Viking is an open source application that allows you to import and edit your Global Positioning System (GPS) points of interest and tracks. It can overlay the points and tracks on your choice of Google Maps, Terraserver, OpenStreetMap, or NASA's BlueMarble map tiles so you can see what you are doing.

"Sometimes there are files that are available from a Web server using Apache's auto index module (mod_autoindex), and you want to copy them to your machine. And you're satisfied retrieving them over HTTP this one time, rather than another file transfer method like SSH, FTP or rsync for that matter. I usually feel confident retrieving things with GNU Wget ..."

There is no doubt that Google did a nice job of promoting their “Chrome” web browser. Practically everyone is considering this front page news, and for a good reason, too. Whatever you think of it, Google, primarily a web search and web application company, introducing a web browser is big news. The interesting part of all the coverage is the theories about why Google made this move.

Microsoft's former employee (evangelist) is quoted in the press as "analysts" who dislikes Google Chrome

An investigation of the latest patent news and how it relates to Novell, Microsoft

Fotowall is a small application that allows you to make collages from your photos and export the result to use as a wallpaper on your desktop.

If you do your Debian package management from the command line, you are probably aware of utilities that search the cache of available programs, such as apt-cache, apt-file, and dpkg. Possibly, too, you have cursed the limited search information available in graphical interfaces like Synaptic, which does not extend much beyond searching for the description, name, versions, and dependencies.