Recently the PCLinuxOS Magazine staff released a new magazine, which will be used to keep the PCLinuxOS Community “in the know”. Best of all the magazine is for the community by the community.
The January 2010 Episode of the Magazine includes:
And the pdf version can be downloaded here.
Or if you choose you can view the HTML format
I have to admit, I’ve kind of [ continue reading... ]

I know when people install KDE 4.4, they’ll be wondering “Where do I configure my Plasma Theme Now”.
This is mostly in part because it was moved from the “Desktop Settings” into systemsettings.
Here’s a little pictorial on changing it:
In the menu choose Configure Desktop (which is systemsettings via the command line)

In the General Tab double click on Appearance (hovering over it, will show you [ continue reading... ]

Here’s an excerpt from KDE’s release notes for KDE 4.4 RC1:
To install on openSUSE, we’ll use the openSUSE KDE Factory Build Service.
To add the repository do:
I also recommend adding the community repository by doinig:
If you wish, you can set both repositories to refresh automatically by doing:
Now you can update your installation by doing:
You’ll now have KDE 4.4 RC1, and best of all, [ continue reading... ]

I decided to check out the different Windows Switching options in KDE 4, and decided I’d give a little preview of the 5 different methods which are:
No EffectBox SwitchPresent WindowsCover SwitchFlip Switch
I found my favorite to be “Cover Switch” for some unknown reason.
Here’s a screenshot of each one (Minus the No Effect):

These are configured in systemsettings under “Effects for window switching as shown [ continue reading... ]

I’ve recently come across the application Blogilo, which I from here on out will reference as the Blog Gigolo. Most of my blog posts I do in the wordpress backend, in a web browser since it’s what I knew.
However, recently I found this awesome application which is supposed to be shipping along side with KDE 4.4. The name Blogilo comes from unknown source to me, [ continue reading... ]

Recently I upgraded to Amarok 2.2.1.90 from 2.2.0 while testing out some KDE 4.4.
However, when I first started listening to the music I realized that my tracks were playing continuously and not randomly. So I went to the menu’s to change this setting (this is where I had previously changed it). But to my surprise there was nothing in any of the menu’s.
So [ continue reading... ]

From the KDE.org Website:

I’ll be writing a little bit about blogilo, which I have used since it’s inception and find it quite compelling.
Plasma for Netbook is a great step forward, however I do not have a netbook nor the funds to purchase one to give it a shot, therefor I will not be able to comment on that much.
I’ll be talking about some more updates [ continue reading... ]

If you follow my blog you’ll know that I’ve recently switched backed to KDE from GNOME, and I recently found a feature that I really have fallen in love with, when it comes to Dolphin usage.
The feature I will talk about today is Dolpin and Terminal Integration. First I must admit, I found this feature on accident as usually if I wanted to open [ continue reading... ]

Sun Microsystem is holding a webinar for the latest release of VirtualBox 3.1 titled, What’s New in 3.1.
Slated for the Webinar is:

Teleportation
Speedups
Snapshots 2.0
Live demo

You can register at the link below:
https://dct.sun.com/dct/forms/reg_us_0712_490_0.jsp

Today Google has annonced that Google Chrome is now in Beta for Linux thanks to the continued work and testing from the Chromium Project.
You can see a funny comic about the release which was inspired by xkcd.com here:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html
You can download the .deb and .rpm packages from:
http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?hl=en&brand=CHFK
And the main google chrome page can be found here:
http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en&platform=linux&brand=CHFK
Here is their official statement via e-mail:
Great job to all those [ continue reading... ]

Just FYI for the people who are looking to upgrade to KDE 4.4 using the KDE:KDE4:Unstable:Desktop repository..
There is a bug which has been reported here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216857
To where your Kwin Global Shortcuts will not work when you log on, you can regain the functionality by running:
killall kwin;kwin
Please stand by for an update.

Ok,
I have to admit when I first thought or heard of this feature in KDE 4.4, I wasn’t really excited. I thought.. now why the hell would I want that.
Then I started using it.. and found quite a few usage scenario’s for it.
The first one, I realized right after I launched my VirtualBox. I had always hated how VirtualBox had a separate [ continue reading... ]

On Dec 1st, Nokia released QT 4.6.
The major new improvements are: (from nokia’s website)
Here’s a little video of the Hand Gestures:

Do you think QT will be the cross platform IDE of choice in the future? I believe it’s development speed, and improvements could catapult it to being the leading platform in Mobile Devices, and could possibly form Windows to be usable.

arstechnica.com recently discussed Ubuntu’s decision to remove GIMP (a GNU Image Manipulation Program that is popular among the Linux world) on the next release of Ubuntu slated for April 2010, and dubbed 10.04.
Many people think it’s not the right thing to do, but if you think long and hard about the decision, it’s quite simple to realize, that it’s a niche product for a niche [ continue reading... ]

Here are some highlights from the latest release for Linux:
Release Highlights:
Added support for OpenGL 3.2.
Updated the NVIDIA X driver to allow, on GeForce 8 or greater GPUs, more modes to validate on digital display devices whose EDIDs report very constrained HorizSync or VertRefresh ranges.
Fixed a randomly occurring X server crash caused by the PixmapCache option.
Increased the allowed amount of overscan compensation from 100 to 200.
On [ continue reading... ]