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Category: Utilities

Font Tools

Ygt is a graphical TypeType hinting program

May 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Ygt is a Python app for hinting TrueType fonts. It is built to be fast, flexible, and open source.

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Dot Matrix creates glyphs

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Utilities

Dot Matrix is a GUI tool which acts as glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.

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Navigation

INAV Configurator is a tool for the INAV flight control system

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

INAV Configurator lets you program and customize the INAV firmware running on flight controllers.

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Navigation

Mission Planner is software used to control autonomous vehicles

May 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Mission Planner is a ground station for communicating with autonomous aircraft, vehicles, or boats running Ardupilot firmware.

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Documents

lscoltui lets you change the colours of ls

May 23, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

This small tool is written in Rust.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Picture Of The Day – your daily wallpaper

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

Picture Of The Day is a GUI tool that grabs a picture of the day from a variety of sources and sets it as your wallpaper.

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Selection of utilities

Contrast checks the contrast between two colors

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Contrast checks whether the contrast between two colors meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements.

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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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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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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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