Articles by Jack M.Germain

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Audio Tag Tool: The Manic Music Librarian's Friend

The Linux OS makes listening to your music collection quick and simple. For instance, Xine, MPlayer and Amarok let you track and play your musical selections with a point and a click. In fact, we have reviewed these and other audio players in this space....

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VirtualBox 4 Builds a Clean and Easy Sandbox Inside Your Linux Desktop

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Are Android Tablets Stumbling Out of the Gate?

Based on initial sales reports and some tablet market flip flops, the few Android tablets that have hit the shelves so far seem to have crashed and burned. Early sales figures indicate that no Android tab is coming close to being the much-awaited Apple iPad alternative. But will time heal all? Does the Android tablet just need the same growing time that consumers gave the iPad?...

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gLabels Does the Job but Wouldn't Make Patrick Bateman Sweat

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Sentinella: A Snappy System Sentinel for Linux Lovers

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SeaMonkey: More Than Just a Firefox Clone

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Natty Narwhal Offers Unity but No Clarity

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In the Linux Garage, Xfce Is Your Tough, Reliable Jeep

Xfce is a niche desktop environment. But given the moves developers are making with changes to KDE 4 and Gnome 3, not to mention Ubuntu's new Unity desktop, Xfce may be just the ticket to take you to a calmer, more satisfying computing environment while staying with your favorite Linux distro....

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HomeBank: A Fine Financial App Once You Clear the Setup Hurdle

Keeping track of personal and business finances is one of the most essential tasks I do daily on my computer besides researching and writing about the Linux platform. Lately I am assigning much more of that task to HomeBank to keep my banking transactions in order....

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PDF Shuffler: A Dead Simple, Dead Serious, Dead-On Winner

If all you do with PDF (Portable Document Format) files is view them, you have very little need for an application the likes of PDF Shuffler. But if you find yourself in desperate need of a tool to let you slice and dice one or more PDF files, then this little app may well be one of the best computing tools you will use on your Linux desktop....

What Does Google Owe FOSS?

Mobile device developers are in a holding pattern with plans to plug in the much-awaited Google Android 3.0 upgrade. The delay is causing some bad feelings in the FOSS (Free Open Source Software) community. But it is unlikely that Google will carry many scars from the dispute Claiming it needs more time to solve technical glitches, Google recently ...

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Bluetile Keeps My App Windows Nice and Neat

Sometimes the number of choices the Linux operating system provides can be overwhelming. I am starting to look at other options for my preferred desktop environment as GNOME 3 and KDE 4 go in directions that might be unsettling to my computing routine. One obscure yet interesting replacement candidate is Bluetile.

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Banshee: A Howling Good Media Player

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New KDE Polishes Linux but Leaves a Few Little Streaks

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MeeGo and Symbian: How Long Will the Bodies Stay Warm?

When Nokia and Microsoft announced a partnership last month, many systems and app developers interpreted the deal to mean Nokia was beginning to turn away QT Symbian and MeeGo platforms. In essence, Nokia would be dialing into Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 technology in the near future -- and, it was presumed, dialing out of its own mobile OSes. The...

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A Tale of Two Alarm Clocks: One to Use, One to Lose

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Kraft: A No-Nonsense Office Assistant That Gets Straight to Work

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Does Mozilla Have a Speed Problem?

The Firefox Web browser is about to go where it has never gone before. Firefox makers are changing their developmental strategy. This new approach will warp Mozilla.org's flagship browser through several release generations in less time than it took to advance from Firefox 3.0 to the not-yet-released Firefox 4.0 By comparison, Google has shipped a ...

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GnoTime: A Marvelously Manic Time Tracker

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GNOME 3 Beta: Ever So Slightly More Than a Pretty Face

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