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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel WinZip

August 27, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

WinZip is a file archiver and compressor. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

Walk is a simple and minimalistic terminal navigator

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

walk is billed as a terminal file manager and a terminal navigator.

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Archive Manager

DarGUI – graphical frontend for DAR

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

DarGUI is a graphical frontend for the Disk ARchiving utility (DAR) that aims to make it easier and quicker to perform common backup tasks.

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Automation

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Script Editor

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Script Editor (also known as AppleScript Editor) is a code editor that lets you create powerful scripts, tools and even apps.

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Application Launchers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Launchpad

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Apple Launchpad is a central location where you can view all your apps and easily open them. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Hard drive utility

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple DiskImageMounter

August 25, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

DiskImageMounter is a utility that takes care of disk volume images. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ftp

August 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternative tools to ftp, a network protocol used for transferring files from one computer system to another.

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Awesome Linux Game Tools: GOverlay

August 23, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Utilities

GOverlay is a GUI tool used to manage MangoHud, vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery on Linux.

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Fonts

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Fonts

August 18, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Google Fonts is a font and web font service. It offers font families and an interactive web directory. We recommend open source alternatives.

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Chat logo

YTalk – multi-user chat program

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.

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Chat logo

utalk – UDP-based talk

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

utalk is a one-to-one text chat program alternative to the Unix ‘talk’ client, which uses a more responsive protocol built over UDP (instead of TCP).

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Chat logo

ntalk – chat application

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ntalk is a chat application. It is designed to be much more friendly than Unix talk and provide a nice console interface.

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Find

rename.pl – rename files using Perl expressions

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rename.pl allows renaming files using Perl code, such as regular expression replaces (s/old/new/), character translation, and other code.

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Documentation

renameutils – programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The file renaming utilities (renameutils for short) are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.

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Find

rename – rename multiple files

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This program renames files according to modification rules specified on the command line.

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hodie – prints the date in Latin

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hodie brings new functionality to your UNIX installations. It prints out the current date and time in Roman digits.

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datemath – date and time math utility

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

datemath is a command line date and time math utility. This is free and open source software written in the C language.

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qtime – clock coded in Rust

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qTime is a simple command-line application that retrieves the current user’s name and displays it along with the current date and time.

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Find

rdate – retrieve date and time from other machines

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock.

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Apple Calendar

khal – calendar program

August 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

khal is a calendar program for the terminal for viewing, adding and editing events and calendars.

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