The Sane interface provides access to image processing devices such as scanners. You can manage your Sane-supported scanner from Linux with the handy XSane front-end.

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.

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

The latest KOffice suite offers many new features – and even some new applications. We’ll show you what we found when we tried out KOffice 1.4.

Working with a text editor can be difficult if you need to handle frequently recurring tasks or multiple files. sed can save a lot of typing.

If you’re planning to study your family history, you’d better be ready to manage large amounts of data. Why not use your Linux box for the hard work?

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.

The legacy cal and date tools help users keep track of the time and date. You can even change the system time with a single shell command.