A new version of KChildlock v0.57.1 has been released. KChildlock is a tool to monitor and restrict the time a children spends on the computer. The limits can be specified per day of the week, by lower and upper hour limits, maximum daily usage time, and maximum weekly usage time.
The same restriction limits can be applied to applications based on the user login. It requires the KDE4 Desktop.
Here are some screenshots of KChildlock.

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ImageThe Skrooge team is proud to announce the release of version 0.6.0, bringing new features and a lot of bugfixes.

Skrooge allows you to manage your personal finances, powered by KDE 4.x. It has many features, it is one of the most powerful way to enter, follow, and analyze your expenses.

New features

Here are some of the most prominent new features in Skrooge 0.6.0:

-Forecasting: Skrooge is now able to draw some estimation of how a graph might look in the future.

ImageThe Symbian Foundation has announced that the source code release for Symbian is now complete. "All 108 packages containing the source code of the Symbian platform can now be downloaded from Symbian's developer web site (tiny.symbian.org/open), under the terms of the Eclipse Public License and other open source licenses.

ImageIsecur1ty team have announced the first version of iScanner 0.1. iScanner is a free, open source, tool that lets you detect and remove malicious codes and web pages viruses from your Linux/Unix server easily and automatically.


iScanner is programmed by iSecur1ty using Ruby programming language, the current version of iScanner is "0.1" released on (31-Jan-2010) under the terms of GNU Affero General Public License 3.0.

digiKam team have announced digiKam 1.1.0 bug fix release. Although it is bug fix release (More than 100 bugs have been closed since version 1.0.0) , it also contains some new features :
AdvancedRename : The ReplaceModifier has regular expressions support now.
ImageEditor : Add an option to add vignetting over an image.

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digiKam 1.1.0

digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

After two months of work, Michał Małek has announced the first beta release of K3b. It is the last testing version before stable 2.0. If everything goes fine, the stable version will be ready in the end of February.

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The issue 33 of Full Circle Magazine is out. Full circle Magazine is free magazine focuses on Ubuntu family .

In this issue:

  • Command and Conquer.
  • How-To : Program in Python – Part 7, Create A Media Center with a Revo, Ubuntu and Boxee, and The Perfect Server – Part 3.
  • My Story – Ubuntu in Public Education, and Why I Use Linux.
  • Review – Exaile.
  • MOTU Interview – Didier Roche.
  • Top 5 – Synchronization Clients.
  • Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu Games and all the usual goodness!

Grab it through the Downloads link or here.

ImageGoogle has announced the HTML5 YouTube beta. It is a very important step to get rid of Flash Player from my computer. Right now HTML5 YouTube in beta stage, so do not expect a lot from it.

In case you miss this news, I will put here for you. Firefox 3.6 has been released. It comes with a lot of new features. Although they are not very impressive for end user, they are very critical for web developers.

Here are some of them:

ImageFinding a quick solution for your problems in any distribution is the main reason to make you rely on it. Therefore, the major distributions have many ways to provide support to their users. Among them, IRC support provides a way to communicate quickly and more interactively with users.

In this article, I will make a comparison between the popular linux distributions in IRC support. I am not going to talk about how many questions have been answered, or how helpful the answers are; instead, I will focus in two things: how many nicknames each time are in the channel and the channel activity.