Since Twitter has ended support for the basic authentication in favour of OAuth, you have to upgrade to Choqok 1.0 Beta 2 in order to continue using Twitter.

Yesterday, the KDE client for UbuntuOne entered the Alpha stage. Apart from the usual UbuntuOne stuffs like syncing stuffs, it also has a few features which you do not get even with the UbuntuOne client for Ubuntu.

A new version of Colibri has been released, Colibri 0.2.1. It brings a number of improvements both with the notifications and the configuration module.

We always knew that WebKit is going to make Konqueror faster; but how much faster? Today we test that by putting Konqueror with KHTML through the SunSpider JavaScript Test.

With KDE Software Compilation 4.5, you can use WebKit in Konqueror instead of the default KHTML. There are several advantages of using WebKit over KHTML. Although WebKit started out as a fork of KTHML, it has gone ahead of KHTML. It is in fact much faster than with KHTML. I have been trying to figure [...]

KDE Software Compilation 4.5 was released yesterday and we told you that we will tell you when it is available in the PPA. Well, it is available now in the Kubuntu Backports PPA. To upgrade your to KDE Software Compilation 4.5 in Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, open the Konsole and [...]

After the one week delay, KDE Software Compilation 4.5 has been finally released. This is a release meant for stability not new features. About 16,000 bugs have been fixed in this release. It is not to say there are no new features. KDE SC 4.5 has an absolutely gorgeous looking blur effect and some very [...]

Here is the thing that has been bugging: I use both KDE SC and GNOME. In GNOME I have given into the charms of Docky and have been using it. But KDE SC is too awesome and I would rather use the default KDE Task Manager rather than Docky. But since Docky is set to [...]

KDE SC 4.5, which was supposed to be released today, has been delayed by a week. A lot of changes were made after the third release candidate and the release team was not comfortable with releasing it without some more testing. This is what the announcement in the kde mailing list says:

BlueDevil may eventually make way for KBluetooth as the default bluetooth manager in KDE.

Well, it has been quite a long time coming but, finally, there is a dictionary plugin for KRunner now. Jason Donenfeld posted in his blog today that he has completed the dictionary plugin for KRunner.

KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7. According to Martin’s blog post, they are looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for [...]

A few screenshots of the Fedora KDE Netbook Remix

A while ago, we explained how you can install rekonq 0.5 in Kubuntu. rekonq is going to become the default web browser in Kubuntu 10.10. But, how good is rekonq? Does it have private browsing mode? How is its Javascript performance? We attempt to find out.

rekonq, the KDE web-browser which is going to replace Konqueror in Kubuntu 10.10, has just got its first stable release as rekonq 0.5. Right now, it is available only as a source and binaries are not yet available. If you want to install rekonq 0.5 in Kubuntu, we will explain how you can do it [...]

GTK Themes Equinox Ubuntu Theme 1.20 Download

The KDE network manager (KNEtworkManager) has just too many problems. So, I prefer using the GNOME Network Manager (NetworkManager) even with KDE SC. Here is what you need to do to use the GNOME Network Manager insted of the one that comes with KDE SC.

So far there has been no proper Spotify client (atleast to my knowledge). Sometime back we had shown you how you can install the Spotify client for Windows in Ubuntu using Wine. Very soon, you may not need to use Spotify in Linux that way. A new KDE client for Spotify, called Spokify, is being [...]

After the release of KDE SC 4.4 was released about a month back, the KDE team has started work on KDE SC 4.5. A new blur effect for KWin which will come in KDE SC 4.5 has been revelaed. Here is a video showing the new KWin Blur Effect:

The digiKam team has just released a new version of digiKam, digiKam 1.2.0. digiKam is an excellent image editor and organizor for KDE SC with a lot of features. digiKam 1.2.0 comes with a lot of bugfixes and some new features. The new features includes:

In KDE SC 4.3 [Ubuntu], we had a wonderful notofication system avaulable called the Ayatana notification. For some reason unknown to me, it has been removed from KDE SC 4.4. Having used Ayatana, I cannot stand the default notification system that KDE SC 4.4 provides and had to change it. So, here is a how-to [...]

The Amarok team has announced the release of Amarok 2.3 codenamed “Clear Light”. The new release has a much requested feature – an Equalizer. The equalizer however uses kdelibs 4.4 , so you will have to be running KDE 4.4 for it to work. As Amarok 2 is largely stable by now, for Amarok 2.3, [...]

In some new builds of Google Chrome a bug has been reported which makes it the browser hang when it is used in KDE but it works fine in GNOME. In Google Chrome, the bugs results in the tab hanging after a page has been loaded. After sometime a pop-up usually comes saying some thing [...]

Choqok is a micro-blogging client for KDE and in my opinion, one of the best at that. Recently, the Choqok team released the first beta towards Choqok 1.0. It has various improvements like: Actions to subscribe/unsubscribe and block a user, added to User menu. Support to attach a file (like image) to a dent in [...]