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1-click driver install for Compal Laptop

Posted by admin on 28th October 2010

Compal is a OEM manufacturer who along with Quanta make almost half of the worlds laptops which are sold by Dell, Compaq, HP, Fujitsu-Siemens, Acer,Hitachi, Gateway, Toshiba, NEC, Sony, Lenova and more.
Packman has a 1-click install for the following Compal Laptops:

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Capivara – Twin panel advanced File Manager

Posted by admin on 16th June 2009

Capivara is a two pane file manager with remote synchronization support using SFTP and FTP. Capivara  synchronization adds features like comparing timestamps or SHA-1 hash values and has a preview mode to shos which files are going to be deleted or copied. Because Capivara is Java based and all it requries is a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) it can run on multiple platforms like Linux, Solaris, Unix, Solaris, Mac OSX and windows.

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How to add additional swap area in SuSe/openSUSE

Posted by admin on 9th June 2009

swap space is a dedicated device or a file in one of the mounted file systems to which the system swaps pages of information from the physical memory onto these areas to allow more current application use the physical memory when the physical memory is running out of space.

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Kdenlive – Free opensource video editor in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 18th January 2009

Kdenlive free open-source non-linear video editor for KDE. Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies. It relies on a separate renderer, piave, to handle it’s rendering. Kdenlive is easy to use for all levels of users from novice to advanced video editors. Kdenlive is built upon MLT and ffmpeg frameworks, which provide unique features to mix virtually any kind of media.
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Discwrapper – Design CD/DVD covers and labels for your personal discs

Posted by admin on 13th January 2009

DiscWrapper is a simple cover designer for your home made CDs and DVDs. It is simple and very easy to install and use without too many menus and menu items. It has template covers and depending on the case type there are pages where you can place labels, images, and directory lists.

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