scrcpy is a free and open source screen mirroring application that lets you control an Android device from your desktop computer.
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Category: Utilities
Boop-GTK – scriptable scratchpad for developers
Boop-GTK is is promoted as a scratchpad designed to help developers work with code snippets.
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Bulk URL Opener – manage and use large numbers of URLs
Bulk URL Opener is free and open source software that lets you manage and use a large number of URLs.
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ScreenCloud – screenshot sharing tool
ScreenCloud is a screenshot tool that’s designed for network services such as Dropbox and Imgur.
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Best Free Android Apps: Cx File Explorer – powerful file manager
Here’s our verdict on Cx File Explorer, a file manager for Android.
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Zeal – simple offline documentation browser
Zeal is billed as a simple offline documentation browser offering access to a huge database of documentation, API manuals, and code snippets.
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espanso – smart and efficient text expander
espanso is a text expander, software that detects when you type a specific keyword and replaces it with something else.
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Gromit-MPX – desktop annotation tool
Gromit-MPX (GRaphics Over Miscellaneous Things) is a utility to make annotations on the desktop.
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Now and Then: What happened to DFileManager?
Now and Then looks at what happened to a really interesting file manager, DFileManager.
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GoTTy – turn CLI tools into web applications
GoTTY turns CLI tools into web applications. GoTTY uses xterm.js and hterm to run a JavaScript based terminal on web browsers.
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Linux Candy: Pywal – color schemes on the fly
Pywal is Python software that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image.
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Excellent System Utilities: Ventoy – create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
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Now and Then: What happened to 5 promising file managers?
Back in 2012, we carried a feature looking at 5 file managers that received little media coverage but which carried bountiful promise.
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Linux Candy: XDecorations – Holiday lights and more
XDecorations is a small utility that lets you add decorations to your desktop. It’s our latest addition to the fun Linux Candy series.
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Excellent Utilities: fd – superior alternative to the venerable find
fd is a utility that searches for files in a directory hierarchy. Here’s our review.
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Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool
CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.
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dupeGuru – find duplicate files
dupeGuru finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. Here’s our review of this open source program.
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Apostrophe – distraction free Markdown editor
Apostrophe is a distraction free Markdown editor written in Python. Apostrophe is free and open source software.
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Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal
Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.
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Now and Then: What happened to 3 promising open source Linux terminal emulators?
This is a new feature that looks at the progress made by open source software which appeared highly promising. Have they reached production quality, are they best-of-breed in their field, or only remembered like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail? We look at 3 terminal emulators.
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