For users who have already made the switch to Linux, first congratulations!!
Most likely you’re now familiar with something called GRUB, the bootloader that will manage your access to the different OSs you have installed. GRUB comes in when you have a dual-boot (or more) installation on your machine.
If you’re sticking with a simple dual-boot Linux [...]

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Firefox, our favorite web browser, is coming closer and closer to its version 3. I’ve been using Firefox v3 beta 5 for quite some time now and I can say it is working amazingly fast and more stable.
Today Mozilla released Firefox v3 release candidate 2. Compared to the old Firefox v2, the new release is [...]

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Looking to loose some weight? Open source multi-platform program CRON-O-Meter helps you keep track of your diet.
It looks like a pretty neat program. You tell it what you’re eating and it’ll give you a nice report of the vitamins, minerals, proteins you’re taking in each day. The program will even give you suggestions on what [...]

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Gnome Do is very similar to the Windows-only app Launchy, but much more powerful. If you’re using Gnome on your Linux distro it may worth trying out Gnome Do to help speed up your productivity.
Although not a new application, I was hesitant to use Gnome Do just to avoid having another service running in the [...]

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Have you ever used another computer to find out it doesn’t have a program you really enjoy using? Or, not have it fine tuned to your own style? To avoid situations like these, I always try to carry my pen drive full of Portable Apps.
Portable Apps are programs you can install and run directly from [...]

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Duplicate files finder will help you get rid of duplicate files clogging your hard drive. This program runs on Windows, Linux, and since it supports Unix it may work on MacOS X. Any one willing to make this confirmation?
The program is very simple to use:

choose the directory you want to sweep;
see the list of duplicates [...]

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Need a dictionary, thesaurus, translator? StarDict works well for all of these purposes.  Install this program on a Linux or Windows machine and just add free dictionary databases to it.

StarDict does some pretty interesting things such as:

translates with google or yahoo engines;

uses a “glob-style pattern matching” to find associated words

plus more functions such as direct [...]

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Nowadays you can find several really good open source or freeware BitTorrent clients. Why choose Deluge? Because…

it is open source: you’ll be much safer against having a sneaky hidden process running on your computer;
it is multiplatform: if you use (or you’re planning to use) more then one operating system, you can install Deluge wherever you [...]

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Nowadays it is rare for me to go one week without discovering a new site and having to create a test account. I still remember the late 90s when I had to remember at most just a couple of different email passwords and usernames. Now I have a myriad of information I need to memorize [...]

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VirtualBox is a great program I’ve been exploring these past few weeks. The folks at Download Squad wrote a good article about VirtualBox. With it you can run your own virtual machines inside your operating system of choice. Do you want to run Windows inside Linux (or vice-versa)? Or, do you want to learn how [...]

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