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Tess – hackable, simple, rapid and beautiful terminal

January 8, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Tess is a hackable, simple, rapid and beautiful terminal for the new era of technology. It’s written in JavaScript.

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AB Download Manager – manage and organize downloading files

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

AB Download Manager is software which is designed to make it easier and quicker to download files from anywhere.

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Ghostty – feature-rich and cross-platform terminal emulator

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

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Sly – friendly image editor

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Sly is billed as a friendly free and open source image editor that requires no internet connection or preexisting expertise.

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Chordcat – chord naming program

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Chordcat is a desktop app that helps you identify and name chords based on inputted notes.

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hiSHtory – better shell history

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hiSHtory is a better shell history. It stores your shell history in context.

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Bevel – command line history in an SQLite database

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Bevel is a tool which offers command line history in an SQLite database for effective re-use.

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rtfetch – Neofetch but in Rust

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rtfetch is a command-line system information tool. It’s a clone of neofetch but written in Rust.

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NerdFetch – fetch script using Nerdfonts

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

NerdFetch is a simple shell script which fetches information about your system.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: November and December 2024 Updates

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms Software

November and December 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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rxfetch – minimal but geeky fetch utility

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rxfetch is a custom system fetching tool written in a Bash script.

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Spotifatius – simple Spotify CLI

December 31, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia

Spotify + status + some Latin = Spotifatius

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zpotify – CLI for controlling Spotify playback

December 31, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia

zpotify is a CLI for controlling Spotify playback and much more.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Disk Cleanup

December 30, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Microsoft Disk Cleanup is a computer maintenance utility designed to free up disk space. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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gg – TUI for small offline games

December 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Games

gg is a small collection of games that you can play in your terminal.

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screenFetch – Bash information tool

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

screenFetch is a handy Bash script that can be used to generate one of those nifty terminal theme information and ASCII distribution logos.

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vim-tree – use tree for quick navigation

December 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vim-tree integrates good old tree into Vim and Nvim for all common operating systems.

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Find Duplicates

littleutils – utilities for file compression, file manipulation, text cleanup

December 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

littleutils include duplicate file finders, image optimizers, file rename tools, archive recompressors, a tempfile utility, and others.

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gtree – generate trees and directories

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gtree is a CLI-based utility which uses Markdown to generate directory trees and directories itself, and also verifies directories.

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Files

lscoltui – change the colors of ls

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lscoltui is a TUI program that lets you configure the colors of ls.

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