As I am finding myself in a similar situation as my fellow Amarok developer Nikolaj Hald Nielsen is currently in , I figured that doing something similar as Nikolaj did could make sense.

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Choqok is a quick and efficient micro-blogging client for the K Desktop Environment.

"It's Sunday now in Deventer and, except for Lukas Tvrdy, all Krita hackers have gone home -- or, in the case of your author, stayed home.

For the last 21 2 years I have been working full time as a developer for Magnatune.com . While I have enjoyed this work very much, within the next few months, Magnatune wishes to transition me to a part time position instead.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 by Matt Hartley at 2:37pm No Responses The idea that we are going to get more people switching over to Linux by offering one of the popular desktop environments on Windows, seems a bit radical.

"Fedora 13 Alpha was released yesterday with a plethora of new features and updated packages for this Red Hat Linux distribution.

OpenLinux comes with a number of productivity packages including Corel's WordPerfect 8 and StarOffice v.5, along with the typical Linux utilities and applications which are all incorporated into the menuing system of the K Desktop Environment.

After a few years of silence around MCNLive, here we are again with a brand new MCNLive release, based on Mandriva 2010.0. It won't have all the nice features you might remember from MCNLive, but the most important things are there.

Those that were at either CampKDE or FOSDEM might already know, so for those this is a status update, for the rest: I've been working on a tool that makes it quite easy to create packages in the openSUSE build service, which despite the name can create binary packages also for other distributions than openSUSE.

Konsole is the X terminal emulator of KDE. I find having the terminal out of my way, but always open and easy to reach out to, very convenient.

One of the dangers of having a real interaction designer look at your application is that they are apt to suggest that some special widget might make your app much nicer, much more efficient, much more usable.

"March 2nd, 2010. Today, KDE has released a new version of the KDE Software Compilation .

NetSecL is a security-focused distro based on Slackware. It includes GrSecurity by default, has tools for security enhancements , freeware for penetration testing , as well as some additions like hardware recognition, MPlayer, Amarok, Qtparted, Gtkam, Krusader, Gslapt, FirewallBuilder, and other tools for multimedia and system management.

By Mark Murphy on Wed, 02/24/10 - 8:41am. As noted last week , two other open source smartphone platforms are Symbian and Meego, the latter a merger of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo.

Looks like Microsoft has released the PST format specification. I don't normally like to link to MSDN, but I'll do it this once: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff385210.aspx As usual with these documents, I recommend reading the PDF version rather than the HTML.

Kate is a multi-document editor that grew from a rewritten version of the KWrite editing widget of the KDE desktop.

Since beginning as a one-person project over ten years ago, the fourth generation of the K Desktop Environment is poised to be the most business-friendly open source desktop to date with a host of new features ideal for enterprises.

I haven't blogged about my development activities for some time now... So here come some news.

From: http://toorox.de What is Toorox? Toorox is a Linux Live-DVD based on Gentoo that starts as a bootable media using KNOPPIX technology.

Tellico is a collection manager for KDE. It includes default collections for books, bibliographies, comic books, videos, music, video games, coins, stamps, trading cards, and wines, and also allows custom collections.