Open Source blog FOSSwire posts on a little known KDE feature: the ability to have global menu bar at the top of your screen, a la Mac OS X. This behavior has always been kind of annoying to me whenever I try to use a Mac, but I thought it might come in handy [...]

Linux.com has a fantastic tutorial on making your WINE apps look more native, without methods that impact performance. Turns out it’s pretty easy …although for maximum compatibility you may want to install a color picker like gcolor2 (which sure has come in handy for me as well lately.)
WINE keeps getting better and better…I hardly ever [...]

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Konqueror remains one of the most powerful tools on the Linux desktop. It manages to be the Swiss Army knife of file managers for KDE as well as a fantastic web browser. Even as a GNOME user, I find myself firing up Konqueror every now and then. VnTutor as put [...]

There are a couple scripts that add video conversion features to Nautilus (here’s one) but this is first one I’ve heard of that integrates into KDE. This script, highlighted by the FOSSwire blog, adds a right click menu that lets you easily convert videos into multiple formats. From FOSSwire:
The script itself is very simple, such [...]

Fosswire has review on the scheduling app for KDE, KAlarm. Looks fairly powerful…it can even replace cron or apt, if you wish! It also does personal reminders.
I like KAlarm. It’s simple, yet powerful. It might not be awfully exciting, but ultimately, it gets the job done and can be extended to make it perform how [...]