I like to be able to search for stuff on my computer - who doesn't? Well , I don't enjoy searching, but I do want the ability to do so in case I loose track of something in the perfect hierarchical world that is my directory tree. From the CLI, one can invoke various search commands to do the dirty work. Even ls can find stuff for you if you grep it right. But, alas; search for me is better suited to the gui, so about two weeks ago, I got the strigi daemon indexing so I can actually do the aforementioned searches – after just a bit of drive crawling, I could find media, email messages, etc., as expected.

"Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment.", at least that's what their website says. I use Quanta Plus everyday in the course of my work duties and I can tell you that it is all of that, and a bag of chips. I was a bit concerned when I migrated from Windows and Dreamweaver that I wouldn't have all of the features that I had come know and love, but those fears were soon waylaid. All that was missing was the “Wizards” to help connect to databases, and the mouse-over link scripts. Losing the Wizards was not a bad thing. I'm of the opinion that If you don't understand the basic syntax of a db connection string, you have no business with your nose in the source code anyway.

I have a ton of digital pictures, kids, family, nature - the usual stuff, but who doesn't? Gwenview is my way to look through, organize, and maybe even clean up a bit, years of filmless photography. What it's not is an image manipulation program like The Gimp, or Krita, although it does provide some transformations like rotating, and whatnot. What it is, it is (does) well.