Wondering how on earth to create a quick greeting card or postcard without having to go through using Scribus or some other software? I grew up in the 80s so I was used to Print Master. In Print Master, all my greeting card needs and banner needs were easily remedied. Each of them would have some kind of template and wizard and the images where easily chosen because they came with the application. Unfortunately I haven’t found anything like this yet. So far, the only one I saw that’s close enough is Kreeting Kard. …read more

Thanks to Tech Source From Bohol, I learned more Twitter Desktop Clients for Linux. I don’t use Twitter as often as I used to but it’s nifty to have a Linux desktop client when you’re always following people. The clients I learned about today:

Tweetdeck
Interestingly enough this seems to have a lot of nifty features. One of them is creating groups of people to follow, manage conversations with @ replies and direct messages, manage multiple Twitter accounts, view photo thumbnails from Tweetdeck, avoiding Twitter spam via the Spam button.
Twhirl
This runs on Adobe Air. You could find it easier …read more

I have been swamped with work lately and I have not been able to test new technologies or apps lately. But there’s this thing I am curious about: QGtkStyle. I’ve tried some apps on Ubuntu before and they looked a bit ‘off’ because Ubuntu uses Gnome by default and Qt apps look weird. One of the Qt apps I’ve used before was the Last.fm client and the Skype client. I should probably install that sometime next week when I am a bit free.
The screenshots look fantastic and quite consistent. I am not into really fantastic …read more

As an analyst, I work with data about people and their systems. One of these aspects involves usability. And even if I don’t use KDE and KDE apps much I still feel in awe of the Plasma project’s aim. User profiles are not easy to figure out and it does take time and much analysis.
Plasma is KDE’s way of making the ‘desktop’ a better user experience by letting users decide what ’shape’ it is. I think that KDE wants to empower its users by making the panel, the desktop and other components customizable in so many …read more