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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February 25, 2011 · General · 1 comment

Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.
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February 24, 2011 · Monitoring · (No comments)

TagPlayer is a Boffin like application. It allows the user to play music based on the music’s lastfm tags.It uses pylast for Last.fm API access, GStreamer for music playback and pyGTK for GUI. The project is developped using Quickly for fast prototyping
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February 23, 2011 · General · 4 comments

A utility to help rename various files at once, using a text editor. This script will open the list of files in a directory in a text editor (by default, vi). Then any changes made in the editor will be reflected in the filesystem (the files in the directory will be renamed to the names saved in the editor).
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February 23, 2011 · General · 1 comment

Photostory is an application written with Python and using GStreamer and PyGTK. It lets you take a photo of yourself each day using your webcam, then view these photos or compile them into a video, in the style of this rather famous video.
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