{"id":138,"date":"2006-04-16T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/2006\/04\/16\/the-software-i-daily-use-as-a-user\/"},"modified":"2006-04-16T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T13:20:10","slug":"the-software-i-daily-use-as-a-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/2006\/04\/16\/the-software-i-daily-use-as-a-user\/","title":{"rendered":"The software I daily use (as a user)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked me some weeks ago for a complete list of all the software I daily use (as a laptop user, not as a developer, because that is a different business), so here it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Desktop: Gnome\/Metacity\/Nautilus<\/li>\n<li>RSS reader: Liferea<\/li>\n<li>IM: Gaim<\/li>\n<li>IRC: Xchat<\/li>\n<li>Browser: Firefox<\/li>\n<li>Newsreader: Pan<\/li>\n<li>E-mail: Mutt (work) &amp; Evolution (personal e-mail)<\/li>\n<li>Music: Muine &amp; Banshee<\/li>\n<li>Notes: Tomboy<\/li>\n<li>CD\/DVD Toaster: gnomebaker<\/li>\n<li>Digital camera: gtkam<\/li>\n<li>Docs&amp;slides: LaTeX &amp; OOo<\/li>\n<li>Bibtex: JavRef<\/li>\n<li>Spreadsheet: gnumeric<\/li>\n<li>Fast Editing: Jed, Vi, Gedit<\/li>\n<li>Editing: Emacs<\/li>\n<li>P2P: aMule, gnome-btdownload, nicotine<\/li>\n<li>Podcast: iPodder<\/li>\n<li>PM: Planner<\/li>\n<li>PDF\/PS: Evince &amp; <em>acroread<\/em> &amp; gv<\/li>\n<li>Pics: Gimp, F-spot, Gthumb, eog<\/li>\n<li>Movies: Totem, mplayer<\/li>\n<li>Internet voice conference: <em>skype<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I use other programs now and then, but this is the complete list of the ones I currently <em>depend on<\/em>. Some of them I have been using for years, some others I have just discovered. Most of them are part of the Gnome project. Most of them are GTK based.<\/p>\n<p>I only use daily two proprietary pieces of software: <em>acroread<\/em> because I need to read some PDFs still not supported by Evince or other free readers; and <em>skype<\/em> because I save a lot of money, when travelling, using skypeout.<\/p>\n<p>I will do again the same list next year by the same month in order to check how stable I am selecting my software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked me some weeks ago for a complete list of all the software I daily use (as a laptop user, not as a developer, because that is a different business), so here it is: Desktop: Gnome\/Metacity\/Nautilus RSS reader: Liferea IM: Gaim IRC: Xchat Browser: Firefox Newsreader: Pan E-mail: Mutt (work) &amp; Evolution (personal e-mail) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/2006\/04\/16\/the-software-i-daily-use-as-a-user\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The software I daily use (as a user)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freesoftware","category-gnome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}