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Submission + - KDE 4.1: What to Expect (dawningvalley.com)

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on Friday July 25, 2008 @04:45PM

andrewmin writes: "Recently, Gnome's been gaining a lot of ground on its KDE counterpart in the desktop environment wars. The KDE developers were hoping to change this with KDE 4, the new radical release of KDE, but it was not to be. KDE 4.0 was buggy and unstable, leaving everyone except the hard-core KDE lovers. Mainly, this was because it just didn't work most of the time. However, the developers were not without hope. They promised that KDE 4.1 would be more stable and fix all the holes and problems with KDE 4.0. That time is coming soon: in just four days, K Desktop Environment 4.1 will be released to the Linux masses."

Submission + - iCall brings seamless VoIP to iPhone users (techcrunch.com)

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on Saturday June 07, 2008 @10:27AM

andrewmin writes: "iCall, a company well known for offering free VoIP calling for Windows users, has just announced the first iPhone app that offers free phone calls over WiFi. It's also one of the first legal (in other words, non-jailbroken) VoIP apps. I don't have an iPhone, but if I did, you can be assured that I'd be on this in a second."

Submission + - 2008 Google Summer of Code Highlights (freesoftwaremagazine.com)

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on Friday May 16, 2008 @02:38PM

andrewmin writes: "SoC 2008 has begun, and with 175 organizations and 1125 students it looks better than ever before. Here's a quick run down of a few programs that, if they are finished, will definitely be making their way onto your machine."

Submission + - Making free phone calls with GrandCentral (newsvine.com) 1

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on Saturday May 03, 2008 @03:48PM

andrewmin writes: "Most of the time, I'm at my computer. Or near it. And if I had an internet device like a Nokia N810 or an iPod Touch, I'd have it with me 24/7. And since most of the time I'm at a place where there's a wifi network, it makes sense for me to use VoIP rather than a regular phone line. Now, you're probably ready to sit back and listen to a pitch for Skype's cheap $0.021/per minute or Gizmo's even cheaper $0.019/minute. If you're really tech-savvy, you might be expecting a pitch for iCall, which has free calling in the US and Canada and a free phone number. However, iCall is Windows-only and doesn't always work. That's not what I want. I'm talking about making and receiving calls that are completely free (that is, $0.00/minute) forever (that is, no 30 day demo) for as much as you want (that is, no 30 day trial or five hour/week limit). The key? Google's closed-beta GrandCentral."

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