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Emoji

Feeling Finder – help convey emotion in text communication

July 21, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Feeling Finder is software to help convey emotion in text communication. It’s written in Dart and C++.

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System Administration

malcontent – implements parental controls support

July 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

malcontent implements support for restricting the type of content accessible to non-administrator accounts on a Linux system.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Notepad

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Notepad is a simple text editor; it creates and edits plain text documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Albania

lsix – ls for images

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Utilities

lsix is like the ls command but for images.The tool shows thumbnails in a terminal using sixel graphics. It’s written in Bash.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: navi – interactive cheatsheet tool

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

navi lets you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands.

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System Administration

jdFlatpakSnapshot – create snapshot of a Flatpak’s data

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

jdFlatpakSnapshot is a tool which lets you create a snapshot of the data of a Flatpak.

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OCR Tools

6 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images. We only feature open source software here.

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Find Duplicates

9 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Search the Filesystem

July 12, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.

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Security

Obfuscate – utility to censor private information

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Security, Utilities

Obfuscate is a simple GTK-based utility that’s designed to censor private information.

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Find Duplicates

Heatseeker – general-purpose fuzzy selector

July 7, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Heatseeker is a rewrite of selecta, a general-purpose fuzzy selector.

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Audio

10 Best Free and Open Source Audio Converters

July 4, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 10 high quality free and open source Linux audio converters.

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Find Duplicates

SeaGOAT – semantic-code search engine

July 3, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

SeaGOAT is a local search tool that leverages vector embeddings to enable you to search your codebase semantically.

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Wallpaper

Damask – automatically set wallpaper images

July 2, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Damask is a simple utility that automatically sets wallpaper images by selecting images from a variety of sources.

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Calendar

12 Best Free and Open Source GUI-Based Calendar Software

July 2, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

You don’t need a proprietary hosted solution for your calendar needs. There are open source projects offering a perfect fit.

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Home Automation

Gladys Assistant – privacy-first home assistant

June 30, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Gladys Assistant is a PWA (Progressive Web App) that lets users craft a smart home experience.

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Motherboard

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple System Information

June 29, 2024 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple System information provides a system report containing detailed information about a Mac. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: HyFetch – neofetch with LGBTQ+ pride flags

June 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

HyFetch is a fork of neofetch that displays distro ASCII art in LGBTQ+ pride colours. It’s written in Python.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Sticky Notes

June 24, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Microsoft Sticky Notes is a utility to create notes, type, ink or add a picture, add text formatting, and stick them to the desktop.

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Files

vimv – mass rename files using Vim

June 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

vimv is a terminal-based file rename utility that lets you easily mass-rename files using Vim.

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Search

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Desktop Search Engines

June 23, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.

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