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3D Printer

Cura – 3D printing slicer

February 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Cura is a powerful 3D-printing slicer with 400+ settings, tested profiles, painting tools and support for a wide range of printers.

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Images of shells by the sea

arsh – statically typed scripting language

February 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

arsh is a statically typed scripting language with shell-like features.

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Magnus – very simple screen magnifier

February 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Magnus is billed as a very simple screen magnifier. It’s designed for Ubuntu but runs on other Linux distributions.

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QR Tools

QRab – QR code reader

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

QRab is software that grabs text of QR code from a screen and copies it to the clipboard.

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QR Tools

Zint – barcode and QR code generation software

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Zint generates QR codes and more than 50 barcode formats through a Qt interface, command-line tool and C library, with output options.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Magnifier

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Magnifier is a screen magnifier app intended for visually impaired people to use when running Microsoft Windows. We recommend the best FOSS alternatives.

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Flashcards

hascard – terminal flashcard and note review tool

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI, Utilities

hascard is a Haskell flashcard tool with Markdown decks, multiple question formats, configurable review sessions and import/export features

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QR Tools

libqrencode – C library for generating QR codes

February 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

libqrencode is a compact C library and command-line encoder for QR codes, supporting bitmap output, structured append and Micro QR symbols.

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QR Tools

ClipQR – scan QR codes from the screen or camera

February 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

ClipQR scans QR codes on the desktop screen or using a camera, supports multiple displays and puts decoded results on the clipboard.

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QR Tools

Decoder – GNOME QR code scanner and generator

February 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Decoder is a utility for scanning QR codes from a camera or screenshot, creating new codes and keeping a history of scanned information.

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Magnifiqus – Qt based screen magnifier

February 17, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Magnifiqus is a screen magnifier system tray tool; once started, a floating window appears after clicking on the tray icon.

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KMagnifier – screen magnifier

February 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KMagnifier is a screen magnifier created by KDE.

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QR Tools

Qrca – KDE QR code and barcode scanner

February 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Qrca is a KDE QR and barcode scanner for Plasma Desktop and Mobile, with camera and image scanning, Wi-Fi connections and code creation.

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Monitoring

stree – visualize the directory tree structure of an S3 bucket

February 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stree is a CLI tool designed to visualize the directory tree structure of an S3 bucket.

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GNOME Extensions

Refine – tweak various aspects of GNOME

February 14, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Refine is a simple tool that lets you tweak various aspects of GNOME.

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Utility Software

greentext – create green-text memes

February 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The GreenText Generator CLI is a command-line tool built with Go that lets you create classic greentext with ease.

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Remote Display

Dippi – calculate display info like DPI and aspect ratio

February 12, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Dippi is a tool which can analyze any display. Input a few details and figure out the aspect ratio, DPI, and details of a particular display.

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Home Automation

Butler – companion for Home Assistant

February 12, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Butler is a hybrid native and web app for Home Assistant. Butler is designed and developed on and for GNOME.

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QR Tools

AR Tag Placement and Finder Tool – create and position visual markers

February 11, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Utilities

AR Tag Placement and Finder Tool positions QR codes and AR markers on images, supports custom layouts and saves marker settings to JSON.

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QR Tools

qr-rs – generate QR codes from the command line

February 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qr-rs generates QR codes from text and terminal input, with custom colours, borders, error correction and PNG, JPEG or SVG output.

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