Reader/Listener Greg wrote in a while ago and pointed a really great CLI tool for managing your calendar.
From Roaring Penquin:

Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program. It includes the following features:
* A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent handling of exceptions and holidays.
* Plain-text, PostScript and HTML […]

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I was reading over at Debuntu.org, and came across a little slick little piece of software than could really offer a productivity boost to the heavy command line user.
Terminator, described as a “multi-view terminal” basically allows you to have more than one simultaneus terminal running in same window. But instead of tabs (like GNOME-terminal or […]

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I recently had a need to download a video from Youtube, and it was just a frustrating process. Many of the Firefox extensions that claim to do that are rather half-baked (the best being VideoDownloader) and it was jut a bit of a hassle. Then I discovered youtube-dl, and nice shell script put together by […]

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How many times have you been told that it’s impossible to undelete files on a ext3 filesystem? Probably …a lot. In fact, I was firmly convinced that once I deleted a file, it was effectively gone for good, no questions asked. Well, reader/listener Bruce wrote in this last week with a link to a […]

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Many people keep notes and todo items in text files these days, for a myriad of reasons. Low file size, universal portability, and easy searching are just some of the advantages to keeping your information in plain text. But contact management? I always assumed it would just get too hard to deal with many contacts […]

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