kedelbrock

(A) A lunatic gearhead on the bleeding-edge of open source software; (B) A conscious designer with an eye for style; (C) a poetic dreamer; (D) a bleeding-heart with mad debate skills and law school aspirations. Actually, all of the above.

Website: http://thedailyubuntu.blogspot.com/

Member Since: August 19, 2007

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / 1 sink

Frozen-Bubble - A Ridiculously Addictive Puzzle Game

Gadgets & Tech – Frozen-Bubble has blissfully stolen hours and hours of my life with its addictive gameplay and flippin awesome soundtrack. It s an easy game with a simple premise: shoot colors bubbles onto the game board in an attempt to match up three or more similarly colored bubbles. Doing so will cause them to fall from the board, taking connected bubbles wit

View Story Discuss (0) (thedailyubuntu.blogspot.com) 152 days ago by kedelbrock

Submitted and Voted for on February 23, 2008 09:01am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / 1 sink

Agave is an Intuitive Color Selection Manager

Gadgets & Tech – Agave is a color palette selection tool used to pick design layouts for desktop themes, web site designs, icon creation, and much more. It simplifies the process of choosing colors by generating a palette based on an initial color selection according to the selected rule and color set. Supported color sets include GNOME Icon, Tango Icon, Web-Safe,

View Story Discuss (0) (thedailyubuntu.blogspot.com) 155 days ago by kedelbrock

Submitted and Voted for on February 20, 2008 01:15pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 22 votes / 1 sink

SSHMenu - Conveniently Connect to Remote Machines From the Panel

Gadgets & Tech – SSHMenu is a panel applet for GNOME that allows users to connect to remote computers over SSH with a single click.

View Story Discuss (0) (thedailyubuntu.blogspot.com) 166 days ago by kedelbrock

Submitted and Voted for on February 09, 2008 09:24pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / 1 sink

Ubuntu Tweak - Get Under the Hood With This Configuration Tool

Gadgets & Tech – Ubuntu Tweak is a utility created to make it easier for users to configure and change a variety of system settings. You can use it to quickly adjust settings for GNOME Panel, Compiz, and Nautilus, along with some more advanced security settings.

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Submitted and Voted for on February 07, 2008 10:38pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 25 votes / 1 sink

Sunbird - A Powerful Standalone Calendar from Mozilla

Gadgets & Tech – Sunbird is a calendar application built by the people at the Mozilla Foundation. It s entirely standalone: it doesn t require the bulk of another application to manage all of your appointments and events. And it's way better than Outlook.

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Submitted and Voted for on February 04, 2008 10:43pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / 1 sink

Inkscape - The Open-Source Vector Graphics Editor

Gadgets & Tech – Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor, similar to Illustrator or Xara. It uses the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It's capable of creating objects with a variety of drawing, shape and text tools. You can edit previously created objects with scale, gradients, masks, and filtered effects.

View Story Discuss (1) (thedailyubuntu.blogspot.com) 173 days ago by kedelbrock

Submitted and Voted for on February 02, 2008 03:34pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / 1 sink

GNOME Do - A Quicksilver Clone for Linux

Gadgets & Tech – Do is an application to find things on your system and quickly perform actions, similar to Quicksilver for OSX and GNOME Launch Box. It works on a variety of different desktop environments, including GNOME and KDE.

View Story Discuss (0) (thedailyubuntu.blogspot.com) 174 days ago by kedelbrock

Submitted and Voted for on February 01, 2008 11:54am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 22 votes / 1 sink

Huge List of Free Software To Make Your Computer Happy

Gadgets & Tech – Need help finding an open source program for a specific task? One of the hardest things is finding new programs to replace all of the old applications you used to use, especially when there is a wealth of different options.

View Story Discuss (0) (prlog.org) 175 days ago by kedelbrock

Submitted and Voted for on January 31, 2008 05:14pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / 1 sink

Audacious - Lightweight Music Player for Ubuntu

Gadgets & Tech – Enter Audacious, a fork of the similarly-fated Beep Media Player. It works with Winamp Classic skins, satisfying my inner Microsoft fanboy. It can play back MP3 plus a slew of other formats. It s got a little bit of effects processing, some Last.FM support, and a whole lot of visualization plugins

View Story Discuss (1) (thedailyubuntu.blogspot.com) 178 days ago by kedelbrock

Submitted and Voted for on January 28, 2008 11:48am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / 1 sink

Free Triathlon Training Plans for Beginners

Health & Fitness – Even if you re a beginner, training for a triathlon really doesn t have to be an overwhelming task. While it s true that triathlons are demanding and will challenge you on many different levels, they can also be a lot of fun.

View Story Discuss (0) (freetriathlontrainingplans.blogspot.com) 179 days ago by kedelbrock

Submitted and Voted for on January 27, 2008 04:45pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / 1 sink

Impress Your Friends While Watching "Untraceable"

Movies – I went into the theater planning to come out with notes for an article like "Everything that 'Untraceable' gets wrong" (feeling pessimistic after "Swordfish" and "Firewall"), but it actually doesn't do that bad

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Voted for on January 27, 2008 04:40pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 43 votes / 1 sink

Aromatherapy - A Brief History

Health & Fitness – The history of aromatherapy is nearly as long as our civilization. Although the term was first introduced in 20th century, the practice of using plants and plant oils for treating physical and mental ailments has been with us for thousands of years. Various cultures all over the globe are known to have studied and used aromatherapy methods for heal

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Voted for on January 27, 2008 03:01pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / 1 sink

Radon Gas More Deadly Than Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Science – Radon, an invisible radioactive gas that seeps into homes through foundation cracks, causes 100 times more deaths than carbon monoxide poisoning, says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

View Story Discuss (1) (news.yahoo.com) 179 days ago by omerazam

Voted for on January 27, 2008 03:01pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / 1 sink

HDTV buyer's guide 2008

Gadgets & Tech – High-definition television is taking center stage at the 2008 International CES. The consumer-electronics show will spotlight innovations such as Pioneer's self-proclaimed "world thinnest" plasma HTDV (it's only 9-mm thick), a fully integrated wireless set from Westinghouse, where the power cord is the only tethered connection, and even t

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Voted for on January 27, 2008 03:01pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / 1 sink

KDE Commit Digest - Issue 94 - 20th January 2008

Gadgets & Tech – Plasma development is going on at a furious pace right now, with the focus remaining on polishing the 4.0 code base. 145 bugs were closed in the last month and a great commit rate is being achieved...

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Voted for on January 27, 2008 03:01pm