Issue #157 / Dec 2013

Kurt explains how using security headers can provide extra protection from malicious content and web attacks.

It started off harmlessly enough with a few funny pictures of cats, but eventually it became the Internet phenomenon par excellence. It's no joke: Perl gives you some great tools for building and customizing memes yourself.

Your favorite office suites have a surprisingly active life at the command line, and various supplementary scripts can help you perform some functions more easily there than on the desktop.

Special tools are required to create and process ISO images. AcetoneISO offers this functionality, even making it possible to handle multimedia files.

The right tools can make the process of authoring an ebook less laborious and time consuming. We look at several ebook authoring applications and show how to put them to practical use.

The openArtist Ubuntu derivative is geared toward artists and other creative types; however, it should also be interesting to conventional users.

Git-annex is storage software that distributes files across devices, servers, and cloud services. It can encrypt files and keep everything in sync, and it always knows where to find your data.

The same way that "ease of use" usually equates to less flexibility, "convenience" is nearly always synonymous with less privacy, and YouTube nowadays is very, very convenient. If you just want to share a video, and not your personal data, or you want to avoid rude users from commenting on your kids' videos, MediaGoblin is what you need.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.