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Category: Utilities

File Managers

Excellent GTK File Managers to Manage your Filesystem

March 4, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

We recently visited 15 Qt file managers. This article reviews 15 Gtk file managers.

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File Managers

Qt File Managers Roundup: Excellent Ways to Manage your Filesystem

February 25, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

It makes sense to use Qt based software with KDE. Benefits include memory savings, and better integration with the KDE desktop. However, if you prefer other desktop environments, these Qt file managers still work admirably. We review 15 Qt file managers.

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Latte-Dock

Latte – Excellent KDE Dock based on Plasma Frameworks

February 15, 2019 John O'Donnell Desktop, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: QJournalctl – Graphical User Interface for systemd’s journalctl

February 13, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities.

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Speech Recognition

Crow Translate – free desktop translation software

January 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

Crow Translate bills itself as a cross-platform, lightweight, translator supporting 117 different languages.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: Krusader – KDE file manager

January 16, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Krusader is an advanced, twin-panel (commander-style) file manager designed for KDE Plasma. Krusader also runs on other popular Linux desktop environments such as GNOME.

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Compression

Best Linux Multi-Core Compression Tools

January 9, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article surveys compression software that makes full use of multi-core processors when compressing files. Many of the tools also offer decompression speedups too.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: fdupes – find or delete duplicate files

January 4, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

fdupes finds duplicate files in the given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. The utility offers a lot of options to list, delete and replace files.

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Stacer Dashboard

Stacer – system optimizer and monitoring software

November 28, 2018 John O'Donnell Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Stacer is an open source system optimizer and application monitor for users needing an easy way to manage systems with different aspects. It’s an all in one system utility featuring a responsive design. Stacer welcomes the user with a modern window featuring a variety of tabs.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: catfish – versatile file searching software

November 2, 2018 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the seventh in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. Catfish is a graphical search utility written in Python.

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