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Save Time and Effort with these Excellent Free and Open Source Batch Image Processors

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Batch image processors are often underrated and don’t get the attention they deserve. Here’s our verdict.

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Clipboard

Panox – clipboard manager

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Panox is a modern, visually appealing clipboard manager designed specifically for Wayland compositors.

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SSD

cull – reclaim precious disk space

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, TUI, Utilities

cull is a program written in Go that helps you clean up your system. It’s a lovely small utility. Give it a whirl!

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7 Best Free and Open Source Screen-Readers

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A screen-reader is a computer application designed to provide spoken feedback to a blind or visually impaired person.

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Hermes – package manager for Arch Linux

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Hermes is billed as a beautiful TUI package manager for Arch Linux.

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STU – S3 terminal user interface

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

STU, S3 Terminal UI, is a interactive terminal-based explorer for Amazon S3 (AWS S3).

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Shelly – modern Arch package manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shelly is a modern reimagination of the Arch Linux package manager, designed to be a user-friendly alternative to pacman and octopi.

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Password manager

Puny Manager – CLI password manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Puny Manager is a minimal, local, CLI password manager.

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fdir – search language for your filesystem

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fdir aims to offer a fast, intuitive way to find, filter, and act on files using human-friendly commands

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preset – save and run command presets

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

preset is a program for managing and running command sequences at once, so you don’t have to manually type your commands.

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cmdperf – interactive command performance benchmarking

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cmdperf is a terminal tool designed to quickly measure, compare, and understand the performance characteristics of shell commands.

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Selection of utilities

grepai – CLI for semantic code search

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grepai is a privacy-first CLI for semantic code search. It uses vector embeddings to understand code meaning.

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Selection of utilities

Celerator – TUI to debug and monitor Celery tasks

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Celerator is a TUI (Text User Interface) application for debugging and monitoring Celery tasks in real time.

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6 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images.

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Selection of utilities

dekl – declarative package and dotfile management for Arch Linux

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dekl allows you to define your system’s packages and configuration in YAML files, making your setup reproducible and version-controllable.

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Diff Tools

riff – wrapper around diff

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Riff is a wrapper around diff that highlights which parts of lines have changed.

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Files

FAT – modern TUI-based file and archive viewer

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI, Utilities

FAT is designed for developers and power users who want to quickly inspect files and peek inside archives.

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Small Image Tools

13 Small Image Tools that Pack a Real Punch

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers a vast collection of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the obvious to the bizarre.

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Best Free and Open Source Proof Assistants

5 Best Free and Open Source Proof Assistants

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific, Utilities

A proof assistant or interactive theorem prover is a software tool to assist with the development of formal proofs by human-machine collaboration.

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8N1Term – serial terminal

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

8N1Term is billed as a next-generation serial terminal that removes ASCII table lookup.

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