2009-10-14T19:39:59Z 95634 0 This is a great standards compliant web browser that allows all kinds of extensions. While it isn't the fastest at rendering JavaScript, the plugin capabilities enable a plethora of features for just about any browser task. However, I would recommend not installing too many plugins at one time, or you may experience performance issues. 2147483647 2007-04-18T13:21:12Z 15 2020-05-01T02:42:26Z Firefox 54296 2009-11-30T18:52:50Z http://www.mozilla.com/firefox http://wakoopa.com/software/firefox http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/133/764/normal.png?1250310044 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/133/764/thumb.png?1250310044 95 Mozilla http://wakoopa.com/developers/mozilla Check what's happening on the web 1 Browsers http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/browsers mac win linux Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 24.07% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of October 2009, making it the second-most popular browser worldwide, after Internet Explorer, which is the factory default browser on all Windows computers. In 5 months, Firefox has gathered steam and now owns more than 25% of usage share of web browsers closing the gap between it and IE. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements some current web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards. Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine. Functions can be added through add-ons created by third-party developers, the most popular of which include Adblock Plus, Video DownloadHelper, NoScript, Personas, FlashGot, and Greasemonkey, along with many others. Firefox runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows (version 3.5 supports Windows Vista and XP; although not officially supported as of November 2009, Firefox is compatible with Windows 7), Mac OS X (10.4 or later officially supported), most Linux distributions, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release branch is version 3.5, first released on June 30th, 2009. Firefox's source code is free software, released under a tri-license of GPL/LGPL/MPL. 2009-06-12T18:06:03Z 66679 0 I am under the impression that Wakoopa picks this application up when your system activates a power saving feature (I.E. turns on/off the screen, goes to sleep, or shuts down.) I believe most of my activity of this nature is from my netbook, however I also use a gadget to disable PPM, which I believe Wakoopa is reading as using PPM. 1226161 2007-10-25T13:35:32Z 73706 2009-11-30T19:20:12Z The Power Policy Manager 872 2009-10-29T17:44:11Z http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/power-policy/ http://wakoopa.com/software/the-power-policy-manager http://wakoopa.com/images/avatar_software.gif http://wakoopa.com/images/avatar_software_thumb.gif 15 Unknown developer http://wakoopa.com/developers/unknown Tools that help you manage your system 12 System tools http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/system-tools mac linux Power Policy Manager is a layered, system-wide power policy framework. PPM is a flexible power policy manager that allows users to select multiple policies, and easily modify those policies to fit their system. 2009-05-18T21:33:33Z 60324 0 It's the best thing for the command line literate user who frequently opens and closes a command line window. 7599042 2008-08-05T11:48:03Z 134769 2009-12-01T15:34:01Z Yakuake 167 2009-11-10T09:50:00Z http://yakuake.uv.ro/ http://wakoopa.com/software/yakuake http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/060/460/normal.png?1242464616 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/060/460/thumb.png?1242464616 67214 François Chazal http://wakoopa.com/developers/françois-chazal Tools that help you manage your system 12 System tools http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/system-tools win linux YaKuake is inspired from the terminal in the Quake game: when you press a key (by default F12, but that can be changed) a terminal window slides down from the top of the screen. Press the key again, and the terminal slides back. It is faster than a keyboard shortcut because it is already loaded into memory and as such is very useful to anyone who frequently finds themselves switching in and out of terminal sessions. 2009-05-18T21:30:35Z 60323 0 It's the default Gnome file manager. I love it, and regularly use it in conjunction with several plug-ins including Dropbox and the Ubuntu One for file synchronization. Across multiple machines. 107406315 2009-05-13T15:32:26Z 228442 2009-12-01T18:34:00Z Nautilus 2679 2009-11-30T18:57:14Z http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus http://wakoopa.com/software/nautilus http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/128/557/normal.png?1249250270 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/128/557/thumb.png?1249250270 67123 The GNOME Foundation http://wakoopa.com/developers/the-gnome-foundation Managing your files 58 File Management http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/file-management linux Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. Browse directories, preview files and launch applications associated with them. Is responsible for handling the icons on the GNOME desktop. It works on local and remote filesystems. Several icon themes and components for viewing different kinds of files are available in separate packages. With tabbed file browsing it makes for a simple file manager with minimal windows cluttering your desktop space. 2009-05-18T21:25:05Z 60322 0 It is probably the most common folder management tool used. It allows basic file and folder management operations. It gets the job done fairly well, but it's not the best. 2147483647 2007-04-18T13:14:21Z 13 2019-10-17T00:26:24Z Windows Explorer 59850 2009-11-29T20:32:29Z http://www.microsoft.com/windows http://wakoopa.com/software/windows-explorer http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/142/964/normal.png?1252602286 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/142/964/thumb.png?1252602286 13908 Microsoft Corporation http://wakoopa.com/developers/microsoft-corporation Managing your files 58 File Management http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/file-management win Windows Explorer is an application that is part of modern versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for accessing the file systems. It is the component of the operating system that presents the user interface on the monitor and enables the user to control the computer. It is sometimes referred to as the Windows GUI shell, or simply Explorer. 