The Kat desktop search tool turns up more than text strings.

OpenOffice Calc is fine for most spreadsheet applications, but if you’re looking for better performance and a smaller footprint, try Calc’s lean competitor, Gnumeric.

If you’re weary of sorting through overlapping windows, Whaw will help you get organized.

Evince is quickly becoming Gnome’s standard viewer for PDF and other document formats.

A short command is all it takes to pack your data or extract it from an archive.

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Having trouble creating price tags, address labels, or business cards? Help is at hand with the KDE program KBarcode.

Chaos is inevitable when your hard disk fills up with digital photos. The F-Spot image man agement program helps you manage your photo archives effectively and without time consuming sorting.

To manage the mountains of paper that cross our desks every day, we need to file, retrieve, copy, stamp, investigate, and classify documents. A special tool can help users keep on top of their electronic paperwork: pdftk – the PDF toolkit.