Solang displays and edits photos The Solang photo manager is still a fairly young project, but it is taking rapid steps toward maturity. The software is already fast and very usable. By Kristian KiЯling Sandra Cunningham, Fotolia Users Links ipad case
The Evince document viewer Evince is quickly becoming Gnome’s standard viewer for PDF and other document formats. By Matthias Warkus www. sxc. hu Like
The 24th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Germany In late December, cable docks, soldering stations, templates, 4,000 participants, and 100 talks were active ingredients in the 24th Chaos Computer Congress. By Nils Magnus and Anika Kehrer Boris Niehaus Out of 100 events,
Monitoring your system with Conky This light-weight system monitor keeps you informed about your computer’s performance. By Jan Rдhm System monitoring utilities help
Perl script uses Ptrace for process tracing Linux lets users watch the kernel at work with a little help from Ptrace, a tool that both debuggers and malicious process kidnappers use. A CPAN module introduces this technology to Perl and, if this is not enough, C extensions add functionality. By Michael
Video chat with Yahoo Kopete and Gyachi bring Yahoo videochat services to Linux. By Marcel Hilzinger Antonis Papantoniou, Fotolia Chat has become
New features in the GCC versions 4.3 and 4.4 Recent versions of the GNU compiler include new features from the next C++ standard. By Andreas Klein Leo Blanchette, 123RF The new C++ standard,
Programming with the Gambas Basic IDE Gambas is a fast and easy tool for writing graphical desktop applications in Basic. By Frank Wieduwilt Eray Haciosmanoglu, Fotolia If you owned
T-Bookmarks: Turn Thunderbird into a bookmark manager Mozilla’s Thunderbird offers tools that provide an alterative way to manage and customize your bookmarks. We’ll show you how to put them to new and unconventional uses. By Dmitri Popov When
Tools for producing e-books Working with book scans can be a pain. However, armed with the right set of tools, you can now automate the process of creating e-books that supports full-text searches and tables of content. By Daniel Stender Many