http://www.linux-magazine.com Dmitri's open source blend of productive computing en-US http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Simple-OpenOffice.org-based-Document-Management-Solution http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Simple-OpenOffice.org-based-Document-Management-Solution If you're toying with the idea of creating a document management solution using OpenOffice.org Base, you don't have to start from scratch. Sergio Corato, the developer of the nifty FastMailMerge extension, has released a beta version of a simple document management database built with OpenOffice.org Base. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:24:30 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Turn-Your-Wiki-Pages-into-Web-based-Presentations-with-S5-Plugin http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Turn-Your-Wiki-Pages-into-Web-based-Presentations-with-S5-Plugin If you happen to use DokuWiki, you don't need to use OpenOffice.org Impress or other similar tool to create a slick presentation. Thanks to the S5 plugin, you can turn any DokuWiki page into a simple and elegant S5 presentation. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:20:09 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Extension-Watch-Turn-Firefox-into-an-Ebook-Reader-with-EPUBReader http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Extension-Watch-Turn-Firefox-into-an-Ebook-Reader-with-EPUBReader You can use a dedicated application like FBReader or Calibre to read and manage ebooks on your machine, or you can do it without leaving the convenience of the Firefox browser courtesy of the EPUBReader extension. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:45:25 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/StrongVPN-on-Ubuntu-Simple-VPN-Solution-That-Works http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/StrongVPN-on-Ubuntu-Simple-VPN-Solution-That-Works Ask any knowledgeable mobile user, and she will tell you that the best way to securely access the Internet in public places is through a VPN (virtual private network) connection. So if you enjoy sipping coffee at a local cafe while checking email and browsing the Web, a secure VPN connection is a good solution to protect the data traveling to and from your machine. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:47:52 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/TeamTasks-Managing-Tasks-the-TiddlyWiki-Way http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/TeamTasks-Managing-Tasks-the-TiddlyWiki-Way TeamTasks is not your usual task manager. Based on TiddlyWiki, TeamTasks consists of a single self-contained HTML file, so there is nothing to install, and you can run the application on any machine as long as it has a Web browser. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:04:44 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Translate-Text-Snippets-with-ASTranslator http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Translate-Text-Snippets-with-ASTranslator Google Translate is a really handy service for translating text fragments, but wouldn't it be nice if you could access it directly from your desktop? If the idea makes sense to you, then you'll appreciate the ASTranslator utility. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:12:01 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Install-the-Latest-Versions-of-Firefox-and-Thunderbird-Using-Ubuntuzilla http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Install-the-Latest-Versions-of-Firefox-and-Thunderbird-Using-Ubuntuzilla If you are running Ubuntu or any of its derivatives and you want to use the latest and greatest versions of the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client, Ubuntuzilla has the solution for you. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:38:56 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Tonido-0.7-Brings-Improvements-to-Your-Personal-Cloud http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Tonido-0.7-Brings-Improvements-to-Your-Personal-Cloud The last couple of months, Tonido has been improving at a neck-breaking pace, and the latest release offers a real smorgasbord of new features and improvements. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:50:29 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Quick-Tip-Use-xkill-to-Terminate-Misbehaving-Applications http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Quick-Tip-Use-xkill-to-Terminate-Misbehaving-Applications There are a few different ways to terminate the misbehaving application, including the kill and killall commands. However, my favorite method of stopping a stuck graphical application is to use the xkill utility. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:56:36 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Pinta-No-frills-Graphics-Editor http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Pinta-No-frills-Graphics-Editor The Gimp is undeniably a competent graphics editor, but it has a pretty steep learning curve, and it's a complete overkill if you only need to tweak a photo or a screenshot every now and then. In this case, you need something like Pinta, a no-frills image manipulation application that offers all the essential editing tools. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:37:42 GMT