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Liquid Prompt is an adaptive, smart prompt for Bash and Zsh. It can display various useful information on the shell prompt, only when it’s needed, like the battery status when it’s discharging over a given threshold, an up arrow if using an HTTP proxy, the number of detached sessions (screen or tmux) and more.Liquid Prompt [...] There are various tweaks that you can apply to your laptop to save battery power, but many of them depend on the hardware, Linux distribution, some are outdated or too hard to apply for regular users and so on. TLP is an advanced power management command line tool for Linux that tries to apply these [...] nopriv.py is a Python script to back up your email, which supports any IMAP compatible email accounts, such as Gmail for instance.The tool backs up your emails to Maildir and to a browsable HTML5 archive, so you can easily browse all your emails offline with just a web browser. It supports multiple IMAP folders, attachments, [...] Seafile is an open source cloud sync and collaboration tool, similar to Dropbox, OwnCloud or Sparkleshare that you can install on your own server or you can sign up for an account and get 5 GB of free space. We’ve talked about it a while back so for more information about Seafile, see our previous [...] TextAdept is a fast, minimalistic text editor that can be extended through Lua. The application is free, open source and runs on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.TextAdept features unlimited split views, support for over 80 programming languages, powerful snippets and key commands, code autocompletition and API lookup and is entirely keyboard driven.Since our last TextAdept [...] Terra is a Python / GTK3 drop-down terminal emulator similar to Guake or Yakuake, which shows up from the top of the screen when you press a keyboard shortcut, like the console used in games such as Quake.The application combines some of the features available in Guake and Terminator, resulting in a nice drop-down terminal [...] Undistract-me is a simple tool that notifies you when a command you run in a terminal which takes longer than ten seconds to finish is done.This can be useful e.g. when you start to compile something and then you switch to some other window to read your emails or whatever and get distracted and forget [...] A few weeks ago, we saw how to find out to which PPA / repository a package belongs to in Ubuntu / Debian. But how about getting a list of packages available in a PPA / repository?There used to be an option in Ubuntu Software Center that would list all the packages available in each [...] There are various reasons why you may need to find out to which PPA a package belongs to, for instance, in case a package in a PPA breaks something on your system, if you want to install a package which is already installed on your computer on some other machine but you don’t know the [...] Apt-fast is a script that can “drastically improve APT download speed” by using command line download accelerators such as Axel or Aria2 with multiple connections per package.We’ve actually blogged about apt-fast back in 2009 but since then, the script has received some important changes so I’ve wanted to update our readers with its current status.Since [...] Subliminal is a python library / command line tool to search and download subtitles.Various video players like Totem or VLC (with the VLSub extension) already support downloading subtitles from OpenSubtitles based on the video name or hash, but Subliminal supports multiple subtitle websites: Addic7ed, BierDopje, OpenSubtitles, SubsWiki, Subtitulos, TheSubDB and TvSubtitles, so there are better [...] A package called “android-tools”, which comes with “adb” and “fastboot” command line utilities, has been uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal repositories recently. I’ve got a request to upload this package in a PPA for older Ubuntu releases, so I’ve backported it to Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04.”adb” (Android Debug Bridge) is a command [...] PowerTOP is a command line tool that helps diagnose issues with power consumption and provides suggestions on how to improve power usage.PowerTOP 2.1, released a few days ago, introduces support for Intel GPUs and for cores without P-states, a new manual page along with an option to specify workload to run during measurement and an [...] fbcmd is a cross-platform tool that lets you use Facebook from the command line. It supports posting a status, uploading photos, creating albums, listing profile information for friends, display events or your stream, share links and lots more.This little utility can be useful for those who want to quickly post a status on Facebook, upload [...] |
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