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Chats – messaging application for mobile and desktop

January 24, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Chats is a simple to use messaging app for 1:1 communication and small groups supporting SMS/MMS, Matrix, and XMPP.

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astroterm – terminal-based star map

January 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

astroterm is a planetarium for your terminal. Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line.

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Reading

read-quickly – read plain-text files in blazing speed

January 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

read-quickly is a terminal-based program that lets you read plain-text files in blazing speed.

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xcalc – scientific calculator

January 19, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

xcalc is a simple scientific calculator that can emulate a TI-30 or an HP-10C.

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IDE

Ecere SDK – software development kit

January 19, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

The Ecere SDK is a Software Development Kit which includes an Integrated Development Environment.

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Keyboard

Barrier – software KVM

January 17, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Barrier is software that mimics the functionality of a KVM switch.

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SourceGit – Git GUI client

January 17, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

SourceGit is a lightweight Git desktop client.

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Uno Calculator – port of Windows calculator

January 15, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Uno Calculator is a port of the open source Windows Calculato. It provides standard, scientific, and programmer calculator functionality.

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Reading

LetoReader – self-hostable speed reader

January 14, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

LetoReader is a versatile speed reader that supports high-speed reading for skimming or consuming easy texts

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IDE

U++ – rapid application development framework

January 13, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

U++ is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework focused on programmers productivity.

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Shredding paper

File Shredder – file deletion software

January 10, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

File Shredder is a file deletion program designed to permanently remove sensitive files from your computer.

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Images

ECT – fast and effective C++ file optimizer

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Efficient Compression Tool (or ECT) is a C++ file optimizer. It supports PNG, JPEG, GZIP and ZIP files.

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Images

JPEG Archive – utilities for archive JPEGs for long term storage

January 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

JPEG Archive is a small collection of utilities for archiving photos for saving to long term storage or serving over the web.

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Best Free Window Managers

croissant – stacking Wayland compositor

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

croissant is a stacking Wayland compositor that’s written in the C programming language.

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Network

Dynamips – emulate Cisco routers

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Dynamips is an emulator computer program that was written to emulate Cisco routers.

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Compositing Window Managers

stagen – wlroots-based wayland compositor

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

stagen is a simple experimental wlroots-based wayland compositor.

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Compositing Window Managers

Waybox – minimalist Wayland compositor

December 16, 2024 Steve Emms Software

Waybox is a *box-style (minimalist) Wayland compositor modeled largely on Openbox.

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sdupes – fast duplicate file detection

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sdupes is a command-line fast duplicate file detection utility. It’s written in C.

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Music Festival

Revisited: kew – terminal-based music player

December 12, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

kew is a music player with gapless playback. It’s written in C and published under an open source license.

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Find

detox – clean up filenames

December 10, 2024 Steve Emms Software

The detox utility renames files to make them easier to work with under Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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