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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...