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Classroom Tools

Drawy – brainstorming tool

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Graphics, GUI

Drawy is a work-in-progress infinite whiteboard tool which aims to be a native-desktop alternative to the web-based Excalidraw.

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Selection of utilities

par2cmdline – PAR 2.0 compatible file verification and repair tool

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

par2cmdline is a program for creating and using PAR2 files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary.

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Graphics

todds – CPU-based DDS texture encoder

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

todds is a CPU-based DDS texture encoder optimized for fast batch conversions with high encoding quality.

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Image of Files

sdn – simple directory navigator

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

sdn is a simple directory navigator that you can invoke while editing shell commands.

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LinNote – keyboard-driven scratchpad

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LinNote is a fast, keyboard-driven scratchpad for Linux. It’s built for KDE Plasma with Qt6.

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Vipster – powerful editor for molecular structures

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

VIsual Periodic STructure EditoR (Vipster) is a fast and easy to use graphical editor for periodic atomistic simulations.

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3D Printer

Creality Print – 3D slicer for Creality printers

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Creality Print is forked from Orca Slice. In turn, Orca Slicer is forked from Bambu Studio, a fork of PrusaSlicer, a fork of Slic3r.

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Alaska

ImPPG – image post-processor

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

ImPPG performs Lucy-Richardson deconvolution, unsharp masking, brightness normalization and tone curve adjustment.

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Selection of utilities

beekeeper-qt – deduplicate redundant data

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

beekeeper-qt lets you free up disk space by removing redundant block-level data, both inside files and across multiple files.

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Internet Radio

Transistor – GUI internet radio player

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Transistor is a GUI internet radio player for Linux written in C++. It’s impressive to say the least!

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Documents

mokii – ls replacement

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mokii is a modern file listing utility that levels up your ls game. It brings Unicode icons, color coding, sorting options

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PDF

dodo – fast and configurable PDF viewer

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

dodo is billed as a fast, keyboard-friendly PDF reader built for smooth reading, quick navigation, and deep customization.

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Knots – run your own node on your own wallet

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Bitcoin Knots connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions.

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Database

Ladybug – embedded graph database

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms Database

Ladybug is optimized for handling complex analytical workloads on very large databases and provides a set of retrieval features

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Text Editor

jrnlc – plain-text terminal journal

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

jrnlc is a personal project built to be simple, fast, and predictable. It stores journal entries in a plain-text file

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Whatsit – native desktop client for WhatsApp

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Whatsit is a lightweight, native desktop client for WhatsApp Web built with Qt 6 and Qt WebEngine.

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Desktop

Orbitiny Desktop – modern looking desktop environment

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Orbitiny Desktop is a portable, innovative and traditional but modern looking desktop environment for Linux.

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Coding

Seer – GUI frontend to GDB

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Seer aims to provide a simple yet attractive GUI frontend to GDB.

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nchat – terminal-based chat client

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

nchat is a terminal-based chat client for Linux and macOS with support for Telegram and WhatsApp.

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Musical instruments

idntag – identify and tag audio files

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Idntag is a command-line tool that identifies artist and title of specified audio files and updates their ID3-tag meta-data

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