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Category: Utilities

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sad – Space Age seD

July 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sad is a batch file edit tool. It will show you a really nice diff of proposed changes before you commit them.

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Password Managers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Keychain Access

July 28, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Keychain Access stores your passwords and account information, and reduces the number of passwords you have to remember and manage. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Utilities

45 Outstanding Linux Utilities to Maximize your Productivity

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Productivity, Utilities

This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential utilities. These are small, indispensable tools, useful for anyone running a Linux machine.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: pastel – generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. This tool supports a variety of color formats and color spaces.

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Awesome Linux Game Tools: ProtonUp-Qt

July 24, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software, Utilities

ProtonUp-Qt is software which helps you install custom builds of Proton such as GE-Proton. ProtonUp-Qt sports a graphical front-end

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ccat – colorizing cat

July 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting. Written in Go.

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Find

touche – touch command

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

touche is a Rust implementation of the touch utility. This tool was inspired by bonk, another Rust implementation.

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Find

bonk – fast touch alternative

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bonk is billed as a blazingly fast touch alternative with a sprinkle of mkdir. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Noise

Awesome Linux Game Tools: NoiseTorch-ng

July 19, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Software, Utilities

NoiseTorch-ng is billed as an “easy to use open source application for Linux with PulseAudio or PipeWire”.

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Password Managers

prs – fast and secure password manager for the terminal

July 15, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

prs is a secure, fast and convenient password manager for the terminal. Security is backed by the battle-tested GPG.

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