Archive for the ‘General Productivity’ Category

Pretty Shocking Netbook Battery Life Comparison

An article on Netbook Review compares the battery life of numerous popular netbooks, e.g. the Asus Eee, MSI Wind, Dell Mini (Inspiron 9 and 12). What I found quite impressive was the long battery life of the MSI Wind (almost 7 hours!). On the other hand Dell’s mini laptops proved to be a great disappointment, [...]

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Readers’ Choice: Awesome Linux Apps that Need Our Attention

Image by 176 via Flickr I got some very interesting comments on my post about Linux projects that need more attention, so I decided to feature a few of the readers’ recommendations. They have mentioned very interesting and useful applications, some of which I have never heard of. A warning though: this is a very [...]

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Google Chrome on KDE4.2 – Why not?

I’ve been playing with this idea for a while now and  wanted to share it with you guys. While I think that Konqueror is a great browser there is sadly no real KDE 4 support for my favorite browser, Firefox, except the Nokia beta Qt4 port or the theme, so I’ve been thinking: lots of [...]

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Cool Command Line Apps for GNU/Linux and other Unix Systems

Even though I am a strong advocate of learning as much as you can about using the command line, I admit I like my GUI a lot (and Compiz of course ). The CLI can be really useful for repairing your system or just doing some task that takes far more clicks in the graphical [...]

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Advanced Linux Distributions You Should Try

Some people will argue with me in that these GNU/Linux distributions are as advanced as you want them to be. Well, of course Linux is all about choice. I took the user base perspective though and what I have for you today is a few distros which do not hide the manual (or for people [...]

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