For all those Linux guys and girls, and not only them, today is a day that may go down in history as one of those "to remember", because KDE 4 was released. Now that we have Leopard available, Vista has been around for more than a year, the Linux world also got a refreshed desktop environment, and some changes are really interesting, as everyone expected...

First of all, I should mention, for those that ask themselves "What is KDE, after all?", that KDE stands for "K Desktop Environment" and is a free software project that got one step closer to its goal, that of becoming a powerful system for an easy to use desktop environment.I won't get into the history of this project, which is almost 12 years long, but I'll jump straight to KDE 4, and its new features.

While this major revision makes the environment faster and improves its memory usage efficiency, KDE 4 enables the use of 3D effects in the KWin window manager, has a new default icon theme and visual guidelines, and was completely redesigned.

The entire design effort changed the desktop and panels, and the new name for this new desktop shell is Plasma. Plasma will easily intergrate with Kicker, SuperKaramba and KDesktop, and tries to bring a whole new meaning to the old desktop metaphor defining today's interaction between user and computer.

Apart from the above, KDE 4 now has a new multimedia interface, called Phonon, an API for network and portable devices (Solid), a new default file manager, known as "Dolphin" and, a very important part, in my opinion, comes with improved Windows and Mac OS X support by its libraries, making KDE applications easier to be ported on these operating systems.

These being said, it's only a matter of time until the software world starts to feel the winds of change coming from KDE 4, because I feel that a KDE 4-based Linux distro may be the OS-hit I've been waiting for, and I mentioned it here.

BitComet, originally called SimpletBT, between versions 0.11 and 0.37, is one of the many BitTorrent clients available for the Windows platform, and its first public release was 0.28, almost 5 years ago. Despite its pretty long life, BitComet didn't reach version 1.0 yet, but it got really close to it with today's release, 0.98...


Last version of the program was out on the 7th of December, 2007, and now, only a month after it (a month and 3 days, in fact...), version 0.98 brings us only two steps away from the 1.0 milestone. While this last version only brings some GUI fixes and improvements, and a couple of fixes to the core of the application, I must repeat the fact that version 0.98 is very close to the version that should show that BitComet reached its maturity to everyone.

If you didn't use BitComent so far, then it would be good to know that this BitTorrent client has support for no less than 43 languages, an internal Internet Explorer window which allows you to search for torrents from within the program, support for downloading eD2K links (it uses a plugin which is a modified version of the open source eMule program for this), and its features also include an embedded media player able to play Flash Video files (.flv and .swf files), called BitComet FLV player.

BitComet is completely free to download and use, being designed to work on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. Since the hardware requirements section from the official page says "tested on AMD K6 266MHz MMX, 128M RAM", I am sure everyone with a decent computer for the operating system they are using should also run BitComet without any problem. To download this program, simply click here and be careful what you download, RIAA has its eyes on you!(just kidding, but be sure to check twice before downloading something)

There are a bunch of reasons to move your data folders from the C drive to another one, and I will only mention two: your C drive is filling up, or your C drive is on a small Raptor drive, which is used only to store the operating systems and a few application, and all other data goes to an external drive, or a slower internal one. Did I get your attention? Here's how to change the location of your Documents folder, moving its contents at the same time, so Vista will use the new folder from now on...

- Press the Start Orb, then right click the Documents item and choose Properties.



- In the Documents Properties window, open the Location tab.



- Type in the name and location of the new folder, or press Find Target and browse for it.



- Choose Yes to move all contents of the documents folder you're changing, and that's all!



At last, you should know that the trick above also works with the Pictures and Music folders as well, but not with the Games one. Good luck with this!