Electronic program guide provider IceTV has embraced RSS in a big way, allowing subscribers to view their upcoming schedule via their preferred RSS reader. You can also save searches (either across the whole guide or within your upcoming shows list) as an RSS feed, useful if you want reminders for irregularly scheduled shows. If you want to access your IceTV on the go, check out its previously mentioned iPhone application.
Ice TVWindows/Linux: Spend some time searching for free software to manage recipes, and you’ll end up spending a lot of time in your uninstaller utility, removing the cruft of bad interfaces, weak features, and general abandonware. Gourmet Recipe Manager, a free, open-source download for Linux and Windows systems, is easy to navigate, imports and exports in a wide array of formats, and can generate nutritional data and shopping lists from your favourite home cooking recipes. The app has a lot of small but convenient features, like a list maker that understands you just need “potatoes,” not “diced potatoes,” an ingredient entry form that allows for no-look typing, and an attractive recipe card maker. It can also import recipes from Epicurious.com, Recipezaar, and other web sites with little problem. Gourmet Recipe Manager is a free download for Windows and Linux systems. It’s included in many Linux repositories, while Windows users should look through the stable releases for the most recent .exe package. Know of another free, robust recipe manager? Tell us about it in the comments.
Gourmet Recipe Manager [SourceForge]Tabbloid is a free web based service designed to turn RSS feeds into a PDF newspaper. The web site requires no registration and the process is straight forward. Single or multiple RSS feeds can serve as the source for your PDF. You can opt to have the site compile the PDF immediately or delivery it by email at a future date based on hourly, daily or weekly frequency. In the dozen test feeds I threw at Tabbloid the service performed as advertised, however a few of the feeds generated a glitch that caused the articles to appear in duplicate within the PDF.
Tabbloid [via Killer Startups]Whether you want quick access to your home computer from anywhere in the world or you’re the go-to IT person for your friends and family, remote desktop applications are a godsend. Even better: They’re easier than ever to set up. With the right remote desktop tool, you can access your home computer as though you’re sitting right in front of it— no matter where you are, no matter what you’re doing.
All platforms: Clonezilla is an open source, Linux-based alternative to commercial disk cloning tools like Symantec Ghost and Acronis True Image. Unfamiliar with the process of disk cloning? In a nutshell, disk cloning makes a copy of a data disk for future restoration. A perfect time to create a clone would be after you’d installed your operating system of choice, your favourite applications, and tweaked the system settings to your liking. The next time you had to wipe your system and do a reinstall you’d save yourself the tedious hours of reinstalling and tweaking. From that point forward you’d have a customised installation on hand.
