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'The Book of GIMP' Leaves No Detail Behind January 15, 2013 
The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything combines a step-by-step approach to learning how to use this epic graphic image-manipulation program with a handy reference manual supplemented with very useful appendices. Whether you are a GIMP beginner or a veteran user, this book will save you hours of trial and error when editing graphics files.
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Linux Mint 14 Is a Breath of Fresh Air January 09, 2013 
Linux Mint 14, released in December and dubbed the "Nadia" version, is loaded with a horde of improvements to all four of its desktop environments. It is not usually necessary to grab every new release to a distro, but Nadia is a significant upgrade to an evolving Linux OS. This one is a keeper.
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All Things Appy: Top 5 Android Communication Apps January 09, 2013 
Some of the best apps available take existing mobile phone functionality to
the next level, and all of our Top 5 featured here are outstanding examples. Our No. 1 choice is WhatsApp Messenger. The attaching of multimedia to messaging alone is a good enough reason to get this app. However, you can also chat and group chat as much as you want globally without paying SMS fees.
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Subtitle Editor: Handy for Captioning but Lacking Instructions January 02, 2013 
Subtitle Editor is a capable video editing tool kit to transform, edit, correct, create or refine existing subtitles on GNU/Linux/*BSD. Based on GTK+2, It also shows sound waves, which makes it easier to synchronize subtitles to voices. You will not find too many capable applications in Linux that specialize in adding or editing subtitles.
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Falcon Pro (for Twitter) Is a Newshound's Best Friend December 28, 2012 
Falcon Pro (for Twitter) pitches itself as "the ultimate Twitter experience on Android," and while one can usually take these app-store hyperbole laden statements with an idiom-laden statement -- in this case a grain of salt -- there is one thing that I'm looking for in a Twitter client that Falcon Pro promises.
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Flipboard on a Tablet Is a Sight for Sore Eyes December 21, 2012 
With its brand-new, tablet-friendly version, Flipboard takes online news reading to a sybaritic new level -- the bigger screen, along with Flipboard's elegance, surpasses poky smartphone screen real estate, and anything that has come before.
Flipboard pulls together social media, news, and website feeds into one aggregation.
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Listen: A Great Audio Manager - If You Can Install It December 19, 2012 
Unless you are an atypical Linux user, you tend to accept the default apps featured in your distro of choice. After all, if what you use works just fine, why scavenge around for a replacement? If saying yes to that question means you miss out on adding the Listen audio player to your desktop tools, you might change your answer after trying it.
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Sun Surveyor: A Cool Way to Look on the Bright Side, Day or Night December 14, 2012 
There's a tool out there that you may not have known you needed. Writing a statement like that make me think I should have gone into the marketing
business -- but wait. Gardeners, photographers, outdoors enthusiasts, outdoor events organizers, architects -- you name it -- will all benefit from this miracle tool made possible by the magic that is the magnetic-compass enabled smartphone.
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Fotoxx Is a Bright Photo Editing Adolescent but Its Future Is Iffy December 12, 2012 
Fotoxx sounds more like a medical solution to fix a patient's physical appearance. It applies that concept to injecting tweaks on your photographic images. The results are impressive.
This photo editing kit has a look and feel that separates it from the expected approaches taken by the likes of Gimp and Krita, for instance. Fotoxx is geared toward photo enhancement; it's not meant to be an editing fix for other types of graphical images.
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Next Issue Looks Gorgeous but Lacks Personality December 07, 2012 
Unlimited, on-demand content for a fixed monthly fee? Where have we heard that
before? The answer is that we've heard it from Spotify for music and from Netflix for movies. Now, from a consortium of Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp., and Time Inc., we have Next Issue, a similar concept for delivering magazines in Android tablet app form.
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MyNotex Would Be Perfect With Cloud Sync December 05, 2012 
MyNotex is a handy note-taking app that helps you rat-pack all of your scraps of information and images into a searchable database. It is easy to use and takes almost no time to learn. MyNotex is a bit different from traditional tree-form note-taking systems. It handles more than plain text notations, but it is an old-school technology that is easily replaced with mobile apps and cloud-based note-keeping systems.
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All Things Appy: Top 5 Android Shopping Tools December 01, 2012 
Keep things simple with Barcode Scanner. Scan the product barcode wandering the aisles and read up on the product via a Google Web search or Google's shopping Web
pages. That's it. It's super useful when showrooming, in-store browsing, price-matching, or looking for independent reviews and specifications.
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Wave Control Pro: Smartphone Wizardry Worthy of Obi-Wan November 30, 2012 
It's the holidays, and if your Android smartphone is feeling a bit neglected, I've got the perfect gift for it. Forget automating your life with remote-controlled garage door openers, motorized big-screen TV mounts, and electrically driven drapes -- that's all so last-century. Controlling your phone with a wave of your hand is where it's at this holiday, in my opinion.
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FocusWriter Rich in Features, Poor in Some Important Ones November 28, 2012 
FocusWriter uses an intriguing concept that makes you wonder why other word-processing tools do not offer the same hide-away tool panels to eliminate distractions. It offers a set of writing tools with the ease and speed of unencumbered text editors. Focuswriter is a full-screen writing program. It has no option to resize or minimize.
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Samsung's Galaxy Note II Is a Phabulous Phablet November 27, 2012 
The Samsung Galaxy Note II could very well be the best high-end smartphone/phablet on the market today. It brings the best features of Android Jelly Bean to this combination of high-powered tablet and state-of-the-art phone. The Note II has so many things to like, but if you have a phobia for really big form factors, beware.
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KMyMoney Is as Simple to Use as Quicken November 21, 2012 
KMyMoney is a comprehensive finance-tracking application that does not require an accounting degree to use effectively. Linux provides several hearty checkbook and banking programs. Among the more well-known are GNUCash, Grisbi, Skrooge and MoneyDance. Each of these contenders for your attention have their own unique look and feel.
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iMap Weather Radio Nails the Where, Flubs the When November 16, 2012 
iMap Weather Radio from Weather Decision Technologies may be the first Android app-
style weather-warning push product that accurately parses public safety announcements. It delivers timely alerts only to those within a geo warning box, rather than to everyone within a broad-brush area.
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Gnumeric Crunches Numbers Like a Pro November 14, 2012 
Gnumeric is a lightweight spreadsheet program that is fast and feature complete. Much like its chief open source competitors OpenOffice and LibreOffice, its graphical user interface is nothing fancy. What it lacks in colorful design or exciting visual menu displays, however, it surpasses with its format flexibility and easy operation.
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No Thanks, ALK - the Google Lady Is My Copilot November 09, 2012 
I've gone a bit mad for smartphone GPS and everything that goes with it, including back country topo maps, tablet mounts and in-car mode screen assistant widgets. If you've been reading some of my TechNewsWorld and LinuxInsider columns lately,
you already know that. I've also been kitting out my phone with some highly sophisticated GPS tools and getting good results.
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Ubuntu 12.10: Unity Just Sort of Grows on You November 07, 2012 
The recent release of Ubuntu 12.10, aka Quantal Quetzal, is a more palatable version of the open source OS built around the Unity desktop environment. Perhaps I am growing more accustomed to Unity, or maybe Canonical's developers are succeeding in refining the graphical user interface, so it seems less objectionable for me to use.
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