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Agave is an Intuitive Color Selection Manager

Posted Wed, 2008-02-20 20:43 by Mary Riley

Agave is a color palette selection tool used to pick design layouts for desktop themes, web site designs, icon creation, and much more. It simplifies the process of choosing colors by generating a palette based on an initial color selection according to the selected rule and color set. Supported color sets include GNOME Icon, Tango Icon, Web-Safe, and Visibone.Read more at The Daily Ubuntu.

SSHMenu Lets You Conveniently Connect to Remote Machines From the Panel

Posted Sun, 2008-02-10 05:01 by Mary Riley

SSHMenu is a panel applet for GNOME that allows users to connect to remote computers over SSH with a single click. The menu looks incredibly similar to the GNOME Applications menu, and it is fully customizable. The interface allows you to add seperators, submenus, and new entries really easy.

GnuCash - Keep Your Cash (or lack thereof) in Order

Posted Fri, 2008-02-08 22:41 by Mary Riley

GnuCash is a personal finance and accounting application created to keep you crazy organized. It can do simple things like recording expenses and take care of register transactions, but it can also handle tracking bank accounts, income, and a slew of financial instruments and derivatives.

Sunbird - A Powerful Standalone Calendar from Mozilla

Posted Tue, 2008-02-05 06:16 by Mary Riley

Sunbird is a calendar application built by the people at the Mozilla Foundation. It s entirely standalone: it doesn't require the bulk of another application to manage all of your appointments and events.

Inkscape - The Open-Source Vector Graphics Editor

Posted Sat, 2008-02-02 22:23 by Mary Riley

Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor, similar to Illustrator or Xara. It uses the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It's capable of creating objects with a variety of drawing, shape and text tools. You can edit previously created objects with scale, gradients, masks, and filtered effects.

Read more at The Daily Ubuntu!

Brightside - Screen Corner Actions and Edge-Flipping Made Easy

Posted Wed, 2008-01-30 20:53 by Mary Riley

This Ubuntu application adds actions to the corners of the screen in GNOME, such as switching virtual desktops and controlling the volume. You can even enable the screensaver and control the screen brightness on your laptop.See more at The Daily Ubuntu...