April 18, 2010 · General · 6 comments

What pdfocr is for

Suppose you have a PDF document that was made using a scanner, or otherwise consists of image data but doesn't have text data. Such a PDF can't be searched by PDF readers or desktop search applications. pdfocr is a simple utility I made that takes a PDF file, then generates a new one that has the text layer added, so it's searchable by your PDF reader and can be indexed by your desktop search application, but is still identical when printed.
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April 18, 2010 · General · 6 comments

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, ...
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April 17, 2010 · Security · 5 comments

Ninja is a privilege escalation detection  and  prevention system for GNU/Linux hosts. While running, it will monitor process activity on the local host, and keep track of  all processes  running  as root.  If a process is spawned with UID or GID zero (root), ninja will log necessary  informa-tion  about  this process, and optionally kill the process if it was spawned by an unauthorized user.
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April 15, 2010 · General · 12 comments

Turpial is twitter client written in Python. Light, fast, fully functional and integrated to the user desktop
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April 15, 2010 · General · 11 comments

Webmail for Linux Desktops provides a generic mailto: handler and webmail config dialog that lets the user choose his preferred webmail provider on first run and through the desktops Preferences->Webmail facility.
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