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8 Kingdoms – inspired by the world of fantasy

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Games

8 Kingdoms is a 3D turn-based fantasy strategic game in which players become kings, build their empires and conquer enemy kingdoms.

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GShutdown – GTK2 shutdown tool

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

GShutdown is a simple GTK tool that allows you to schedule the logout, the shutdown or the restart of your computer.

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Spotify

Visp – Vi-like Spotify client

October 27, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia

Visp is an interactive console client for Spotify. It’s free and open source software published under the MIT license.

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Spotify

Psst – Spotify client with native GUI

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Psst is a Spotify client sporting an attractive graphical user interface. It requires a subscription to Spotify Premium.

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Spot – Native Spotify client for GNOME

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Spot is a GTK/Rust native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop. The software only works with a Spotify premium account.

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RAW Tools

GTKRawGallery – workflow oriented photo retouching software

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

GTKRawGallery is an open source workflow oriented photo retouching software with all necessary tools to quickly process camera raw images.

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RAW Tools

Filmulator – raw photo editing application with library management

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Filmulator is a simple raw photo editor based on the process of developing film. This is free and open source software.

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RAW Tools

LightZone – open source digital darkroom software

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

LightZone is professional-level digital darkroom software. Originally proprietary software, the software is now open source.

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Photivo – photo processor

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Photivo is a multi platform open source photo processor for RAW and bitmap images with 16 bit precision. It’s free and open source software.

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dcfldd – enhanced version of dd

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dcfldd is an enhanced version of dd with features useful for forensics and security. dcfldd is free and open source software.

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Mastodon

toot – Mastodon CLI and TUI client

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Toot is a command-line interface and terminal user interface tool for interacting with Mastodon instances.

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anewer – appends lines from stdin to a file

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

anewer appends lines from stdin to a file if they don’t already exist in the file.

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Find

anew – add new lines to files

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

anew is a tool for adding new lines to files, skipping duplicates. The software also outputs new lines to stdout.

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Find

fselect – find files with SQL-like queries

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fselect is a command-line utility to find files with SQL-like queries. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

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Development Tools

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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Sticky Notes

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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Circuit board

CPU-G – hows useful information about your hardware

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

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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Circuit board

lshw – Hardware Lister

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms 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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Circuit board

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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Circuit board

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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