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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: mdless – formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files

June 10, 2019 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Utilities

mdless is a utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in a console. The software is free and open source.

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Excellent Utilities: Abricotine – open source Markdown editor

June 5, 2019 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Utilities

Abricotine is an open source, cross-platform Markdown editor built for the desktop with inline preview functionality.

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MapSCII

MapSCII – console based Braille and ASCII map renderer

June 3, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

MapSCII is a Node.js based Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals. It’s billed as the whole world in your console.

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Halo

Halo – Weather software written in Python

May 3, 2019 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Halo lets you view the weather in your town/city and check out the forecast and historic temperature trends. Halo identifies your location based on your IP address. But you can also add other locations.

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Excellent Utilities: Paperwork – personal document manager

April 26, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Paperwork is designed to simplify the management of your paperwork. The software lets you scan or import your documents, and quickly find what you want, wrapped together in a GTK interface.

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Excellent Utilities: lnav – the log file navigator

April 22, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the second in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. For this article, we’ll put lnav under the spotlight.

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Essential System Tools: Unison – Excellent Console and Graphical File Synchronization Software

April 3, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Unison is a file-synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

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Excellent Utilities: tmux – terminal multiplexer software

April 1, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

This is the first in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities. For the first article, we put tmux under the spotlight.

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Filemanagers

Shallot – Qt-based file manager with plugin interface

March 20, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Shallot is billed as a file manager with the maximum degree of flexibility and customization. It’s Qt-based. We put it to the test together with 15 other Qt-based file managers.

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File Managers

9 Admirable Graphical File Managers

March 18, 2019 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

We covered many high quality file managers in our Qt File Managers Roundup and GTK File Managers Roundups. But there are graphical non-Qt and non-GTK file managers available. Here’s our favorites.

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