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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

Gauge – unit converter

August 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Gauge is a high precision unit conversion tool. Convert length, area, volume, temperature, speed, duration, frequency, and more.

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Controller illustration

Input Remapper – change the behaviour of input devices

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI, Utilities

Input Remapper is an easy to use tool for Linux to change the behaviour of your input devices.

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Essential System Utils

psrecord – record the CPU and memory activity of a process

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

psrecord is a small utility that uses the psutil library to record the CPU and memory activity of a process.

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PikaOS desktop (KDE)

Save Desktop – saves your Linux desktop environment configuration

August 10, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Save Desktop lets you save your current configuration (themes, icons, wallpapers, desktop environment settings, extensions.) with one click.

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Selection of utilities

vet – curl sanity checker

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky curl | bash pattern.

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

cxt – extract and aggregate project context

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

cxt is a command-line tool that aggregates file and directory contents into your clipboard.

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Monitoring

tree++ – tree command with icons

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a depth indented listing of files. tree++ adds icons.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

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Selection of utilities

kat – cat command with syntax highlighting

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kat is a cat command with syntax highlighting for a variety of different programming languages including C, C++, Python, JavaScript, and more.

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