Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Convert Audio and videos from one format to the other - Panther - Panther

Panther is free and open media converter that you can use to convert your music and videos from one format to the other. No more format incompatibilities! Just convert your song your video to the format you want!

Featuring a simple and easy to use interface, it can get you started on your conversion task within a moment. A fast conversion engine and also features a simple UI for newbies and an advanced one for the pros! Special features include reducing the size of audio without affect the quality much! Also supported presets for converting videos!

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Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Media Collection Manager - Griffith

Griffith is a media collection manager application. Adding items to the collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the related information from the Web.

Griffith is a cross-platform application and is known to run on GNU Linux, Microsoft Windows and MacOS X systems. Probably, it will run on other POSIX compatible operating systems where a gtk+ environment is available, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris.

Griffith features:
 * Integrates well with a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite3 used by default) to keep tabs on your library
 * Can backup/restore your database
 * Exports to CSV, PDF, XML and HTML files
 * Imports from CSV files
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Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Improve Battery Life of a Portable Linux Computer - Jupiter

Jupiter is a light weight power and hardware control applet for Linux.  It is designed to improve battery life of a portable Linux computer by integrating with the operating system and changing parameters of the computer based on battery or powered connection.

Additionally, Jupiter provides quick access to some of the commonly needed hardware controls like screen output and resolution, WIFI, and bluetooth.

If you use Linux on a portable computer, let Jupiter take the effort out of going mobile.

Jupiter Features:
 * Automatically adjusts CPU mode for AC or battery
 * Automatically tunes the kernel for AC or battery
 * Automatically tunes hardware for AC or battery
 * Supports Asus Super Hybrid Engine (SHE)
 * Remembers and applies last selected configuration
 * Fast and efficient, low resource utilization
 * Easily Customizable

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Monday, 2 April 2012

Text Based RSS/Atom Feed Reader - Newsbeuter

Newsbeuter is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems. Newsbeuter's great configurability and vast number of features make it a perfect choice for people that need a slick and fast feed reader that can be completely controlled via keyboard.

Newsbeuter features:
 * Subscribe to RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds
 * Download podcasts
 * Freely configure your keyboard shortcuts
 * Search through all downloaded articles
 * Categorize and query your subscriptions with a flexible tag system
 * Integrate any data source through a flexible filter and plugin system
 * Automatically remove unwanted articles through a "killfile"
 * Define "meta feeds" using a powerful query language
 * Synchronize newsbeuter with your bloglines.com account
 * Import and exporting your subscriptions with the widely used OPML format
 * Freely define newsbeuter's look'n'feel through free color configurability and format strings
 * Keep all your feeds in sync with Google Reader

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