KDE team has released an alpha version of their next KDE release, KDE 4.1. KDE 4.1 brings the following news features:
Akonadi is among the new big things in KDE 4.1. Akonadi is the desktop-independent storage engine for Personal Information Management (PIM) data. While not yet based on Akonadi, KDE 4.1 also brings a KDE [...]
According to a recent study by MIT, Bill Gates’s Carbon emission was 10,000 times the national average. United States, which represents 5% of the world’s population is consuming almost one quarter of the energy available worldwide. So, what about the average Americans and the ultra-energy conscious? There does not seem to be much hope [...]
I installed Ubuntu 8.04 in my Quad core desktop 2 days back. The installation was smooth. The only issue I had was with partitioning. I usually create separate partitions in my hard drive for boot, root, home and swap directories before installation, but I didn’t do that this time. I first thought of using the [...]
I’m not sure if the developers/theme authors are not interested in updating the Thunderbird themes or Mozilla doesn’t encourage them to work on Thunderbird themes as much as they do for Firefox. I downloaded 18 themes today from Mozilla addon site and only 6 of them are compatible with Thunderbird 2.x series. I couldn’t find [...]
Canonical has released Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron today. You can download the latest version from here. Ubuntu site is having trouble at times trying to handle the bandwidth. If you get server error, go back and try again.
Kubuntu team has released Kubuntu 8.04 with 2 versions. One is Kubuntu 8.04 LTS with KDE 3.x series [...]
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project which started with the motto of providing cheaper computer to children in under developed countries seems to be changing their motto. They first promised to keep the laptop cost at $100, but increased it to $200 when they finally released it, citing manufacturing costs. One part of the cost [...]
Happy Earth Day everyone.
ScribeFire is the blogging addon I use to post my blog post from my browser. This is an addon for Firefox. I’m using it for a long time. It used to be called Performancing and later changed to ScribeFire. The initial versions missed some of the features that would have been quite useful while posting, [...]
According to a test conducted by Alex Brown, Microsoft’s Office 2007 do not conform to the OOXML standard that controversially got approved by ISO. It’s funny to hear that Microsoft’s own Office programs couldn’t conform to the standard that Microsoft was promoting, but the problem was due to changes made during the approval process. People [...]
Casey Coleman, the chief information officer of the General Services Administration said in a web seminar that GSA use a wide variety of open source programs including Linux for its data centers, Bugzilla, for bug tracking, JUnit testing software, the JMeter Apache performance monitoring tool, and Eclipse, which can be used for application development [...]