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Entries Tagged as 'Cool Apps'

Check Your Gmail Account with cGmail

December 3rd, 2007 · 6 Comments

I am a Gmail fan. But Gmail Notifier only supports Windows and Mac. So I found cGmail for Linux. With cGmail, you can automatically check for new messages and see a snippet of text. cGmail is available for the GNOME desktop, and support gmail and pop3, pop3s, imap and imaps accounts.

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Tags: GNOME · Cool Apps

Auto Shutdown with KShutdown

December 2nd, 2007 · 7 Comments

KShutdown is a quite useful little utility for KDE. With KShutdown, you can auto turn off, restart and logout computer. Currently, KShutdown supports Linux and Windows platform. The latest version of KShutdown is 1.0.2. You can download it here.

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Tags: KDE · Cool Apps

KuFtp — A Graphical FTP Client for KDE

November 14th, 2007 · No Comments

KuFtp is a graphical FTP client for KDE. It features include Tab sessions like Firefox, bookmark manager, history recording, queue manager and so on.

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Tags: KDE · Cool Apps

Batch Rename Files and Folders with Métamorphose

November 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Métamorphose is a free, open source and cross-platform batch files and folders renaming utility. This program features include support renaming operations like prefix, suffix, replacement/modification/move by character/position/regular expression, insertion by position or every (number) characters, length modifications etc. In addition, Métamorphose can also support use combination of user text, numbering, id3 tags, date, and time. […]

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Manage Passwords with MyPasswordSafe

November 6th, 2007 · 6 Comments

MyPasswordSafe is really a very nice password manager in Linux. It’s not only easy-to-use, but also can maintain compatibility with Password Safe files. With MyPasswordSafe, you can keep your passwords securely encrypted on your computer, generate random passwords, and copy passwords to the clipboard.

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Read Comic Books with Jomic

November 4th, 2007 · 4 Comments

With Jomic, you can read comic books. It can handle CBZ and CBR archives. In addition, Jomic also supports PNG, JFIF/JPEG, TIFF, and GIF image formats.

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Batch Process Photos with Phatch

October 27th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Phatch is a cross-platform photo batch processor. It supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. With Phatch, you can batch resize, rotate, generate rounded corners, make shadows, add watermark, change colour mode and dpi, and rename. Currently, Phatch can handle all popular image formats. If you’re using it, you will save a lot of time.

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How To Install Menu File Browser Applet on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

October 20th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Menu File Browser Applet is an useful applet for the GNOME Panel. With Menu File Browser Applet, you can browse, open and manage files in your computer directly from the panel. This HOWTO shows how you can install Menu File Browser Applet on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

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Tags: Ubuntu · How-Tos · Cool Apps

How To Use Deluge Web User Interface

October 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Deluge BitTorrent client 0.5.6 RC 1 (version 0.5.5.95) has been released today. In this release, Deluge have included Web User Interface Plugin. With this plugin, you can now download torrents from web browser. That’s pretty cool.

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How To Install SSHMenu on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

October 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments

SSHMenu is a very cool GNOME panel applet. With SSHMenu, you can keep SSH connections and quick access SSH. This how to shows how you can install the latest version of SSHMenu on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

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Tags: Ubuntu · How-Tos · Cool Apps