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Author: Steve Emms

Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Word2IPA – turn words into their true sounds

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Word2IPA converts English words into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), providing a clear representation of pronunciation.

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System administration

dnsi – tool to investigate the DNS

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnsi is a command line tool to investigate various aspects of the Domain Name System (DNS).

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TV

dizqueTV – create live TV channel streams from media on your Plex servers

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

dizqueTV lets you create live TV channel streams from media on your Plex servers.

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Video-Emulators

Eden – Nintendo Switch emulator

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

Eden is an experimental emulator for the Nintendo Switch, built with performance and stability in mind.

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Inventory Management

13 Best Free and Open Source Network Inventory Management

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Network Inventory Management collates all network infrastructure data and keeps it up to date.

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goscrobble – simple music scrobbler daemon

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

goscrobble is a simple music scrobbler daemon for MPRIS-based music players (e.g. Spotify or tidal-hifi).

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Documentation

peep – CLI text viewer tool

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

peep is the CLI text viewer tool which runs on Linux and macOS. This tool works interactively like the less command.

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Encrypted Files

Xecrets Cli – AxCrypt compatible encryption tool

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Xecrets Cli is a command line file (Cli) file encryption toolbox, runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ps

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

We explore free and open source alternatives to ps, a command that reports a snapshot of the current processes.

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Documentation Generators

ls-lint – fast file and directory name linter

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ls-lint is an extremely fast directory and filename linter. Bring some structure to your project filesystem.

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