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Gedit: Don't Get Tricked by Its Simple Looks

Softpedia News (Doru Barbu) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:41:01 GMT

Every Linux user that has used the GNOME desktop environment must have had at least an encounter with its default text editor, Gedit. You start it up, and it looks like a simple notepad type application with a toolbar added on top. However, don't let yourself fooled by that simple appearance. If you know how to customize this application, it can be mo... (read more)

Evince: Speed and Functionality Combined

Softpedia News (Doru Barbu) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:31:02 GMT

In the heterogeneous computing world of today, documents are encapsulated in a variety of formats, from the mundane PDF to the high-resolution tiffs needed in typography. To be able to view all of them you could use four or five different applications, or you could just employ Evince. GNOME users are probably well familiarized with this document viewer. E... (read more)

Pidgin: IM Superstar

Softpedia News (Doru Barbu) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:23:00 GMT

You have to stay connected. This is probably the single statement agreed upon globally. Keep up with what your friends are doing on social networks, crowd-source new concepts, communicate in more diverse and feature-rich ways. Pidgin is a great tool for this always-connected world we are living in, because it enables instant communication, regardless of the details.

The last major version in the Pidgin line-up, namely 2.6, adds a whole new dimension to the instant messaging experi... (read more)

Deluge: For All Your Torrent Needs

Softpedia News (Daniel Pop-Silaghi) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:21:00 GMT

Using torrents has become quite an everyday routine for most of us. Though eating up all your bandwidth in one bite, they surely can take the load off traffic-heavy servers. How? Each of us becomes a peer that "seeds" tiny bits of the download, leading to exponentially growing speed and availability. Most of the times, people asso... (read more)

Rhythmbox: Let the Music Play

Softpedia News (Daniel Pop-Silaghi) — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:11:01 GMT

Regardless of age, sex, race, ethnicity or birthplace, us people tend to have one thing in common: a passion for music. And no matter what kind of tune tingles your senses, be it the "Moonlight Sonata" or the latest club hit, you will need a music player to listen to it. Linux has been blessed with quite a nice selection of audio players, from command-line super lig... (read more)

FileZilla: The Only FTP Client You'll Ever Need

Softpedia News (Daniel Pop-Silaghi) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:21:00 GMT

Today's online world makes it easier and easier for users to tap in with their own content. Whether it's a full-blown website, a personal blog or a picture collection of your cat, most of you readers are probably already riding the WWW wave. And while some services offer you upload capabilities straight from the browser, you really need somethi... (read more)

GNOME Do: The King of Launchers

Softpedia News (Daniel Pop-Silaghi) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:01:00 GMT

I have to admit that I am an occasional couch potato. I sometimes lay way back into the arms of the armchair (sic) with just my keyboard, especially when I'm reading a long text, watch some video or just browse a page or two; and life is good. Life stops being good when the text/movie is over and I have to use the mouse, a task that obviously makes me leave the co... (read more)

Ultamatix: The New Automatix

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:11:00 GMT

I guess all Linux users, especially Ubuntu ones, have used or at least heard about Automatix, an application that can install and uninstall the most used and popular programs. From multimedia codecs and archiving tools, e-mail clients and web browsers, to audio/video ripping and burning software, Automatix could do them all. Unfortunately, a few months ago, Automatix... (read more)

DecyptHD - First HD-DVD Real Time Decryption Tool

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) — Tue, 5 Jun 2007 14:11:00 GMT

Since the HD DVD (High-density optical disc) format was released to general public in March 2006, when Toshiba announced their first HD DVD player in Japan, many movie titles were released in this high-quality video format. As movies were released, the need for "magical" tools to decrypt the HD content went forth because most of the HD DVD conten... (read more)

Automatix2: A Life Saver

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:41:00 GMT

Since Automatix2 appeared on the Linux scene, distributions like Ubuntu and its derivatives have a new powerful weapon in the Linux desktop war. They say Automatix2 is a graphical package manager, but it's more like a smart and intelligent application that can install and uninstall the most used and popular software. From multimedia codecs and archiving tools, e-mail cl... (read more)

NeroLinux 3 Comes with Blu-Ray, HD DVD and 64-bit Support!

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:06:00 GMT

Remember Nero Burning ROM? Of course you do, it's that beautiful application for Windows which helps you burn your everyday CDs and DVDs. Well, on Linux systems, Nero Burning ROM (NeroLinux) is not that popular because there are many other native CD/DVD burning applications out there, like the award winning K3b, which recently released v... (read more)

Introducing Gimmie: A New GNOME Panel

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:41:00 GMT

The Gimmie project was designed as an elegant way to think about how you use your desktop computer. It's a panel replacement and application organizer for the Gnome desktop environment. It can notify you about new installed applications, has an integrated desktop search engine, includes bigger icons for commonly used items and it can keep around items you use ... (read more)

KBFX - A new KDE menu!

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:13:00 GMT

KBFX Team has released a new and improved version of their KDE desktop applet, KBFX, which is a four month's work.

What is KBFX?

"KBFX is an alternative to the classical K button and its associated menu. It improves the user experience by enabling the user to set a bigger (and thus more visible) start button and by finally replacing the Win95-like K-Menu. Bu... (read more)

Fedora Frog

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:07:00 GMT

You may wonder what this is? It's a new script that can easily install many packages in your Fedora Core 5 OS.

Fedora Frog application is a GUI install script that "jumps" your Fedora Core 5 to life in no time...

I know there are a couple of good software out there that can do the same thing, and even better... but as always, in Linux, one software is not enough to ... (read more)