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Well-appointed Darkstar Linux has a dark side

Author: Mayank Sharma Darkstar Linux 2008.1 is one of the first stable distro releases of the year. This distribution from Romania is based on Slackware...

Video conversion in Linux with RippedWire and WinFF

Author: Nathan Willis In the past we have examined OggConvert and Thoggen, two GUI tools for simple encoding or transcoding video into free Ogg formats....

CLI Magic: Manage all your archives with atool

Author: Ben Martin The atool package is a collection of Perl scripts that allows you to handle many different archive formats and compression schemes using...

Three photo mosaic apps compared

Author: Nathan Willis Photo mosaics are recreations of one large image composed of tiny tiles of other smaller images. They can be a fun project...

Album Cover Art Downloader makes iPod a touch nicer

Author: Tina Gasperson When ripping CDs from my own collection or (shh) my friends', I didn't always bother to include the cover art. Personally, I...

Sun Presentation Minimizer serves purpose, but needs work

Author: Bruce Byfield Sun Presentation Minimizer (SPM) represents free software's answer to PPTminimizer. Designed for OpenOffice.org 2.3 or StarOffice 8 Impress and released under the...

Using mouse gestures across Linux

Author: Shashank Sharma My first brush with mouse gestures on the Opera browser was an accident, but the ability to quickly move backward or forward...

Kommando: A floating panel for KDE

Author: Bruce Byfield Inspired by the command wheel in the Neverwinter Nights online game, Kommando is a floating command panel for KDE. Although Kommando's development...

Use kfsmd to keep track of changes in your filesystems

Author: Ben Martin Applications can ask the Linux kernel to report changes to selected files and directories. I created the Kernel Filesystem Monitoring Daemon (kfsmd)...

CLI Magic: Use ANSI escape sequences to display a clock in your terminal

Author: Sergio Gonzalez Duran When I'm in a Linux terminal, I often find myself typing date just to see the time. To make life a...