The Fish shell offers some user-friendly features for command line beginners.

If you have a need for custom groupware, try rolling your own with the Simple Groupware suite.

Mindmaps are useful for organizing ideas and data. Treeline is a promising mindmap tool for KDE.

If you’re looking for a way to organize your next novel, try StoryLines and the Writer’s Cafe suite.

If you have given up hope of ever finding your way around the mess of data on your desktop, a desktop search engine can help you penetrate the gloom. Kerry and KBeaglebar bring the Beagle engine to the KDE desktop.

The PDF format has many useful features that make it easier for readers to find their way around large documents, but the native PDF export function in OpenOffice doesn’t allow many of these elements. We’ll show you how to create better PDFs in OpenOffice with the ExtendedPDF macro.

If the no-frills Metacity window manager doesn’t give you the functio nality you need, try the Metacity add-ons Brightside and Devil’s Pie.

KeyJnote is a PDF viewer with a difference, adding stylish 3D effects and powerful scripting to support impressive presentations