Great all around productivity site Lifehacker reports on a tool for the Linux desktop called DDM, or Desktop Data Manager. Apparently, it functions as a clipboard manager, download manager, and a screen capture app with more functionality than the default program in GNOME.
Full Story: DDM clipboard manager, download manager, and screenshot master
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Deskbar is one my favorite productivity apps on Linux. It’s GNOME applet that allows me to search files, contacts, switch tasks, and more from a single text box.
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There’s great discussion over at nixternal on whether or not the new Google Desktop for Linux is spyware. Could be…but if you’re willing to risk it, I hear it indexes gmail, which is pretty awesome. Currently I have evolution check gmail, beagle index evolution, and search beagle with deskbar.
I like the idea of index gmail […]
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It’s always kind of pain to be working in GNOME and see that one essential KDE app (for me, Amarok) stick out from your desktop. You know you just wish there was a way to make it all look the same…
Well, here you go! This method (basically just matching some compatible themes & colors) works […]
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DesktopLinux.Com reports that Dell will be offering even more Ubuntu goodness on consumer-friendly notebook models Inspiron 1420 and Inspiron 530.
Full Story: Dell to offer Ubuntu on more systems
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