Linux.com: Winzig: A Portable PIM that Understands Usability | Linux Today

Linux.com: Winzig: A Portable PIM that Understands Usability

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 7, 2006

“Winzig is a free, low-resource personal information manager
(PIM) written in Python. It fits address book, calendar, to-do
list, note-taking, and more into one small, fixed-sized
window–perfect for embedded devices, and if you care about your
screen real estate, good for desktop systems as well.

“Winzig 1.76 is distributed as a gzipped tarball; inside are
executable Python scripts. The package depends only on Python,
GTK+, and PyGTK, which pretty much any modern distribution
supports. Once you have downloaded and unpacked the package, there
is nothing to compile–just run ./winzig.py to get started…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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