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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Clock

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Windows Clock is a time management app offering alarms, world clocks, timers, a stopwatch, and focus sessions.

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Tools that help you

ehh helps you remember commands

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ehh is a command-line tool for remembering Linux / terminal commands. Store and run any command inside ehh.

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KAlgebra – graphing calculator

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms Software

KAlgebra is an application that can replace your graphing calculator.

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iamb – Matrix client for Vim addicts

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

iamb is a terminal-based client for Matrix for the Vim addict.You can edit messages, navigate windows and manage tabs.

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nap – code snippets in your terminal

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Create and access new snippets quickly with the command-line interface or browse, manage, and organize them with the text-user interface.

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Tools that help you

eg provides examples of common uses of command line tools

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

eg will give you useful examples right at the command line. Think of it as a companion tool for man.

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Email

dma – DragonFly Mail Agent

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

dma is a small Mail Transport Agent (MTA), designed for home and office use.

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Video Conversion

FastFlix – GUI for encoding videos

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

FastFlix is a GUI for H.264, HEVC and AV1 hardware and software encoding.

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HDR

HyperHDR – ambient lighting implementation

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

HyperHDR is an ambient lighting implementation for television and music sets based on the video and audio streams analysis

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Time tracking

Flowkeeper – Pomodoro Technique desktop timer

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Flowkeeper is a Pomodoro Technique desktop timer for power users. It is a simple tool, which focuses on doing one thing well.

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Keyboard

6 Best Free and Open Source Software KVM Switches

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The main function of a KVM switch is to control, switch between, and manage multiple PCs or servers via a single keyboard, monitor and mouse

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Documentation

asciit – compact ASCII table

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asciit is a more compact and intuitive ASCII table highlighting digits and letters.

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spigot – command-line exact real calculator

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

spigot is a command-line streaming exact real calculator. It’s written in the C++ programming language.

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snip – CLI snippets manager

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

snip is a simple snippet manager for bash, to save useful and important bash code snippets directly from the bash prompt.

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Keyboard

rkvm – virtual KVM switch for Linux machines

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

rkvm is a tool for sharing keyboard and mouse across multiple Linux machines. It is based on a client/server architecture

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USB

USBGuard – framework for implementing USB device authorization policies

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

The USBGuard software framework helps to protect your computer against rogue USB devices (a.k.a. BadUSB).

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Password Managers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Passwords

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Passwords is a password manager application which lets users store and access encrypted account information.

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Tools that help you

cheatshh – CLI tool to store commands

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cheatshh is an interactive CLI meant for managing command line cheatsheets, written in shell script.

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VoIP

matrix-commander – simple CLI-based Matrix client

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

matrix-commander is a simple but convenient CLI-based Matrix client app for sending and receiving.

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MCalc – calculator for performing simple mathematical operations

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

MCalc is a calculator for performing simple mathematical operations in all existing number systems.

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