Episode 58: Hosts favorite apps & user feedback
News & Personal Updates
- The Linux Mint team is proud to announce the release candidate of Linux Mint Xfce.
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1708 - Bruce Byfield has a blog post titled “Will Gnome 3.0 repeat the user revolt of KDE 4.0”
http://bit.ly/e5Su2D - LibreOffice 3.3.2 is now available for download.
http://bit.ly/id31WC
http://bit.ly/feSgZK - Susan Linton has attempted to summarize the outcome and impact from the recent Canonical / Banshee / Gnome slap fight with a blog post over at Ostatic.com.
http://bit.ly/erJuYv - Texas Linux Fest is coming April 2nd at the Hilton Austin.
http://texaslinuxfest.org/ - Ubuntu teams up with the Debian team to help push downstream patches back to the Debain base with the DEX project. http://bit.ly/hYaxoX
http://bit.ly/gDWCV2 - FireFox 4 has been released!
http://mzl.la/ezsjrh - Red Hat nears the 1 Billion dollar mark!
http://bit.ly/i71X3Y
http://zd.net/hnFMjO
Main Topic
- Hosts Favorite Apps
Website of the Week
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Another great show. Btw, the KDE version of the Quake-style terminal is Yakuake (http://yakuake.kde.org/). I have it on my system (even my current RAM drive system) and I love using it.
For programs off the beaten path, but they do come in handy when you need them..
gImageReader – Is an OCR reader. Basically takes things like pdf files and convert them to .txt files. Super handy.
Pdf Mod – Lets you move around and modify pdfs.
For music players: Avidemuix to convert videos, great ipod presets, etc. All, lets you hardcode subtitles to your videos, if you have a less sophisticated player.
FLoola for your click wheel ipods, lets you add songs and podcasts on the go. Works for mac, win and linux, so you can grab podcasts at work/school get them on your ipod for the ride home.
For those using the tradition ipod shuffles, what is simpler then a simple python script. http://ipod.capacala.com/
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I’m the admin/writer of asininetech.com
Thanks for the nice mention of our humble blog. 🙂
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Hey, great show. I was looking here for all the apps you mentioned. I’ll have to listen again. All I remember is nitrogen. 🙂
I know you all do a lot, but when you mention a program, it would be awesome to list them here. Thanks again for all the work.
Invite Nixie
http://www.nixiepixel.com/install-linux-mint/
Keep up the good work.
Funny how great Linux minds work Bob. Nixie produces some great videos on Linux and we definitetly have her name on our adjenda of fascinating people inLinux to interview. As soon as we can set it up and of course if she agrees we will have her on. Please be patient and stay tuned in.
Hi,
I’ve been following Mintcast since the second week after installing Mint for the first time. ( about 5 months ago) As a Linux New-comer I found Mintcast both informative, and entertaining.
I think discussing favorite “must have” apps was a great Idea.
How about asking Linux Mint users what some of Their favorite, “Must-have” applications are?
Thanks for clueing me in on Guake guys, it’s a great little app.
Tomboy with the LaTeX plugin is great, and you can backup/sync all your notes with Ubuntu One.