It isn’t a good idea to publish podcast as they were recorded, without any mastering work. On the other hand, dealing with many files, and performing the same tasks many times can be frustrating. In this situation one should definitely use gnormalize.

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TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful project management tool. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, risk and communication management.

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Social Networks Visualiser (SocNetV) is an Social Networks Analysis tool for Linux, Mac and Windows written in Qt4. It is a graphical application designed to be an easy tool for Social Networks Analysis and Visualisation. With it, you can load and visualise networks of various formats (GraphViz, Adjacency, Pajek, etc), and/or visually create and modify a network using your mouse.

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cb2Bib is another tool useful mainly for scientists, but it is also usable for students and all users who deal with large amounts of digitized data. It is a tool for rapidly extracting bibliographic references from email alerts, journal web pages, and PDF files. It facilitates the capture of single references from unformatted and non standard sources.

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Today most of the data we receive and process is digitized and supplied as files, spreadsheets, and other forms of computer data. However, if we want to make use of the maps, or some old graphs, we are in trouble.

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This is a very common situation: I want to publish some photos in the Internet, but I have to resize them. Of course, this is often done by the CMS or the blogging system. But on the other hand, some websites doesn’t offer such a possibilities. The best solution is to use some external aapplication, which performs the messive resizing of graphic files.

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Internet radios provide all genres of music, some of the songs are available only thanks to these stations. Listening is nice, but very often I would like also to save certain songs on a hard disk. Of course, this is possible – the only issue is to choose the right application.

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StreamRecorder is a simple and easy to use Amarok Script that lets you record from streaming to your local hard drive. Once you install and run it from the Script Manager, it adds a right-click menu to start and stop recording as seen on screenshots.

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Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. The list of supported services is quite long. Pidgin can work with: (more…)

Craciun Dan wrote an interesting review of amaroK 2:

Since Amarok 2 is on its way with all the fuss around it and the currently stable 1.4.9.1 version will probably be the last in the 1.x series, I decided to make a review of the last stable Amarok. Debian Lenny will ship with this version (or any later version before Amarok 2), probably making it the most stable Amarok experience up to date. There is so much to say about Amarok that I could not possibly include in this review each and every feature it comes with, so I will try to only cover the highlights.

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