[dot] Quickies: Radio Amarok, 12 KDE Tips, Asus' KDE Laptop, PyQt4 Book

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1193623238/

From: Richard Johnson <nixternal at kubuntu.org>
Dept: not-so-fast-get-back-here
Date: Sunday 28/Oct/2007, @19:00

Quickies: Radio Amarok, 12 KDE Tips, Asus' KDE Laptop, PyQt4 Book
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   The Radio Amarok Team [http://www.radioamarok.com] is looking for a
new design, and they have decided to leave it up to you on how it should
look. *** Bruce Byfield, of Datamation
[http://itmanagement.earthweb.com] has written a several page article
titled, 12 Tips for KDE Users
[http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3704311]. Bruce
covers the KDE Printer Dialogue to using Klipper and configuring virtual
desktops. *** Asustek Computer Inc's KDE based low-cost laptop, the Eee
PC
[http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&l2=0&l3=0&l4=0&model=1907&modelmenu=1],
nearly sold out its first day on sale in Taipei according to the article
Eee PC posts hot sales on first day in Taipei
[http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/101707-eee-pc-posts-hot-sales.html].
*** Need a new book for the holidays? Look no further than Rapid GUI
Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming
[http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html], by Mark Summerfield. This book is
aimed at a much broader audience than the author's C++/Qt books and is
also a great introduction to GUI programming and the Qt 4 libraries in
general. This book is now available on Amazon
[http://tinyurl.com/yvdxo4]. *** Rudd-O looks at KDE 4 Beta 3
[http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/10/16/a-visual-stroll-through-the-world-of-kde-4-beta-394/]
and has a cursory look into Dolphin
[http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/10/18/a-cursory-look-into-kde-4-file-management-dolphin-beta/2/].