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Excellent Utilities: Cerebro – productivity tool

December 14, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Cerebro is billed as a launcher to improve your productivity and efficiency. This is free and open source software.

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Excellent Utilities: KOReader – versatile document viewer

December 9, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

KOReader is a document viewer for a wide variety of file formats. It’s available for Linux, Android, and E Ink devices.

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Sticky Notes

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Stickies

November 18, 2022 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Stickies is a small utility that lets users keep notes, lists and pictures in sticky notes on the desktop. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Excellent Utilities: Sticky – note-taking app

November 16, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Sticky is a note-taking app for the Linux desktop that simulates the traditional “sticky note” style stationery on your desktop.

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Game Tools

Awesome Linux Game Tools: Heroic Games Launcher – GOG and Epic Games

November 7, 2022 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Utilities

Heroic Games Launcher (“Heroic”) is a free and open source games launcher for Epic Games and GOG. It’s a cross-platform tool.

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Hard drive utility

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Disk Utility

November 4, 2022 Steve Emms Software, System Software, Utilities

Apple Disk Utility is a system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks on macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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System Administration

40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools

October 28, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Internet, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.

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Excellent Utilities: Imagine – image optimization

October 28, 2022 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Imagine is software to compress PNG, JPEG and WebP images. This graphical utility sports a modern interface.

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Essential System Tools: kmon – manage Linux kernel modules

October 26, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the Linux kernel modules and to monitor the kernel activities.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: No More Secrets – data decryption effects

October 19, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

No More Secrets (nms) is a command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 thriller film Sneakers.

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Linux

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Terminal

October 17, 2022 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Terminal provides a command line interface to control the UNIX-based operating system that lurks below macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: GreenWithEnvy – NVIDIA graphics card utility

October 14, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

GreenWithEnvy (GWE) is a system tool for NVIDIA graphics cards. This free and open source tool is written in Python.

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Excellent Utilities: CopyQ – advanced clipboard manager

September 30, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager. This software stores content of the system clipboard whenever it changes.

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PDF

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Preview

September 23, 2022 Steve Emms Graphics, Office, Utilities

Preview is an image viewer and PDF viewer for the macOS operating system. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Screen Capture

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Screenshot

September 9, 2022 Steve Emms Graphics, Software, Utilities

Apple Screenshot is a small utility that’s part of macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Task Manager

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Reminders

August 22, 2022 Steve Emms Productivity, Software, Utilities

Apple Reminders is a task management program to create lists and set notifications. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Snipping Tool

August 17, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software, Utilities

Snipping Tool is a screenshot utility. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Remote Display

14 Best Free and Open Source Remote Display Software

August 9, 2022 Steve Emms Internet, Software, Utilities

This article examines the best free Linux remote desktop clients and terminal servers. We feature free and open source software.

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Learning

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Dictionary

July 29, 2022 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Dictionary is a small utility that lets users easily get definitions of words and phrases from a variety of sources. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Notes

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Notes

July 18, 2022 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Notes is a notetaking app designed to jot down quick thoughts or to save longer notes filled with checklists, images, web links, scanned documents, handwritten notes, or sketches. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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