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Category: Utilities

Application Launchers

Zap – package manager for AppImages

March 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Zap is billed as a amazingly simple AppImage package manager for Linux. Zap supports desktop integration, delta updates and your favorite command line syntax. It also install AppOmages directly from your browser, a click away by downloading AppImages supporting the

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Application Launchers

AppMan – manage AppImages packages and standalone apps

March 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

AppMan is a portable mode for non-sudo users.

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Compression

crabz – like pigz but written in Rust

March 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crabz is a fast, compression and decompression tool. crabz is just a wrapper for the gzp library.

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Compression

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Parallel Lossless Compression Tools

March 18, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This roundup focuses on lossless compression tools which use multiple cores. Only free and open source software is included here.

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Application Launchers

6 Best Free and Open Source AppImage Desktop Integration Tools

March 18, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Here’s our survey of tools which help integrate AppImages into your desktop. Only free and open source software is included.

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Application Launchers

Pin It! – pin shortcuts for your favorite portable apps to your app launcher

March 17, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Pin It! is a small utility which lets you pin shortcuts for portable apps to your app launcher.

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Log Analyzers

angle-grinder – slice and dice logs

March 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

angle-grinder is a command-line tool which lets you slice and dice log files. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

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Batch Renamers

Szyszka – fast and powerful file renamer

March 14, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Szyszka is a simple but powerful and fast bulk file renamer.

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Think outside the box

Machine Learning: Shell Genie – interact with the terminal in plain English

March 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

Shell Genie is a command-line tool that lets you interact with the terminal in plain English.

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Font Tools

HarfBuzz – text shaping library

March 7, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine.It solves the problem of selecting and positioning glyphs from a font given a Unicode string.

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