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more »Workspace: ScrapBook Turn Firefox into an archiving and research tool with ScrapBook
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more »KTools: Treeline Managing notes with Treeline
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more »Workspace: Simple Groupware Building a custom groupware solution with Simple Groupware
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more »Brightside and Devil’s Pie Metacity add-ons Brightside and Devil’s Pie
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more »KTools: Beagle Helpers Desktop searching with Beagle on KDE
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more »StoryLines Writing fiction with Writer’s Cafe and StoryLines
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