Routine Order

Pizza Party is a command line tool for linux for, hold your breath, ordering pizza from the command line!

Pizza Party has many features to make ordering pizza easy:
* Can order pizza with only a few keystrokes.
* Can save pizza preferences.
* Can use batch files for ordering many pizzas.
* Has easy to use flags for ordering different toppings.
* Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems.
* Supports most currently popular topings like “mushrooms”, and “pepperoni”!
* Unattended / background operation.
* Pizza Party is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

If there is a wierder piece of software, I have not seen it. I swear! It remembers your toppings-preferences, for gosh’s sake!

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP: Virtual Desktop Manager: Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy. This is so cool - not!

There are so many other clones out there, little apps, some freeware, some not that provide the same feature - that of having more than one “desktop” in Windows.

Linux operating systems have had this feature for ages, and were it not for my multiple desktops, I would have lost sanity a long time ago. The windows “power toy” only shows you a list of four buttons on your taskbar - click the number to go to the desktop with that number, in Linux, you see small screencaps of the four virtual desktops, and in some window managers, you can drag and drop items from one virtual desktop to another using icons in the pager. You also can specify default virtual desktops for different applications and have all your startup programs to start in particular locations on the different virtual desktops.

Windows, apparently, has a little catching up to do in some areas, before it measures up to, say, Ubuntu.

If you take Peter Coffee’s word for the 25 Killer Apps of All Time, then you will end up with the astonishing fact that only about 10% of the greatest killer apps of all time have been developed in the last decade.

I call BS! A decade ago, the internet was slower than my dog, and less tentacled than an octopus. The guy must have had enough sense to call it the top 25 innovative, or path-breaking, or first-of-their kind apps. But the list is none of those, either.

And, of course, not one of those apps is a Linux App, though there are a lot of Windows-sepcific apps, and a whole OS - OSX. The last time I checked, an OS was significantly different from an app. This trend of almost anyone turning tech guru and throwing up lists is alarming - I hope the next year will bring with it a few less top-X lists.

xentheon - where is my mind is a visual representation of the source code that makes Linux.

Ok, just a part of the source code. Alright, alright, the visual representation is a big let down, but hey, I had to share this with you. No way I would pass up on this!