Making chats and even video calls using Empathy. Empathy is a IM/voice /video client that uses Gossips's UI and Nokia's MissionControl

While KDE, Gnome, and Xfce come with dedicated graphical utilities for monitoring notebook battery, you might still want to use IBAM to keep an eye on the battery parameters directly from the command line.

Mono is a trap. It is a divisive topic if ever there was one in the Linux community. There are anti-Mono and anti-Novell sites and there is no shortage of strong opinion. This distracts us from what we have traditionally done which is to lead and set our own course.

Lynn Bender of geekaustin.com has announced that he is beginning preparations for Linux Against Poverty 2010. I was pleasantly surprised to find that 25 people volunteered for the event within an hour of the announcement.

The Californian Software company Appjet has been added to Google’s Wave team. Appjet’s collaborative Web editor Etherpad was initially supposed to be scrapped, but is now planned for Open Source release.

In the vast world of communication, instant messaging is along-standing medium.Facebook has entered the scene relatively recently, as has Twitter.If you use these newer mediums of communication and you're aPidgin user then youmay want to look at the Pidgin plugins for accessing them.

Google Goggles is not only intriguing technology that moves visual search a huge leap forward, it's only available for Android Phone users, giving them one up on their iPhone-wielding buddies.

Intel's decision to indefinitely delay its Larrabee graphics processor is a setback for the Linux community, delaying improved performance for users of open source operating systems.