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speedtest-cli is a commandline tool made with python that allows you to test your internet speed from the terminal using speedtest.net. It is completely opensource and released under the Apache 2.0 license. This tool allows you to perform a quick speed test, view all available servers sorted by distance, specify a server that you want to use in order to check your internet speeds, perform only a download or upload test or generate a speedtest.net share result image URL like the one below. It has a minimalist interface which is incredibly powerful. Speedtest CLI can run on any platform; Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD. With Speedtest CLI, you can easily: Measure internet connection performance metrics like download, upload, latency and packet loss natively without relying on a web browser Test the internet connection of your Linux desktop, a remote server or even lower-powered devices such as the Raspberry Pi® with the Speedtest Server Network™ Set up automated scripts to coll

Shortened URLs are being used everywhere. From emails, to social media platforms like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, product recommendations, and even blog posts. STOP clicking on every link you come across without first examining them. In fact, I recently joined the Fediverse   and the hate they have for shortened links cannot even be put into words. So I decided to do some digging of my own and now I understand why. I'll mention just but a few of the disadvantages of clicking on shortened links. Image by PIRO4D from Pixabay They offer no clue to the destination URL Every single URL generated by the URL shortening services like Bit.ly, Owl.ly, TinyURL and Su.pr will show no clue about the destination URL. Can lead to malicious and unsafe webpages. Since the destination landing page URL is not visible when it is shortened, people will have no idea where they’ll land on once they click the link or type the short URL address. Even if provided with a hint, that might just be a disg

A command line tool for getting information about a movie and comparing two movies. It is written entirely in JavaScript just like the virtual Apple Macintosh that can be installed on Windows, Linux and macOS. To install it run the following command Linux sudo npm i -g movie-cli Install in macOS with: npm i -g movie-cli To get information about a movie type movie Movie Name Example movie Star Wars Information provided includes : Title, year, date released, runtime, genre, director, actors, language and even IMDB rating. To compare two movies, type movie Movie Name1 :: Movie name2 Example movie Star Wars :: Wild Information provided includes: Title, year, date released, runtime, genre and IMDB rating. The project is available on GitHub along with the source code. You can check it out if you wish. It was created by Mayank Chandola .

Astrofox is a motion graphics tool for creating audio-reactive visuals synced to music. You can combine images and text with audio elements like sound waves and spectrum bars that react to music. You can go further by adding one of many effects like blur and glow to enhance your visuals. afterwards, you can save your work as high-definition and share them on social media sites to gain new fans. The main goal of Astrofox is to provide you a tool that lets you quickly and easily create videos of amazing music visualizations. This tool is useful especially to the following groups of people Musicians because nowadays videos are everywhere and your goal is to have as many people as possible to hear your music. Astrofox lets you create eye-catching videos that will play on big social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Artists and marketers can quickly and easily generate motion graphics without having to hire or pay a designer or developer. Podcasters

MOC (music on console) is a music player app for linux/unix command line interface designed to be simple and robust enough to run smoothly on your terminal without significantly affecting other I/O operations. "MOC plays smoothly, regardless of system or I/O load because it uses the output buffer in a separate thread. The transition between files is gapless, because the next file to be played is precached while the current file is playing" . as quoted from their website. Top features JACK, ALSA, SNDIO An inbuilt simple equalizer. A mixer that can be connected to an external mixer. Fully customizable keymapping. Playlist and directory search. Support for internet streams. Theme options Character set conversion using iconv() The latest stable release is MOC 2.5.2.  Version 2.6-alpha3 seems to be the one installed although it is still in development according to their page. It has the following improvements. Complete support for all Sndfile fo

There are 2 tools used for this purpose. Figlet  Toilet Figlet is a simple command line utility for creating large letters out of ordinary text. Toilet is a sub-command under figlet used for creating colourful large characters from ordinary text.Bot utilities are available in the default package manager. So in order to use them, they have to be installed. Ubuntu/Debian sudo apt install figlet toilet CentOS/RHEL sudo yum install figlet toilet Fedora 22+ sudo dnf install figlet toilet How To Use Figlet After installing, all you need to do is provide the text you want to transform as an argument to figlet as shown below. figlet subscribe.com Other modifications that can be made to it include Justification - Align text to the left, right or center To create output at the center, use figlet -c example.com To create output to the right, use figlet -r example.com To create output to the left, use figlet -l example.com Define output

Accessing Maps from the terminal with MapSCII Requirements Telnet installed Internet Connection Firewall is disabled You can do this on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X or Windows with an app like PuTTY or the Windows 10 Linux bash shell or any Os that supports telnet. Open terminal and write the command below. telnet mapscii.me Hit enter and you're ready to browse and enjoy MapSCII. Navigate using the keyboard or mouse. Use the following keys on your keyboard Arrow keys: up, down, right, left A to zoom in Z to zoom out C toggles ASCII mode on/off You can also click and drag and hold on the map with your cursor. If your connection dropped without a reason, reconnect with telnet -E mapscii.me and use only cursors, A and Z to navigate. The Mapscii project is open source and you can install it locally if you'd like. Check out their project here on GitHub . The Dancing ASCII Party Parrot Requirements Curl installed Internet