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Utility Software

Acronym Decoder – explains acronyms and abbreviations

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Acronym Decoder is a simple tool for quick searching of meaning for various acronyms and abbreviations. It’s written in Pascal.

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Monitor System

LXTask – lightweight task manager for LXDE

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

LXTask is a lightweight and desktop-independent task manager derived from xfce4-taskmanager with all dependencies on xfce removed

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CmdCompass – collect, learn, recall terminal commands

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

cmdCompass is a command manager/notebook, enabling users to organize commands into collections, apply tags, define templates

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YASnippet – template system for Emacs

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

YASnippet is a template system for Emacs. It allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand it into function templates.

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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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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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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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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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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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Documentation Generators

Framed – Files and Directories Reusability, Architecture, and Management

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Framed is a CLI tool that simplifies the organization and management of files and directories in a reusable and architectural manner.

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Find Duplicates

backdown – a deduplicator

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Backdown helps you safely and ergonomically remove duplicate files. This is a command-line tool written in Rust.

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Keyboard

USBKVM – keyboard, video, and mouse over USB

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

USBKVM is a client app for the USBKVM hardware.

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Keyboard

Lan Mouse – mouse and keyboard sharing via LAN

January 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Lan Mouse is a cross-platform mouse and keyboard sharing software similar to universal-control on Apple devices.

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Keyboard

Input Leap – KVM software

January 24, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Input Leap is software that mimics the functionality of a KVM switch.

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Keyboard

Deskflow – keyboard and mouse sharing app

January 24, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Deskflow is a keyboard and mouse sharing app that supports Wayland, clipboard sharing, and TLS encryption.

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Keyboard

Barrier – software KVM

January 17, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Barrier is software that mimics the functionality of a KVM switch.

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