KDE 4.8.3 Plasma and Applications are Available for Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

KDE is a free and open-source advanced desktop environment. It provides a Plasma workspaces and variety of applications for different cross-platforms. Now the latest KDE plasma and applications version 4.8.3 is available to update for Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin and for Ubuntu Precise derivatives as well. Continue reading

KDE Plasma And Applications 4.8 are Available To Update For Kubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Using PPA

The latest stable KDE plasma and applications version 4.8 are available to update/install through backport PPA provided by Kubuntu team  for 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot users. KDE 4.8 brings better performance, more stability and many new features to the plasma workspaces and KDE applications. So, let’s check KDE 4.8 highlights and some of the new features added recently to it. Continue reading

[How To]: Install Kdenlive 0.8.2.1 Video Editor and Kdenlive 0.8.3 Development Release

Kdenlive is a free and open source video editor, considered as one of the best video editor available so far for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Kdenlive support many camcorders, and cameras has a HDV capabilities. Kdenlive supports many multimedia formats supported by FFmpeg. Also it comes with several customizable video effects, and transitions by Frei0r. Continue reading

[How To]: Update KDE Platform, Workspaces And Applications To 4.7.3 On Kubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

KDE 4.7.3 available to update on Kubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and ubuntu 12.04 precise pangolin using PPA. KDE 4.7.3 update brings more stability, performance improvements, many KDE applications update, and various bug fixes. Continue reading

KDE 4.7 Released | Release Announcement | What’s New

KDE is an advanced free graphical desktop, user friendly commonly used in many distributions by default. KDE 4.7 has been released comes with new applications, new features, more stability and improved performance. Here we will check the KDE 4.7 release announcements. Continue reading

Update To KDE 4.6.5 Desktop In Kubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal | PPA

Here is update instructions latest KDE desktop 4.6.5 in Kubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. KDE 4.6.5 comes with few bug fixes for some KDE applications, Plasma workspaces and KDE platform. Continue reading

SoundKonverter 1.00 Audio Converter

SoundKonverter is a frontend to various audio converters, replay gain tools and CD ripper, using KDE platform. Continue reading

Top 10 Text Editors For Linux / Unix Users

In This article i will show a quite good collection for advanced text editors for Linux\Unix users, and non-advanced too. including many features to easily edit a lot of deferent text file types.Also you will find many great IDE ” Integrated Development Environment ” text editor for editing many programing languages files. Continue reading

Control Applications With Simon Speech Recognitions

Awesome way to control applications, installed operating system, sound recognition text typing without using mouse or keyboard. working on multi platforms, user interface KDE, Qt.

Also including Simon add ons download center support many applications Media centers, Web browser, text editor, Multimedia applications, and utilities application such as Gnome Screenshot tool.

More information Follow the official website Here

Download Simon Speech Recognitions

“source forge” Here

includeing DEB packages, source code, and other options for different operating systems”

This application really worth to try it, i had a lot of fun specially with multimedia applications and media centers. Tested on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with KDE Desktop.

That’s it for now.

Top 10 Cursors For X Window System

Cool Cursors collection for X 11 window system, including animated cursors for different installed applications, some of those cursors will look really good for dark themes, and bright themes, don’t forget to read instruction for each cursors, it might need to be renamed to ” .tar.gz ” and simply drag and drop it on Appearance preferences, go to customize, then to pointer tab to select the new pointer.

1. krakin

Download Krakin cursor

2. UISTA

Download Uista cursor

3. Defender Black

Download Defender Black Cursor

4. Pulse Glass

Download Pulse Glass Cursor

5. J.Aroche’s Vienna3

Download J.Aroche’s Vienna3 cursor

6. Harmony

Download Harmony Cursor

7. XSKH SE

Download XSKH SE cursor

8. KnotVista

Download KnotVista cursor

9. J.Aroche’s G.A.

Download J.Aroche’s G.A. cursor

10. Ecliz

Download Ecliz cursor

Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 Released

Also called Maverick Meerkat 10.10 first alpha release comes out today with many new features check the blueprints to see all new features with Maverick Meerkat Alpha 1.

For gnome version updated to gnome 2.31 instead of 2.30 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

KDE updated to 4.5 Beta 1 , and Qt updated to 4.7 beta

installed kernal  2.6.34-5.12

some bugs already reported check the release notes for more information.you can also report bugs using Bugsquad

Release announcement

Download Ubuntu 10.10 ” Maverick Meerkat ” Alpha 1

you will find a lot of download options for desktop, netbook, “32,64″ bit versions, intel, AMD

testing time :)

6 IM Chat Clients Mostly Used

Many IM chat clients available to use, but which one is the best choice for you. Basically most of them do the same job for me i usually use empathy my favorite one. many IM clients supporting connecting to multiple networks accounts “Hotmail, yahoo, facebook, irc, gmail, ICQ, AIM, myspace, Japper, even more with adding custom API”

  1. Empathy
  2. Pidgin
  3. qutIM
  4. Kopete
  5. emesene
  6. PSI IM

Pick yours.