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Game Tools

KHangMan – based on the well-known hangman game

October 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games

KHangMan is a game based on the well-known hangman game. It is aimed at children aged six and over.

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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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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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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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Game Tools

Principia – sandbox physics game

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Principia is a physics-based sandbox building game. Build and play advanced contraptions, circuiting, minigames, robot adventures and more.

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Data Science

Fluid Mechanics Lab Calc

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Fluid Mechanics Lab Calc is a practical tool to provide calculations in practical works in fluid mechanic laboratory.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: September 2025 Updates

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

September 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Flashcards

Flashdown – terminal-based spaced repetition using flashcards in Markdown

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

Flashdown is a minimalist flashcard app for seamless studying and note-taking in Markdown.

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Web Browsers

Donut Browser – anti-detect browser

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Donut Browser is billed as a powerful anti-detect browser that puts you in control of your browsing experience.

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Data Science

Water Hammer Simulation – simulate the Water Hammer phenomenon

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Water Hammer Simulation uses different numerical methods to simulate the Water Hammer phenomenon.

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Bioinformatics

MNELAB – GUI for MNE-Python

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

MNELAB is a graphical user interface (GUI) for MNE-Python, a Python package for EEG/MEG analysis.

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Codanna – X-ray vision for your agent

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Scientific

Give your code assistant the ability to see through your codebase—understanding functions, tracing relationships, and finding implementations

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Selection of utilities

autogit – automatically build, update or install Pacman applications

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Autogit is a Bash tool to automatically build, update or install Pacman applications from PKGBUILD’s

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SSH-Studio – edit SSH configuration files

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

SSH-Studio is a native GTK4 desktop app for editing and validating your ~/.ssh/config.

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Selection of utilities

BPM Detect – automatic BPM detection tool

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

BPM Detect is an automatic BPM (beats per minute) detection utility. It uses SoundTouch’s BPM library.

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Game Tools

T-Crisis 4 – Tetris-like falling blocks puzzle game

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms Games

T-Crisis 4 is a Tetris-like falling blocks puzzle game with 4-player local multiplayer.

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Audio Analyzers

Parlatype – media player for transcription

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Parlatype is a minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, written for the GNOME desktop environment.

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Files

mldonkey-next – modern client for mldonkey

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

mldonkey-next is a modern GUI for the multi-protocol p2p filesharing application mldonkey.

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Content Control Software

Sandstorm – self-hostable web productivity suite

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It’s implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.

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