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Archive for January, 2008

Get more from your Ubuntu Desktop with Ubuntu Tweak

By • Jan 14th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Open-Source, Ubuntu

This little, simple and intuitive interface can give a hand to Linux newbies and less to medio-users. This tool helps to configure and customize splash screens, it enables useful functions for CD burning and shows advanced file permissions in the Nautilus file manager and, other settings of your session, including power management changes. For Ubuntu […]

Automate your PC-Cleaning and Organising with Belvedere

By • Jan 9th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Open-Source

Windows only: Belvedere – a well made clone of Hazel (Mac only), is an automated file manager for Windows created by Adam Pash of Lifehacker. As the name says Belvedere in Italian would mean “good sight” is an application that handles files that clutter your desktop and Pc folders with time. It practically helps you […]

Picasa 2.7 Beta for Linux

By • Jan 9th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks

Picasa, the famous Google photo organizer now has a new version for Linux – the 2.7 beta release. The release comes with a bunch of new features for image browsing, image searching and creative image export. What’s new; Formally it was necessary to have a configured Wine installation to get Picasa running on Linux – […]

Archives/Directories for Open Source Applications

By • Jan 9th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Open Source Advocacy, Open-Source

The GnomeFiles is a open source directory for Gnome/GTK+ applications. You can read a brief review of the software you’re interested in and also rate it – according to how useful you found it. There is no direct download, but a link that targets the download page of the application; many of these links point […]

Firefox extension – Interclue

By • Jan 7th, 2008 • Filed under: Firefox, Linux Tips and Tricks

Interclue is a Firefox extension that displays a preview (snapshots) of hyperlinks on web pages – before you click you can have an idea of what the links is pointing to – this way you candecide whether or not you want to click through it reduces time wasting especially when it comes to blanks links, […]