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Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform. The service integrates with the company’s Office 365 subscription office productivity suite.

TIDAL is a global music streaming platform. It was the first streaming service to offer hi-res audio thanks to its adoption of MQA technology.

CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager. This software stores content of the system clipboard whenever it changes and allows to search the history and copy it back to the system clipboard or paste it directly to other applications. The tool offers a lot of functionality.

Photo Booth is a software application for taking photos and videos with an iSight camera. iSight is a brand name used by Apple to refer to cameras on various devices. The software offers live filters and the ability to replace backgrounds.

We often see statements such as “If something doesn’t need to be on, switch it off at the wall or unplug it”. How relevant is that statement for a computer?

Apple Preview is more than just an image viewer. The software provides a full set of markup tools. These include tools for adding text and shapes, redacting content, making freehand drawings, inserting sticky notes, and capturing your signature. It’s also a full-featured PDF editor.

Deezer is a French online music streaming service. It allows users to listen to music content from record labels, as well as podcasts on various devices online or offline. The service offers 90 million tracks, 160,000 podcast titles, and in excess of 32,000 radio stations.

We reduced power consumption from the BIOS in the previous article in this series. And we’re using GNOME’s Balanced power saving mode. What else is next?

Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform, intelligent canvas where?you and your team can create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. Designed for touch, type, and pen, it lets you write or draw as smoothly as you would with ink.

There’s no actual official desktop available for Linux. But some of their engineers have laboured night and day to produce a native desktop client. While you won’t get official support, Linux has strong community support from a variety of sites, so that’s not really an issue. The client is best described as semi-official.

Let’s turn our attention to the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). This is firmware used to start the PC system after it is powered on.

Apple Screenshot is a small utility that’s part of macOS. Screenshot is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives to Apple Screenshot.

The first article in this series recommended you use a power meter to establish how many Wh your computer uses. In this article we’ll explore a few ways you can reduce this footprint without sacrificing your productivity or workflow.

spotify-player is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It uses the librespot library to make an integrated Spotify client. The software is published under an open source license.

Myuzi bills itself as a Spotify alternative for Linux with no ads, payments, or accounts. The software is published under an open source license.

ncspot is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.

For this review, we’re looking at Spotify TUI. It’s a Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.

There is a wide range of podcast tools available for Linux, but we are always looking for new tools. We’ve received comments from readers recommending we take a look at Kasts, an app we had neglected. With a plethora of interesting open source software available, sometimes we can’t see the wood for the trees.

Reminders is a task management program that allows users to create lists and set notifications.

spotify-qt is billed as a lightweight Spotify client. As its name indicates it's built using Qt. a cross-platform software for creating graphical user interfaces. It's free and open source software.