Features
TreeTime
Mind-mapping tools
Mind maps are designed to help display processes and projects clearly in a graphical format. This review explores the design possibilities offered by five mind map programs.
Tutorials – Cordova Sensor
Sensor & Sensoribility
Frameworks like Cordova make creating simple mobile apps quite easy. Making apps that use your phone's sensor is slightly trickier, but, thanks to a new universal standard, things are not as hard as you may think.
Many Branches
Manage and share files with Git
Software projects often comprise several code branches, some of which exist in parallel. Git supports community code development through remote repositories and code branching.
Charly’s Column – Sysdig
Alpha Beast
In this issue, sys admin columnist and tool veterinarian Charly Kühnast invites Sysdig, the jack-of-all-trades among system diagnostic tools, into his surgery for a quick checkup. The project promises to unite the functionality of lsof, iftop, netstat, tcpdump, and others.
Tutorial – Plasma
Pretty (Inter)face
If you want features, bells and whistles, and configurability in spades, your best choice of desktop is probably KDE's Plasma desktop. Navigating and discovering all that's on offer can be a challenge, though.
The First Social Network
Usenet
Before the web as we know it existed, Usenet performed the same tasks now done by web forums and social networks. Despite its declining popularity, Usenet is still employed to publish articles, sustain mailing lists, and even upload files.
Spring Cleaning
Deleting the old kernels lost on your hard drive
When you update the kernel, the old version remains on the disk. If you clean up, the reward is several hundred megabytes of free disk space.
Scanning with Zenmap
Network Discovery
Discover your network with the user-friendly Zenmap network scanner.
Honeypots
Watching the Bad Guys with Cowrie
Use Cowrie as a honeypot to capture attack data and learn more about your attacker's methods.
Pretty Complex
Modern cyberwarfare and its resulting monetary allocations have significantly impacted the exploit market, but where does that lead?
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