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Manage Your Photos with Kflickr

When it comes to photographs, I generally have one word of advice for everyone, experienced or noob: Flickr.
July 16, 2008
Sweeten Your Vim with Cream

Frustrated by Vim? Confused about why some swear by it but you can’t figure out how make simple edits? Cream can take the edge off Vim’s learning curve.
May 27, 2008
Comprehensive Desktop Backup

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
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

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?
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
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