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Cx File Explorer

Best Free Android Apps: Cx File Explorer – powerful file manager

January 29, 2021 Eilidih Parris Android, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Here’s our verdict on Cx File Explorer, a file manager for Android.

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Zeal - Documentation Browser

Zeal – simple offline documentation browser

January 25, 2021 Steve Emms Programming, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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

espanso – smart and efficient text expander

December 18, 2020 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Software, Utilities

espanso is a text expander, software that detects when you type a specific keyword and replaces it with something else.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Gromit-MPX – desktop annotation tool

December 11, 2020 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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: What happened to DFileManager?

December 9, 2020 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Now and Then looks at what happened to a really interesting file manager, DFileManager.

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Utility Software

GoTTy – turn CLI tools into web applications

November 16, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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

Linux Candy: Pywal – color schemes on the fly

November 6, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Pywal is Python software that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image.

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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: Ventoy – create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

November 2, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

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 - File managers

Now and Then: What happened to 5 promising file managers?

October 28, 2020 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

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

Linux Candy: XDecorations – Holiday lights and more

October 9, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: fd – superior alternative to the venerable find

October 5, 2020 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

fd is a utility that searches for files in a directory hierarchy. Here’s our review.

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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool

September 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

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

dupeGuru – find duplicate files

September 28, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

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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Markdown

Apostrophe – distraction free Markdown editor

September 23, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Apostrophe is a distraction free Markdown editor written in Python. Apostrophe is free and open source software.

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Terminal Image Viewer

Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal

September 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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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Moving Forward with Linux

Now and Then: What happened to 3 promising open source Linux terminal emulators?

September 12, 2020 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

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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Linux Candy

Linux Candy – Free and Open Source Software that’s Fun

September 8, 2020 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Linux Candy is a series of articles covering interesting eye candy software. We only feature open source software in this series.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: eDEX-UI – sci-fi computer terminal emulator and system monitor

September 7, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface.

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BpyTOP

BpyTOP – resource monitor tool

September 4, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

BpyTOP is a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It’s a Python port of bashtop. Here’s our review.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Variety – wallpaper changer software

August 28, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Variety is a wallpaper manager for Linux systems. It supports numerous desktops and wallpaper sources, including local files and online services: Flickr, Wallhaven, Unsplash, and more.

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