Cross platform Makagiga gives you an all in one app that includes RSS reader, to-do manager, notepad, image editor/viewer, widgets, internet search, document import/export, plug in functionality, and the ability to tag and rate your files.
more screenshots here
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Google during the recent Analyst Day announced they want to release an updated version of Gmail that’s supposed to be faster than the current one, thanks to a JavaScript back-end rewrite. Also, the new version aims to improve contacts management. “Gmail 2.0” – possibly the announced update – was also mentioned in Google’s internal company goals last year, the aim being to achieve “70% user happiness” for that version.
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Steve @ atbatt.com has 10 battery hacks with videos.
Overview:
http://www.atbatt.com/blog/16/Battery-Hacks.asp
[ErrorZilla] changes the default error page from basically having a reload button to having the following choices: a google cache, an archival snapshot from the wayback machine, a ping, a trace route, and a whois lookup. Updated: version 0.2 adds a coralize feature.
Get it @:
addons.mozilla.org
via http://googlesystem.blogspot.com
Incollector is an application to collect various kinds of information (like notes, conversation logs, quotes, serial numbers, source code, web addresses, words). All the entries can be tagged, so you can find them very easily. There are also search folders which allows you to search for entries by specified criteria. You can also export (and import, of course) entries to an external file.
Screenshot:
http://www.incollector.devnull.pl/index.php
Ever working in KDE or Gnome, your application freezes and even the close button doesn’t work? Then it is time to pull out the “kill” command. We can use a combination of the grep and ps command to find our process and when we find the PID number we can effectively kill the process without having to restart KDE or Gnome.
Linux associates a number with every process that starts. This is called a PID.
NOTE: If you are not root, please either switch with “su root” or use the sudo command
Open your terminal and type “ps -A“. And yes, that capital “A” matters.
You should see a long list of processes that are running on your box. We can shorten the list if we know what application we are looking for.
Next, type “ps -A | grep mozilla”
What we are doing here is piping the ps -A command to the grep with a “|” command to search for a string that contains ‘mozilla’. Now, if you are running any Mozilla applications you should see a list like above. Notice to the left is a list of PID numbers. If you are not running any Mozilla applications you will see no output in the terminal because grep didn’t find anything.
After we find the PID, we can type “kill -9 25688” to kill the mozilla-firefox process. The -9 will ensure “execution”.
I hope you don’t have to do this too many times, but it is a necessary evil.
Linux has come in leaps and bounds in the past 10 years. It is now possible to use Linux for a complete multimedia solution to create and edit audio, graphics, and video. With these three topics in mind, listed below are the top 20 free Linux audio, graphics, and video applications. These are listed in no particular order. Some of these programs can be compared to ‘paid’ versions in terms of quality. All logos and screenshots are taken from the application’s home page. Enjoy and send me some art when you get done. ;)
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Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.
Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you’ve been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.
Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the “hard stuff” that other DAWs ( even some leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible “anything to anywhere” routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as “persistent undo”, multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren’t available on other platforms.
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With Linux becoming more and more popular there is a greater risk for malicious code being written. Unlike Windows, there is much less risk for this on a Linux operating system, but there is still a risk.
From Wikipedia:
A rootkit is a general description of a set of programs which work to subvert control of an operating system from its legitimate operators. Usually, a rootkit will obscure its installation and attempt to prevent its removal through a subversion of standard system security. Techniques used to accomplish this can include concealing running processes, files or system data from the operating system.Rootkits have their origin in benign applications, but in recent years have been used increasingly by malware to help intruders maintain access to systems while avoiding detection. Rootkits exist for a variety of operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. Rootkits often modify parts of the operating system or install themselves as drivers or kernel modules.
A: Rookit Hunter!
Kinda looks like Starwars, don’t it?
Open source, cross platform Streamripper allows you to save streaming mp3 radio stations to your hard drive. And I will show you how.
From Wikipedia:
Internet radio (aka e-Radio) is an audio broadcasting service transmitted via the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted broadly through wireless means but is delivered over the World Wide Web. The term “e-Radio” suggests a streaming medium that presents listeners with a continuous stream of audio to which they have no control much like traditional broadcast media. It is not synonymous with podcasting which involves downloading. Nor does e-Radio suggest “on-demand” file serving. Many Internet “radio stations” are associated with a corresponding traditional “terrestrial” radio station or radio network. Internet-only radio stations are usually independent of such associations.
I thought I would take the liberty to share some statistics about the site. Even though this site is still in the infant stage, we can compare these results with the latter and maybe draw some interesting conclusions.
6.93% Direct Traffic
62.87% Referring Sites
30.20% Search Engines
Top 10 Referring sites:
Top 10 Keywords:
