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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, KMobileTools Homepage was enraged by enemy Referrer Spy of the evil Spam Empire. Using the bright side of the Force, our heroes were able to destroy this terrible enemy weapons by banning several referrer keywords. But the Spam Empire was far away from being destroyed. A new weapon, secretly developed was ready to strike: spam usernames. Do you really think that "free xxx wife story" is a "real" user name? At this time, our heroes tried to stop the Empire by banning IP address. Will this stop these evil plans? Soon other details coming... Update: Since i got yet other subscriptions from spammers, i added the captcha module to the homepage. However, it's NOT based on image captcha, but instead on math expressions, so it's even higly accessible. Read More

Yesterday Pradeepto added the TOFU (an acronym for something in German) feature to KMail in the KDE-PIM Features Branch. TOFU provides top-posting -- see the "Insert signatures above quoted text" option in KMail's Composer configuration -- as well as composer window edit options for: Prepend Signature; Append Signature; and Insert Signature at Cursor Position. Read More

Packages of KDE 3.80.2 are available for Kubuntu Edgy. In this second developers snapshot of KDE 4 full sessions seem to be running nicely. Lots of things crash but it's a good start. As a distro developer one of my current worries is how KDE 3 apps will run under KDE 4, with these packages it works except for kioslaves which complain about klauncher breaking. So if I can work that one out, it should be OK. Read More

I've now added Okular packages to the KDE 4 archive. Okular is the rocking replacement for KPDF in KDE 4 featuring support for numberous file formats I've never heard of. Read More

While trying to fix a crash in Gwenview when saving a JPEG image (Bug 136112) I found out the crash was caused by a file I borrowed from libexif. Not wanting to debug this code, I decided to switch Gwenview to use Exiv2 instead. Read More

The kdegames survey has shown it: People love kpat. It's the only game that reached an overall score of 4 (with 46% saying it's game play is very good relative to the rest of kdegames)! Read More

The best description I ever had about technical people was this sentence: Technical people find it completely satisfactory to reply to any statement a single sentence: "That's false!". But this yes/no type of communication was not what I was aiming at with the subject. Its about being able to discuss subjects in the digital realms. Typically email and IRC. Read More

Current kwin_composite branch can finally do some simple effects. The obligatory screenshot: [image:2493 size=original] (I'm good at impressive screenshots, am I not?) This screenshot shows the animation for a newly appearing KWrite window. This time no manual hacking in of the effect, this is what is in SVN. The window is smaller because ScaleInEffect makes the new window appear as scaling up to its size and it is transparent because FadeInEffect makes the new window appear as fading in. And just in case anybody wonders why the animation is not moving in the picture, then that's of course because it is just a picture. I admit it is somewhat dull that way, but I haven't figured out how to do better (well, I didn't trying that hard, anyway). There is the source if you want to see it for real. Read More

I've seen it before, but yesterday the thought stroke me: What use does the condom box outside of the laundromat next to the Hauptmarkt have? I have my theory (and the single student in the laundromat in my neighbourhood that looked as if she was bored and open for a chat kind of proved it), but I ask myself: is it really justifying such an open box? After all you might appear pretty needy if you go outside and buy a couple :) Read More

The Open document format is meant as a specification that is open for everyone to see, use and expand upon for now and for a hundred years in the future. That is its main goal and its succeeding in that goal admirably. Especially governments love that principle which breaks the chains of vendor dependency. Read More