Halo lets you view the weather in your town/city and check out the forecast and historic temperature trends. Halo identifies your location based on your IP address. But you can also add other locations.
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Author: Steve Emms
Excellent Utilities: Paperwork – personal document manager
Paperwork is designed to simplify the management of your paperwork. The software lets you scan or import your documents, and quickly find what you want, wrapped together in a GTK interface.
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Excellent Utilities: lnav – the log file navigator
This is the second in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. For this article, we’ll put lnav under the spotlight.
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Essential System Tools: Unison – Excellent Console and Graphical File Synchronization Software
Unison is a file-synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
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Excellent Utilities: tmux – terminal multiplexer software
This is the first in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities. For the first article, we put tmux under the spotlight.
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Essential System Tools: VeraCrypt – Strong disk encryption software
VeraCrypt is a free open source cross-platform disk encryption software that builds on the discontinued TrueCrypt.
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Shallot – Qt-based file manager with plugin interface
Shallot is billed as a file manager with the maximum degree of flexibility and customization. It’s Qt-based. We put it to the test together with 15 other Qt-based file managers.
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9 Admirable Graphical File Managers
We covered many high quality file managers in our Qt File Managers Roundup and GTK File Managers Roundups. But there are graphical non-Qt and non-GTK file managers available. Here’s our favorites.
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Excellent GTK File Managers to Manage your Filesystem
We recently visited 15 Qt file managers. This article reviews 15 Gtk file managers.
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LinuxLinks: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
LinuxLinks initially began as a private home page. Back in 1994 Linux was beginning to take off and our bookmarks had become increasingly disorganised. Over time, demand increased from other users to list the Linux sites on a more formal basis. Linux Links was then created.
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