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Category: Utilities

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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Application Launchers

22 Best Free and Open Source Linux Application Launchers

May 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Application launchers play an integral part in making the Linux desktop a more productive environment to work and play.

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Character Map

gucharmap – character map

May 22, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

GNOME Character Map (gucharmap) is a Unicode character map. This software allows characters to be displayed by unicode block or script type.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Character Map

May 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Character Map is a utility to view the characters in any installed font, to check what keyboard input is used to enter those characters.

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Character Map

Characters – simple utility application to find and insert unusual characters

May 20, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Characters is a simple utility to find and insert unusual characters. It allows users to quickly find the character sought.

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Character Map

KCharSelect – character map tool

May 19, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

KCharSelect is a tool to select special characters from all installed fonts and copy them in different format.

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Character Map

Charmap – powerful character map

May 18, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Charmap is a powerful character map. It works on Unix-like operating systems with the GNUstep installed.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Narrator

May 17, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Narrator is a screen reader that’s included with every copy of Microsoft Windows. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Universal Access

13 Best Free and Open Source Universal Access Tools

May 2, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Accessibility is the degree to which products, devices, services, or environments are available to as many people as possible whatever their circumstances. Accessibility is paramount. Social inclusion is not an act of charity but a fundamental human right.

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Universal Access

Mouse actions – execute commands from mouse events

April 30, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Mouse actions allows users to execute some commands from mouse events such as clicks / wheel on the side / corners of the screen, or drawing shapes.

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Odilia – Rust-based screen reader

April 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Odilia is a screen reader for the Linux desktop. It’s fast and easy to build from the source code.

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