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far2l: Far Manager for Linux

I work mostly with a keyboard. It’s a 30-plus-year habit. The mouse is a secondary tool. I started with Norton Commander back in the 80s, then I used Volcov Commander, then I switched to using CONNECT by Dmitry Orlov, and finally to FAR Manager by Eugeny Roshal on Windows machines.

I use FAR Manager today, too, and I am deeply thankful to the people who continue developing it. FAR Manager became the first tool I install on each new machine, and it is the tool I use the most on a daily basis.

It turns out that FAR has also been ported to Linux, and I’m ashamed that I discovered it only today. The project is called “far2l” and is located here: GitHub – elfmz/far2l: Linux port of FAR v2. It works fine in Ubuntu, and I read it even works on Mac! I know there is MC (MidnightCommander), but I do not like it, so finding the FAR port for Linux was a huge surprise.

Moreover, if you stumble upon a Linux variant in which far2l is not available, there is a good chance that you can still use it by downloading a “portable” pre-compiled binary variant of far2l from here: Releases · spvkgn/far2l-portable

AudioTag.info – music recognition robot

It’s my pleasure to announce a preview stage of free music recognition service – AudioTag.info.

AudioTag.info — is a free music-recognition service. It allows you to identify almost any unknown piece of music quickly and easily. Its use is very simple: you upload a short audio fragment or an entire song, the robot analyzes it and provides you with the information about the track title, artist name, album title, etc. Your audio fragment can be in almost any file format and of almost any quality (aurally recognizable, of course) — it can be an MP3 file downloaded from the Internet or a short recording made with your old tape recorder and stored as a low-quality .WAV-file.