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Wallpaper Setter

mpvpaper – video wallpaper software

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

mpvpaper is a wallpaper program for wlroots based Wayland compositors, such as sway.

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Flash OS

JustDD is a USB Image Writer

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

JustDD is a simple graphical tool to write Linux and Windows ISO images to USB drives. It is designed for ease of use, safety, and flexibility

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Linux Candy: walrs – fast colorscheme generator

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

walrs is a command-line program that generates a color scheme from the dominant colors in an image.

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Turkey

AdventureLog is a self-hostable travel tracker and trip planner

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

With AdventureLog, you can log your adventures, keep track of where you’ve been on the world map, and plan your next trip collaboratively.

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Bookmark manager tool

crumbs is a bookmarking system for the command line

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crumbs is a command-line utility for the shell, for storing commands under a meaningful name in a hierarchy.

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Clocks

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Clocks

May 11, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

The clocks featured in this article are more sophisticated than the basic tray clock.

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Turkey

KDE Itinerary is a digital travel assistant

May 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KDE Itinerary is a digital travel assistant that protects your privacy. It makes collecting all the information about your travel inside a single application easy and straightforward.

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Turkey

KTrip is a public transport navigator

May 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Find journeys between specified locations, departures for a specific station and shows real-time delay and disruption information.

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Voice Recognition

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Siri

May 7, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Siri (Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface) is a digital assistant which helps you with the things you need to find, know or do.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

KRuler is an on-screen ruler

May 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KDE Screen Ruler (KRuler) is a very simple application, with only one aim in life. To measure pixel distances on your screen.

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Bookmark manager tool

nb is a command line and local note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base

May 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Productivity, Utilities

nb creates notes in text-based formats like Markdown, Org, LaTeX, and AsciiDoc, can work with files in any format

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ricksay – Rick and Morty quotes of the day

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ricksay builds on the work from ponysay. It provides funny quotes from Rick and Morty Adventures for your console.

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Stamps

10 Best Free and Open Source Collection Managers

April 30, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

There is a wide range of collection manager software available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source options.

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Text Editor

NFO Viewer is a viewer for NFO files

April 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

NFO Viewer is a simple viewer for NFO files, which are “ASCII” art in the CP437 codepage.

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Password Managers

Pasaffe is an easy to use password manager for GNOME

April 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Pasaffe is an easy to use password manager for GNOME with a Password Safe 3.0 compatible database.

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telert – alerts for your terminal

April 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

telert is a lightweight utility that sends notifications to Telegram, Teams, Slack, plays audio alerts, or shows desktop notifications.

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Passes

Passes is a GUI tool to manage your digital passes

April 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Passes is a digital pass manager made with libadwaita for the GNOME desktop.

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Keyboard

Solaar is a Linux manager for Logitech keyboards, mice and trackpads

April 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Solaar is a Linux manager for Logitech keyboards, mice, and trackpads connecting wirelessly to a USB Unifying, Bolt, Lightspeed and more.

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Fonts

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel Font Viewer

April 23, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Utilities

Corel Font Viewer is a standalone application bundled with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite and Corel PHOTO-PAINT to manage font libraries.

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IMSProg – I2C, SPI and Microwire EEPROM/Flash chip programmer

April 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

IMSProg is open source software for CH341A-based programmers to work with I2C, SPI and MicroWire EEPROM/Flash chips.

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