aMSN - MSN Clone

For prior Windows users who had grown accustom to MSN there is a clone titled aMSN (Alvaro’s Messenger) with support for plugins and skins. Very maintained, a few of the many features offered are as follows:

• Offline Messaging
• Voice Clips
• Display pictures
• Custom emoticons
• Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
• Sign in to more than one account at once
• File transfers
• Group support
• Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
• Chat logs
• Webcam support
• Ability to autoclose the filetransfer window when it is finished
• View more about features..

Click here for screenshots.
The aMSN project Home Page.

Install Photoshop CS2 on Your (K)Ubuntu PC

This article on Softpedia features a easy to follow step by step instruction on how you can get Photoshop CS2 running functionally on ANY Linux distribution without any hacking, using the latest Wine version (to date) - 0.9.54.

The installation and configuration instruction include either upgrading an older existing Wine version or a full fresh installation if not on computer already. Either way, the article introduce a simple way to get the latest (to date) version of Wine.

This worked well for me and now I have Photoshop CS2 running smoothly on my Kubuntu Gutsy x86_64. Experiencing no problems. Thanks Wine team.

Article found here: Install Photoshop CS2 on Your Ubuntu PC

Related links:

Wine HQ

Adobe 

Gmail notifications for the KDE systray

This is the KDE version of Gnome’s checkgmail for the systray, kcheckgmail. KCheckGMail is a simple KDE systray application that notifies when new email is received in a Gmail account. Available in multiple languages.

Download page: Here.

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Songbird 0.4 - Software

Songbird is a “desktop media player mashed-up with the web” that “challenges the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.”

In other words is this software both a music player and a web browser, that also brilliantly has integrated SkreemeR “The World’s Greatest Mp3 Search Engine” which enables you to search for and download music off the net very simple.

Songbird is well developed and maintained and there are many extensions and themes available. The software is available for download on the Songbird’s nest (x86_64) on this link: Here, and on getdeb.net (32 and 64 bit) on this link: Here.

Songbird also has a page on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)

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Dolphin icons

A set of 11 dolphin png’s 128×128 for the Dolphin file manager for KDE.

Download page: Here

Kitty - Podcast Client available for Kubuntu Gutsy

Kitty is a podcast client that lets you tune in to videos selected from the keywords of your choice. (Yes, adult material too - for those of you who may have that question)

Kitty is available on kde-apps.org, more specifically on the following link in tar.bz2 format:

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kitty?content=29730

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