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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Reminduck – simple reminder app

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Reminduck is a simple reminder app made to be quick and easy. Reminduck focuses on simple or recurrent reminders

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DomainMOD – manage your domains and other internet assets in a central location

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

DomainMOD is a self-hosted open source application used to manage your domains and other Internet assets in a central location

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Shooter Games

Stratbook – strategies, tips, and tricks

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Help gamers improve and share their knowledge.

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System administration

SPFtoolbox – look up DNS records

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

SPFtoolbox is a JavaScript and PHP app to look up DNS records such as SPF, MX, Whois, and more.

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Encrypted Files

v02enc – symmetric encryption for multiple recipients

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

v02enc is a password-based encryption application that supports several recipients and has the option to update an encrypted file.

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Education

Lute – Learning Using Texts

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Lute (Learning Using Texts) v3, a Python/Flask tool for learning foreign languages through reading. It’s a standalone web application

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CAD

CAD Sketcher – constraint-based geometry sketcher

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

CAD Sketcher is a constraint-based sketcher extension for Blender that allows users o create precise 2d shapes.

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HTerm – terminal program for serial communication

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

HTerm is a cross-platform terminal program for serial communication. It uses wxWidgets, fmt, and spdlog.

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Documents

lsr – recursively list files in directories

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lsr lists directory contents, but with io_uring, a Linux kernel system call interface for storage device asynchronous I/O operations

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Minder

Mindolph – personal knowledge management software

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Mindolph is a personal knowledge management software with Gen-AI support for all desktop platforms

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Endlessh

KeySmith – SSH key management

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KeySmith provides an intuitive interface for generating, managing, and deploying SSH keys without needing to use command-line tools.

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Painting tools

InfiniPaint – infinite canvas software

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

InfiniPaint is a collaborative, infinite space, infinite zoom, canvas note-taking/drawing app.

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Mind Mapping

markmap – build mindmaps with plain text

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

markmap lets you visualize your Markdown as mindmaps. It parses Markdown content and extracts its intrinsic hierarchical structure

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Selection of utilities

Dotfiles Installer – install dotfiles with the minimum of fuss

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Take control of your dotfiles configurations with Dotfiles Installer, designed to make dotfile management seamless.

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WhatSie – WhatsApp web client

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

WhatSie is billed as a feature rich WhatsApp web client based on Qt WebEngine for Linux Desktop.

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opencu – minimalistic serial terminal emulator

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

opencu is serial terminal emulator. It’s a port of OpenBSD’s serial terminal emulator cu to Linux.

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Education

Kana – learn Japanese characters

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Kana helps you hone your Japanese skills by matching romanized characters to their correct hiragana and katakana counterparts.

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Karere – GTK4 WhatsApp Client

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Karere is a native GTK4 application that provides a seamless WhatsApp Web experience integrated with your Linux desktop.

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System administration

Poweradmin – web-based DNS administration tool

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Poweradmin is a friendly web-based DNS administration tool for PowerDNS server.

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Photo collection

Mapollage – photo kml generator for Google Earth

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Mapollage is a photo kml generator for Google Earth.

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