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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...

Unshaking and refocusing your photos

Author: Nathan Willis Whether by wind, vibration, or shaky hand, we have all taken blurry photos. But in the digital era, there is no need...