 The monthly app of the month video that I've been making for the last couple of months has proven to be very popular So I'm going to be doing it again this month for the month of July This month I have five more apps to share with you that are awesome, and you should definitely check out So let's go ahead and jump right in The first app on the list is called Rambox and this one comes to us from Pablo Majestic who recommended this app to me in the comments of last month video If you'd like to have an app here on this list, make sure you go ahead and leave that in the comments below And I'll be sure to check it out So Rambox is actually a Multi-platform messaging app that is actually really quite cool. Now there are a few of these out there and they're all Basically the same but Rambox is neat because it has just a ton of applications that you can tie into it So for example, Android messages here, Facebook Messenger, Discord, Google Voice, Google Chat, Hangouts, Instagram Direct, Mastodon, Twitter, and then just a ton of other ones that you've probably never heard of before So like example, Glowing Bear, what the hell is Glowing Bear? Never heard of it But it's here So if you have a messaging application that you'd like to use or you have let's say you have a ton of them That you'd like to use and you don't want to have to have all their applications open at the same time an app like Rambox can actually really be helpful because you can just sign into them all in this one application and then switch between them as You wish they just show up as tabs in Rambox here and it will send you notifications when you get a message in it all that stuff. It's really good now I will note that this is a Electron app as far as I can tell and Also, the AUR version would not install so if you are on Arch and Want to install this from the AUR? Maybe you'll have better luck than I did. I couldn't get it installed I ended up having to install the snap the snap package of this and everybody knows how I feel about snaps, but That's just the way I had to work It did install just fine as a snap So that's what this is and that's Rambox again all the links for these will be in the video description below So if you want to try these out, just go ahead and head down there and click the link while you're there Make sure you hit the like button and a subscribe button So you don't miss out on next month's list and along with all the other awesome to mediocre videos that I tend to make every week The next app on the list is called FOTOX FOTOXX and this is a photo editing application that is very powerful and I don't know how to use it. So I'm just gonna put that out there I've taken a look at this for a little while and I've realized that I can't edit photos worth a damn So if you're a photo editor, this is probably an app that you'll want to check out if you're like me You'll just stare at this and think what the hell's going on. I have no clue But it is really cool It allows you to go through and just do a ton of stuff in terms of photo editing and stuff That you can't really do in like the very minimal photo editing apps that you find on Linux like if you use something like FAA or SXIV you can't really edit in those This is actually a photo editing app It also allows you to Manage your photo collection so that you can be a little bit more organized Since it focuses on managing large collection of photos It has several batch functions to rename resize Copy move convert image format and met and and edit metadata So that means that it will allow you to go through and actually sort your pictures based on any of these things that you Have saved for your pictures and that'll allow you to be a little bit more organized Personally, I'm not gonna let it run havoc in my image collection just because I'm already really organized and most of the stuff that I have at least on my main hard drive are images that I've downloaded from The internet or I've taken a screenshot So those are I don't really need to do any editing or you know management on those things But for someone who has just a gigantic photo library on like an external hard drive or something like that I can see where this could be very powerful to go through and try to manage and Organize your photos in terms of design. I'm not all that impressed with the design. This is what the design looks like. It's Okay, but really it's the functionality that you're after The third app on the list for this month is called ASCII image converter Now this is a terminal based application that will do as it says it will convert an image To an ASCII art So I'm going to go ahead and try this for the first time live on camera and we'll see if it actually works so first I need to go through and actually find a Image which I will do a few moments later Okay, so I have an image now I've gone through and actually found that so what how you use this as you do ASCII Image Converter and then you need to do the path to the image that you want to convert so in my case mine is in media Pictures and then it's 1200 pixels and it's the it's this tux SVG thing So I'm gonna hit this and I should be able to see the good old tux icon in an ASCII art And we do it's not perfect as I can see from right here But if you look at this you can kind of see that it's tux So actually let me go through and try to find another one here just to see how it works So obviously ASCII arts of distro logos is actually fairly easy because we see those things in like Neo fetch and all the fetch programs out there so that's obviously fairly easy to do So what I'm going to do is try this again Well, that's my was there for what