Tilda is a free, open source, highly customizable and configurable GTK based drop down Terminal emulator for Unix-like operating systems. Unlike other traditional Terminals like gnome-terminal (Gnome), Konsole (KDE), MATE Terminal (MATE), xterm and many...
Redis is a free, open source key-value database. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile and other datatypes (such as lists and sets) are natively supported. Redis comes with redis-cli that provides a...
The dtrx tool is an universal archive extractor for many archive types. dtrx stands for “Do The Right Extraction”. It is a free, open source archive extraction tool. You don’t need to have multiple extraction tools...
The fswatch is a free, open source multi-platform file change monitor utility that receives notifications when the contents of the specified files or directories are modified or changed. Using fswatch, we can easily monitor the changes...
A while ago, we have reviewed a command line tool called “GooBook” which is used to access google contacts from the command line. Using GooBook, you can access and view all Gmail contacts. Today, we...
A while ago, we have written a guide that described how to install development tools in popular Linux distributions, including Arch Linux, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE etc. That guide walked you through how...
Watchtower is a free, open source application that allows you to monitor the running Docker containers and updates them automatically if it finds any changes in their base images. When watchtower finds that a running container...
In this guide, I will be explaining how to use FFmpeg multimedia framework to do various audio and video transcoding, conversion operations with examples. Just in case, you haven’t installed FFmpeg already, refer the following guide....
“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an English idiom. In fact, Picture speaks louder than words. This is so true. Be it a documentation work, technical writing, blogging or any kind of writing...
gcp (Goffi’s cp) is an advanced file copier tool, heavily inspired from the traditional cp command utility, but with some additional features. It is completely free and open source software, released under GNU General Public License....
A few days ago, I have described an easy and fast way to transfer and share files over Internet using Trasnfer.sh web service. Today, we are about to discuss a similar tool called PSiTransfer, which...
Today, we will be discussing how to check disk space usage in Unix-like systems using Ncdu utility. Ncdu, acronym of NCurses Disk Usage, is a curses-based version of the well-known ‘du’, and provides a fast way...
