Linux software

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https://web.archive.org/web/20190807131131/http://www.zaplet.org:80/adzapper/

A software application that can block ads from being displayed on your web browser.

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(on Wikipedia)
www.lua.org

A programming language of some note.

I had some small interest in this language, primarily because it’s used for World of Warcraft addon programming and general scripting , but I ended up losing interest in it and in programming in general.

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Linux email clients >

https://web.archive.org/web/20150114084355/www.fossamail.org/

An email client and RSS client made by the developers of Pale Moon. Based on Thunderbird, the Mozilla email client.

Meh, I’m not sure I like it very much.

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Software, Android >

(on Wikipedia)
(on Google Play, free version)
(on Google Play, pro version)
https://fbreader.org/

An ebook reader.

  • aka Favorite Book Reader



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Zenity infobox

(on Wikipedia)
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Zenity?action=show&redirect=Zenity [ 1 ] was http://live.gnome.org/Zenity
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Zenity

A program to present a GUI dialog, that lets a scripter get user input.

I didn’t use this for anything notable enough to form an opinion. It seems nice, but I didn’t want to have yet another application, especially one with a dependency, when there’s something commandline already (dialog).

See also:

  • YAD – a fork of Zenity with some dependencies removed.



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