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Managing your MP3s with Zina

Author: David Pendell Large collections of MP3 files can be hard to manage. Organizing your music into directories helps some, but when you want to...

6 of the Best Lean Linux Desktop Environments

Author: JT Smith Mainstream Linux distributions typically default to one of two desktop environments, KDE or GNOME. Both of these environments provide users with an...

Ride the D-Bus, Control your Linux desktop from the shell

Author: JT Smith D-Bus is an IPC mechanism and is a great way for applications to share state information on a modern Linux desktop. Ever...

Cool Command Line Apps for GNU/Linux and other Unix Systems

Sometimes you will find yourself in a situation when you don’t want the app to stop working when X is restarted or broken. Sometimes...

Ubuntu TIP: Automating Package Installation

Author: JT Smith Have you ever had to reinstall your ubuntu installation, and then bear the pain of manually installing the applications you've come to...

The world’s fastest computers are Linux computers

There are fast computers, and then there are Linux fast computers. Every six months, the Top 500 organization announces "its ranked list of general...

openDesktop.org provides super-portal to free software sites

Author: Bruce Byfield When users want the latest in free and open source software (FOSS), they are likely to think first of sites like freshmeat,...

Free Icon-To-Speech: Open-Source Speech for Disabled

Cynthia, the daughter of my friend Sue, has cerebral palsy and uses a small touchscreen with picture icons to speak. Sue explained that this...

Gmail notifiers let you know “you’ve got mail”

Author: Federico Kereki If you are into email like Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were in the movie You've Got Mail, you probably want to...

Interacting with Databases through the Java Persistence API

Author: JT Smith The Java Persistence API (JPA) is an object relational mapping API. Object relational mapping tools help us automate mapping Java objects to...