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Vely – general purpose framework

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Vely is a C programming language framework for rapid building of general purpose applications. It’s free and open source software.

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qtPad – modern and highly customizable sticky note application

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

CPU-G is an open source application that shows useful information about your hardware. The software is released under an open source license.

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lshw – Hardware Lister

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

lshw is a small open source tool to extract detailed and comprehensive information on the hardware configuration of the machine.

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i7z – i7 (and now i3, i5) reporting tool

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

i7z is a small open source utility that reports Intel Core i7, i5, i3 CPU information. The information displayed covers Turbo Boost, frequencies, …

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hwinfo – hardware information tool

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

hwinfo is used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.

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Comic Books

Jomic – viewer and converter for comic books

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

Jomic is a viewer for comic books stored in CBZ, CBR, and PDF files. Features include a two page mode, caching and support for several image formats.

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cbrPager – simple comic book pager

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

cbrPager is a simple to use, free and open source small viewer for cbr, cbz and cb7 (comic book archive) files. This software is written in C.

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Comic Books

Comix – specifically designed to handle comic books

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

Comix is a high quality comic book viewer. It reads zip, rar, tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives (often called .cbz, .cbr and .cbt).

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Comic Books

gomics – gtk3 comic and image archive viewer written in Go

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

gomics is a fast and efficient image viewer for comic archives.The software is written in the Go programming language.

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Peruse – KDE based comic reader

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

Peruse is a cross-platform KDE based comic reader. It’s designed to read comic books distributed in various digital formats.

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Comic Books

Comical – comic book reader

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

Comical is a portable CBR and CBZ comic book viewer written in C++ using wxWidgets. It supports multiple image formats.

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Comic Books

QComicBook – viewer for comic book archives

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

QComicBook is an open source viewer for comic book archives containing jpeg/png/xpm/gif/bmp images, which aims at convenience and simplicity.

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Comic Books

MComix – GTK+ comic book viewer

October 26, 2023 Luke Baker Other

MComix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer.It’s specifically designed to handle comic books (both Western comics and manga) and supports a variety of container formats.

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Comic Books

YACReader – read, browse and manage your comic collection

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

YACReader is a free cross-platform comic reader with support for multiple comic files and image formats.The software is written in C++.

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SQL

MySQL Workbench – unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

MySQL Workbench is a complete visual database design tool that integrates SQL development, administration, database design.

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SQL

OmniDB – Open Source Collaborative Environment For Database Management

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

OmniDB is an open source browser-based app designed to access and manage many different Database Management systems including MySQL.

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Notes

Xpad – sticky note application for jotting down things to remember

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Xpad is a sticky note application for jotting down things to remember. Xpad needs a GTK 3 icon theme. It’s free and open source software.

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Backup

SafeKeep – centralized and easy to use backup program

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

SafeKeep is a centralized and easy to use backup application that combines the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup.

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Backup

PING – PING Is Not Ghost

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

PING (PING Is Not Ghost) is a free, open source distribution that offers similar functionality to Symantec Ghost. It backs up and restores a hard disk.

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Backup

BURP – network backup and restore program

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

BURP (BackUp and Restore Program) is an open source network backup and restore program. It uses librsync to save network traffic.

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