Wine: Does it help or hinder?
Well known to all is this application that allows us to use Windows programs in Linux, which apparently is ...
Applications
Aironux, a new alternative to download music
I'm not a big fan of P2P clients when downloading music, I prefer to download entire albums on certain pages….
How to correctly adjust the color in GIMP (and 3)
How to correctly adjust the color in GIMP (and 3) In the two previous installments we learned the reason why ...
With the terminal: apropos a command to know what another command does
It is normal that in the daily use of our distribution, we do not use even half of the options or commands ...
What Turpial 2.0 brings us + Installation of the development version
For our microblog I have always used Turpial, a client for Identica and Twitter written in Python and developed especially for ...
How to install Conky on KDE in 4 steps
First of all explain to them what Conky is. Well, Conky as such is an application that by means of a simple file of ...
How to correctly adjust the color in GIMP (and 2)
How to correctly adjust the color in GIMP (and 2) Once you understand how the devices capture and reproduce ...
How to properly adjust color in GIMP
How to correctly adjust the color in GIMP When we were discussing the possibilities of GIMP, in the GIMP topic ……
Fix for font distortion with Intel 82945G / GZ and Kernel 3.x
Since Kernel 3.x came out, I always had problems with my Intel 82945G / GZ chipset, since the typography was ...
Blob Wars: One of my favorite games on GNU / Linux
Although I am not an obsessive "gamer", from time to time I get distracted by the odd game of those that ...
Clementine 1.0 and its global search
One of the important sites in my country on GNU / Linux is that of a university (UCi, University of Informatics Sciences)….
Install Marlin on Debian Testing
Well, right now I'm not using Debian, but thanks to Hadret, Marlin can already be used in Debian Testing as ...
Show hidden entries in Ubuntu 11.10 Startup Applications
This tip serves to show some applications that appear hidden in the Startup Applications option in Ubuntu 11.10….
Opera representative interview (browser) updated
A few days ago we were given the opportunity to ask some questions to someone in charge / linked to the development of the Opera web browser….
Download more than 100 GNU / Linux distributions from Windows in two clicks
Get Linux is the easiest way to search for and download the Linux distro of our choice from Windows. Has…
Solve pulseaudio problem
When I was using ArchLinux in September, I remember that pulseaudio was updated from version 0.9.23 to ...
Install Xfce 4.8 on Debian Squeeze with this simple script
From my old Xfce blog I bring you this simple script to install Xfce 4.8 on Debian Squeeze. What do we need…
The 24 Fastest Growing Projects on Sourceforge
Every day I not only check the RSS, various sites / blogs that I usually read, but I also like it sporadically ...
Dropbox or Sparkleshare?
When the files are very large and we cannot send them by mail we have two options to send it, one is ...
Would you like to try Linux? Guide for the curious and newcomers. (2nd. Part)
Welcome to the second part of this guide. This time I will show you how: Find alternatives to our favorite shows ...
Sublime Text 2, a truly sublime code editor
How good it feels when you get "your love" ... and I'm not exactly talking about love between two people, I'm talking about ...
Chrome already has GPU acceleration for SVG and CSS
I am not what you can say the biggest fan of Chrome, however this does not mean that I do not recognize ...
Make your USB a Swiss Army knife with MultiSystem
Are you one of those linuxers who love to have a stack of live CD's with every available distro just ...
QWebkit, why not use Gecko?
I have been talking about this topic for some time now and it seems that it has not yet been resolved and it is…
GIMP ... where yes and where sometimes.
“Six honest servants taught me how much I know; their names are how, when, where, what, who and why. " Rudyard Kipling ...
The Open Source to follow in 2012, according to PC World
This year that is ending was not without controversy; those of Ubuntu, which in my opinion were inspired by ...
Oxygen Font: The KDE font
I love using nice fonts in my layout and it is something that is essential for me if I want to customize the ...
Clementine 1.0 arrives!
A new version of this excellent music player based on amarok 1.4, which brings new and important improvements that…
UI Fixer: Arrange some Firefox elements to your liking
I was looking for a way to change the position of the Firefox unified menu from place, because it is more convenient for ...
Xfce 4.10 release delayed
I'm anxiously waiting for January to come to enjoy the next version of Xfce and it turns out that, as I know ...
When it comes to browsers, nothing is perfect
Whenever an issue as sensitive as a user's preference for a specific application is touched upon, ...
Pink media player plugin
There are many web pages that do not require flash but ask you to install a plugin on your computer to ...
Excellent plugin for Chrome (and derivatives)
Not long ago I commented with KZKG ^ Gaara that I realized that many Linux users are also fans of manga and…
I love opera
There are many linuxers who will kill me for talking about this browser or trying to troll me a bit, I will ...
