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Apple Messages

BlueBubbles is a cross-platform app ecosystem

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

BlueBubbles is a cross-platform ecosystem of apps aimed to bring iMessage to Android, Windows, Linux, and the Web.

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OpenBubbles is a cross-platform app ecosystem

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

OpenBubbles is an open-source and cross-platform ecosystem of apps aimed to bring Apple platform services

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Find Duplicates

16 Best Free and Open Source CLI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

This roundup focuses on free and open source command-line tools that help you find and remove duplicate files.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dd

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to dd, a popular utility to convert and copy a file.

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Kubackup is a file backup system built on restic

March 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Kubackup is a simple, modern Restic Web UI. It adds rich functions and ease of use to provide a more comprehensive data protection experience.

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Abandon – double-entry accounting system

March 22, 2025 Steve Emms Financial, GUI, TUI

Abandon is a text based, double-entry accounting system. It’s forked from ledger.

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GNU Radio is a radio ecosystem

March 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

GNU Radio is a signal processing runtime and signal processing software development toolkit.

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Command Schedulers

SysD Manager – GUI tool to manage systemd units

March 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

SysD Manager allows user to manage their systemd units via a GUI.

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Mail Notification

Birdtray – system tray new mail notification for Thunderbird

March 10, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Birdtray is a system tray notification for new mail for Thunderbird.

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Examine – system information viewer

February 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Examine is a system information viewer for the COSMIC Desktop. It runs on other desktops.

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Encryption software

File Lock PEA – filesystem-level encryption

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Security

File Lock PEA (PEA = Password Encrypting Archive) encrypts data at the filesystem level

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Hypervisors

Boxes – view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Boxes is a simple GNOME application to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems.

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Testing Software

Bats – Bash Automated Testing System

February 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected.

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Monitor System

xfce4-taskmanager – monitor system resources

January 31, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

xfce4-taskmanager is an easy to use task manager.

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Monitor System

Evisum – Enlightenment system monitor

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Evisum is a system monitor using Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).

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YASnippet – template system for Emacs

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

YASnippet is a template system for Emacs. It allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand it into function templates.

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Command Schedulers

sysz – fzf terminal UI for systemctl

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

sysz is an fzf terminal UI for systemctl. This is public domain software.

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Command Schedulers

systemctl-tui – interact with systemd services

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

systemctl-tui is a fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.

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Linux

Zutty – high-end terminal emulator for low-end systems

January 18, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Zutty is a terminal emulator with a radically simple, yet extremely efficient rendering implementation.

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System

Topgrade – system specific update tool

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Topgrade detects which tools you use and runs the appropriate commands to update them.

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