Managing your latex bib files in linux II

[CONTEXT]
You want a program to manage your Latex bibliography file.
[HOW]
Jabref  is a really good program to organize and modify your bib files in Latex using a very friendly GUI. Also this program can generate  automatically the key for the bib entries and you can include the link to your pdf files.

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

[SOURCE]
http://jabref.sourceforge.net/

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/

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

Download videos from YouTube.com

youtube-dl is a script to download videos from youtube
To install this script, type as root
#wget http://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2013.08.09/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
#chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
and to update it

#youtube-dl --update

To download videos, just type youtube-dl and link direction, for example

$youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUYzQaCCt2o

Also you can use this script to extract the audio of theses vidios, for example

$youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3 -t http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUYzQaCCt2o

Source: http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/