 Apps make the world go round and every month or at least almost every month I scour the internet for amazing Linux apps that I can share with you in a series that I have created Lee called Top five apps of the month and this month is no difference. So Today we're gonna be talking about the top five Linux apps for sure of June 2022. Let's go ahead and jump in Okay So the first one on the list is an app called toy or toy pee not actually sure how you pronounce it TOI PE and This is a very simple application Basically what it is is a typing test for your terminal. It's very simple and out of the box It's actually not all that great I'm just gonna put that out there for you because by default it uses a dictionary that is very small So you'll notice in the first couple tests that I run it repeats words quite often But that's okay because you can actually you by using a flag Tell it to use a different dictionary and I'll do this towards the end of the b-roll It'll allow you to use the top five thousand words or top ten thousand or top twenty five thousand words and That makes it much less likely that one of the words repeats So as I show in the b-roll it does have several options that you can do you can change how many words are In the test so it beat defaults to 30 you can set it to whatever number you want So if you want a longer test a shorter test, whatever you can also change the Default word list so you can choose from the top 50 top 500 top thousand top 2,500 and so on and you can also choose from ones like the OS Dictionary or the commonly misspelled dictionary Those are really cool lists and makes it a little bit more difficult if you want to use words That are commonly misspelled other than that there's not a lot of options here And that's okay because it doesn't need any it's just a simple typing test and it's really good So let's go ahead and move on to the next one. Okay, so the next one on the list is called metadata cleaner and This is also a very simple application basically what this does is it will allow you to add Images or PDFs to it and then clean them up all metadata. So why would you want this? Basically, this is good because if you have a photo that you've taken like on your phone or something like that That thing comes embedded with a ton of metadata and while some of the images that I show you here later Like screenshots don't have a lot of metadata I actually do show you on the b-roll a couple images that have a lot of metadata in it and Well, most of it's going to be completely useless to anyone who sees it It is possible that some of that data could be used to track the image down So I know a lot of phones actually embed the location in the metadata That's not a great thing if you end up sharing this photo online, you know So this application will actually take those pieces of data and just completely strip them out of The image and that can be very useful again If you're going to be sharing Photographs or images or PDFs or whatever happens to be online So anything that has metadata can be inputted into this app and cleaned up And it's a very simple application. It can if you're going to do a lot of images take a long time. So there's a Simple clean option, which will just take out portions of the metadata and not everything and that runs faster Other than that, there's no options Basically whatsoever there is a clear all option, which is nice. So you don't have to clear them one by one once they're done So that is metadata cleaner Okay, so the next one on the list is called g-pick now for the most part I use this one in the most simple way possible and that is just to use it for a color picker and my color picker I mean I will select the pick color button and then hover over the color I want to know the hex code of click on that copy that to the clipboard so that I can use it in GIMP or something like that because for whatever reason the color picker in GIMP has not worked for me in Months and that's cross distro. I don't know what's going on there But the point is is that this application has kind of been a saving grace because I always need to match like a logo color Or something for a thumbnail and this allows me to do that quite easily now It does do other things so it'll help you create palettes if you want to create palettes Although from the brief amount of time I've played with it. It appears to be limited to four colors I'm not sure if you can get more colors or how that works But also the color picker there at the bottom of the palette Generation tab isn't all that intuitive like you'd think that you'd be able to drag that Dot there in the center all around like you see me in the b-roll trying to do that Apparently you can't do that. You have to use the sliders along the side So it's not the most intuitive color picker. There's definitely more intuitive ones But this is a feature if you want to use an app for doing that you can also do things like Have GPIC pull out the color palette from a certain photo now the one thing that You'll see in the b-roll is that I don't really know what those images that I used for Doing the color chooser actually looked like begin to begin with because there's no preview in the file picker So so I'm not actually sure how well that functionality works But it is an option so you can input a image and it will select a certain number of colors from that image that you can then use for whatever it is one of the cool things is that you can add Hexes and colors and stuff like that to a palette of your own So you can save all those