Category Archives: PackeOfTheDay
my package of the day: mpd – the Music Player Daemon
There are dozens of nice music players around, that’s for sure. You can choose between featur rich killer applications like Rhythmbox or Amarok, use old-school but up to date standards like XMMS or even a console classic like mp3blaster. Most … Continue reading
my package of the day: synergy and quicksynergy – share a single mouse, keyboard and clipboard between multiple computers
Once upon a time… I sat beneath a person who tried to show me something on his GNU/Linux desktop. As he noticed, he needs to copy a password from his Windows machine (was it OS X?), which was standing close, … Continue reading
my package of the day: proggyfonts – tiny fonts for programmers and console users
(Well, it is not yet a package, but trust me: I’ll make sure it gets one.) As a programmer or console user you might know the pain of having not as much characters on you screen as you would like … Continue reading
my package of the day: file – classify (unknown) files and mime-types on the console
You know this? Somebody just sent you a mail with attachments that don’t have usable file extensions so you don’t really know how to handle them. Audio file? PDF? What is it? The same problem might occur after a file … Continue reading
my package of the day: listadmin – moderate mailman mailing lists from the console
Are you involved in moderating Mailman mailing lists? Then maybe you know the pain: As you try to stop spammers flooding you list you hold messages from unknown senders back for review. Or you have a moderated mailing list that … Continue reading
my package of the day: fish – the friendly interactive shell
Always wanted to learn using a shell more deeply? Maybe “fish“, the “friendly interactive shell” is the right kickoff for you. If you are already a heavy command line user with customized .bashrc or even .zshrc (like me), thank you … Continue reading
my package of the day: weather-util (weather report and forecast for the console)
Let me introduce you today into a tool that a lot of people might evaluate as useless: Jeremy Stanley’s weather-util. Whith this tiny python script, which finally found its way into Debian Etch and Ubuntu repositories, you can retrieve weather … Continue reading