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khtml2png - Take Command Line Web Screenshots on Linux

khtml2png is a helpful tool for capturing an image of a webpage with ease. It's nice to use because it will get the entire length of the site, no matter whether it is fully visible in the browser. And, it sure beats shell scripting Firefox to open on a ...

From MARY RILEY, LXer,  24 Jul 2009

Marketer Turns to Linux and Open Source Software to Create New Website

Nice work. I'm not a designer as you can see from my site, but one thing I noticed that you could add is a favicon (site logo) in your header.php file (?). You could use the green petal to the left of Jenny Zhang on each page. This will show up in the ...

From MARY RILEY, LXer,  7 Jul 2009

Discover New Packages with goplay

Give me a shout in the comments and let me know what kind of cool, new applications you found. goplay is an interesting browser application that allows you to locate nifty packages for Debian-based distributions. It uses DebTags, the built-in ...

From MARY RILEY, LXer,  22 Apr 2009

Frozen-Bubble is a Ridiculously Addictive Puzzle Game

Frozen-Bubble has blissfully stolen hours and hours of my life with its addictive gameplay and flippin' awesome soundtrack. It's an easy game with a simple premise: shoot colors bubbles onto the game board in an attempt to match up three or more ...

From MARY RILEY, LXer,  23 Feb 2008

Agave is an Intuitive Color Selection Manager

Hello dear readers! I'm glad to be back from my vacation feeling refreshed and ready to bring you some nice Ubuntu applications. Thanks again for all of the wonderful suggestions thus far. The best way to keep up to date with all of the new programs ...

From MARY RILEY, LXer,  20 Feb 2008

Make SSH So Much Easier With SSHMenu For the GNOME Panel

[SSHMenu] is useful if you do a lot of work on servers or remote machines. I definitely agree with that. Remembering the syntax for ssh is normally enough to foil me, but I'm sure it's even worse if you have a few different IP addresses and hostnames ...

From MARY RILEY, LXer,  10 Feb 2008

GnuCash - Keep Your Cash (or lack thereof) in Order

...GnuCash is a great piece of financial software. I just use it to keep my home financials in order, but it has so many other functions that I would never even need to use. It uses professional standards like double-entry accounting, which my ...

From MARY RILEY, LXer,  9 Feb 2008

Ubuntu Tweak - Get Under the Hood With This Configuration Tool

Thank you to Daniel for today's suggestion. Ubuntu Tweak is a utility created to make it easier for users to configure and change a variety of system settings. You can use it to quickly adjust settings for GNOME Panel, Compiz, and Nautilus, along with ...

From MARY RILEY, LXer,  8 Feb 2008

VLC - The Universial Media Player

Thank you to Kyle (phynix) for this recommendation. VLC (VideoLan) is a cross-platform universial media player. It supports a variety of different inputs, including DVD, VCD, MPEG, AVI, WMV, MP4, and MOV. It has full subtitle support, as well as ...

From MARY RILEY, LXer,  6 Feb 2008

Sunbird - A Powerful Standalone Calendar from Mozilla

Thank you to Russell Beattie for recommending today's application. He's got an entry about playing with legos that has nothing to do with Ubuntu, but's it's too darn cool. Go forth, thy army of readers, and check it out! Sunbird is a calendar ...

From MARY RILEY, LXer,  5 Feb 2008

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