10 Linux and open source developer tools you should not overlook

Thanks to TechRepublic for the catalogue of 10 Linux open source developer tools to help you in your coding and development life.  They say:

Linux is a great development environment. But without sound development tools, that environment won’t do you any good. Fortunately, plenty of Linux and/or open source development tools are available. If you’re a new user you might not know which tools are there, but worry not. Here are 10 outstanding tools that will help you take your development to another level.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=579

Free Alternatives to 10 Popular Commercial Mac Applications

Piggy-bank

The interesting website makeuseof.com has pulled together an article showing 10 free alternatives to popular Mac programmes.  These cover virtual machine, finance, office, photo and iTunes applications to name a few.

Why pay more, when you can pay less?  Or even nothing.  If you’ve used them, drop a comment and let us all know if they worked for you.

The article can be found here.

MyTube: A YouTube dashboard widget for the Mac

YouTube makes a first class appearance in Dashboard, and it looks better than ever. MyTube puts all of YouTube’s video content at your fingertips in an elegantly small yet surprisingly powerful widget. Browse all of YouTube’s features, recents, favorites, top rated, most viewed, most discussed, and most linked videos. Filter by date, by category, and by language, and search by subject or by channel. View your favorites, playlists, subscriptions, and even your own video collection – it’s all here.

Also, export videos from YouTube to iPod, and view in different sized windows – even from the Dashboard.

Download then unload…

In a surprising combination of product features, Atech Flash Technology is selling its iCarta product.  The picture paints a thousand words…

List of best Linux blogs

Long list of Linux forums.

It’s legitimate to “sleep-work”

Finally, the scientists have confirmed what I have known for a long time:  it’s good for you to have a sleep at work.  Clearly not whilst operating a bacon slicer or driving a truck, but at a convenient “finger-space” within the work day.  We are, by evolution, creatures of habit; and one of those habits is catching some Z’s when the body-battery needs topping up.  This article from the Boston Globe describes the principles of tactical napping to improve your well-being.

Video: Merlin’s New Time & Attention Talk | 43 Folders

Merlin Mann, productivity guru and creator of the site 43Folders gives a presentation at Macworld 2008 on time & attention: those things that steal your time and demand your attention.

from www.43folders.com posted with vodpod

Ultimate Boot CD

Here is a fantastic resource for diagnosing what’s going on inside your PC.

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

• Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.
• Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the floppy drive.
• Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldn’t you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you!

W3 Schools: free web building tutorials

Full Web Building Tutorials – All Free
At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP. There are full references covering all Web-building technologies, including W3C standards like HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML and other technologies like JavaScript, PHP, ASP, SQL and much more. There are also thousands of cut-and-paste examples allowing you to edit and experiment with the code on-line.

Merlin Mann: Inbox Zero

Merlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and creator of the popular 43 folders website will talk about Getting Things Done, the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume email.