Firefox 10.0 ßeta 1 Available
Via MozillaES we get the news that version 10.0 ßeta 1 of Mozilla Firefox is now available ...
Calligra, a great rival of Libreoffice
I can still remember what was created with openoffice and the great hatred that was generated towards oracle, the…
Repoman version 1.3 available
Eddy Ernesto del Valle Pino author of Repoman_cli sent me version 1.3 of this magnificent script created in ...
The Ubuntu Software Center, now on the web
Little by little, the applications are porting themselves to the web because, according to what they say, the future is in "The Cloud"; ...
Available for download Thunderbird 9
As we already know, along with the launch of the Mozilla browser, the Mail Client is also launched and by ...
Nightingale, a player that promises
When we talk about music players, in Linux we could say that we have thousands, an infinite amount of forks, media ...
Firefox 11 will receive security patches through extensions
Speaking of the Mozilla Browser, I share with you this news comes from Bitelia and I find it very ...
Firefox 9: More of the same
They don't know how much it hurts to have to say that Firefox 9 is more of the same, especially because of the great ...
QupZilla: Another browser for GNU / Linux and Windows
QupZilla is a very small browser (1.9Mb the .deb) written in Qt, which uses Webkit as the engine and is very fast, ...
Available to download Firefox 9
As usual, we can find on Mozilla's FTP to download version 9 of Firefox, although not ...
Available for LibreOffice 3.4.5 RC1 and 3.5.0 Beta tests
We now have LibreOffice versions 3.4.5 RC1 and 3.5.0 Beta available to download and test, the office suite for ...
Muon Suite 1.3 (alpha1) available [Images]
We have already talked to you about Muon Suite, we explained in detail what it was about, its advantages and more  Those who…
Available Midori 0.4.3
Through the Xfce list, the launch of Midori 0.4.3 has been announced with interesting new features that give you more ...
Show what you hear with DeadBeef in the Xfce Dashboard
We already talked about Deadbeef and now we can extend its functionalities a little more within Xfce with this simple script, ...
DeadBeef: A light, beautiful and customizable audio player
We already saw a very simple and light audio player called LXMusic, which comes by default in LXDE, but ...
Available Rekonq 0.8.1
Exactly 2 months ago we announced that Rekonq 0.8 (stable) was already available, well from the blog of the author of ...
Tell us what are your favorite applications
Inspired by this article, in our forum I have created a post that serves as a survey to find out what they are ...
My distribution needs a rescue system
I was talking to a friend about jabber and he was telling me that the system (or graphics) was loaded after ...
Gimp 2.7.4 released
When we thought that this project was dying little by little, we were surprised with the release of version 2.7.4, a ...
Linux Mint splits its revenue with Banshee
Apparently things are taking their course. After the controversial international debate on the change that Linux Mint made ...
Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards 2011
Regards. These days we are presenting problems in the connection, that is why there is little activity on the blog….
How to install and configure Telepathy KDE
I used Kopete for a while, it's a mainstream IM client, it supports multiple accounts and in honor of the…
CMPlayer, another front / skin for MPlayer that promises
Some time ago, a reader of ours told me about this player, the truth is not bad at all, it is not something ...
Wormux or WarMUX: An addictive clone of Worms
WarMUX or as it was formerly known, Wormux, is a clone of the classic Worms which I recommend if we want to pass ...
Ubuntu Software Center will have support for PayPal
I consider this to be good news for Ubuntu users, so I share it with you. Now it will be ...
LibreOffice will have better support and integration with MariaDB
Quoting Wikipedia: MariaDB is a GPL licensed MySQL derived database server. It is supported by Michael "Monty" Widenius (founder of MySQL) and ...
Opera 11.6, better but not good enough
From ZdNet I read this article, which I will share with you (after a Spanish translation): Actually I want you to ...
How to use / generate super secure passwords
Many may classify me as a psychopath or a security freak, but when you have accounts in dozens of ...
Share your Conky configuration
Conky is an application that allows us to have control of certain things on our computer on the desktop. The…
LXMusic: A very light music player
When it comes to playing music (without having to organize it, tag it and so on) I usually use applications that are the most ...
Available Opera 11.60
It is not Open Source, but it is fast, beautiful and free. Opera is positioned behind Chrome and in front of ...
Firefox will not die ...
Now hundreds of blogs echo the news that Google closed its contract with Mozilla, and which ...
SlickPanel an alternative to Gnome-Panel in Ubuntu
SlickPanel is a project that has practically just been born and is maintained by a user named Andrew Higginson, who at…
Bluefish 2.2.0-2 comes to Debian Testing
A few days ago I shared with you a .deb that I myself had created to install Bluefish 2.2 on Debian and ...
Turpial 1.6.6 Stable available on Debian Testing
Turpial version 1.6.6 (Stable), an excellent client for Identi.ca, is already in the Debian Testing Repositories ...
