📅 October 31, 2020

Touchegg Brings Apple-like Touchpad and Touchscreen Multi-touch Gestures to Linux

Apple-like multi-touch gestures for your Linux machines

There’s a lot you can say about Apple’s laptops, but everybody agrees that the build quality, speakers and the trackpad are ( probably ) the best in the industry .

And speaking of the trackpad, if you’ve ever used a MacBook you know how impressive its multi-touch gestures are and how much they can help you be more productive with your workflow.

If you’re running Linux, and miss ( or wish to have ) those multi-touch gesture, you’re in luck because there’s an old project that was recently revived and it’s purpouse is to bring Apple-like multi-touch gestures to your Linux machine.

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📅 October 30, 2020

VSCodium is a Truly Free and Open Source Version of Visual Studio Code

VSCode without Microsoft telemetry, branding and licensing.

 

I dare you to find a list of “open source text editoris” without Atom, Visual Studio Code and Sublime ( all of them or at least 2 ). Visual Studio Code is almost always on every list. And that’s because it’s an excellent editor, however it is NOT open source.

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📅 October 28, 2020

HOW TO: Install YouTube-DL

youtube-dl is not dead. you can still install it, here’s how…. linux, macOS and windows

youtube-dl’s GitHub repo was taken down because the RIAA are a bunch of whiny spoiled brats. For some reason, some people are under the impression that just because GitHub complied right away to a absurd request, youtube-dl as a project is dead. At least for now until it finds a new home.

No it’s not, if you already have it installed it is still working. And if you don’t, you can install it just as easy as before.

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📅 October 28, 2020

Croc Allows Secure P2P File Transfer Between Any Two Computers

easily, fast and securily send files, folders and text between any two computers

When it comes to file sharing, there are plenty of options for you to choose from. Most of them are slow because you first need to upload the file(s) to a cloud somewhere and then share the download link, and some of them are secure and anoynymous like onionshare.

So here’s yet another tool that you can use: croc. A CLI tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders.

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📅 October 28, 2020

USBImager: A Very Minimal Cross Platform App to Create Bootable Flash Drives

A very minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB drives

 

When it comes to creating bootable flash drives, Ventoy is one of the greatest tools ever made even though most people recommend Etcher. And why wouldn’t Etcher be recommended? It’s cross-platform and open source, it’s easy to use and has a beautiful UI.

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📅 October 23, 2020

HOW TO: Background and Foreground Processes

learn how to background and foreground a process to help you better multitask in the terminal ( Linux & macOS )

Most programs, when invoked from the shell, run in the foreground taking over your terminal and preventing you from doing other work without opening a new terminal window. But there’s a better way: bagrounding and foregrounding processes.

This works on both Linux and macOS, however there are slight differences. Here’s a simple example to help you understand how to background and foreground a process…

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📅 October 22, 2020

eDEX-UI: A Fully Functioning Sci-Fi Inspired Terminal and System Monitor

A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.

If you want to look badass in front of your friends you might want to try out eDEX-UI, a cross platform terminal emulator that doubles as a real-time system and network monitor.

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📅 October 19, 2020

Tuned Allows You to Optimize Linux System Performance

 

The tuned tuning service can adapt the operating system to perform better under certain workloads by setting a tuning profile. The tuned-adm command-line tool allows users to switch between different tuning profiles.

Tuned is a tool meant for servers but it can also be used on desktops and workstations.

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📅 September 2, 2020

Lunar: Intelligent Adaptive Brightness for Your Mac’s External Monitors

Intelligent Adaptive Brightness for Your Mac’s External Monitors

Here’s a free and open source macOS utility that allows you to change the brightness and contrast of external monitors connected to your Mac: Lunar. The app doesen’t use a software overlay, it changes the actual brightness and contrast of the monitor

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📅 August 22, 2020

HOW TO: Get a General Purpose Mouse Cursor for Your Linux TTY Virtual Console

A general purpose mouse inteface for your Linux TTY virtual console

This might be the easiest and shortest article I’ve written in a long time. If you work with the TTY virtual console on your Linux box, you might want a general purpose mouse functionality. Why? I don’t know why YOU might need it but, so far, I’ve use it for copy-pasting.

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