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KDE Connect – Insieme, unite unite smartphone
When I wrote my Kubuntu Vivid review, I mentioned a tool called KDE Connect, which I wasn’t quite sure what it was supposed to be doing. A bunch of you emailed me, telling me it’s a nice little applet...
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Virtualbox 5.0 – One step closer to the Matrix
Nary a day ago, VirtualBox 5.0 was released, the latest edition in what is now an Oracle virtualization product. Reading through the official press release, some big words are used, including Docker...
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Gmusicbrowser – Forget the name, enjoy the songs
It is pronounced with a hard g, methinks. If you think about it, a better name would have been gnusicbrowser. That could have been hilarious! Either way, gmusicbrowser is an open-source media player...
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Cinnamon: Not all Sugar and Spice
Recently, I have installed and tested Linux Mint 17.2, and found it quite adorable. One of the major improvements the distribution brings to the proverbial Penguin table is a set of stylistic and...
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LibreOffice extensions – Leclerc, we have a problem
Why Leclerc? Because Houston sounds American, and Leclerc sounds more French, and Libre is sort of French, ergo title. The reason why we’ve gathered here today is to talk about a very crucial and yet...
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Fonts, don’t come easy to me
If there’s one aspect of Linux that has more Wild West in it than a typical Charles Bronson movie, it’s fonts. Linux fonts. This is something that we all take for granted, in fact so much granted, it’s...
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Liferea – If you don’t go to the Internet, the Internet will come to you
A popular saying, right. But it boils down to the fact you can use the Web in three distinct ways. Either you search for something, or you directly access websites you know and like, or, finally, you...
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SMPlayer – What is love?
Baby don’t MP3 me, MP3 me, no more… Lame jokes aside, SMPlayer is a cross-platform, free media player, or rather, a frontend for MPlayer, a highly versatile and capable media software, which promises...
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Minime? No. Minitube? Yes.
Several days ago, while testing SMPlayer and its Youtube-specific add-on, SMTube, I started thinking about some other cool, useful software that can stream second-person-metro content. Minitube has...
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Feel like tagging your music? You might as well buy fresh.
If you happen to have been born before the digital revolution, and you were old enough to listen to music back then, you probably own a sizable collection of music tracks that have not originated from...
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Best KDE/Plasma distro of 2015
The end of the year best-distro nomination is approaching fast. But before that, let’s narrow it down a bit and focus on what KDE and Plasma had to offer the Linux user in 2015. Undoubtedly, it was a...
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Best Xfce distro of 2015
The fall of one empire usually signals the rise of another. Five years ago, if you asked a typical Linux desktop user what environment they favored, the answer would most likely be KDE or Gnome 2. But...
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Stellarium – Space, the final frontier
Six years ago, I reviewed Stellarium for the first time, and I was quite impressed with the program. This educational piece of software is a free, cross-platform planetarium, offering fans of science...
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The MX Toolbox: Big Tools for a Little Distro
One of the most exciting things in the Linux world is discovering cool new things, especially when you do not expect them. For me, one such moment happened while testing the MX distro a while back, and...
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Leopard Flower firewall – Protect your bytes
Several months ago, I decided to explore a somewhat obscure topic of outbound per-application firewall control in Linux. A concept that Windows users are well familiar with, it’s been around for ages,...
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Opera 35 – A Swan Song?
My recent review of Opera 12 was received with mixed feelings. Some people criticized me for using the highly outdated version available in Ubuntu/Mint repositories, while others used it as an...
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Linux Mint security – 28 days later
Ignore the actual time count. Answer me this: When would you feel more secure, knowing that your favorite distribution has been attacked and is now under scrutiny, or thinking — or rather not thinking...
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Universal Install Script by XKCD – Combat test
Several days ago, I was gazing at the Universal Install Script comic by Randall Munroe, wondering if he may not have solved all the world’s problems, save for the usual famine, war, poverty, education,...
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Taming Plasma
How does one go about taming Plasma? Well, that seems to be a recurring question I get asked in the emails. People are really interested to know about theme, font, icon, and window decoration...
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Snap – I’ve got the package!
Ba-ba-bam. Now, the number of puns and historic and cultural references that can be applied here is way, way too high. We have the mandatory Eurodance homage, but also the Google Chrome throw-a-hissy...
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