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Musicly is billed as a simple and elegant music player. It’s cross-platform software written in JavaScript. It’s based on Electron and React, put together with Electron React Boilerplate.

For this part in the series, we investigate the multimedia performance of the Lenovo T470 laptop including power management.

As we’re fast approaching Christmas, it seems only appropriate to start decorating the desktop. ctree offers a Christmas tree right on your terminal.

In this article we put the ThinkPad T470 through some intensive testing. We've run a variety of benchmarks on the laptop and compared the results to a motley assortment of machines.

Cerebro is a fast application launcher with bags of additional functionality. It warrants our strong recommendation and deservedly enters our Excellent Utilities series.

KOReader is a document viewer for a wide variety of file formats. It’s available for Linux, Android, and E Ink devices.

This review looks at the BrosTrend Linux USB WiFi Adapter AC1200 (AC1L). This small USB key retails for around £25 ($30.99) and plugs directly into a USB 3 port. BrosTrend provide Linux support for Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros. Their wifi adapter chipsets and drivers are developed by Realtek.

This is a blog looking at a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux. For this part in the series, we take you through installing Manjaro on the T470.

Google Sites is a structured wiki and web page creation tool. Build internal project hubs, team sites, public-facing websites, and more—all without designer, programmer, or IT help.

SAS Enterprise BI Server provides a solid basis for vendor consolidation and BI standardization, enabling IT to focus on more effectively aligning with the business. The software also delivers user autonomy within a well defined IT governance framework.

In the first part of this series, we assessed the condition of the refurbished machine. Overall the laptop is in better shape than we expected for a grade B unit although the display was a mite disappointing given its diffusion issues.

SAS/STAT provides tools and procedures for statistical modeling of data. It includes analysis of variance, linear regression, predictive modeling, statistical visualization techniques and a lot more.

This is a blog looking at a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux. Refurbished PCs offer a great solution to your computing requirements.

Apple VoiceOver is a screen-reader that tells you exactly what’s happening on your device. VoiceOver is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

Mimic 3 is a neural text to speech engine that can run locally, even on low-end hardware like the Raspberry Pi 4. The software speaks over 25 languages with over 100 pre-trained voices. Mimic 3 uses VITS, a “Conditional Variational Autoencoder with Adversarial Learning for End-to-End Text-to-Speech”.

Apple Stickies is a small utility that lets users keep notes, lists and pictures in sticky notes on the desktop.

Sticky is a note-taking app for the Linux desktop that simulates the traditional "sticky note" style stationery on your desktop. Sticky is written in Python, and uses the GTK3 toolkit.

Kooha is billed as a simple GTK-based app to “elegantly record your screen”. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.

Microsoft Planner is a planning application available on the Microsoft 365 platform. The software lets users create Kanban boards using content-rich tasks with features including files, checklists, and labels.

AES Crypt is file encryption software that uses the industry standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to easily and securely encrypt files.