Author Archive

A few hard drives and rsync make a simple and effective onsite backup system. Scott Granneman shows you how to keep your desktop data safe.

November 29, 2007

What Vista Gets Right

It took five years, 10,000 employees, and (allegedly) billions of dollars. It contains some 50 million lines of code. Yes, it’s Windows Vista, and it’s finally here. And guess what? In some ways, Vista has Linux beat.

September 6, 2007

Open Anywhere!

You can take it with you! Run your favorite open source programs from a USB stick.

August 2, 2007

Music on the Command-Line

Remotely control your tunes with MPD and ncmpc.

July 26, 2007

Better Backups with JetS3t

JetS3t is a better way to do online backups via Amazon.com’s S3 service — providing cheap online storage on Amazon’s redundant servers.

July 16, 2007

The Best Web Page Editor, Ever

Quanta is a Web page editor that doesn’t suck

July 5, 2007

Write a Screenplay with Celtx

For when you’re ready to make the move from self-absorbed blog posts to self-absorbed Hollywood blockbusters!

June 28, 2007

UniTTY

UniTTY: A better way to SSH.
And SFTP. And "i">VNC!

May 8, 2007

Manage your email with GNUMail

May 3, 2007

Pretty Fonts Are Possible

Make your fonts go pop!

March 19, 2007

Keeping Up with Gregarius

Read about Gregarius, the best Web-based, open source RSS feed reader.

November 9, 2006

See Jungle! Go Ape Crazy!

Fast! Cheap! Easy! Store files online with Jungle Disk.

October 19, 2006

Collaborate With Gobby

Work together on documents over a network with Gobby.

August 17, 2006

View Comics with Comix

Pow! Bam! Keraanng! Read your digital comics with Comix!

July 15, 2006

A Very SoundConverter

Listen up! Need to convert MP3 to OGG, FLAC to MP3, WAV to FLAC, and more? Try the aptly-named SoundConverter.

June 8, 2006

An Easier Way to Set ACLs

Facilitate fine-grained file permissions with ACL editor Eiciel.

April 15, 2006

Backup? Fuggetaboutit!

Backing up data isn’t exactly exciting, but like washing laundry, everyone needs to do it. On Linux, you can back up your files using an almost-bewildering array of choices, from self-composed shell scripts, to expensive software packages. But how about a simple, open source, easy-to-use, set-up-and-fuggedaboutit tool?

March 6, 2006

Fight File System Bloat with Baobab

Find the files that are hogging your hard drive with with Baobab.

March 1, 2006

Map Your Mind with FreeMind

Map your ideas and thoughts with FreeMind.

February 15, 2006

Flock: Firefox with integrated social software

Flock to a fascinating new browser

January 15, 2006

Family Trees with GRAMPS

Who’s in your family tree? GRAMPS, a great piece of Linux software — and a model web site — can help you discover who you are.

December 7, 2005

GanttProject

Project planning Penguinistas should take a look at GanttProject.

November 15, 2005

Image Management with F-Spot

Manage your ocean of images with F-spot.

November 1, 2005

F-spot Image Management

Manage your ocean of images with F-spot

October 15, 2005

ClamAV: Anti-Virus for Linux

It never hurts to use protection. Here’s a way to keep your Linux system free of viruses.

September 15, 2005

Hide in Plain Sight

Hide messages in images with simple steganography tools.

July 15, 2005

klik: True click-and-run software

Install software safely and easily… with just one klik!

June 15, 2005

Azureus: A Better Way to BitTorrent

Azureus is the way to go online if you’re searching for torrents.

April 15, 2005

Create Web Pages with Nvu

The Nvu web authoring system promises a lot, but falls short.

March 15, 2005

Rip, Convert, Listen: The Sequel

If you listen to Ogg Vorbis files, KRename and EasyTAG makes organizing those files a snap.

December 15, 2004

Rip, Convert, Listen

Linux offers several excellent music players, including (but not limited to) XMMS, Zinf, noatun, amaroK, Juk, Rhythmbox, and Kaffeine. Most of these can play streaming Internet audio, compact discs, and best of all, digital audio files. With music stored as digital audio files, you can enjoy your music wherever and whenever you want to.

November 15, 2004

Konserve: Backup Made Easy

October 15, 2004

Helix Player and Real Player

Is there any multimedia software that Linux users love to hate more than RealPlayer? RealPlayer’s bad interface, proprietary and poor-sounding codecs, and overall poor support for Linux have irked many a Penguinista.

September 15, 2004

A Very Apropos apt

The Debian Linux distribution introduced apt, a superior way to manage packages and avoid package dependency hell. Now, apt works with RPM-based distributions, like Red Hat. Here’s how to use apt to greatly simplify system maintenance.

October 15, 2003

Video
Podcasts
White Papers

	Interview: Intel's Richard Dracott (Part One) Doug Eadline talks with Intel's Richard Dracott, General Manager of the High Performance Computing Organization.
	IBM Blue Gene is the World's Fastest Supercomputer Doug Eadline visits the IBM booth at SC'07 to get a look at IBM's Blue Gene.

Free Email Newsletters