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I strongly appreciate a single-application single-tasking environment, because it forces you into a totally different mindset from the flurry of activity and noise one always has on an everyday “multitasking” computing environment these days.  But since most of my day is spent completely surrounded by multiple applications all vying for my attention, I’ve come to expect to be able to swap my attention around whenever I want.

But there are situations and applications which explicitly deny multitasking.

Seriously.

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Midori >

(The version of Midori was not recorded)

The first glance is that this isn’t a real project because it doesn’t have a real website.  But then again, it doesn’t have a stable release yet, so I don’t mind at all.

Overall it’s decent, but it lacks a couple of fundamentals which would prevent my using it as an everyday browser. The fact that it is better with Flash really gives it a niche use.

Tested 2009-08-07 on Unity Linux 0.99-alpha1.

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Software + ln >

https://github.com/brandt/symlinks

Mark Lord’s ‘symlinks’ utility.

Scans directories for symbolic links, and identifies dangling, relative, absolute, messy, and other_fs links. Can optionally change absolute links to relative within a given filesystem. Recommended for use by anyone developing and/or maintaining a Linux FTP site or distribution or CD-ROM.

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