I recently expressed my frustration with the lack of good clients for Linux that effectively aggregate Twitter & Identi.ca.
In the comments to that post, Kari suggested I try out PeopleBrowsr.com, and I have to say…I’m pretty impressed. PeopleBrowsr takes pretty much all your social networks, and allows you to view updates in streams arranged in [...]

Managing multiple social networks is rarely easy, and almost never fun. I’m always trying to streamline and simplify, and one thing that’s really been eating away at me lately is having to handle two microblogging communities.
I know there are ways to have my tweets show up as dents, and my dents as tweets…cross posting really [...]

So, I recently upgraded to latest Firefox (more on that later) and–to cut the chase here–I’m sick of how it continues to blatantly ignoring dark GTK themes. The bookmarking dialog is unreadable, and the “Awesome” bar urls look absolutely horrible (bright blue on gray, anyone?). While Firefox is still technically usable, these issues cause real [...]

Linux Journal has a detailed write up on web browser that was totally new to me called Conkeror. Not to be confused with KDE’s browser/filer combo Konqueror, Conkeror uses Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine (just like Firefox) to display beautiful webpages.
Unlike Firefox, there are absolutely no buttons or controls (”chrome”) to get in your way; [...]

I’ve been using Epiphany a lot lately, and one of the main issues I’ve experienced has been using the Amazon Mp3 Downloader application. Unfortunately, there’s no built-in setting to tell Epiphany how to handle the AMZ file format, so you’re forced to download the file and then open it manually in the Amazon MP3 Downloader. [...]