2009-05-14T21:05:08Z 59266 0 This is a simple text file compare program. It's good for comparing two versons of the same text file for differences. It works, and can get the job done. 8179 2009-05-14T20:54:00Z 229591 2009-11-20T04:47:24Z diffuse 13 2009-05-22T12:57:50Z http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/ http://wakoopa.com/software/diffuse http://wakoopa.com/images/avatar_software.gif http://wakoopa.com/images/avatar_software_thumb.gif 15 Unknown developer http://wakoopa.com/developers/unknown win linux Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is able to compare an arbitrary number of files side-by-side and gives users the ability to manually adjust line-matching and directly edit files. Diffuse can also retrieve revisions of files from bazaar, CVS, darcs, git, mercurial, monotone, and Subversion repositories for comparison and merging. 2009-05-14T21:03:06Z 59265 0 If you use Linux in a Gnome environment, and all you need is a simple Pait application, then this is a good option. It offers the classic features of MS Paint such as the Paint pucket, line tool, rectangular select. Give it a try! 20528 2009-02-24T12:41:38Z 228808 2009-11-29T17:14:07Z gpaint 57 2009-10-21T17:42:19Z http://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/ http://wakoopa.com/software/gpaint http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/073/979/normal.png?1244189955 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/073/979/thumb.png?1244189955 15 Unknown developer http://wakoopa.com/developers/unknown 31 Image Editing http://wakoopa.com/categories/design/image-editing linux This is gpaint (GNU Paint), a small-scale painting program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop Environment. gpaint does not attempt to compete with GIMP, it is just a simple drawing package based on xpaint, along the lines of 'Paintbrush' from a popular non-free operating system. Currently gpaint has the following features: * Drawing tools such as ovals, freehand, polygon and text, with fill or shadow for polygons and closed freehand shapes. * Cut and paste by selecting irregular regions or polygons. * Preliminary print support using gnome-print. * Modern, ease-to-use user interface with tool and color palettes. * Multiple-image editing in a single instance of the program. * All the image processing features present in xpaint. 2009-05-06T23:01:47Z 57809 0 It is slow, clunky, and at times unstable, however it's the way to go if you use exchange. I would never use it at home, but at work it does make calendar and email access easy. The integration with exchange server creates a seamless environment with address books, conference room reservations, and email replies. 1150467590 2007-04-20T07:26:43Z 73 2018-07-27T20:29:16Z Office Outlook 19912 2009-11-26T07:54:35Z http://office.microsoft.com/outlook http://wakoopa.com/software/office-outlook-1 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/161/279/normal.png?1256991355 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/161/279/thumb.png?1256991355 13908 Microsoft Corporation http://wakoopa.com/developers/microsoft-corporation 20 Email http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/email win Microsoft Outlook or Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an e-mail application, it also provides a calendar, task and contact management, note taking, a journal and web browsing. It can be used as a stand-alone application, but can also operate in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to provide enhanced functions for multiple users in an organization, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, Exchange public folders, Sharepoint lists and meeting time allocation. 2009-05-06T22:57:59Z 57808 0 This browser is fast. The user interface is minimalistic and to the point for running heavy amounts of Javascript and integration with Google Services is excellent. The browser of choice for the googleholic. I would like to see support for plug-ins soon, and I hope the rumors of such will become a reality. 2147483647 2007-06-13T05:16:01Z 34255 2019-11-12T12:13:09Z Google Chrome 19987 2009-11-30T12:15:27Z http://www.google.com/chrome http://wakoopa.com/software/google-chrome http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/006/977/normal.png?1238578445 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/006/977/thumb.png?1238578445 10267 Google Inc. http://wakoopa.com/developers/google-inc Check what's happening on the web 1 Browsers http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/browsers mac win Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. It builds on components from other open source software, including WebKit and Mozilla, and is intended to provide greater stability, speed and security than existing browsers, while presenting a simple and efficient user interface. 2009-05-06T22:55:13Z 57807 0 This tool causes a great amount of thrashing on my HDD. It slows system performance considerably on both XP and Vista, however Vista is less apparent. I would recommend organizing your files so you only have to index a small portion of your hard drive, and storing your files on a separate drive from the operating system. This will drastically increase your performance. 1002532 2007-04-23T16:55:26Z 251 2016-08-22T17:27:32Z Windows Search 3772 2009-11-11T21:33:42Z http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/ http://wakoopa.com/software/windows-search http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/002/051/normal.png?1238514406 http://mallow.wakoopa.com/avatars/000/002/051/thumb.png?1238514406 13908 Microsoft Corporation http://wakoopa.com/developers/microsoft-corporation Tools that help you manage your system 12 System tools http://wakoopa.com/categories/utilities/system-tools win Windows Search (formerly known as Windows Desktop Search) is an indexed desktop search platform released by Microsoft for the Windows operating system. Bundled with Windows Vista and later (also referred to as Instant Search) and available as a free download for Windows XP.