I'm gonna do is try to try this again with a different Logo a one that I know actually would look fairly good if it does it right so what I'm going to do is go to miscellaneous images and then logos and then let's see here pop underscore OS That's 1200 pixels There we go, so this should be the pop of West logo and it does now It's interesting that it doesn't have the ability to do sizes. I mean, I wonder if it actually doesn't so if we do ASCII Help see if there's help so we can actually see what so you can you can actually flip it horizontally flip it vertically it will allow you to do different formats This play ask your in the negative colors that means you could swap the colors, which would be cool You can save as an image string You can do colors and that's it and you can set width and height Okay, so there's actually quite a bit here You can do if you wanted to control the exact dimensions of it. So that is ASCII image converter The next step on the list is called blanket Blanket is an application that allows you to play a whole ton of different Relaxing sounds in the background for you to relax to or work to so this is not something that I'd really use on my computer If I was going to do this I would use it on my phone through like a Bluetooth speaker or something like that But that doesn't mean that it couldn't be useful on a computer if you're going to use it while you're like working or something So let's go ahead and take a look at blanket. So if we oops, this is the wrong one So this is what blanket looks like and Basically what this does like I said is it allows you to play nature sounds travel sounds Interior sounds white noise and pink noise Whatever pink noise is I'm not I think pink noise is when it plays sounds that From every range that the human ear can hear maybe I don't know but let's go ahead and play one of these I don't know whether or not I'll actually be able to hear it without headphones out me turn this put these on and We'll turn on storm So that's what storm sounds like so let's go ahead so I can actually You can actually go through and mix and match these so if you wanted to rain really loud That's really cool. All right Why not some waves to and a stream And some birds because you know why not and then a summer night So that's a lot of Like a cacophony of sound I Can you can actually press pause so they can you know stop playing thank goodness You turn take these off now But if you can get the right mixture of those they I can see how that could be very relaxing And obviously there's like I said, there's travel sounds and interior sounds as well And this is very good if you're interested in this type of thing Personally, I'm not sure that I would use it on my computer like I said This seems like something more that I'd use on my phone But again, it's nice to know that there's something like this on Linux that you can use the last app on the list for this month is called sleek now sleek is a to-do application that basically allows you to create to do's in Txt file so you can actually let's say you've been managing your to-do list in a txt file or some other program that manages To-do lists in txt files you can actually import them right here into Sleek and then it will just maintain that as a to-do dot txt file So I'm just gonna go ahead and create one here And we'll just call it to do dot txt and I'm gonna save this to my desktop Why not because that's what you do you save things to your desktop and then well what now what we'll do is we'll add it to do here and Make video and then I can add a due date so for tomorrow You know I actually allow me to do some recurring dates, which is cool So every day I want to do that and then we can hit save so what? I'm not actually sure what This is here. It allows you me a sign a letter Maybe these are groups or something like that. I'm not exactly sure you can use the syntax so you can do So you could go through and say Put all this right in the text so we could do do I think so 20 21 dash zero seven zero nine I think maybe and recurring Daily, maybe I don't know we'll see if that works Yeah, it actually did work. That's really cool and And then you can just mark it off when it's done and we'll do the next one which would should be It actually doesn't show you the date, but that's actually really cool Now that I've seen this I really kind of like the idea of it because I've been trying to find a Open-source version that kind of does the same thing that to do is does And this kind of does that it's not as fancy as to do it because to do is you can say do this on Tuesday and it'll schedule you for Tuesday. This is kind of the same only you have to put that you know That due date in there by yourself. So this is definitely something I would play around with I wonder if it has a dark mode I'm just curious Interestingly enough it won't let me get into the settings Or plus Plus press the add key again, I'm guessing that this is my computer once again making things freeze I don't know why it's been doing that. It did this earlier to me on Discord it just randomly froze for no apparent reason. So anyways that I'm assuming that this is not the app This is just my computer being dumb again So yes, so Those are our five apps of the month Again, all the links for these will be in the video description If you have an app that you'd like me to check out in future installments of top apps of the month Leave them in the comments below Remember don't use any links in your comments because those will get automatically deleted. I have nothing to do with that That's YouTube doing YouTube. 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