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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.

Snipping Tool is a screenshot utility. It can take still screenshots of an open window, rectangular areas, a free-form area, or the entire screen.

A static site works very well in certain use cases. For example, it’s great for documentation. And static sites can be just as engaging as dynamic sites. The only real difference is that all the HTML is generated before being uploaded.

Google Finance is a website focusing on business news and financial information. It provides real-time market quotes, international exchanges, financial news, and analytics. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives to Google Finance.

HBud is billed as a simple music/video/karaoke app. It’s written in Python, uses GTK4 for its GUI framework, and GStreamer for its multimedia backend. HBud is published under an open source license.

Jamboard is a digital interactive whiteboard developed by Google to work with Google Workspace. Sketch your ideas whiteboard-style while benefiting from the access and connectivity of an interactive canvas, on mobile or directly from your web browser. Drop images, add notes and pull assets directly from the web while collaborating with team members.

Apple Calendar (previously known as iCal) is a personal calendar app supporting multiple accounts, colour code work, family and personal events, event support, as well as calendar invitations.

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. This month’s focus has been on expanding our features on games and web apps. These sections are now fairly comprehensive.

Apple Dictionary is a small utility that lets users easily get definitions of words and phrases from a variety of sources.

Oracle Business Intelligence is business analytics software that offers an integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System.

G4Music is billed as a beautiful, fast, fluent, lightweight music player. The software is written in Vala and uses GTK4, a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.

What caught our eye about Mélodie? It was predominately because it’s billed as a no frills music player. Too many music players are burdened with tons of features that aren’t really that useful or interesting. Let’s see if Mélodie has what it takes to become our default music player.