a7p’s

Once upon a time, the Mozilla webbrowser allowed specifying the searchengine using a shortcut, you just typed your query into the location-bar, pressed “down” and Mozilla suggested asking Google about it.
The SearchWords extension brings something way better to Firefox: The SearchWords Add-on allows you to specify your search-engine using the Konquerer style (which is one of the few things I always liked about Konquerer. Just specify some shortcuts for certain search-modules you have available via the search-box and enjoy searching for “g apache doc”, “i Wes Anderson”, “cc chinese wall”.

Bazaar is generally the way to go if it comes to the question of version control systems - at least if you ask me for the direction to go ;).
This thing makes the already rocking bazaar-vcs rock even more. Software as it should (always) be, just bzr the current version into your bzr plugin directory (I love the bzr-plugin concept).

Since journaling filesystems should not have only advantages about the old simple ones, filerecovery became a lot more difficult with most of them. XFS and Ext3 are pretty difficult to recover files from - especially, when they are not text based.
When having demolished or accidently deleted some of your most important files, photorec may help you to bring some of them back (it’s part of the testdisk-project). Photorec recovers jpg, pdf and some other file-formats from almost any file-system, by “simply” grepping through the bitstream and watching out for the typical file-headers.

Zotero is a really excellent tool for managing your literature, right where you stumble upon it - in you (favourite) Browser (which is mozilla-firefox of course).

Since I just had some very bad experiences concerning backups, I wrote a little cronjob invoking the brilliant rdiff-backup. Now I am (hopefully) save from myself.