The more I use AutoKey, the more I believe it to be an essential piece of software for the Linux desktop. If you happened to miss my last article about it, AutoKey is a system-wide service that allows you to easily set scripts to run when certain key combinations are pressed. AutoKey also lets you set text shortcuts for longer words or phrases. Since AutoKey uses Python for its scripting language, it is incredibly simple to setup a few productivity boosting shortcuts.

Firefox is unique in the browser market, at least among the major players. Being a non-profit, Mozilla Firefox is the only browser that can truly claim that it is developed for the good of the people who use it, and not only the people who build it. Although Firefox has fallen behind Chrome a bit, Firefox still generates feelings of nostalgia for me. Those of us who remember when Firefox was born recall how fast and sleek it was compared to Netscape or Mozilla. I’ve found that with a bit of cajoling, Firefox can be restored to its former glory as a fast, sleek, and powerful browser. Here’s how.

It happens all the time. I'm in the terminal, checking out the latest alert from Nagios, and I find that I need to chat with one of the application administrators because WebSphere decided to fill up the /opt partition with logs. At this point, I could either pick up the mouse, click on the Pidgion icon in the menu bar, find the person I'm looking for, and double click their name to start a chat, or, I could launch Gnome-Do with a few keyboard strokes and be done in seconds.