Hi See this link ( http://linuxaria.com/howto/littleutils-a-great-collection-of-small-utility?lang=en) to read about how to install a set of small nifty utilities (apps i suppose in the android era)
edited portions of the original article is below for those who don't want to redirect elsewhere If people are interested in getting access to similar small and very useful utilities its worth looking at the scripts packed in along with Ultimate Edition (an Ubuntu Deriviative) http://ultimateedition.info/ultimate-edition/ultimate-edition-2-9/. The scripts are usually placed /home/foo-user/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts and are available on the rightclick of the mouse. Am not sure what is going to happen under Gnome 3 ?? but while its there (in Gnome 2) its great to have. **** Littleutils, a Great collection of small utility<http://linuxaria.com/howto/littleutils-a-great-collection-of-small-utility?lang=en> I’ve recently discovered another useful package for GNU/Linux, Littleutils<http://sourceforge.net/projects/littleutils/> . The littleutils include a duplicate file finder (repeats), image optimizers (opt-jpg opt-png opt-gif recomp-jpg), file rename tools (lowercase uppercase), archive recompressors (to-bzip to-7zip to-lzma), a tempfile utility (tempname), all are small programs that do just 1 thing, in a perfect Unix style, so don’t expect anything too complex but these small gems can save you some time to do specific jobs. Installation The software is not available as package in some of the distro that i use (Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS), so this is a small list of operations that you can follow to build it from sources: Installing littleutils: Ubuntu 11.04 (32-bit) These instructions were tested with littleutils 1.0.24 and Ubuntu 11.04 (32-bit, desktop edition). 1. Download the latest version of littleutils<http://sourceforge.net/projects/littleutils/>to your Download directory 2. Open a terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) 3. Move the download to a better location: *sudo mv ~/Downloads/littleutils-1.0.24.tar.bz2 /usr/local/src/* 4. Use the root user account: *sudo su* 5. Install dependencies: *apt-get install gifsicle pngcrush lzip libpng12-0 libpng12-dev libjpeg-progs p7zip-full* 6. Uncompress littleutils: *cd /usr/local/src && tar jxvf littleutils-1.0.24.tar.bz2 && cd littleutils-1.0.24* 7. Configure and install littleutils: *./configure && make && make install && make install-extra* <massive snip> Image Optimization There is another big group of utility in this package, 3 programs that can optimizes your images: *opt-gif*, *opt-jpg* and *opt-png*. *opt-gif* losslessly optimizes GIF images by removing unused palette entires. This is accomplished using the gifsicle, filesize, and tempname utilities. *opt-jpg* losslessly optimizes JPEG images. This is accomplished using a combination of the filesize, jpegtran, and tempname utilities *opt-png* losslessly optimizes PNG images by removing unused palette entries and/or optimizing the filtering algorithm. This is accomplished using a combination of the filesize, pngcrush, pngrecolor, pngstrip, and tempname utilities. With these utility you can save from 5% to 15% of the size of your images. And if you use WordPress as CMS i suggest to check the plugin CW Image Optimizer <http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cw-image-optimizer/>. The CW Image Optimizer is a WordPress plugin that will automatically and losslessly optimize your images as you upload them to your blog. It can also optimize the images that you have already uploaded in the past. Conclusions In this article I’ve show some of the 31 small utility that are included in this package, a lot of these results can be achieved by others commands and or combinations, but i like specific commands to do just a small thing, they are a good addition in any Linux user arsenal. ***best Ram _________________________________________________________<http://www.munsiari.com> Amazing Indians: Transforming lives in the hills<http://www.timesnow.tv/Amazing-Indians-Transforming-lives-in-the-hills/videoshow/4383022.cms>
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