Gobby- Document Collaboration Software

Gobby runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows.  It provides similar functionality to Google docs from what I can tell.  This tool is  used for realtime document collaboration when editing.

Features

• Realtime Collaboration through encrypted channels (version 0.4.0 and up)
  
• Each user has its own changeable colour to be identified by others
  
• IRC-like chat for communicating with your partners while coding
  
• Syntax highlighting for most programming languages
  
• Session password protection
  
• Multiple documents in one session
  
• Drag'n'drop of documents into Gobby
  
• Document synchronisation on request
  
• Zeroconf support
  
• Unicode support
  
• Cross-platform: runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X (albeit not natively) and other flavours of UN*X
  
• Gobby is free software and licenced under the GPL 2
  

Screenshots

BlueProximity - great linux application

I came across this little application in the Ubuntu Forums.  It is easily installed using apt-get or synapitc if you are using Ubutnu 8.10.  Basically what the tool does is scan for you paired cellphone and automatically perform an action (run a command or script) based on the signal level.  This is a great function for saving power or security reasons.  you can have your system automatically log you off, mute playing music, turn off your monitor, turn off lights (or anything x10 controlable), etc....  Check it out!

PDF Applications

I figured if you are one of those poor souls who still uses windows instead of a Mac or Linux box at the office, you could use a few good free PDF tools.  this is where PDFcreator and PDFill come in handy.  PDFcreator is one of the better quality "print to PDF" applications.  But what about merging multiple PDFs in to one docuement?  That is where PDFill comes in handy.  Both are free to use and work really rather nicely.

Screen shot of PDFill:

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Wikiamo - iPhone App for wikipedia

This Looks like a great little app that i found by subscribing to www.makeuseof.com. It has the ability to store wikipedia data for off-line viewing once you have visited the page.

http://limechat.net/wikiamo/