February 28, 2011 · General · 1 comment

If you are connecting your server or desktop through putty and if you press Ctrl-S accidentally it will send Xoff the only way to recover is by pressing Ctrl-Q.
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February 27, 2011 · General · 5 comments

Peyote is an audio player with friendly MC-like interface.Peyote is designed specifically for work easy with cue sheets.Peyote supports wv ( wavepack ), wav, flac, ape, ogg and mp3 formats.
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February 26, 2011 · General · 2 comments

Banshee is an open-source media player, originally called Sonance until 2005.Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players, including Apple's iPod, Android devices and Creative's ZEN players.Other features include Last.fm integration, album artwork fetching, smart playlists and podcast support. Banshee is released under the terms of the MIT License and is available for Linux as well as Mac OS X operating systems. A build for Windows is currently in preparation.
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February 25, 2011 · General · (No comments)

RSS feed updates in the indicator area.

Features:

* Editable, sortable list of feed URL's
* Notification popups of new feed items
* Adjustable update timer
* Adjustable number of items to show per feed
* Option to run on system startup
* Mark all items as read / unread
* Uses standard XDG desktop directories and Gconf for settings
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February 25, 2011 · General · 31 comments

Mozilla Thunderbird is a total redesign of the Mozilla mail component to produce a cross-platform, stand-alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. It has many new features, among them the ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. a new look and feel with a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client, and the ability to add UI extensions.
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