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Selection of utilities

ReflectorTK – simple GUI for reflector

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ReflectorTK provides a straightforward graphical interface for configuring and running the reflector to update Arch Linux’s mirrorlist.

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Images of shells by the sea

brush – POSIX- and bash compatible shell

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) is a POSIX- and bash-compatible shell, implemented in Rust. It’s built and tested on Linux, macOS, and WSL.

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SQL

litecli – command-line client for SQLite databases

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

litecli is a command-line client for SQLite databases that has auto-completion and syntax highlighting.

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Video-Emulators

Parallel Launcher – modern N64 emulator

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Parallel Launcher is an emulator launcher that aims to make playing N64 games, both retail and homebrew, as simple as possible.

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Foreign Languages

Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Translate

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Ubuntu Touch, Utilities

Translate for Ubuntu Touch is an app that offers good translations with more privacy than with Google Translate.

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Skanlite – image scanning application

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Skanlite is a simple image scanning application to scan and save images. It is optimized for scanning with flatbed scanners.

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Selection of utilities

Spruce – clean up application caches

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Spruce is a lightweight cache cleaner and system maintenance tool designed for Linux.

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Email

6 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Email Clients

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Email clients offer a variety of features. Many email clients offer a slew of features, some stick with just the basics.

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CPU

zeptofetch – ultra-minimal system information tool

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zeptofetch delivers system information in under 2ms* with a 28KB binary*. No scripts, no bloat, just pure C doing exactly what you need.

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Mixer

RsMixer – PulseAudio volume mixer

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

RsMixer is a PulseAudio volume mixer written in the Rust language.

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