A couple of new Linux apps coming over from the dark side that have me squealing like a little girl!
Dropbox - a very simple service that offers 2gb of synchronized storage. You can even make share selected files publicly. There's already an openSUSE package for it as found here. Unfortunately for me, a KDE user, it comes prepackaged with a GNOME Nautilus interface. It runs a small daemon (dropboxd) and then shows the Nautilus interface. The Nautilus stuff is opensource, but the daemon isn't :( But perhaps they will document the interface, as Filip L. has reversed engineered it and wrote a Python script here. And they are asking for folks to write KDE and other front ends.
Joel of Joel on Software has a nice little post about how to synchronize passwords between your Windows & Linux boxes using PasswordSafe on Windows and Password Gorilla on Linux, here, and storing the file on Dropbox.
Launchy - a favorite of the Lifehacker crew, the Linux version was finally released. Launchy is a program in the same line as Gnome DO and Katapult. I had been using Katapult, but I found that showing only one option when there were many possibilities too limiting. Launchy fixes this with a very nice drop down showing all possible completions. It also has a nice plugin architecture, which I haven't explored much yet. I still sorely miss PowerPro on Windows, but what can you do?
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