Doing a basic screencast in Linux is pretty easy. The package recordMyDesktop can be found easily on the repository of many Linux distros (including Ubuntu 9.04 that I use). With this package you’re actually getting the backend recordMyDesktop which is written in C and the frontend developed in Python (gtk-recordMyDesktop or qt-recordMyDesktop). The feature list [...]
Read more →I’m an follower of GTD. Probably not the best one, but at least I try to keep myself as organized as I can in the stream of neverending to-dos. Which is why one of the first applications I searched for to install on my Android device was a good task manager to sync with RememberTheMilk. [...]
Read more →On Linux a nice small but highly effective tool I use to work with SVN is RapidSVN. The program is pretty small but highly effective for commit, checkout, merge, and log info. RapidSVN works on Windows, Linux and MacOS X. From their site, the list of features include: Simple -easy to use for SVN features; [...]
Read more →If you like to support open standards format, here is a (at least for me) new discovery: .epub. If you like open standards and ebooks, support the spreading of .epub. This file extension is a mixture of three open standards OPS ( Open Publication Structure ), OPF ( Open Packaging Format) and OCF (Open Container [...]
Read more →Forgot your Windows login password? You can recover it easily with Ophcrack. You can run Ophcrack through a live CD and have your passwords in no time. Or download the software to run on different platforms, even running in Windows itself if you have access to another user’s account. Once downloaded, the software is incredibly [...]
Read more →For those (like me) who are interested on using rsync but are command line inexperienced, finding a GUI is a lifesaver. Grsync can make sure you use rsync without the terminal. The developers list several features such as: you can easily run the most common rsync tasks, more complex tasks can still be done but [...]
Read more →I’ve just started using Mozilla’s Ubiquity. What is Ubiquity? Part of Mozilla Labs, this is a Firefox add-on to expand the power of your browser. It acts much like Gnome Do or Launchy, but inside the browser. Say you are browsing a web page and want to send a piece of text you found to [...]
Read more →Months ago I used Adobe Air based Twhirl to use Twitter on my Linux machine. However, as an open source enthusiast this application just didn’t fit well in the list of programs I used. So, after searching around once more I found Gwibber, written in Python and GTK. With it you can attach your Twitter [...]
Read more →Last year I needed some new business cards. Although I’m pretty computer savvy I could never get the right size of business cards while doing them at home, they always end up too big or even in different sizes. So, I just went to a store to get them done. But, for Linux (Gnome specifically [...]
Read more →The super power Google last week released Chrome, its entry to the segment of web browsers. But, as you might have noticed we didn’t write a thing about it. Why? I was super busy with other projects; Chrome wasn’t released for Linux (my main OS); When I tested on my Windows install, it was fast [...]
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