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Category: Utilities

Utilities

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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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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System Administration

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

Excellent GTK File Managers to Manage your Filesystem

March 4, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

We recently visited 15 Qt file managers. This article reviews 15 Gtk file managers.

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File Managers

Qt File Managers Roundup: Excellent Ways to Manage your Filesystem

February 25, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

It makes sense to use Qt based software with KDE. Benefits include memory savings, and better integration with the KDE desktop. However, if you prefer other desktop environments, these Qt file managers still work admirably. We review 15 Qt file managers.

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Latte-Dock

Latte – Excellent KDE Dock based on Plasma Frameworks

February 15, 2019 John O'Donnell Desktop, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.

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