stations. Linux support arrived with version 1.1.0 a few months ago.

This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll look at nmon, a free and open source performance monitor.

It’s been ages since we last surveyed the project management scene. Here’s our updated recommendations for free project management software.

MellowPlayer offers a web view of various music streaming services with integration with your desktop. It was developed to provide a Qt alternative to Nuvola Player.