Are you a fan of Arena (and Arena-like games)? Do you long to play these games on your Linux box? Are you one of those that proclaims that Linux can not and will not have games? If any of these apply then I am happy to show you OpenArena. Yes this game is based on [...]

Tags: Arena, Games, linux games
Categories: Games, Linux, Mac, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software

There are search tools and then there are SEARCH TOOLS. Any Linux user that has ever needed real power for their searches generally has to resort to the command line where they can take advantage of regular expressions or scripting. But what if you could have a GUI tool that could also handle regular expressions?
There [...]

Tags: desktop searching, regular expressions, search
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

Although integration has become widespread, there are instances when you might want a separate tool for organizing your life. Say, for instance, your company requires you use Zimbra, eGroupware, or Outlook for company calendaring and contacts. What if you want something on your machine to organize your life – that doesn’t require an online connection, [...]

Tags: calendar, organizer, personal information manager, pim
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

My wife is a really good cook and baker. So much so that I have been trying to find the perfect recipe manager to fit her needs. This software needs to be able to import files from web sites, create personal recipes, automatically adjust a recipe ingrediants to match serving size, and have an easy [...]

Tags: baking, cooking, GNOME, recipe, recipe manager
Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

You’ve more than likely read Martins’ piece about the outstanding encryption tool Truecrypt “TrueCrypt 6.1 Released” and have used it to create easy to use, encrypted file systems on Windows machines. Of course TrueCrypt is also available for Linux as well. But what if I told you there was an even easier system to use [...]

Tags: cryptkeeper, encrypted folders, encryption, true-crypt
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic

If you are a web junkie, or depend upon various web sites and services daily you know how quickly your browser can fill up with tabs. Wouldn’t it be nice if you can just use small web apps for these needs? And since that seems to be the way the computing is evolving, it only [...]

Tags: cloud computing, prism, web apps
Categories: Browsing, Desktop Manager, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

I do a lot of work with secure shell. There are times when I am connected, via ssh, to multiple machines. Managing these connections can be a real hassle (especially when you have to try to remember numerous IP addresses). Sure you can create bash aliases to make these connections easier to remember, but if [...]

Tags: putty, remote management, ssh, ssh connections
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Basic, software