Monday, August 12, 2013

Managing your e-books

[CONTEXT]
You have a collection of e-books and you want organize them, make conversion between file types, read them, or even synchronize them with your e-reader.
[HOW]
Calibre is a Software to manage you e-book collection. You can use it as a reader, converter, news reader, among other features.
To install it, we can use the package in Debian's repository
# aptitude install calibre
[SOURCE]
http://calibre-ebook.com/

Managing your latex bib files in linux

[CONTEXT]
You want a program to manage your Latex bibliography file.
[HOW]
Kbibtex  is a really good program to organize and modify your bib files in Latex using a very friendly GUI.


To install it, we can use the package in Debian's repository
# aptitude install kbibtex

[SOURCE]
http://home.gna.org/kbibtex/

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Digital TV and Radio in Linux

[CONTEXT]
You are looking for a program to play webTV and WebRadio on Linux
[HOW]
One of the options to watch webTV and listen WebRadio is Freetuxtv.
You can also record the channels in different formats.
To install it, we can use the package in Debian's repository
# aptitude install freetuxtv
[LINKS]
http://code.google.com/p/freetuxtv/
http://database.freetuxtv.net/site/index