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Category: Utilities

Application Launchers

Pin It! – pin shortcuts for your favorite portable apps to your app launcher

March 17, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Pin It! is a small utility which lets you pin shortcuts for portable apps to your app launcher.

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Batch Renamers

Szyszka – fast and powerful file renamer

March 14, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Szyszka is a simple but powerful and fast bulk file renamer.

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Think outside the box

Machine Learning: Shell Genie – interact with the terminal in plain English

March 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

Shell Genie is a command-line tool that lets you interact with the terminal in plain English.

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Think outside the box

explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text

February 7, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

explainshell is a tool (with a web interface) which parses man pages, extracts options and explains a given command-line by matching each argument to the relevant help text in the man page.

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Application Launchers

AppImageLauncher – integrate AppImages to your application launcher

January 19, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

AppImageLauncher is C++ software which integrates AppImages to your application launcher with a single click.

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System Administration

bauh – manage your Linux applications

January 18, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

bauh is a graphical interface that lets you manage your software.

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Application Launchers

Gear Lever – utility to manage AppImages

January 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Gear Lever is a Python utility which lets us manage AppImages.

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Christmas

Linux Candy: christmasfetch – a festive command-line utility

December 22, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

As Christmas is fast approaching, it’s the right time for a small festive utility. Step forward christmasfetch.

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Monitor System

ttop – system monitoring tool

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ttop is a system monitoring tool with historical snapshots and alerts. It has a top-like TUI. It’s written in Nim.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: eza – replacement for ls

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

eza is a modern, maintained replacement for ls, built on exa. It has some new features such as hyperlink support.

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Documents

g – powerful and cross-platform ls

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

g is an alternative to ls with lots of configurability. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.

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Files

Xplorer is a modern file explorer written in TypeScript

October 4, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Xplorer is a modern take on the navigational file manager. It’s free and open source software written in TypeScript and Rust.

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Grunge paint background

Linux Candy: pscircle visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree

September 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.

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Flash OS

USBImager – cross-platform disk image writer

September 25, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

USBImager is a very simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives.

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Log Analyzers

s-tui is a terminal-based stress test and monitoring tool

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Stress-Terminal UI, s-tui, is a monitoring tool for your CPU’s temperature, frequency, power and utilization

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Image of Files

Bulky is a simple tool to bulk rename files and directories

September 21, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Bulky is GUI software that lets you rename files and directories. While it’s developed by Mint it’s not tied to any Linux distro or desktop.

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Speech

Machine Learning in Linux: Speech Note

September 13, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software, Utilities

Speech Note lets you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation.

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Archive Manager

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel WinZip

August 27, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

WinZip is a file archiver and compressor. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

Walk is a simple and minimalistic terminal navigator

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

walk is billed as a terminal file manager and a terminal navigator.

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Automation

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Script Editor

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Script Editor (also known as AppleScript Editor) is a code editor that lets you create powerful scripts, tools and even apps.

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