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New Products for November

By James Gray 

Please send information about releases of Linux-related products to newproducts@linuxjournal.com or New Products c/o Linux Journal, PO Box 980985, Houston, TX 77098. Submissions are edited for length and content.

Writebox

By Shawn Powers 

I've reviewed plenty of simple text editors designed for writers. For my writing, I really desire only a few features:

Support for plain text.

Spell Czech.

Running word count. more>>

Arduino Teaches Old Coder New Tricks

By Edward Comer 

I became aware of the Arduino Project from occasional media reports and a presentation at Atlanta LinuxFest 2009. I was impressed with what the Arduino community was doing, but at that time, I saw no personal use for it. It took a grandson who is heavily involved in a high-school competitive robotics program to change things for me. more>>

Feynman Figures for Fun

By Joey Bernard 

In quantum physics, one of the calculations you might want to do is figure out how two or more particles may interact. This can become rather complicated and confusing once you get to more than two particles interacting, however. Also, depending on the interaction, there may be the creation and annihilation of virtual particles as part of the interaction. more>>

Please Take Our Survey!

By LJ Staff 
Please take our short survey. It will only take minutes. Thank you! more>>

Android Candy—Smart Audiobook Player

By Shawn Powers 

The Audible app for Android is a great way to consume audiobooks. You have access to all the books you've purchased on Audible, and you can download them at will. Plus, the app provides all the bookmarking features you'd expect from a professional application. Unfortunately, if your audiobooks are from somewhere other than Audible, you need something a little more flexible. more>>

Introducing Vagrant

By Jay Palat 

Have you ever heard the following? "Welcome to the team! Here's a list of 15 applications to install, the instructions are in the team room, somewhere. more>>

Chromium for the Masses

By Shawn Powers 

Every time my paycheck is direct-deposited, I contemplate purchasing a Chromebook. Long gone are the days of the CR-48 laptops with the clunky interface and frustrating usability. Although I never quite seem to pull the trigger and buy a Chromebook, thanks to the developer Hexxeh, it's possible to run the Chromium OS on a wide variety of hardware combinations. more>>

Extreme Graphics with Extrema

By Joey Bernard 

High-energy physics experiments tend to generate huge amounts of data. While this data is passed through analysis software, very often the first thing you may want to do is to graph it and see what it actually looks like. To this end, a powerful graphing and plotting program is an absolute must. more>>

APIs

By Reuven Lerner 

If you're creating Web apps, you're designing APIs. Here are some things to keep in mind before you begin. more>>

Looking Past Search

By Doc Searls 

Can we make search organic again? Or should we look past search completely? more>>

November 2012 Issue of Linux Journal: Python

By Shawn Powers 
Indiana was the Dog's Name

My wife is afraid of snakes. Actually, "afraid" may not be a big enough word. My wife is terrifyingly and abundantly mortified of snakes. more>>

Twitter Bootstrap

By Reuven Lerner 

Even if you're not a designer, Bootstrap is a great way to make your sites look nice. more>>

There's an App for That

By Shawn Powers 

The concept of standalone Web apps isn't new. Anyone using Prism with Firefox or Fluid with OS X understands the concept: a browser that goes to a single Web site and acts like a standalone application—sorta. more>>

Getting Started with 3-D Printing: the Hardware

By Kyle Rankin 

I've been interested in 3-D printers ever since I saw one at a Maker Faire a few years ago, but it was only a year ago when I started seriously thinking about having one of my own. At that point, I started to realize just how many different options existed and ultimately started researching the RepRap family of 3-D printers (more on the different printer families below). more>>

New Products

By James Gray 

New products for October. more>>

Pluck Out a Novel with Plume

By Shawn Powers 

I often discuss the Linux port of Scrivener with my writer friend Ken McConnell. We both like Scrivener's interface, and we both prefer to use Linux as our writing platform. Unfortunately, the Linux port of Scrivener just doesn't compare to the OS X version. The other day, Ken told me about Plume Creator. more>>

Lightspeed on Your Desktop

By Joey Bernard 

One area of physics that is hard to wrap your head around is relativity. Basically, relativity breaks down into general and special relativity. General relativity deals with large masses and high energies, and it describes how space-time is warped by these. Special relativity deals with what happens during high velocities. more>>

PirateBox

By Adrian Hannah 

The PirateBox is a device designed to facilitate sharing. more>>

Tarsnap: On-line Backups for the Truly Paranoid

By Andrew Fabbro 

Storing backups in the cloud requires a level of trust that not everyone is willing to give. While the convenience and low cost of automated, off-site backups is very compelling, the reality of putting personal data in the hands of complete strangers will never sit quite right with some people. more>>

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