 A while back on the channel, I had a habit of making a monthly video called top Linux apps of the month and I kind of got away from those videos, but it's time to jump back in. So this month I have five awesome apps for you and I think you'll enjoy them. But before I jump into them, if you haven't already hit the like button, I'd really appreciate it. So let's go ahead and jump into the top Linux apps for June of 2023. The first one on the list is a self hosted app called image. Now image is, like I said, self hosted and it is meant as an alternative to Google photos. Now, usually when I hear alternative to Google anything, I kind of shy away from it simply because there are a ton of them and about 90% of them are utter garbage. But image is absolutely not one of those. It is fantastic. It's fast. It's fairly easy to set up as long as you have somewhere to host it. Like usually you're going to want to be PS of some kind of Linode or something like that in order to host it. You're going to need obviously some storage in order to go along with this because you're going to be storing photos. And one of the great things about it is that it does have cross platform support so you can obviously upload pictures from your mobile devices if you need to do so. The web interface is spectacular. That's what I'm showing on the screen right now. It is very, very fast has almost all the features that you want from a storage service for photos at least and it just does a fantastic job. Now one thing I will say that it is missing, at least from what I can tell is the ability to edit photos within the web interface. It doesn't seem to have that, which Google obviously does. So if that's something that you're looking for image may not be for you, but it does a lot of other stuff that Google does well like recognizing faces, allowing you to see photos from locations and stuff like that, creating shared albums so that you can share them with your friends or family or whatever. It does all of the basic stuff that Google Photos does and it does it really, really well. One of the things that I was most impressed with when it comes to image is that it was very, I mean, it was just really, really fast. A lot of times these self hosted things are just slow because they're not well designed or well developed. This one, the photo is just load automatically was really kind of surprising. So if you haven't tried it out yet, try out image. The second one on the list for this month is a very small application for GNOME and that is called Spacebar. Spacebar basically puts an i3 style workspace switcher in your GNOME bar, the bar that goes along the top of GNOME. Now there are many different extensions that do this, but by far I think Spacebar does the best job and allows the most customizability. So as you can see in the B roll here, basically what this is is a workspace switcher that goes up at the top of the bar. It shows your workspaces. You can rename them if you want. By default, they're just the numbers of the workspaces and it just basically shows you how many workspaces you have active, how many which workspace you're on and so on and so forth. It does have several settings that allow you to customize how it looks and feels. You can change the font size. It doesn't allow you to change the font itself. I'm assuming that it inherits the font from the system, which means that you can change it elsewhere, but you can change the font size. You can change all of the colors, the transparency, the font way, all of the stuff that you would normally expect to change when it comes to something that really has a lot to do with the way your workspace actually looks and feels. So I really enjoy this. If I were to use GNOME, which you guys know me, I'm not a big GNOME guy, but if I were to use GNOME, I'd have this set up so that I would be able to see what workspace I was on and it would make the workspace functionality of GNOME much more usable, at least for me. So that is spacebar. It's a very simple application. You can install it via the extensions manager or through the GNOME's extensions website. So that is spacebar. So the third one on the list is one that I don't think is going to be useful for a lot of people. But if you have any use of transcribing audio into text, whisper AI is fantastic. Now, the first thing I'll do before I get into what this is actually is I'll caution you, if you don't have a very powerful CPU or GPU, this is going to be very hard to run on your computer because it does take quite a lot of resources, especially if you're talking about transcribing audio longer than a few minutes long. Like I tried to do the podcast and that's usually about an hour long. It took about seven hours to actually do and I have a fairly powerful system. So what is whisper AI? Basically what it does is it takes an audio file and then transcribes it into text and it gives you several different files. It does a raw.txt file, which is just the transcript. It does a couple others that have timestamps on them so that you can upload them to like YouTube or other services that have the ability to translate that into actually creating timestamps on videos or on audio. So it allows you to basically have a transcript or subtitles for your videos or your podcasts. Or if you're a if you need accessibility, if you wanted to have a transcript of something audio like, you could use this to have a text transcript of something that you could then go on and read instead of listen to. It does several other things as well. So if you have a recording in another language, it will allow you to transcribe that into English, which is really nice. The one thing that it doesn't do as far as I can tell is transcribe from English to other languages. I haven't seen it be able to do that yet, but that's something that'd be really cool in the future. One thing I will say is that just watching the output in the terminal is kind of memorizing because it does a really