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Camera Tools

cameractrls – camera controls for Linux

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

cameractrls is a standalone Python CLI and GUI (GTK3, GTK4) and camera Viewer (SDL) to set the camera controls in Linux.

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34 Excellent Free Books to Learn all about R

May 19, 2025 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

This article recommends free books which will teach you the basics of R, how to produce amazing plots, how to apply R to lots of disciplines, and how to efficiently program in R. Many of the books are open source.

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Bookmark manager tool

LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of websites

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

LinkAce ia a self-hosted tool for effortlessly archiving, organizing, and sharing your favorite web links.

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Famous Landmarks

Halftone gives images a pixel art-like style

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Halftone is a simple Libadwaita app for lossy image compression using quantization and dithering techniques.

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gplaces is a simple terminal Gemini client

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

gplaces is named after Going Places, the 1965 album by Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass.

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Time tracking

Solanum is a time tracking app

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Work in 4 sessions, with breaks in between each session and one long break after all 4.

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Selection of utilities

Contrast checks the contrast between two colors

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Contrast checks whether the contrast between two colors meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements.

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Time tracking

Flowtime – spend your time wisely

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Flowtime is a GUI program to get what motivates you done, without losing concentration.

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Text Editor

Mini Text is a very small and basic text editor

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Mini Text is an extremely simple Gtk4/Libadwaita app that shows a text view to copy/paste and edit text.

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Bookmark manager tool

linkding is a self-hosted bookmark manager

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

linkding is a bookmark manager that you can host yourself. It’s designed to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

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WebRTC

openVidu is a platform to develop WebRTC real-time applications

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

openVidu is a platform to develop WebRTC real-time applications. Self-hosted, performant, fault tolerant, scalable and observable.

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Bookmark manager tool

Servas is a self-hosted bookmark management tool

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Servas is a self-hosted bookmark management tool. Servas is based on Laravel and Inertia.js and uses Tailwind CSS and Svelte for the frontend.

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Wallpaper Setter

mpvpaper – video wallpaper software

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

mpvpaper is a wallpaper program for wlroots based Wayland compositors, such as sway.

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Data Science

OpenChrom – software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

OpenChrom is software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy. Data from different systems can be imported and analyzed.

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Flash OS

JustDD is a USB Image Writer

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

JustDD is a simple graphical tool to write Linux and Windows ISO images to USB drives. It is designed for ease of use, safety, and flexibility

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IDE

ZeroBrane Studio – lightweight Lua-based IDE for Lua

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, code analyzer, and debugging support.

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Manage creative assets

Pixyne is a tool to fix your photos

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Use Pixyne to quickly review your photo folders, safely delete bad and similar shots, fix the shooting dates, crop and adjust photos.

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Performance

Speedtest tests your internet speed

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Speedtest is a graphical librespeed client written using GTK4 and libadwaita.

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Turkey

AdventureLog is a self-hostable travel tracker and trip planner

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

With AdventureLog, you can log your adventures, keep track of where you’ve been on the world map, and plan your next trip collaboratively.

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GNOME Maps – find places around the world

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Maps gives you quick access to maps all across the world. It allows you to quickly find the place you’re looking for

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