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Ever wanted to transfer some ogg or flac files to your old mobile phone that supports only mp3 or wav ?
I have!
There are two programs I recommend for these kind of jobs.
1. SoX, the swiss army knife of sound processing, is a command line utility that can convert various formats of audio files in to [...]

Deluge

Deluge is a Bittorrent client, created using Python and GTK+, for Linux and other Unix-Like operating systems.
The current version of Deluge is 0.5.5, you can find screenshots on their website.
Deluge features:

Mainline DHT
FAST protocol extension
uTorrent Peer Exchange
BitTorrent Protocol Encryption
UPnP and NAT-PMP
Proxy support for Peers, Tracker, DHT and Web-Seed
Private Torrents
Able to download multiple files in a single [...]

uTorrent is my favorite torrent client, unfortunately it works only on Windows. We can emulate Windows with wine and run uTorrent.
So first lets install wine:
sudo apt-get install wine
Now go to the uTorrent download page and get the latest version, in my case:
wget http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.5/utorrent.exe
Installing it is very easy, just run
wine utorrent.exe
and it will ask you to [...]

Hotwire is a graphical terminal intended to replace the interactive command execution portion of a typical Unix shell. It includes much of the functionality found in the combination of a terminal emulator, a shell, and core utilities like ls and grep.
Here’s a video I found on youtube, its awesome!

Installing Hotwire in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy):
There are [...]