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Category: Utilities

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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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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Font Tools

FreeType – software font engine

March 7, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

FreeType is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable .

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Think outside the box

explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text

February 7, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

explainshell is a tool (with a web interface) which parses man pages, extracts options and explains a given command-line by matching each argument to the relevant help text in the man page.

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Application Launchers

appImageHelper – create, delete, control and organize shortcuts to AppImage

January 30, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

appImageHelper is software for creating, deleting, controlling and organizing shortcuts to AppImage.

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Application Launchers

appimaged – AppImage daemon

January 30, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

appimaged is an experimental implementation of the optional AppImage daemon, appimaged, in Go.

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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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