Articles tagged ‘killer apps’

The ultimate battle between Linux desktop RSS readers. It came down to Akgregator and Liferea. Read the scoop, see who won (and why).

I’ve been spending some time lately trying to find the best PDF reader around. KPDF won hands down. Please, don’t even talk to me about Evince, gPDF, xPDF et al. They all have a way to go. And then one day I realised that the copy of Acrobat Reader I had around was an older static [...]

Ever since the decay of XMMS started to become obvious, quite a few years ago, I've been looking for a replacement, the ideal music player that would fit my needs perfectly. It was a long and difficult journey, but I finally think I may be getting to an end. Here's the story of how I got to meet Audacious.

Devil's Pie is a nice utility which can apply various properties on the fly to your desktop windows. Until version 0.13, it used an XML config file. After, it switched to s-expressions, and seriously lacked documentation. This is an attempt to clear the mist.

I think many a Debian user has felt the need to somehow tell apt to stop hogging all the bandwidth during one of those long dist-upgrade’s. Unfortunately, apt doesn’t feature a built-in bandwidth limiter. Fortunately, a userspace bandwidth shaper exists, and it’s called trickle. If you run a command from the console through trickle, it will preload [...]