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FTP Client

Taxi – FTP client

May 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Taxi is a native Linux FTP client designed for elementary OS.

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Internet Radio

Receiver continues to go from strength to strength

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

This internet radio app is definitely worth a download.

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Monitor System

Usage – analyse your system

March 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Usage is a lightweight system monitoring application designed to provide a simple and accessible overview of system resource consumption.

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Internet Radio

Receiver – a modern internet radio player progressing rapidly

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Receiver is an awesome open source internet radio player. If you like internet radio, you really should try it today!

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Font Tools

Sitra – get fonts from online sources

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Sitra lets you get your fonts from online sources with a sleek, friendly user interface.

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Internet Radio

Receiver – Linux tool to enjoy 30,000+ verified radio stations

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Receiver is an excellent program. With a bit more development, it’ll replace Shortwave, Tuner and Transistor as my go to GUI internet radio player.

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Flickr

Shotwell – photo manager for GNOME

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

Shotwell is an open source image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

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Application Launchers

AppManager – install and uninstall AppImages

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

AppManager is a GTK/Libadwaita developed desktop utility in Vala that makes installing and uninstalling AppImages on Linux desktop painless.

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Desktop Environments

Plank – simple, fast and beautiful dock

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more.

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Photo collection

Annotator – image annotation tool

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Annotator lets you annotate your images and let a picture say 1000 words.

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Linux

LazyCat Terminal – terminal emulator

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LazyCat Terminal is billed as a high-performance terminal emulator with multi-tab, split-pane, and transparent background support

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Colorway – generate color pairings

December 20, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Colorway is a GUI tool that generates color pairings.

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Desktop Environments

Plank Reloaded – lightweight, customizable Linux dock

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

Plank Reloaded is a fork of the original Plank project, providing a simple dock for X11 desktop environments.

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Hourglass – simple time keeping application

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Hourglass is a simple time keeping application designed for elementary OS. It also works with other Linux distributions.

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Game Tools

GNOME Klotski – sliding block puzzle game

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

GNOME Klotski is a set of block sliding puzzles. It’s a clone of the Klotski game.

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Wattage – monitor the health and status of power devices

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Wattage is an application designed for monitoring the health and status of your power devices.

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OCR Tools

Document Scanner – GNOME based tool

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Document Scanner lets you capture images using image scanners (e.g. flatbed scanners) that have suitable SANE drivers installed.

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Photo Metadata

Scramble – privacy-focused image metadata removal tool

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Scramble provides a clean, intuitive interface featuring a user-friendly drag-and-drop workflow for metadata inspection and removal.

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Mixer

Mixer – change the volume of apps

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Mixer is a no-frills volume mixer, with simplicity and usability at its core. It’s written in the Vala programming language.

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Software

Pamac – Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Pamac offers lpm, AUR, Appstream, Flatpak, and Snap support.

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