Free Software Linux

As a web developer for small business, I don’t have a need for complex project management, but I do need to keep track of time, otherwise, I’ll short-change myself and end up making $5.00 an hour! Analysis of time spent on various tasks has also helped me to identify bottlenecks in my process, making me more efficient - keeping clients and the accountant happy.  read more »

Another Larabie Font (This guy makes lot’s of fonts). With a “Neo Art Deco” style, this light action font is ideal for print and screen display. Download here. Have a look at the attached pdf for a better view.

Yet another Larabie Font. This one looks kind-of 70’s to me. As always, for a better look, see the attached pdf or download the font here.

I like to be able to search for stuff on my computer - who doesn't? Well , I don't enjoy searching, but I do want the ability to do so in case I loose track of something in the perfect hierarchical world that is my directory tree. From the CLI, one can invoke various search commands to do the dirty work. Even ls can find stuff for you if you grep it right. But, alas; search for me is better suited to the gui, so about two weeks ago, I got the strigi daemon indexing so I can actually do the aforementioned searches – after just a bit of drive crawling, I could find media, email messages, etc., as expected.  read more »

This is another Larabie Font with a retro video game feel. See the attached pdf for a better look  and then download the Abberancy font, if you like.

This is the Abandon Bitplane font by Ray Larabie. If you want a better look, check out the attached pdf, or go to abstractfonts.com for the download.  read more »

The KDE Community has announced the latest release of KDE 4.x to hit the streets, KDE 4.1 Plagued with a Vista-esque, lukewarm response, as was 4.0, the code is finally emerging, as planned, from it's previous near alpha condition to the full featured KDE that we all know and love. I'm not saying that the 3.5.x purists are going to rush out tomorrow and upgrade their systems, but KDE 4.1 does go aways at greasing some of the more squeaky wheels in the series.  read more »

I have a Dual Head set up for my main workstation. I like to have my programs open in the same place on all of that real-estate, and if I move a window, I like that to be remembered too. By right-clicking on most every title bar and selecting Advanced > Special Window Settings, I am presented with 5 tabs of settings - the Geometry tab is the one selected for this screenshot. I can apply this control to windows that meet a specific criteria, be it one window or many.  read more »