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Shortwave: an open source app to listen radio 📻

Today we will learn how to install and use shortwave app on your computer. P.S it requires an active internet connection to stream. What's shortwave? Shortwave is an open source gnome based application, specifically meant to stream radio. This app is only available for Linux users. You can use vlc, rhythm box but you won't have fun using them because they are all in one apps like for playing music and movies and this one just does one thing that is to stream radio. But bruh why stream radio instead of Spotify? Why? Because I like it that way, I don't like the machines, algorithms determine my musical tastes or manipulate me into liking anything. Also it's free and doesn't require an account to just listen to music unlike Spotify. Call me old school but you just can't beat radio as you can get information and listen to music for free, entertainment. You can also stream music through your Chromecast or any casting device as it has casting feature built-in the app

Uniget UI a must have free software for windows users

Today we will learn how to install and use uniget UI software. It is an open source software which is available at GitHub. Open source meaning you can checkout the code and find out if there's anything suspicious about the software. Or you can report the bugs to the developer by raising an issue. So what's uniget UI? How do I explain this to a non-techie person? You know there is something called as terminal in windows which is almost the same as Linux. You can use it to install/remove apps with just one command, but for a normal user it's a bummer so that's why this app exists. It is a all in one place to download your software/apps without using your web browser. Because when you use Google chrome to search for let's say notepad++ The search results might have sponsored links at the top from different developers of the same competition or malware software. I know you are not that gullible to download malware from the internet but just to be safe than to be sorry t