I’ve been reading more complaints by the day, primarily from bloggers (some of whom I suspect are not even full-time Linux users) that KDE 4 was a complete mistake and should be scrapped. Some have likened it to Windows Vista. Others have even suggested that KDE should be forked so that the […]

There are many things to love about the new KDE and the new Firefox. I’ve personally always preferred Konqueror for most of my web browsing for simple things like dragging an image from the browser to the desktop. It was not that I wanted to leave an image file on the desktop. […]

If you’ve downloaded the latest Firefox 3.0, you’re probably loving it and very impressed with the new features.
Here is just one word of caution. In the past, if an SSL certificate was expired, not verified, or not recognized, Firefox would initiate a pop-up window telling you this. Now, it takes you to a […]

When I first saw the release of Google Gadgets for Linux, my first reaction was “What’s the point?” when we already have gdesklets for Gnome and Superkaramba/Plasma for KDE.
Then, I read this. Whoever you are, Tiger, you rock.

For those of you who don’t believe that Linux is making an impact on the PC market, you obviously haven’t been watching the actions of Microsoft. Every time a country announces they will switch their government computers to Linux, Microsoft is there literally begging them reconsider (by begging, I mean showering them with incentives). […]

Ever since I purchased my Nokia n800 last year, it has become an integral part of my life, much to the chagrin of my wife. It is described by its creators as an “internet tablet.” Along with the n800, some of you might have its predecessor the Nokia 770 or its heir apparent, […]

A series of unfortunate events gave me a golden opportunity revisit KDE 4. My previous post regarding it was not a shining one. There were serious limitations with Plasma, and Konqueror was, at least on Kubuntu Gutsy, unusable.
I had two hard drives in my computer, an older 80GB one with the operating […]

KDE4 was released last week, and I’ve delayed posting my thoughts on it, hoping that I would find solutions to the glaring problems that I experienced.  As of yet, I have not.  I understand that the KDE developers did not intend this to be a “finished” released.  Unfortunately, calling it a new release, announcing it, […]

The release of KDE 4.0 is around the corner.  After having tried the previous betas, I must say that the current release candidate is much improved.  However, there are still some serious issues that need to be resolved, mainly with plasma.  Dolphin in this particular RC was also quite unstable.  Konqueror, however, seemed to work […]

I don’t know how I managed to not know about this, but here is a rather nice looking free and open source Qur’an application.  It works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and probably any other OS that will run Java.  It is licensed under the GPL, which is brilliant.  Too often, great Islamic software gets made […]