Nov 19, 2008 6:10pm GMT
Need to create a screencast to demonstrate an application feature or nifty software technique? The easiest way to do this is to install the recordMyDesktop screen recording utility and the gtk-recordMyDesktop graphical front-end to it. Most mainstream Linux distributions include both packages in their repositories, so you can quickly install them using your system's package manager. On Debian... more »
Manage Amazon S3 with s3cmdNov 14, 2008 5:56pm GMT
While Amazon S3 provides reliable and cheap backup, you need a third-party application to put the service to some practical use. JungleDisk is one of the most popular Amazon S3-based backup solutions out there, but it's not the only fish in the sea. If you are looking for a no-frills tool which can help you to manage the Amazon S3 service, try s3cmd -- a simple command-line utility written in... more »
MyToDoListPHP: No-frills Task ManagerNov 11, 2008 9:29pm GMT
If you are looking for a no-frills Web-based task manager, you might want to take MyToDoListPHP tool for a spin. Based on the PHP/MySQL stack and sprinkled with AJAX, this simple task management utility allows you to add and delete tasks, assign them to different users, add notes to tasks, and mark them as completed. Nothing earth-shattering, just a simple and effective application you can in... more »
Analyze GnuCash Data in OpenOffice.org CalcNov 07, 2008 6:04pm GMT
Want to analyze your GnuCash data using OpenOffice.org Calc? This guide provides step-by-step instructions of how to pull financial data from GnuCash and work with them in OpenOffice.org Calc. In addition to that, the guide demonstrates how to use Calc's Data Pilot feature to make sense of the extracted data. more »
Live Sync with lsyncdNov 05, 2008 5:58pm GMT
rsync is an excellent and versatile backup tool, but it does have one drawback: you have to run it manually when you want to back up your data. Sure, you can use cron to create scheduled backups, but even this solution cannot provide seamless live synchronization. If this is what you want, then you need the lsyncd tool, a command-line utility which uses rsync to synchronize (or rather mirror)... more »
Meeting OpenOffice.org developersOct 27, 2008 8:55pm GMT
Although OpenOffice.org is an open source project with its own community, the core team that does the bulk of the actual coding and quality assurance is based in Hamburg, Germany. Recently, I had a chance to visit the developers behind this key open source project. The Sun offices in Hamburg occupy three floors of a rather large business complex in an industrial area not far from downtown Ham... more »
Extension Watch: Speed up Data Entry with DataFormOct 23, 2008 2:32pm GMT
Let's face it, tabbing through cells in a Calc spreadsheet is not the most efficient way to populate them with data. The DataForm extension provides a faster, and more intuitive way to enter data into cells, and sports a couple of other useful features to boot. To enable the form in a spreadsheet, you have to add at least two rows in it... more »
