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Application Launchers

AIDM – create desktop shortcuts to AppImage applications

January 30, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

AppImage Desktop Maker (AIDM) is simple software that creates desktop shortcuts to .AppImage applications.

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Application Launchers

AppImageLauncher – integrate AppImages to your application launcher

January 19, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

AppImageLauncher is C++ software which integrates AppImages to your application launcher with a single click.

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System Administration

bauh – manage your Linux applications

January 18, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

bauh is a graphical interface that lets you manage your software.

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Application Launchers

Gear Lever – utility to manage AppImages

January 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Gear Lever is a Python utility which lets us manage AppImages.

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Google Translate Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Translate

December 23, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service that translates text and websites from one language into another.

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Christmas

Linux Candy: christmasfetch – a festive command-line utility

December 22, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

As Christmas is fast approaching, it’s the right time for a small festive utility. Step forward christmasfetch.

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Monitor System

ttop – system monitoring tool

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ttop is a system monitoring tool with historical snapshots and alerts. It has a top-like TUI. It’s written in Nim.

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Start up

rEFInd – EFI boot manager

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer first starts up.

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Start up

Plymouth – boot splash and boot logger

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Plymouth provides a splash screen and progress updates during early boot.

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Start up

bootchart2 – merge of bootchart-collector and pybootchartgui

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

bootchart2 is a merge of bootchart-collector and pybootchartgui.

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Start up

OProfile – statistical profiler

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent system-wide profiler for Linux, capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes.

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Start up

Grub Customizer – configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menu entries

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to alter the Grub 2 settings. It focuses on the individual list order without losing grub’s dynamical behavior.

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Start up

e4rat – Ext4 – Reducing Access Times

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

e4rat (“Ext4 – Reducing Access Times”) is a toolset to accelerate the boot process as well as application startups.

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Home Automation

HEYU – X10 automation software

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

HEYU is a text-based console program that allows your computer to control devices by transmitting information over your house’s power lines.

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Home Automation

Minerva – home automation suite

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Minerva is a complete, easy to use, home automation suite. Using Minerva you can make your home easier and cheaper to run and more secure.

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Home Automation

MisterHouse – home automation software

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

MisterHouse is a cross platform home automation application. It supports X10, voice recognition and several serial devices.

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Home Automation

BottleRocket – home automation software for the X10 FireCracker kit

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BottleRocket is a command-line utility to interact with the Firecracker version of X10’s home control devices.

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Home Automation

BlueLava – CGI interface for x10 home automation

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

BlueLava allows users to control x10-compliant electronics and x10 modules from within a web browser or a WAP/WML-enabled device.

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Flash OS

Etcher – flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Etcher is an image burner with multi-platform support. It makes USB and SD card image burning as effortless as possible.

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Flash OS

MultiBootUSB – create multi boot live Linux on a removable USB disk

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

MultiBootUSB is software to create multi boot live Linux on a removable USB disk. Similar to UNetbootin but many distros can be installed

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