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The Curious Case of Adobe's Almost-Good Move January 14, 2013 
Well, CES has come and gone for another year, and not a moment too soon! One more new phone announcement, and Linux Girl's head would have surely exploded. There's no doubt it was a mad, mad week -- so wild, in fact, that a curious event occurring outside CES could have escaped the notice of more than a few observers.
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'Curious' Hack Jailbreaks Windows RT January 09, 2013 
A security researcher has hacked Windows RT to allow it to run desktop applications by bypassing the OS' security systems. The jailbreaking isn't dangerous to users' systems, researcher C.L. Roker insists. "It cannot at this point be exploited without the user actually wanting it, so it's not dangerous."
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Calendar App Is a Fantastic Time Manager January 08, 2013 
In a game of word association, it's unlikely that "fantastical" will produce "calendar" in most players' minds -- unless they've used the dandy time management program for Mac OS X of that name. Apple includes calendar software with OS X. It gets the job done. It's nicely integrated with other calendar programs that use the CalDAV protocol, notably Google Calendar.
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Subtitle Editor: Handy for Captioning but Lacking Instructions January 02, 2013 
Subtitle Editor is a capable video editing tool kit to transform, edit, correct, create or refine existing subtitles on GNU/Linux/*BSD. Based on GTK+2, It also shows sound waves, which makes it easier to synchronize subtitles to voices. You will not find too many capable applications in Linux that specialize in adding or editing subtitles.
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Frequency Tunes Out the Noise When Tuning In to Videos December 27, 2012 
One of the most irritating things about enjoying videos, movies and TV shows online is the sheer number of places you must navigate to in order to get the content. Each of the major television networks has its own channel, some of which serve up some full episodes some of the time, while others just serve up teaser clips and ongoing snippets, like the opening monologues for "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson."
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Listen: A Great Audio Manager - If You Can Install It December 19, 2012 
Unless you are an atypical Linux user, you tend to accept the default apps featured in your distro of choice. After all, if what you use works just fine, why scavenge around for a replacement? If saying yes to that question means you miss out on adding the Listen audio player to your desktop tools, you might change your answer after trying it.
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Raspberry Pi Launches App Store to Sweeten Its Ecosystem December 18, 2012 
The Raspberry Pi project launched an app store Monday to support its eponymous $35 Linux PC, which hit the market in February. The store will carry both free and paid apps. Its launch has stirred mixed reactions among Raspberry Pi enthusiasts, with some criticizing plans to offer paid apps and others defending the move.
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Evernote 5.0 Combines Smoother Navigation With Dashing Looks December 11, 2012 
Evernote is the perfect program for a paranoiac like me. As the owner of a desktop computer in its golden years, I never know if its next reboot will be its last. With Evernote, I have some insurance in the cloud that I'll be able to continue working should disaster strike.
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Is Something Rotten in the State of Freiburg? December 10, 2012 
You win some, you lose some," as the old saying goes, but rarely do the two occur nearly simultaneously. Sure enough, however, that's just what happened to open source software in Germany recently: It was being celebrated in Munich even as it was dumped in Freiburg.
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User Photos Are Collateral Damage in Instagram-Twitter Fight December 05, 2012 
Instagram has changed the way photographs on its site display in tweets, the latest salvo in its ongoing feud with Twitter. Instagram photos viewed on Twitter appear
cropped or otherwise changed because Instagram has disabled its integration with Twitter Cards, Twitter said. Trouble between the two has built following the purchase of Instagram by Facebook in April.
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MyNotex Would Be Perfect With Cloud Sync December 05, 2012 
MyNotex is a handy note-taking app that helps you rat-pack all of your scraps of information and images into a searchable database. It is easy to use and takes almost no time to learn. MyNotex is a bit different from traditional tree-form note-taking systems. It handles more than plain text notations, but it is an old-school technology that is easily replaced with mobile apps and cloud-based note-keeping systems.
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MonoPhix Creates Monochrome Effects on the Cheap December 04, 2012 
For many digital shutterbugs, the simple black-and-white filter included with most cameras these days meets their needs for dabbling with monochrome photography. For those who find that a tepid option, there are always the more sophisticated offerings found in high-end post-capture programs like Photoshop and Aperture. MonoPhix offers an alternative to those extremes, though.
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The End of the Printing Press? November 28, 2012 
Electronic communications are reshaping personal life, and may right now be causing the rapid demise of print. Media academics know well the theories of Marshall McLuhan. He came up with the phrase "the medium is the message," and the term "global village," among other juicy contributions to our comprehension of media.
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FocusWriter Rich in Features, Poor in Some Important Ones November 28, 2012 
FocusWriter uses an intriguing concept that makes you wonder why other word-processing tools do not offer the same hide-away tool panels to eliminate distractions. It offers a set of writing tools with the ease and speed of unencumbered text editors. Focuswriter is a full-screen writing program. It has no option to resize or minimize.
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Google Play Takes Away Reviewers' Mask of Anonymity November 27, 2012 
Those who want to post reviews on Google Play will be required to use a Google+ account, the parent company of both announced on Tuesday. The new rules will be implemented with the latest version of Google Play, which the company is now introducing for Android devices. They have already been implemented in the online store.
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Firefox 17 Gets Friendly With Facebook, Wary of iFrames November 21, 2012 
Mozilla has made its Web browser more social -- and more secure -- with the release of Firefox 17. The latest version of the foundation's popular browser includes a plug-in that displays notifications and instant messages from Facebook in a sidebar. The plug-in is the first implementation of the Social API introduced by Mozilla in July.
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KMyMoney Is as Simple to Use as Quicken November 21, 2012 
KMyMoney is a comprehensive finance-tracking application that does not require an accounting degree to use effectively. Linux provides several hearty checkbook and banking programs. Among the more well-known are GNUCash, Grisbi, Skrooge and MoneyDance. Each of these contenders for your attention have their own unique look and feel.
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All Things Appy: Top 5 Chrome Office Productivity Tools November 14, 2012 
If you haven't already, dump archaic email for projects. It doesn't work. The idea
of having a stream of emails gathered chronologically -- and stuffed with uncollaborative attachments rather than fluid conversations organized by project -- is asking for confusion and delays.
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Microsoft to Kill the Messenger, Supplant It With Skype November 07, 2012 
Microsoft will phase out Windows Live Messenger, its consumer instant messaging platform, over the next several months as its users are moved to Skype, the company announced this week. Microsoft hopes to smooth the transition to Skype for Live Messenger users by allowing them to log in to Skype with their Microsoft ID so that contacts in one program will automatically transfer to the other.
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Pocket Stretches to the Mac October 29, 2012 
The single feature I like most about Pocket, an app and online service that lets you snag articles online and save them for reading later, is speed. I've been using Pocket for iOS on my iPhone and iPad for months, and the interface is clean and the action is all fast. Idea Shower has created a native Mac OS X version of Pocket, thereby extending the Pocket-accessible universe.
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