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Category: Utilities
36 Excellent GNOME Desktop Extensions (Updated 2022)
Add additional functionality to a GNOME desktop with these great GNOME extensions. This roundup showcases 36 excellent GNOME extensions.
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Linux Candy: emoj – find relevant emoji from text
emoj is a utility that lets you find relevant emoji without having to leave your terminal. This open source tool is written in JavaScript.
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Linux Candy: Emote – modern popup emoji picker
Emote is billed as a modern emoji picker. The software is free and open source and written in the Python programming language.
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7 Useful Free and Open Source PDF Tools
This article focuses on useful PDF tools which can help you create PDFs as well as small utilities/libraries that help you work with PDF.
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Linux Candy: Rusty Aquarium – monitoring by visualization
Rusty Aquarium is a utility that’s billed as a “monitoring visualization as an aquarium” program.
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Blanket – focus and productivity tool
Blanket is a free and open source utility written in Python that aims to help you improve focus and enhance productivity.
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Excellent Utilities: croc – securely transfer files and folders
croc is a command-line utility to send files and folders from one computer to another.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Compressor
Compressor is a video and audio media compression and encoding application for use with Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio.
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Excellent Utilities: PDF Mix Tool – perform common editing operations on PDF files
PDF Mix Tool is free and open source software that lets you perform common editing operations on PDF files.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel DVD Copy
Corel DVD Copy is simple-to-use software which allows you to copy DVDs, convert HD video, output to mobile devices, and more. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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15 Utilities, Scripts and Ways to Interrogate Your PC
There are many ways of obtaining information about the hardware you are using. The simplest and most reliable source is your system itself.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel’s Products
Corel is a Canadian software company specializing in graphics processing. What are the best open source alternatives for Corel software?
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age – simple file encryption tool by Google
age is a simple, modern and secure command-line file encryption tool written in Go. Let’s check out this open source utility written by Google
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Excellent System Utilities: Pingnoo – traceroute/ping analyser
We look at Pingnoo, an open-source cross-platform application for analysing and measuring the round trip time (latency) between two hosts.
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