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Category: Utilities

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OptimusUI is a GUI for nVidia Optimus

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OptimusUI is a graphical user interface for Laptops with nVidia Optimus Technology (e.g. switchable graphics).

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duple finds and removes duplicate files

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duple will iterate through all files and directories that is given and find duplicate files (files are compared on their contents).

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Document viewer

Text Pieces is a developer’s scratchpad

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Utilities

Text Pieces is a small tool for quick text transformations such as checksums, encoding, decoding and so on.

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GNOME Extensions

Wardrobe is a GNOME customization tool

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Wardrobe is a utility for installing community made Gnome Shell, Gtk3/4, icon, and cursor themes as well as wallpapers.

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Emacs Software

8 Best Free and Open Source Emacs-Like Text Editors

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

The original program was written in 1976 as a set of macros for an existing text editor called TECO.

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Find

ast-grep performs structural search, lint and rewriting

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ast-grep (sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting.

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Subtitles

10 Best Free and Open Source Subtitle Editors

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

A subtitle editor is software that lets users create and edit subtitles. We pick the finest open source software.

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serpl is a TUI to search and replace keywords

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

serpl is a terminal user interface (TUI) application that allows users to search and replace keywords in an entire folder,

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OCR-Systems

10 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.

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Documents

12 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.

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