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Asunder

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Version: 1.5
License: GPL2
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Asunder is a word meaning “into separate parts; in or into pieces” — a capital name for a CD-ripping program. And, in fact, that’s what it is!

Today’s review is of a graphical audio CD ripper; an application for taking tracks from your CDs, converting them into one of the many digital audio formats commonly used on computers, and saving them onto your hard drive. And it has an extremely simple, efficient interface.

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Posted by Mark Keller on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments

Fotox

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Version: 0.41
License: GPL2
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Linux users, by and large, generally use the GIMP for image editing. After all, it’s included with almost every distribution! But when you just want to sharpen a picture a little bit, or rotate it slightly, something simpler could be more handy. Especially for those who run slow or memory-malnourished computers, firing up the GIMP can be a bit of overkill. Why use an 800-pound gorilla when a spider monkey is what you really need? Enter . . . Fotox.

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Posted by Mark Keller on April 24th, 2008 2 Comments