Conquer your Desktop!
KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop
environment for Linux and Unix workstations.
It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality,
and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system.
Gaim
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.
It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol),
MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC,
GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.
Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Firefox that
lets you view RSS news and blog headlines in the
bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. With one glance,
quickly see the latest headlines from your favorite
sites. Go directly to the articles that interest you —saving you time.
A site is enabled for Live Bookmarks when you see
the icon on the bottom right corner of the browser.
Clicking on the icon and selecting an RSS feed will
bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select 'OK' and you will see Live Bookmarks with the rest of your
bookmarks. Many people find it especially convenient
to save Live Bookmarks in their Bookmarks Toolbar folder.
OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals,
governments, and corporations around the world
have been expecting for the last two years.
Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite,
OpenOffice.org 2.0 realises the potential of open source.
Available in 36 languages.
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program.
It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as
photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple
paint program, an expert quality photo retouching
program,
an online batch processing system,
a mass production image renderer,
an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed
to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do
just about anything.
The advanced scripting interface allows everything
from the simplest task to the most complex image
manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP Downloads
KStars
The revolution of modern Astronomy is largely due to computers. Vast farms of robotic telecopes scan
the skies in completely automated fashion recording and analyzing data of interest. New supernovae,
comets, minor planets, and variable stars are
discovered frequently thanks to the automated nature
of research-grade, and recently amateur, telescopes.
Professional Astronomers have enjoyed for decades the expensive setup offered to them by research-grade
telescope. But now amateur astronomers can track and
enjoy thousands of the gems in the sky with
computerized GOTO systems.
While the traditional sky chart approach to locating
objects in the sky still has its merits, GOTO systems
provide a one-click solution to locating
almost any object in the heavens.
KStars provides a very convenient and intuitive
interface to control many GOTO telescopes.
We hope that you find KStars helpful in sailing
the heavens! Bon voyage!
AmaroK
The versatile and easy to use audio player for KDE
amaroK tries to be a little different, providing a simple drag and drop
interface that really makes playlist handling easy.
Features include:
- rapid playlist creation, with drag and drop from a directory view
- nice playlist browser for your existing playlists (PLS or M3U formats)
- collection-indexing support, for smart browsing and playlist creation
- possibility of accessing media via kioslaves, allowing you to play
via smb:// or fish:// (normal streams are of course supported)
- inline ID3 tag editing, capable of retrieving tags via MusicBrainz
- album cover support: automatically displays album covers from the
filesystem, or downloaded on the fly
- miscellaneous audio effects, including crossfading
- easy bindable global shortcuts, rich DCOP interface
- On-Screen Display (OSD), on track change or at keypress
amaroK can output to different sound systems:
aRts, GStreamer and XINE
support is included in the
amarok-{arts,gstreamer,xine} packages,
respectively.
By default, all of them will be installed (amarok-engines
package).
Support for XMMS visualization plugins is also
compiled in (you need to
have xmms installed
to be able to use it, though).
K3b
K3b is a CD and DVD burning application for Linux
systems optimized for KDE. It provides a comfortable
user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks
like creating an Audio CD from a set of
audio files or copying a CD.
While the experienced user can take influence
in all
steps of the burning process
the beginner may find comfort in the automatic settings
and the reasonable K3b defaults which allow a quick start.
The actual burning in K3b is done by the
command line utilities cdrecord, cdrdao, and growisofs.
XMMS
XMMS
is a multimedia player for unix systems.
XMMS stands for X MultiMedia System and can play
media files such as MP3, MOD's, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins.
xine
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs,
DVDs,
and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like
AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and
displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.
It interprets many of the most common multimedia
formats available
and some of the most uncommon formats, too.
MPlayer
MPlayer
is a movie player for Linux
(runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs,
see the documentation). It plays most MPEG, VOB,
AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI,
RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files,
supported by many native, XAnim,
and Win32 DLL codecs.
You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too (without the avifile library).
