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title: "Applications I Can’t Live Without, Volume 1: YubNub"
date: 2009-11-05T19:37:50Z
modified: 2012-08-22T01:29:27Z
permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/11/05/apps-i-cant-live-without-yubnub/"
type: post
status: publish
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categories:
  - "Apps I Can't Live Without"
  - Screencasts
timestamp: 2012-08-22T01:29:27Z
tags:
  - "Apps I Can't Live Without"
  - Screencasts
---

Seriously: who wouldn’t appreciate an application named after the Ewok word for freedom?

If you like the [command line](http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html), you’ll love [YubNub](http://yubnub.org). And even if you don’t know what the command line is, you’ll probably still love YubNub because it saves you time just about every time you use the browser. For the first in a series of screencasts on applications I can’t live without, I couldn’t have picked a better one: the Ruby built application is a staple of my everyday life.

Come see why in this video. You may want to view it full-screen in HD to get the full effect.

**Notes**: Screencast was recorded with [gtk-recordMyDesktop](http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php), audio was recorded with [Audacity](http://audacity.sourceforge.net/), and the final video was rendered using [PiTiVi](http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page). Thanks to those projects for their hard work.