Gammu and Wammu Managing your mobile phone with Gammu and Wammu
Aug 31, 2005The command line tool Gammu reads and modifies phone books, calendars or mobile phone settings . The GUI-based Wammu tool gives users a convenient front-end for some of the most critical functions.
more »Go_Mobile_Intro.pdf Practical Tools for the Traveler
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Wine Running Windows Programs with the Wine API
Jul 31, 2005The Wine compatibility layer lets Linux users run Windows programs. Unfortunately, configuring Wine is anything but trivial, and it helps if you enjoy experimenting.
more »Windows Integration Intro Tools and techniques for Windows integration
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GMailFS GmailFS: Using a mail account as a filesystem
May 31, 2005Why let a 2 Gigabyte email account go to waste? GmailFS lets you use Gmail as a storage medium for a mountable filesystem.
more »Apollon File Sharing with Apollon and GiFT
May 31, 2005The operators of the popular Internet-based file
sharing network, Kazaa, only provide software for
Windows systems, but the GiFT project brings
Kazaa support to Linux.
more »INSECURITY NEWS / USERFRIENDLY
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