Fedora 10 was released sometime ago. Here are some great applications that you could install to enjoy using Fedora 10.

First install KDE 4. KDE 4 is great. A lots of improvements on KDE 3.

ThinkDigit is a short form for Think Digital!

Managed by Nine Dot Nine Mediaworx Pvt. Ltd. it produces India's best technology magazine.

One must read the magazine and the addon book given with it. The Magazine is a monthly issue and it highlights you with the latest tech issues around the world, has a lot of information about different gadgets, devices and their reviews, games, etc.

LaptopCommunity.com is great community powered website for discussion about laptops. The site is owned by Nine Dot Nine Mediaworx Pvt. Ltd.

NScripts is a good collection of Scripts for Nautilus.

Here's a brief description of what all it can do:

1. ChkMD5: Check MD5 Sums. This is often required to check whether a file-transfer was successful or not.
2. CopyTo: Copy Files To.. dialog (similar to that in windows xp). This will copy file only if the target has write permissions for you.
3. InstallTheme: This will install themes to various locations.
4. MkMD5: Create MD5 Sums for your files to help your colleague to verify a file transfer.
5. MoveTo: Similar to 2, except that it moves.
6. OpeninGEdit: GEdit is a powerful text editor for GNOME. This will open the selected file(s) in it.
7. Rootilus: Open the current directory in nautilus as root. (requires gksu).
8. RootOpeninGEdit: Open selected file(s) in GEdit as root. (requires gksu).
   
9. RootTerminCurdir: Open a privileged terminal (root) under current directory. (requires gksu).
10. SetAsSplash: Set the selected file as Session Splash Screen.
11. Shredder: Permanently delete files from HDD without leaving any trace.
12. TerminCurdir: Open a terminal in current directory.
13. SetAsWallpaper: If selected file is an image, set it as wallpaper with type (centered/streched).
14. SendShortcutTo: Send Links to... [Not Weblinks.. Links in unix means shortcuts in windows].
15. SendToMenu: send desktop launchers to menu ("Other"-submenu).
16. MkPatch: Compare two selected files.
17. WhichPKG: Find which package to the current file belongs to [Debian And Consorten Only]
18. WhichPKG-G: Same as 17 [Gentoo And Consorten Only]
19. WhichPKG-R: Same as 17 [RedHat and other RPM-distros]

WOW! So many functions and one set of scripts!!

Download [gnome-look.org]

Yakuyake is a Virtual-Terminal (VT) basically for KDE but works well with GNOME also.

This is a special kind of terminal.

On KDE once started, it will start automatically on every login of yours on KDE.

So what's special in this Terminal Emulator that made us to post about it ?

Yeah there is something special in this.

And that is its hiding ability.

The default key is F12 (Function Key 12).

When you start Yakuyake it gets hidden. Pressing F12 will bring it front and again pressing F12 will hide it. It doesn't get minimised so its not going to take up your TaskBar.

It also supports multiple tabs like that of gnome-terminal and konsole.

Here is a good note taking application for KDE known as Basket. It is an all-purpose note taker application.

Features-

• Easily take all sort of notes
• Collect research results and share them
• Centralize your project data and reuse it
• Quickly organize your thoughts in idea boxes
• Keep track of your information in a smart way
• Make intelligent To Do lists
• And a lot more...

Screenshots

The speciality of this app is that it has a good editor which allows you to save images in notes, add styles to text, etc.

Best part of this is that all notes are composed in HTML formats. So no more writing your blog posts directly in the form. Compose here then copy and paste. ;) Enjoy

Official Website: basket.kde.org

Available in Fedora Repository: yum install basket

Hey Linux users out there! New to Linux ?? Quite possible that you are new :D and are looking out for a good media player for yourself... Right ?? Most newbies to Linux think VLC is the best media player for Linux or Windows. No matter it can play all formats but its interface is just OK-OK type. If you want a good interface along with most formats supported then use Mplayer. Mplayer is only the command line.. There are two GUI frontends known as gmplayer and smplayer of which smplayer rocks. smplayer works nicely with being able to play most audio-video formats.

Official Website: www.mplayerhq.hu

To install it in Fedora or Red Hat use -

# yum install smplayer

Note: you must run the above command as root and you must have the livna and atrpms repositories enabled on yum... if not check out livna.org and atrpms.net

Here's a nice screenshot of smplayer -