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Time tracking

arttime is an intriguing clock, timer, time manager with text art

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews

arttime is a combination of art, clock, timer, and a time manager all from a single terminal-based application.

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Screen Capture

maim takes screenshots of your desktop

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Productivity

maim (Make Image) is a utility that takes screenshots of your desktop.

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ast-grep performs structural search, lint and rewriting

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ast-grep (sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting.

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Subtitles

10 Best Free and Open Source Subtitle Editors

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

A subtitle editor is software that lets users create and edit subtitles. We pick the finest open source software.

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Warble

Blurble is a word guessing game

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Blurble is a word guessing game. Solve the riddle until you run out of guesses! The game is a clone of Wordle.

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Google Analytics

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Analytics

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Google Analytics is an exceptional platform for both website and mobile app analytics. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Find

serpl is a TUI to search and replace keywords

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

serpl is a terminal user interface (TUI) application that allows users to search and replace keywords in an entire folder,

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OCR-Systems

10 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.

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Music

SACAD: Smart Automatic Cover Art Downloader

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

SACAD is a command line tool to download album covers without manual intervention, ideal for integration in scripts, audio players, etc.

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Load Balancing

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Progress Kemp LoadMaster

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Kemp LoadMaster is a fully featured load balancer and application delivery controller. We recommend the best FOSS alternatives for Linux.

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Documents

facad is a modern colorful directory listing tool

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

facad is a modern, colorful directory listing tool for the command line. It’s written in C.

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Backup software

ArchiveKeep keeps your files archived in multiple places

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, System Software

ArchiveKeep is a utility that keeps your files archived in multiple places, in a reliable and simple way.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: March 2025 Updates

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

March 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Selection of utilities

svu is a small helper for release scripts and workflows

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

svu provides utility commands and functions to increase specific portions of the version.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dd

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to dd, a popular utility to convert and copy a file.

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Find

concurrently lets you run multiple commands concurrently

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

concurrently is similar to the command npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less but better.

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System administration

ddrescueview examines ddrescue’s mapfiles

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ddrescueview is a small tool that allows users to graphically examine ddrescue’s mapfiles in a user friendly GUI application.

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Backup software

7 Best Free and Open Source Restic Front-Ends

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Roundup, System Software

restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. We feature some useful front-ends for restic.

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Password Managers

kpcli is a command line interface to KeePass database files

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kpcli is a command line interface (interactive shell) to work with KeePass 1.x or 2.x database files.

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14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based News Aggregators

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other information. We recommend the best terminal-based news aggregators.

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