swiss army knife

When reviewing a lightweight distribution, the term Swiss Army knife is s

Flock has undergone a major evolution in the last year. From the Swiss-Army knife of social media to a slimmed down browser that tackles Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube only.

Even more shocking, the project has dumped Firefox for Chromium. Was the switch worth it?

Packt Publishing: "Handbrake is considered the Swiss Army knife of video conversion tools. Running on the three major operating system platforms, Handbrake can open a huge variety of formats, including common ones that others can't handle (like the titles in the MPEG TS structure of a DVD)."

Microsoft employee Bart De Smet, who has a widely trafficked blog, has been writing a lot in the past few months about a new library being designed by his group at Microsoft.

Here is a whole truckload of blogpost links, in chronological order, which appears to be how Bart intended folks to read it:

On the IBuildings techPortal today there's a new podcast posted in the Dutch PHP Conference series - David Soria Parra's talk on analyzing web applications with Dtrace.

PC Magazine: "More digital Swiss Army knife software, including Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them"

PC Authority: "Like a digital Swiss Army knife, these are the Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them."

If you’re a Mac user and a social media addict, what’s better than social apps for the Mac?

Free social apps for the Mac, of course!

HTML Goodies: "If you are developing or theming for a content management system (CMS) -- such as Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Blogspot -- Firebug is an essential tool.

These applications are comprised of many, many files, and navigating through this maze can be daunting without a tool like Firebug"