good job sometimes. And sometimes the failures are a little, you know, humorous. The last thing I will say is that it does have several different language models that it will use. And the smallest ones obviously take the least amount of power for you to use in order to transcribe your stuff, right? So if you use the tiny model, it will go faster than if it uses the extra large or whatever they call it model. And it does allow you to choose that, which is nice. So if you don't want it to be as accurate or you're going from English to English, the smaller language models are usually OK. If you're going from one language to English, you're probably going to want one of the bigger models. Overall, the accuracy was fairly good when it comes to normal speech. Now, obviously I didn't try any of the other languages yet, but I will say that for the most part, normal words, it does a good job with. It doesn't always do good with Linux terms. So the podcast has had some interesting flubs. But other than that, it was pretty good. That's whisper AI. The fourth one on the list is a typing tool for the terminal. Now, there are a lot of these things. It seems to be something that people who are learning how to program actually do in order to learn to program. But this one here is very, very full featured. So if you if you've used things like monkey type or similar tools, you know that they have a lot of options for customizing the typing test. And term type or is kind of like that. It has a lot of different options. Now, obviously it's in the terminal, so it's not going to be the best in terms of aesthetics. It's just going to look like it's in the terminal. And whether that's something that you enjoy or not is really going to depend on, you know, who you are. But for me personally, I like to do typing tests. I also like the terminal. So putting these things together was pretty good. And like I said, like monkey type, it has a ton of different options. So you can choose the difficulty. You can choose the confidence mode. You can turn on blind mode so it doesn't show you your mistakes. You can change how the cursor looks. You can change how the ability to delete work. So if you don't want to be able to delete your mistake, you just want to have to continue on, you know, you can do that. You can change if there's capitalization or punctuation, you can do that. You know, there's a ton of different options. So if you're looking for a very fast, very easy to use typing test and you like to do things in the terminal, TermTyper is a good option. So that is TermTyper. So the last one on the list is an app called Foliate. Now Foliate is a eReader application. Now I don't like to read books on my computer all that much. It's really not an enjoyable experience. Usually when I'm wanting to read an eBook, I'll either grab my iPad or my phone and then go somewhere else. I don't want to sit in front of my computer to read the book because I spend all my time in front of the computer anyways. But every once in a while, there is a book that I want to open up on my computer, whether it's a technical manual or something like that, or something along those lines, I can open up in Foliate and just read it. And one of the things that I like about Foliate is that there's a ton of options. You can change the theme. You can change the text or the font. You can change the text size. You can change whether it's a scrolling mechanism in terms of going between different pages or flipping. You know, there's several different options there. You can change the spacing and the margin and the padding and the width and all this stuff. There's a ton of different options. Now I will say this as a kind of a caution. It is kind of crashy. I'm not sure what's going on there. Every time I change the theme, it crashed. I'm not sure why, especially to the dark themes. So you'll see, you'll notice in the b-roll, I never actually changed the theme. That's because every time I did, it crashed. There was a couple of other times that when I went back from reading a book to the library, it also crashed. So I'm not sure if that's because I was doing it in a VM or if there's just something wrong with the snap. Not sure. But I just wanted to put that out there. It does crash a little bit. It's not that big a deal because it does remember your position, which is like the most important part of a ebook reading application. You wanted to remember your position because you don't want to have to go find it again. It's the most annoying thing to get three quarters of the way through the book and realize that it didn't remember that you were three quarters of the way through and it puts you back at the beginning of the chapter or worse, the beginning of the book. That's just annoying. That's an immediate delete the application for me, right? If that doesn't work. So it does remember your position, which is good. The design overall is very nice. I wish it didn't crash. So I'm a little upset about that. But overall, Foliate is a really good app. If you want to use ebooks on your computer. So those are the top five applications of the month of June 2023. If you have applications, you'd like me to cover on a future iteration of this series, leave those in the comment section below. Do not leave a link. I can't iterate this enough. Don't leave a link. YouTube will just delete your comment and I'll never see it. And then we'll all be sad. So just just leave the name of the application and maybe the developer if you want to have me check it out. So those in the comment section below, if you haven't already, leave a like on this video. It really does help the channel. I'd really appreciate it. You can follow me on Massadon or Odyssey. Those links will be in the video description. You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com slash Linuxcast. Links for Liberapay, YouTube and Paypal are in the video description below. 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