DLinuxService - Updated for SRWare Iron, Chromium, and Chrome
With the new Forums service included, I have also updated the Extension for SRWare Iron, Chromium and Chrome that I did ...
Pidgin + KWallet
Those of us who use KDE keep our access data (users and passwords) in KWallet, and in all fairness ……
How to change the User Agent in SRWare Iron
We have already seen the advantages of using SRWare Iron instead of Chromium / Chrome and as I said in that article, change ...
SRWare Iron vs Chromium / Chrome
The high consumption that the latest versions of Firefox are having has forced me to use Chromium, which is ...
A tour of TuxGuitar
We are going to take a tour of the TuxGuitar program. TuxGuitar is a program from Argentina, it is used to read, play ...
LibreOffice 3.4.4 is available on Debian Testing and it literally flies
A few days ago an update of LibreOffice entered Debian Testing which reached version 3.4.4 a year ago ...
Thunderbird 9.0 Beta3 available
For lovers of versionitis, Thunderbird 3 Beta 9.0 has just come out of the oven and unfortunately ...
World of Goo available for Android
World of Goo is certainly a fun game, it has a paid version and a free one. What is this ...
Monitor your Gmail, POP3 or IMAP account with Xfce4 MailWatch
Xfce4-mailwatch-plugin as its name indicates, is a plugin for Xfce4-Panel that will allow us to stay alert when we receive messages in ...
ePDFView: A lightweight PDF viewer
I continue in my search for lightweight applications for Xfce or that at least do not depend on Gnome and its ...
PSC (Portable Software Center) take your repositories home
A group of developers from the UCI (University of Computer Sciences of Cuba) a few months ago programmed an application in Python called Repoman CLI, a software ...
Manage social networks and our Microblog with FireStatus
FireStatus is a utility for multiple social networks, including Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, delicious, and Identi.ca. This plugin allows you to send ...
Wbar-config: Tool to customize and configure Wbar
In the article where I told you about Wbar, I told you that to configure this application visually you need ...
Replace Gedit with Medit on Xfce
Unfortunately the lightweight text editors that Xfce comes with (mousepad, leafpad) are missing a lot of functionality, among ...
How to install Xfce on ArchLinux
I'm seriously thinking about trying ArchLinux with Xfce (don't be scared of debianites) to see how it works. Yes…
DLinuxServices: My first Chrome / Chromium extension
As I said in the previous article, following the steps to create an extension in Chrome, I made one that ...
Learn how to create extensions for Google Chrome
Maestrosdelweb is one of my reference sites for any topic related to the Web. From this excellent site you ...
Xubuntu or LMDE Xfce? Which to choose…
Distributions that use Xfce by default there are a few, and even some of them very good, but this time I want ...
The Unarchiver comes to Debian Testing
Do you remember that I told you about Unar (The Unarchiver) a while ago? Well back then it was only available ...
Iceweasel 8 available on Debian Testing
Since yesterday we have available version 8 of Iceweasel in Debian Testing, although in reality it gives me ...
Download and install Bluefish 2.2.0 on Debian and Ubuntu
Today version 2.2.0 of Bluefish has been released, as I had mentioned, so I downloaded the sources, ...
Available Bluefish 2.2.0
The 2.2.0 version of one of my favorite HTML editors has just been released with interesting news: Bluefish. Bluefish 2.2.0 is ...
Brief: RSS Reader for Mozilla Firefox
In Desdelinux I have published several articles about RSS readers and in GNU / Linux we have several alternatives for this ...
Updated Ambiance Adium with support for Pidgin
Yesterday I was talking about this great song called Ambiance Adium, a very cool Skin for Emesene and Empathy which…
Will Citrus be the new face of LibreOffice?
Citrus is an example of what a nice face lift would look like for LibreOffice, and although it is a mockup, via ...
Change the Amarok Splash for another
A few days ago a reader of ours (nano) asked me several questions about KDE, suggestions for tutorials that I could do ...
Ambiance Adium Theme: a beautiful skin for Empathy and Emesene
Browsing through Gnome-Look I have found a beautiful theme for Empathy and Emesene inspired by Ambiance, the official theme of ...
Kernel 3.1 and other updates come to Debian Testing
Although for many it is not a novelty, version 3.1 of the Linux Kernel is already available in Debian ...
Patch to reduce power consumption in GNU / Linux
A RedHat developer has created a patch for the Linux kernel that reduces the battery consumption of ...
Blam, a very light RSS reader
In my constant search for lightweight applications for Xfce I come across Blam, an RSS reader that has replaced for ...
Keep Chromium up to date on Debian and Ubuntu
Since we are talking about Chromium, now I will show you how to keep it updated if you use Debian or Ubuntu through a PPA….