Articles on FOSS
This is only a partial, out-of-date list.
Some of my recent articles for Linux Format are here and for Wazi are here.
For NewsForge and Linux.com (early 2005 – 2008)
- Keeping tabs on your network traffic
- Tidy up your mailboxes with Archivemail
- Manipulating CD/DVD images with AcetoneISO2
- In search of bigger, stronger calculators
- Track your investments with Grism
- Scheduling jobs based on filesystem activity with incron
- Upgrade WordPress effortlessly with WPAU plugin
- Smart ACL management with Eiciel
- Firefox extensions to bring back the dead
- Transform images into videos with images2mpg
- Quickly navigating Web pages with Firefox extensions
- Monitor Web page changes with Specto
- Unclutter Firefox menus
- Track your collections with Tellico
- Using mouse gestures across Linux
- Easily create CD case covers with Koverartist
- Keep Internet junk at bay with content filters
- Take charge of your window manager with WMCTRL and Devil’s Pie
- Tidy up your filesystem with FSlint
- UberScript lets you do more with XChat
- FSF Compliance Lab online meeting addresses license questions
- Extending Nautilus context menus with Nautilus-actions
- Expert tricks for Nautilus
- Implementing quotas to restrict disk space usage
- Secrets of the man command
- Pain-free disk space management with LVM
- Creating hackergotchis using the GIMP
- Blogging made easy with Drivel
- CLI Magic: Transform your audio files with SoX
- CLI Magic: Lightweight Conky is a system monitor powerhouse
- Stallman, Torvalds, Moglen share views on DRM and GPLv3
- Create GUI dialogs for GNOME and KDE
- CLI Magic: Creating basic front ends with dialog and Xdialog
- Dock any application to the system tray
- ASCII art fun with boxes
- CLI Magic: Bash complete
- CLI Magic: Using script to log your sessions
- Enhance boot-time security with GRUB passwords
- Process your email with procmail
- CLI Magic: Playing music from the command line with mp3blaster
- CLI Magick: Securely deleting files with shred
- CLI Magic: Patching the differences
- Creating Web albums with shalbum
- Review: Grafpup Linux live CD for graphic designers
- Create relationship diagrams with GraphViz
- Fetching email with Mutt
- File Compression tools for Linux
- CLI Magick: Bash history expansion
- Command-line animations using ImageMagick
- Advanced image editing from the command line with ImageMagick
- ImageMagick: A graphics wizard for the command line
- Showing off S5
For OpenOffice.org
For LinuxJournal