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GNUCash for your Android Cellphone
6 months ago
GNUCash is a Free double-entry accounting software that can be used to manage your income and expenditure. I have been using GNUCash for many years now and it has helped me immensely in controlling my expenses in tune to my income.
It is released under GPL and runs in Windows, Linux, and various flavors of Unices.
MyNotex – A Simple Note Taking Software for Linux
1 year ago
I love to take notes. A good note taking strategy will allow you to learn your subject better, in a smaller time frame. Good notes also help you to brush up your subject at a later date. There are lots of note taking tools available – free or otherwise.
MyNotex is a free note taking software that runs in Linux. It is available in the repositories of most Linux distributions.
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A Git Primer For New Users
1 year ago
This is a git primer for newbies or those people who – want to use Git to version their data, but don’t know how.
How to Reduce Computer Eye Strain
1 year ago
You might suffer from eye strain if your job involves working on a computer for long hours. This is especially true if you stare at the computer monitor sitting in a dimly lit room.
One of the best ways of reducing computer eye strain is to change the colour of your monitor in relation to the time at your place.
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GCstar – A Free Collections Manager Software
1 year ago
GCstar is an open source collections manager software. Collection managers are databases optimized for collecting information on similar things. For example, I have a bunch of DVD movies that I have ripped to my computer for easy viewing. Unfortunately, they have been saved in different locations.
Using GCstar, I can create a movie collection database and import the full file paths of all the movies I have on my computer. This way, I am able to access my movies from one single interface.
OfflineIMAP – Read, Synchronize and Backup your Email Offline
1 year ago
OfflineIMAP is a command line tool that operates on a remote and a local repository and synchronizes emails between them. Using offlineIMAP, you will be able to read and manage your email from multiple computers – with or without an active Internet connection. Any changes you make in your email folders are reflected on all your machines.
Enigmail – Digitally Sign And Encrypt Your Email In Thunderbird
1 year ago
Enigmail is a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird Email client that allows you to send digitally signed and / or encrypted emails with ease. It also automatically verifies the digital signature of the email you receive, and lets you decrypt any email encrypted with your public key.
Cron – A Job Scheduler In Linux
1 year ago
Cron is a time based task or job scheduler available on Linux/Unix operating systems.
A job scheduler executes tasks on your computer at adjustable regular intervals.
What this means is – suppose you have to carry out a task on your computer that needs to be repeated at regular intervals, then you can pass the task to cron and it will execute the task at the given time and date.
bcrypt – A Good File Encryption Tool
1 year ago
Bcrypt is a cross platform file encryption tool that uses the Blowfish encryption algorithm. One of the chief advantages of using bcrypt (apart from the security aspect) is that it runs on a wide variety of OS platforms and hardware architectures. This includes Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, HP-UX etc. This means, you can encrypt the file in say Linux, and then move the encrypted file to a machine running Windows and decrypt the file over there.
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