But the new Google G1 phone is fruit and cake.* If I were to ever buy another mobile phone, it would most likely be one of these.  It is slick, user-friendly, and reasonably priced.  The best thing, however, is that it runs Android, a free and open source Linux-based operating system.  It is extendable, expandable, and oh-so-cool. *My apologies to Nabisco.

Zekr 7 was released just in time for Ramadan, and there are some nice new features worth checking out. For those of you who do not know, Zekr is an cross-platform, free and open source, Qur’an study tool.  It allows you to read the Qur’an in Arabic, numerous language translations, transliteration, and audio recitation. Two features that I’m really digging are: 1. Searching arabic root words. 2. Searching arabic and…

There’s all kinds of reasons why this might be a bad idea, but hopefully, if Google stays true to their roots, it will just be healthy competition. The new Google web browser called Google Chrome, is currently available for download for Windows and will soon (we are told) be available for Linux and Mac OS X. What could possibly go wrong you ask? Think Internet Explorer and ActiveX back in…

There are already articles on the web discussing the release of KDE 4.1 in the past tense, yet a quick look at the KDE website indicates that it has not yet been released to the public. Furthermore, the KDE techbase already has an article for any naysayers who might complain about new features (or lack of old ones) after installing it. This article beats them to the punch and tells…

I have been reading more complaints by the day, primarily from bloggers (some of whom I suspect are not even full-time Linux users) that KDE 4 was a complete mistake and should be scrapped. Some have likened it to Windows Vista. Others have even suggested that KDE should be forked so that the KDE 3.5 line will remain alive. As someone who has been using KDE 4.1 (a Beta version…

There are many things to love about the new KDE and the new Firefox. I have personally always preferred Konqueror for most of my web browsing for simple things like dragging an image from the browser to the desktop. It was not that I wanted to leave an image file on the desktop. It is just a quick way to grab something and use it for whatever I need. With…

If you have downloaded the latest Firefox 3.0, you are probably loving it and very impressed with the new features. Here is just one word of caution. In the past, if an SSL certificate was expired, not verified, or not recognized, Firefox would initiate a pop-up window telling you this. Now, it takes you to a very scary error page that, if you are like many Americans who don’t bother…