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QR Tools

QR ScanGen – QR code scanner and generator

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

QR ScanGen is a QR code scanner and generator which is easy and fast to use, and has no buttons except to switch cameras.

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Manga

QManga – Manga viewer and indexer

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

QManga is a manga reader with MySQL indexer.

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Flashcards

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Flashcard Software

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Flashcards are one of the best tools for memorizing information. This is partly because of their versatility.

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Network

wakeonlan – Perl script

October 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

wakeonlan is a script sends ‘magic packets’ to wake-on-lan enabled ethernet adapters, in order to switch on the called PC.

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Git Clients

simple-git-hooks – tool to manage git hooks

October 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

simple-git-hooks is a simple git hooks manager for small projects.

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Roq – static site generator

October 8, 2025 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Roq is billed as a powerful static site generator that combines the best features of tools like Jekyll and Hugo, but within the Java ecosystem.

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Manga Reader – for local files

October 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Manga Reader is a manga reader for local files. It’s written in the C++ language.

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LAN

virtwold – Wake-on-LAN for libvirt based VMs

October 8, 2025 Steve Emms Software

virtwold is a daemon which listens for WOL packets and tries to start the virtual machine with the associated MAC address.

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System administration

dness – dynamic DNS client

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dness is a dynamic DNS client which updates the WAN IP address on the DNS server.

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KaraDAV – lightweight WebDAV server

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

KaraDAV is a simple and lightweight WebDAV server, to set up a file sharing server compatible with WebDAV and NextCloud clients.

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Manga

Suwayomi-JUI – manga reader

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms Other

Suwayomi-JUI is a manga reader to read manga from a Suwayomi-Server instance.

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Git Clients

git-hooks – git hooks manager

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

git-hooks is currently at the stage of managing client-side hooks. It will support server-side hooks future.

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LAN

Turn On – Wake On LAN (WoL) utility

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Turn On is a small GNOME utility application to send Wake On LAN (WoL) magic packets to devices in a network.

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Encrypted Files

OpaqueFiles – file encryption software

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

OpaqueFiles is file encryption software that encrypts/decrypts files so they can be stored securely using compression.

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Book

dave – simple WebDAV server

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Web Apps

dave (Distributed Authoring and Versioning made easy) is a simple WebDAV server.

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Vulnerability Detection

BURP – security testing

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Burp Suite enables its users to accelerate application security testing, no matter what their use case.

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PixiEditor – universal 2D editor

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

PixiEditor is a universal 2D editor that was made to provide you with tools and features for all your 2D needs.

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Cosmic Comics – comics and manga reader

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Cosmic Comics is a web server based comics / manga collection manager and viewer.

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Mixer

Retrovol – volume setting program

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Retrovol is a volume setting program. It adds an icon to the tray that can be scrolled on to change the volume.

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Diary

Caps-Log – terminal-based journaling tool

October 5, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Caps-Log (Captain’s Log) is a small, terminal-based journaling tool written in C++ and published under the MIT License.

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