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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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Flash OS

UNetbootin – create bootable Live USB drives

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

UNetbootin (Universal Netbook Installer) creates live USB drives that can install Linux or BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive without a CD.

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Flash OS

MultiWriter – write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

MultiWriter lets you write an ISO file to multiple USB devices simultaneously.

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Batch Renamers

edir – command line utility to rename, remove, and copy filenames and directories

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

edir is a command line utility to rename, remove, and copy filenames and directories using your text editor.

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Batch Renamers

vidir – edit of the contents of a directory in a text editor

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor. If no directory is specified, the current directory is edited.

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Batch Renamers

rename – rename multiple files using Perl expressions

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rename is a utility that renames multiple files using Perl expressions.

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Batch Renamers

F2 – Command-line batch renaming tool

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

F2 is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely.

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Find Duplicates

rmlint – fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it.

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Find Duplicates

jdupes – powerful duplicate file finder and enhanced fork of fdupes

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

jdupes is a powerful duplicate file finder and an enhanced fork of ‘fdupes’.

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Find Duplicates

FSlint – duplicate file finder

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of unwanted extraneous files on a computer file system.

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Find Duplicates

rdfind – redundant data find

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

rdfind is a program that finds duplicate files. It is useful for compressing backup directories or just finding duplicate files.

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Wallpaper Setter

Superpaper – advanced multi monitor wallpaper manager

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Superpaper is an advanced multi monitor wallpaper manager. Superpaper is free and open source software written in Python.

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Wallpaper Setter

Komorebi – animated wallpaper manager

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Komorebi is a beautiful and customizable animated wallpaper manager for all Linux platforms.

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Wallpaper Setter

HydraPaper – GTK utility to set different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

HydraPaper is a GTK utility to set different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME. The utility also runs under MATE, Cinnamon, and Budgie.

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Wallpaper Setter

wpgtk – colorscheme, wallpaper and template manager

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

wpgtk is a simple to use colorscheme, wallpaper and template manager.

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Wallpaper Setter

Wall Changer – automatic wallpaper changer

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Wall Changer is an automatic wallpaper changer.

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