| My Top Ten Apps |
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Everybody has a list of applications in which they cannot surely live without. Applications that are considered a must. Usually these applications are reflective of the user's needs and preferences. Well, here's my top ten applications. For those who are yet to know, I am a Linux desktop user may it be on KDE or Gnome. I compose correspondences, do websites and some Linux system administration. I only use my Windows partition to play games. Here it goes:1. GNOTE (Note Taker) – Once upon a time I raved about Tomboy notetaker until I discovered BasketNote. However I found both applications quite sluggish and gobble resources that I personally think is too much for a note taker. I discovered Gnote by accident, I was looking for Tomboy via synaptic and was surprised that there actually is Gnote which is an exact clone of Tomboy, only that it is written on C++ and doesn't need Mono. I was sold the first time I saw it. If you are a Windows user, you might try Tomboy for it is now cross platform. 2. OPENOFFICE (Office Suite)– I write letters and articles everyday and OpenOffice.org fits the bill perfectly. Only recently, I learned that you could actually use a Tagalog dictionary to check the spelling of your Tagalog article, ain't that neat? 3. WinFF (Media Converter) - Just drag and drop your media files on the conversion window, select a format, and press Convert button. Easy does it! 4. FILEZILLA (FTP Client) – I chose this over GFTP simply because its much more stable especially when I try to transfer a lot of files at once. 5. JOOMLA! (Content Management System) – Joomla is an easy to use Content Management System that I user for most of my website projects. Its free and works for almost any kind of website. 6. K3B (Disc Burner) – K3B is the best disc burner on the face of the planet, nuff said. Too bad its only available in Linux. 7. KTORRENT (torrent client) – Perfect for torrent downloads. If you are on Windows, uTorrent is your best bet. 8. KOMPOZER (html editor) – Although I use Joomla CMS on my websites, I sometimes have to inject a few html codes here and there. Kompozer does the job for me. 9. XAMPP – Xampp deploys LAMP in an instant, without much hassle. I use it with Joomla! 10. FIREFOX (web browser) - Have you installed the latest version?! If no, you should!
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