ALaDIn interface is a new revolutionary technology to build powerful man machine interfaces, well suited for mobile phones, car navigators but also washing machines and big domestic appliances. ALaDIn can also be used to power classic Database Client server applications and to build translation tools.ALaDIn is ready to satisfy most of advanced consumer needs.

If you want an adaptable window manager that doesn't drain your resources, try Openbox. Its latest version, 3.4.2, released this month, has several visual improvements and dozens of new usable features.

Granular (based on PCLinuxOS) offers a visually stunning KDE, certainly the nicest implementation of it in any distro I've yet reviewed; once everything is configured, you enter an alabaster screen that loads all the modules necessary to run the liveCD.

As a Windows user there is a distinct lack of good applications for tracking your calendar, email, and tasks all in one location. Some applications do email but not calendar, where as others do calendars without email. As a business user there is a connection between the two.

Why is the only game in town Microsoft Outlook?

"We would like to gather a group of users who would be interesting in confirming that their online banks and financial institutions work with Firefox"

Pardus is a relatively unknown release funded and developed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and I was rather impressed with it last time, so let's give it another go and see what improvements have been made. NOTE: I appreciate this is a Release Candidate so it's not a final release, but I'm going to give it a preliminary review anyway.

Five years after the debut of its popular open-source drawing program for children, New Breed Software announced the release of Tux Paint 0.9.17.

As KDE 4 alpha 2 was released I tested the live CD. For the interested reader I took some screenshots that can be of interest.