Although both Ubuntu and Fedora replaced Pidgin with Empathy, the Pidgin developers have been hard at work and has released a new version of Pidgin – Pidgin 2.7. This version of Pidgin brings  a lot of new features and improvement:

Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, has just updated its site design to a new cleaner and more appealing design. Not only that, they have introduced a  lot of new features designed to make editing and navigation easier. This is the first major initiative between the Wikimedia Foundation and its millions of volunteers on the usability [...]

Kubuntu finally has a New Logo and a New Fixed Plymouth Theme both of which look amazing.

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:

Canonical announced intoduced a new Ubuntu branding a couple of weeks ago and Ubuntu got an amazing new plymouth theme. Now it is time for Kubuntu to get its new plymouth theme. Like the Ubuntu branding, Kubuntu is getting a new baranding with new icons and stuffs like that. The branding is not yet complete, [...]

We have already told you how to install Amarok 2.3 Beta 1 in Kubuntu. However, we have not really written anything else about what new features and improvements will come with Amarok 2.3. However, the Amarok team has very conveniently revived the Amarok Insider. So, here is whats new in Amarok 2.3 from their own [...]

Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) Light Themes (Radiance and Ambiance) – click me if you haven’t seen the themes yet – will probably be updated lots of times until Lucid Lynx is released. If you don’t use Lucid Lynx yet, you probably still want to upgrade to the latest version of the GTK and icon themes constantly [...]

Human – the default Ubuntu theme that many people hate is now finally going to be dropped from Lucid Lynx. This piece of information was revealed by Mark Shuttleworth in an interview with the Dell vlog. Human, the brownish theme that comes to mind whenever we think of Ubuntu, has been the default theme in [...]

Just in time for the new KDE SC 4.4, which is due to be released in a few hours, the KDE web team has finally brought out the all new KDE.ORG and BUZZ.KDE.ORG websites. The KDE web team has been working on the new design since November last year at Stuttgart, where the KDE branding [...]

First of all, best wishes for a new year – 2010 to all our readers who have helped Digitizor.com to grow and reach to a position which we could not have ever imagined without you guys. Thanks a lot and warm wishes again for a Happy & Prosperous New Year. Next, our partners – who [...]

One more easter egg from Google is the way they wished us a happy New Year – 2010. Just click on the I am feeling lucky button on the Google Homepage and you should see something as shown below:

Amazon’s Kindle 2 is all set to receive a heavy dosage of much needed improvements in the  form of a firmware update. The update is a result of about 6 months of rigorous work. So what do we have in store this time ? To begin with, we will finally be having native PDF support [...]

MSN has revamped their good old homepage and have given it a completely new look to it, which is less cluttered making it more usable.

Firefox browser has a quick Bookmark bar just below the address bar where you can drap and drop tabs (in which websites are open) to bookmark them. Now in order to browse the bookmarked website from this Bookmarks bar, you just have to click on any of the bookmarks. You will see the website opens [...]

In this article we will share with you a tip that will help you to open Amazon referral ad links in new window or tab on click.

Twitter guys will soon be coming out with a new impressive feature called ‘Lists’. This feature will allow users to group various Twitter accounts, by creating their own ‘Lists’. Users will then be able to keep track of these ‘Lists’ as well as manage them. For example, you can create and manage lists of the [...]

Google has given some nice touches to its search snippets ( search snippets are a few lines of text displayed below individual search results that gives us an idea of what the page is all about). The newly added features, which are basically anchor links, will help the user to dig out more relevant information [...]

In a few days, Facebook will roll out yet another new feature that lets you chose who do you want to share your status message with and whom you do not want to show your status messages. In other words, these are similar to the section wise privacy settings that already exist for Photo Galleries [...]

The Windows 7 team has made all arrangements to make sure that the packaging in which the all new Windows 7 is going to ship looks as elegant as the all new revamped GUI of the new operating system (read: Windows 7). The design on the external paper sleeve is clean and gives off a [...]

NILFS2 is an acronym for “New Implementation of a Log-Structured File System Version 2”. This file system is one of the two new file systems, along with EXOFS, that was incorporated in the recently released Linux Kernel 2.6.30. According to the kernel documentation, NILFS is a new implementation of a log-structured file system (LFS) supporting [...]

If you are a blogger or an author you must know what Feedburner is. It is a service that allows you to manage all your feed subscriptions and have a look at your subscription stats. It is a Google Service and is associated with a Google Account. Now if someday, you change your e-mail address, [...]

In this article we show you how to switch between different screen resolutions in linux without restarting Xorg or X display ?

Facebook is now contemplating yet another design change. This change comes just after almost two weeks of real fuss which was created over Facebook’s new Terms and Conditions. This fuss hit the social network major so hard that they had to revert back to their original TnC. And now this  new design change.

Dopplr is an online service which helps you make more of your travels by sharing your future trips privately with friends and colleagues. The service then highlights coincidences, for example, telling you that three people you know will be in Tokyo when you will be there too.  It links with many popular online calendars and [...]