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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Sticky – note-taking app

November 16, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Sticky is a note-taking app for the Linux desktop that simulates the traditional “sticky note” style stationery on your desktop.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Kooha – simple screen recorder

November 14, 2022 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Kooha is billed as a simple GTK-based app to “elegantly record your screen”. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Planner

November 11, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

Microsoft Planner is a planning application for creating Kanban boards. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: AES Crypt – file encryption tool

November 9, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Security, Software

AES Crypt is file encryption software that uses the industry standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to easily and securely encrypt files.

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Hard drive utility

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Disk Utility

November 4, 2022 Steve Emms Software, System Software, Utilities

Apple Disk Utility is a system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks on macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Saving Money with Linux: Gaming

November 2, 2022 Steve Emms Games, Software

Gaming is often synonymous with guzzling electricity. We explore ways to minimise your energy footprint while still having great fun.

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Best Free and Open Source Software – October 2022 Updates

November 1, 2022 Steve Emms Software

October 2022 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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System Administration

40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools

October 28, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Internet, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Imagine – image optimization

October 28, 2022 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Imagine is software to compress PNG, JPEG and WebP images. This graphical utility sports a modern interface.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: kmon – manage Linux kernel modules

October 26, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the Linux kernel modules and to monitor the kernel activities.

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PDF

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel PDF Document Writer

October 24, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

Corel PDF Document Writer lets users convert documents, emails, images and other file types into a PDF for viewing and sharing. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: No More Secrets – data decryption effects

October 19, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

No More Secrets (nms) is a command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 thriller film Sneakers.

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Linux

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Terminal

October 17, 2022 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Terminal provides a command line interface to control the UNIX-based operating system that lurks below macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: GreenWithEnvy – NVIDIA graphics card utility

October 14, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

GreenWithEnvy (GWE) is a system tool for NVIDIA graphics cards. This free and open source tool is written in Python.

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Spotify

Spotube – Flutter based lightweight Spotify client

October 12, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Spotube is billed as a “fast, modern, lightweight and efficient Spotify music client”. Here’s our verdict.

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Finance

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Stocks

October 10, 2022 Steve Emms Financial, Software

Apple Stocks is software which lets you view stock quotes, interactive historical data charts and current breaking business news. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Streaming Music

TIDAL Hi-Fi – Electron-based software for TIDAL

October 7, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

TIDAL Hi-Fi is a third-party music streaming program using Castlabs’ version of Electron for widevine support.

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Gaming

10 Fun Free and Open Source Turn-Based Strategy Games – Part 2

October 6, 2022 Lee Walker Games, Software

All of the games featured here have great gameplay, they’re immersive, fascinating, and hugely satisfying.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Teams

October 5, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – September 2022 Updates

October 1, 2022 Steve Emms Software

September 2022 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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