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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A free and open source Linux application firewall
If you’re looking for an application firewall for your Linux box, you must’ve heard of OpenSnitch. The bad news is that the original project is no longer under active development. The good news is that OpenSnitch has been forked.
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Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop’s battery state, CPU usage and system load. Ultimately allowing you to improve battery life without making any compromises.
Linux is great for so many reasons. Battery life is not one of them. Most users, with every new isntall, one of the first thing they install is TLP and/or Powertop. Tools like these definitely help with extending the battery life but they also come with their own set of problems. Like losing turbo boost.
Here’s where cpu-freq comes in. A simple tool which will automatically make “cpufreq” related changes, save battery like TLP, but let Linux kernel do most of the heavy lifting.
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A CLI for getting information about movies and TV shows.
If you love movies and TV shows, here’s a nifty little command line tool that will make your life much easier when researching what you’re going to watch next.
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A foss, cross-platform program to send files between your computer and mobile devices
If you’re looking for a cross platform command line program that allows you to send files between your computer and your mobile devices ( and vice-versa ) you should take a look at qrcp.
It binds a web server to the address of your Wi-Fi network interface on a random port and creates a handler for it. The default handler serves the content and exits the program when the transfer is complete. When used to receive files, qrcp serves an upload page and handles the transfer.
A simple command line interface for the Mac App Store
I try to stay away from the Mac App Store. Why? Because 1. I try to avoid proprietary software as much as pososible and for the most part that’s totally viable ( at least in my case ) and 2. This.
Your case might be different. And that’s ok. But, you might want to avoid using a slow and bloated piece of software like the Mac App Store while continuing to take advantage from what it can offer you.
Here’s where mas comes in – a simple command line interface for the Mac App Store…
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How to assign keyboard shortcuts to open macOS apps
When it comes to opening apps in macOS you basically have the following options: the app is in your Dock, you use Spotlight, you use Launchpad or you simply open up Finder and go to the Applications folder.
You definitely have options, but they are all slow and time consuming. It would be great if you could assing keyboard shortcuts to open apps, but macOS’ shortcut functionality is very limited.
Luckily there’s a 3rd party solution, Thor. A free and open source app that aloows you to do exactly that – assign a keyboard shortcut to any app that’s installed on your system.
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An upgraded TLDR experience
A couple of weeks ago I showed you a few awesome man pages alternatives. One of them is TLDR. Today we’re going to upgrade the TLDR experience with TLDR++.
A few man page alternatives to help you be more productive
Man page. Short for manual page. It’s a form of software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system ( like Linux and macOS ). So when you’re using the terminal and you’re not sure how a command or a program works, you can always RTFM.
The problem with man pages is that, some pages, are massivly long and sometimes depending on the command or program it’s hard to find the information you need.
Here’s a few manpage alternatives that are abbreviated and straight to the point to help you be more productive.
a quick and easy way to make sure your camera and microphone is not working without your permission on both Linux and macOS
I have to be honest, all my computers have their webcams and mics physically disconnected. Even the iMac that I own. I mostly don’t need them and when I do, because it’s such a rare event, I don’t mind the trouble I have to go through for workarounds ( external devices ).
But what works for me, might not work for you. You might be in a position where you need to jump into online calls all the time.
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