22 Feb, 2009
A new version of gtypist got released on February 18th. It is: gtypist 2.8.3.
Description
gtypist (or Gnu Typist) is a terminal-based typing tutor which is quite well complete: it offers a lot of tutorials, starting from low skill level to more than intermediary, and plus it can be updated with new tutorials easily with their easy and intuitive scripting language.
If you just wish to improve your typing skill, this program is for you. There are several "difficulty" levels and different types of tutorials (mixed letters, phrases, ...), and there are also tutorials for other languages (English, French, Czech, German, Finnish and Spanish). Dvorak Keyboard is also supported for English.
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20 Feb, 2009
Yesterday I looked at freshmeat.org to look for GPL'ed software I didn't know of, and I found amongst others: Artha 0.8.0 .
(see at the bottom of this post for a screenshot).
Artha is a quite powerful thesaurus for Linux and Gnome. It uses GTK+ and is written in C using Glib, and built using Autotools. This is a well-packaged software, very clean code source and powerful. A very neat app to test out!
It is a handy GUI thesaurus that focuses on high usability, without trading off simplicity and ease of use.
Here are some of the features it contains (from official website):
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17 Feb, 2009
On Feb. 15, Geany 0.16 has been released. This source code editor is getting more and more complex and this new version introduces some new features and a lot of bugfixes. I now use it for all my C projects because it is very lightweight, easy to use, has syntax-coloring and completion.
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16 Jan, 2009
inotify-tools is set of programs to help you monitor/watch files when they are created, modified, deleted, open for read/write, etc... and notifies you. Those tools can be very useful for admins or for developpers of bash scripts for example.
They are very easy to use and only needs a few libraries (only 2 I think!) to work.
I've packaged the new version 3.13 for Ubuntu and Debian.
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