‘Terminology’ is a visually enhanced ‘Terminal emulator’ for the ‘Enlightenment’ desktop environment (not a complete one, yet). The look and feel of this ‘Terminal emulator’ is so beautiful, even the terminal haters might get tempted to use it! ( ). I’m not going to cover its features as I’ve done so in my previous...
Read more →‘Zeitgeist‘ is a computer based user activity logging framework for the GNU/Linux operating system that keeps a track of your frequently opened files (text, audio, videos etc), visited web links, conversations that you had with others (through ‘Chat’ apps) etc. The database is a semantic one and so it makes it easy to identify...
Read more →For those of you who haven’t heard, ‘procexp’ is an extremely powerful process explorer for GNU/Linux. Now of course, major desktops such as Gnome, KDE, XFCE etc come with a system monitor of their own, ut they’re no where near the power that ‘procexp’ gives you!. I won’t be going into all the details...
Read more →‘Trimage’ is a utility that reduces the size of images by re-encoding (compressing) them. The encoding/compression is lossless, meaning that the images won’t lose any data, it just re-encodes them with aggressive image compression settings. It is actually a GUI that relies on few command-line based tools for the actual re-encoding. As you can...
Read more →‘Intel’ has invested a lot into open-source projects and has been interested/involved in open-source software for a long time, especially concerning their GPU products. For example, unlike with AMD and Nvidia, Intel releases their GPU drivers (most of them) under open-source licenses. They have also designed the ‘VA API’ (open-source licensed), a software protocol...
Read more →Even though there are GUI tools available for doing almost anything under GNU/Linux these days, knowing your way around the command-line can always come in handy. But unlike with GUI programs, when using a command-line based one, first you have to know its exact name, and then you will have to read its manual...
Read more →Whenever Firefox is finished downloading something, it automatically opens up the ‘Downloads’ window to let you know. Or, if you had disabled showing the ‘Downloads’ window or had it minimized during the download (s), then Firefox still gives you a notification on your screen. If you however have disabled showing the ‘Downloads’ window (because...
Read more →As I mentioned in my previous article, ‘MAFF’ is a great web page saving format that has many benefits. However, unlike in Windows operating system, when you try to open a saved ‘MAFF’ file using Firefox in Ubuntu (or in GNU/Linux in general), you will run into problems. First of all, because ‘MAFF’ is...
Read more →‘DeaDBeeF’ is a powerful and intuitive music player for GNU/Linux. It comes with this simple looking user interface, yet has a lot of configuration options & plugins, plays a huge number of audio formats … if you haven’t already, then you should try it . The UI supports rendering through either GTK2 or GTK3,...
Read more →‘Hydrogen’ is one of the best, free & open source software ‘drum machines’ available for the GNU/Linux platform (also runs on Windows and Mac OS X as well). It has an easy to use user interface, powerful mixer, supports ‘ALSA‘, ‘OSS’, ‘JACK’ & ‘PortAudio’ audio servers and drivers, a rich sound library (new ones...
Read more →‘Nomacs’ is an image viewer (with basic image editing support) that runs on GNU/Linux, Windows & Mac OS X. It has a beautiful interface, supports image slideshows, runs in multiple instances, has a built in image color manipulator, reads RAW images, lets you save images into other formats etc. Few days ago, after one...
Read more →‘QWinFF’ is a simple & intuitive multimedia converter (based on ‘ffmpeg’) that runs on GNU/Linux and Windows. I first wrote about almost an year ago, and since then, it has undergone a few changes. ‘QWinFF’ now supports ‘cutting’ (changes can be previewed) which gives you more control over the file’s content that’s going to...
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