colors that you have selected over time Into the main palette now. I'm not sure if those things are Things that you can export or not. I've never actually tried to do that But I'm assuming that you can you can also just click that Select color button and then click on a color anywhere on the system And it will not only add it to your list of colors there That's like on the main screen, but it will also add it to your clipboard Which is the main functionality that I use it for so that is GPIC Okay So the next one is an interesting one and one that I'm kind of disappointed that I'm only finding up about now because When I was a GitHub user, I used an application called Git Krakken and git Krakken was amazing it has a ton of features and It allows you to basically do everything you would possibly do on GitHub Through a dedicated native application on your Linux desktop It was amazing the problem with it was that it was not open source And while I could still use that because the git Krakken would actually allow you to use git lab as well I just basically got used to using the terminal Functionality of git, but if you are still a github user github actually has their very own desktop application now Technically, it's only available for Windows and Macintosh However, somebody has actually forked it and made it available on Linux So what you'll see in the b-roll is me actually creating a new repository Uploading that repository or pushing that repository up to github You can do all that stuff right here in the application you can also view other repositories that you already have and see Local changes push those or commit those changes upstream push them You can get pull so you can pull and fetch from the whatever branch that you want to pull if you want if you're you're behind or something and It does basically everything that github can do It's not as functional as git Krakken. I'm just gonna put that out there git Krakken does a lot more stuff and has a Somewhat more intuitive in interface however, if you want a simple interface for interacting with github on your Linux desktop the github desktop package for Linux is actually really good in terms of Settings and stuff like that. There's not a ton of stuff here But there are a few changes that you can make if you want to things like integration with github enterprise Things like choosing your default editor and your default shell It's weird that they call it a shell because really what you're choosing is a terminal a shell is completely different I'm not sure why they would make that mistake. It's a little weird But you can also choose between a dark and a light theme, you know, you know as you'd expect So that is github desktop. Okay, the last one on the list is probably the most simple application on this list probably outside of the typing app and That application is called amber all and I'm again, not sure if I'm pronouncing that right It's a m b e r o l and I'm not sure why they called it that but it doesn't really matter basically what this is is a music playing application and That's it. That's all it does is play music. It doesn't manage playlists. It doesn't manage album art It doesn't do any of those things you add a file to it It then creates a playlist of that file So I added every single song in my music library and you see me scrolling through them and what's surprising here is I have like I don't know 50 gigabytes of memory. It added them really fast And as you can see I can actually scroll through These and the app like doesn't crash or anything. So it's actually very performative it will Perform really well, even if you've chosen a lot of songs to play I think that it would work better if you just selected files of like say a particular album that you wanted to play Then you can have a playlist. That's just those things but It does work if you want to choose your entire music collection But it doesn't separate anything by album album or artist or anything like that It literally just shows every single song in the folder that you selected And then plays them one right after another you can Shuffle and repeat and all that kind of stuff But other than that, there's not a lot of options The one thing that you'll notice is and the reason why you'd want to use this is that it looks Fantastic now You don't really get a great sense of it in the b-roll because most of my music is horribly organized And none of it has the appropriate metadata It's something that I really need to work on but that's kind of beside the point if you have the metadata attached to Your music the application will actually change color based on the album art, which is I find really cool So the best part about this is not only is it simple, but all it's very very pretty So if you are someone who likes to use applications that are much more Well-designed and brawl is definitely a choice you should check out So those are the top five apps of june 2022 So there hasn't been a video in this series for a couple months now And I wanted to take a moment to talk about why that is And really it just comes down to the fact that real life has been kind of messy over the last couple months And this series takes some time to put together Usually mostly it's finding applications to actually work like for example this one here I think I actually found like seven apps for this list these five are the only ones that I could actually get to work So some the other two For whatever reason like there was one forever note sticky notes. 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