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New post over @ TAB on the KDE 4 port to OS X...

This week Slashdot (and many, many others) reported that KDE 4.0 has been released for Windows and OS X. KDE (K Desktop Environment) has been a popular GUI for *nix systems and there have been ways of getting it to run (mostly) on OS X prior to this native port if you were willing to use X11 on OS X). RangerRick (of OpenNMS “fame” did much of the heavy lifting for the Mac side of this project, including the package distributions.

Not to be counted among the slackers, ActiveState busts out the Christmas presents early with a discount on their pro bundles and a 5.10 Perl release for all the major platforms.

Well done and good news for those that need a supported version of the best scripting language out there (sorry Python, PHP & Lua, Perl still rocks).

I get asked about recovering deleted photos about once a month and have never made a placeholder for the info here on RDN. These two utilities from CG Security - TestDisk and PhotoRec - will get you out of most disk and file jams (you can even recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again) and recover your over/under-exposed, red-eye-glaring and blurry snaps that your camera/machine accidentally deleted somehow without you touching it or even being powered on.

Both are open source and run on pretty much any machine you have.