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Category: Utilities

Dictionary Tools

xfce4-dict – client program to query dictionaries

April 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

xfce4-dict allows you to search different kinds of dictionary services for words or phrases and shows you the result.

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Dictionary Tools

EasyDict-GTK is a simple translator

April 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

EasyDict-GTK is a translator which is completely open with dictionary data too.

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Quick Lookup is a dictionary application powered by Wiktionary

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Utilities

Quick Lookup is a simple GTK dictionary application powered by Wiktionary (only the English version is supported).

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Documentation

File Shredder permanently deletes files

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

File Shredder is a file deletion program designed to permanently remove sensitive files from your computer, enhancing data privacy.

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Podcast

16 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Podcast Tools

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 16 high quality open source GUI podcast tools. They offer an excellent way to manage and download podcasts.

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Dictionary Tools

Words is a multilingual offline dictionary

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Words is a multilingual dictionary activity for the Sugar environment.

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Dictionary Tools

Lexi is a self-driven dictionary app

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Lexi is a self-driven dictionary app for those who want to make their language learning (or creating) structured and easy.

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Password Managers

rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden CLI

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden client which maintains a background process which is able to hold keys in memory.

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Mail Notification

Mail Notification Tools: 7 Best Free and Open Source Software

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Utilities

Email is arguably one of the most popular and useful functions of a Linux system. Keep abreast of new emails without interruption.

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Password Managers

Teller is a multi provider secret management tool

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

With Teller, never leave your terminal to use secrets while developing, testing, and building your apps.

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Password Managers

Bitwarden CLI – access and manage your vault

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The Bitwarden command-line interface (CLI) is a powerful, fully-featured tool for accessing and managing your vault.

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3 Best Free and Open Source Linux Magnifying Tools

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Roundup, Utilities

This roundup focuses on screen magnification accessibility tools.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

autoenv provides directory based environments

April 10, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

If a directory contains an .env file, it will automatically be executed when you cd into it.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mise manages installations of programming language runtimes

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mise is a tool that manages installations of programming language runtimes and other tools for local development.

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Images of shells by the sea

20 Best Free and Open Source Shells

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform. We recommend the finest free and open source shells.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

direnv unclutters your .profile

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

direnv is an extension for your shell that manages your environment.

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Selection of utilities

quickenv is an unobtrusive environment manager

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

quickenv is a replacement for direnv. It works with existing .envrcs, and as such is a drop-in replacement.

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Selection of utilities

Shadowenv performs a set of manipulations to the process environment

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shadowenv provides a way to perform a set of manipulations to the process environment upon entering a directory in a shell.

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Selection of utilities

asdf is an extendable version manager

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

zsh-autoenv automatically sources .autoenv.zsh files

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

zsh-autoenv automatically sources (known/whitelisted) .autoenv.zsh files, typically used in project root directories.

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