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email-reminder: Never forget a birthday or an anniversary again!

Article submitted by François Marier. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like!

Email-Reminder is a simple tool to define events for which you want to receive a reminder by email. These reminders (sent out daily by a small cronjob) can be either on the day of the event and/or a few days beforehand.

Events can be:

  • birthdays
  • anniversaries
  • weekly, monthly and yearly events

Sample Reminders

Here is an example of what you get in your inbox for an upcoming birthday:

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Source: DebianTimes

zsh: a REALLY nice alternative for bash

Article submitted by Danilo Martins. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like!

After years using ZSH instead of BASH, I still don’t understand why isn’t everybody using it. ZSH is a complete shell that will certainly make your life easier. Give it a try.

First of all, you need it installed (duh). APT and its super cow powers will do this for you. You can simply use:

$ sudo apt-get install zsh

and you should be all set. Alternatively, you can install the package “zsh-beta”, but it tends to crash once in a while… ZSH is available on any repository of Debian and Ubuntu.

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Source: DebianTimes

kteatime - Small tray utility which reminds you of steeping tea

Article submitted by Stephan Windmüller. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like!

For some people coffee seems to be the only liquid they drink in front of their workstation. But for those who enjoy a cup of tea once in a while, kteatime may be a neat little helper.

I expect every one of them knows this situation: The water just boiled, you put some green tea in your cup, add the water and return to your work. 15 minutes later you realize that you forgot your tea and only dozens of sugar cubes will rescue it. ;)

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Source: DebianTimes

cu: Simple serial communication program

Article submitted by Floris Bruynooghe. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like!

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Source: DebianTimes