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• Featured Linux Download: Analyze and visualize hard drive usage with Baobab

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Linux Download, Hard Drives, Linux, Management, Top

  hard drive. Baobab is the Linux equivalent of WinDirStat for Windows and GrandPerspective for Mac and possesses most of the functionality of those apps. Baobab can be used to search for and locate unusually large files, and it is not limited to your local hard drive -- it can also be used to analyze folders over FTP and Windows shares. Baobab

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• Featured Linux Download: Build desktop wikis and outlines with Zim

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Desktop, Desktop Publishing, Featured Linux Download, Linux, Wiki

  Linux only: Open source app Zim is an easy to use desktop wiki. Zim boasts instantaneous saving (there isn't even a save button), and automatic page creation and linking. Zim saves all data locally as plain text files, and all the pages can be easily exported into HTML for easy web publishing. This makes it possible to take your wiki with you and

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• Featured Linux Download: Install Internet Explorer 7.0 in Linux with IEs 4 Linux

  Published: August 7, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Featured Linux Download, Internet Explorer 7, Linux, Web Browsers

  Linux only: You can now install Internet Explorer 7.0 in Linux with the latest beta release of IEs 4 Linux, which has made some major improvements since the last time we covered it. IEs 4 Linux now includes a graphical installer and gives you the option of installing Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0 and the Flash plugins. Like the last

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• Featured Linux Download: Embed external applications into Firefox with MozPlugger

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:58 am

  Tags: Digital Media, Downloads, Featured Linux Download, Firefox, Linux, Pdf, Web Browser

  Linux only: Open source app MozPlugger embeds external applications into Firefox making it very easy to play a variety of media formats. MozPlugger works with the following media formats: Quicktime, MPEG, MP2, AVI, SGI-movie, Tiff, DL, IFF-anim, MIDI, Soundtracker, AU, WAV and Commodore 64 audio files. MozPlugger is not a fix-all solution for

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• Featured Linux Download: Browse the Web Without Installing Anything with ioSwiftFox

  Published: August 31, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Linux Download, Firefox, Linux, Web Browsers

  Linux only: Run a browser directly from RAM with open source "app" ioSwiftFox. ioSwiftFox requires absolutely no installation and doesn't even require root privileges to run for the first time. ioSwiftFox is a simple script that after some chmod foo you can use to browse the web. ioSwiftFox runs faster than Firefox and even works with your

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• Featured Linux Download: Manage Processes with htop

  Published: October 10, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Linux Download, Linux, System Monitoring

  Linux only: View processes running from in Linux interactively—complete with full command lines and arguments—with free application htop. Beyond providing detailed information about processes, htop displays a progress meter that fluctuates based on CPU usage, memory usage, and swap space. Easily terminate one or more processes

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• Featured Linux Download: Do More from GNOME's Panel with Gimmie

  Published: October 17, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Linux Download, Gnome, Linux

  gimmieGimmie is a free download, Linux only. Gimmie [via Tombuntu]

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• Add Custom Right-Click Options With Nautilus-actions [Featured Linux Download]

  Published: October 26, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Automation, Downloads, Featured Linux Download, Linux, Linux Tip, Mouse, Scripts

  Nautilus-actions is a free download (available in many standard repositories, including Ubuntu and Red Hat) and requires Gnome and Nautilus. Some plug-ins may require additional scripting packages. Nautilus-actions [via Linux.com]

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• Organize MP3 Metadata with Ex Falso [Featured Linux Download]

  Published: October 30, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Digital Music, Downloads, Featured Linux Download, Linux, Metadata, Mp3s, Music, Organization

  with Windows programs, but Linux users have a nice option as well. Desktop utility Ex Falso fixes MP3, Ogg Vorbis and other files manually or based on filenames, and includes a feature to quickly set track numbers. Ex Falso is a free download available in many Linux repositories (search for the package exfalso), requires the GStreamer 0.10,

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• More Color Scheme Control with Agave [Featured Linux Download]

  Published: October 29, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Color, Downloads, Featured Linux Download, Linux

  a program for GNOME-based Linux systems that gives you more than enough color information to plan your web site, desktop theme or design projects. Choose from standard palettes, use a Photoshop-like selection tool to grab any color on your screen or manually set color, saturation and brightness levels to save in a list of favorites. Agave is a

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• Simple Flickr Uploading with Postr [Featured Linux Download]

  Published: November 6, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Featured Linux Download, Flickr, Gnome, Photos

  Linux only: Applications like

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• Fedora 8 Werewolf Improves Multimedia, Laptop Support [Featured Linux Download]

  Published: November 8, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Featured Linux Download, Linux, Live Cd

  Red Hat's publicly-released Linux distribution, is available for download as a live or install CD or DVD in both the GNOME and KDE desktop flavors. New in this release, code-named "Werewolf," are a Codec Buddy feature that helps users find and install support for MP3s and other media formats, improvements to laptop compatability—key

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• Skype 2.0 Beta Adds Video for Linux [Featured Linux Download]

  Published: November 8, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Linux Download, Linux, Skype, Video Chat, Voip

  Linux only: Skype's latest 2.0 beta for Linux adds long-awaited video chat features to the popular freeware, cross-platform Voice over IP (VoIP) application. Video chat has been available in Windows version of Skype since 2005 with video support for Macs introduced about a year later, so the addition of Linux rounds out Skype's excellent feature

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• Lock Up Your Passwords with MyPasswordSafe [Featured Linux Download]

  Published: November 9, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Featured Linux Download, Linux, Passwords, Privacy, Security

  Linux only: Free security application MyPasswordSafe offers a single space to store usernames and passwords for all your desktop and web applications. All your password info is locked away with the Blowfish algorithm devised by security expert Bruce Schneier. When called up, the passwords are passed into your clipboard without being displayed,

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• Create Slick DVD Menus with ManDVD [Featured Linux Download]

  Published: November 21, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Dvd, Dvds, Featured Linux Download, Linux, Ripping

  Linux only: Give your home-brewed DVDs a polished finish with ManDVD, a free software package for GNOME and KDE-based systems. ManDVD may not have as many encoding and burning options as K3b, DeVeDe or other Linux DVD creators, but the front ends it creates look a good deal nicer. Grab frames or clips to create menus and video buttons, add

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