Page for previous and proposed App-of-the-day

The purpose of app-of-the-day is to introduce students to apps the may not have heard of or used before. Ideally these should be of some relevance to their day-to-day vislab experience.

Proposed

• cups-PDF for the Adobe Acrobat Writer lovers

• dogtail
• Zile and Jed
• Rsync
• ZSSH
• Mutt
• latex
• xfig
• man and info
• emacs
• vnc
• xvidcap

Previous

• Screen

• Amarok

• Liferea

• ssh-agent

• lftp

• du and sort (du -x --max-depth=1 | sort -n).