“The default setting in Ubuntu is swappiness=60. Reducing the default value of swappiness will probably improve overall performance for a typical Ubuntu desktop installation. A value of swappiness=10 is recommended, but feel free to experiment.”
ranger is a free console file manager that gives you greater flexibility and a good overview of your files without having to leave your *nix console.
Simple, slim and sleek, yet powerful text editor for linux.
Kupfer is a program to change, speed up and make everything about files and programs more fun on your computer. Kupfer is heavily inspired by Quicksilver
PDF Mod is a simple application for modifying PDF documents.
You can reorder, rotate, and remove pages, export images from a document, edit the title, subject, author, and keywords, and combine documents via drag and drop.
Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of doing backups the 'right way' (encrypted, off-site, and regular) and uses duplicity as the backend.
A cron job wrapper that wraps jobs and enables better error reporting and command timeouts.
"The solution was to add a line: kernel.shmmax = 41943040 to file /etc/sysctl.conf ."
for i in *.CR2; do dcraw -c -a -w -v $i | cjpeg -quality 100 > $i.jpg; done;