I used to use Crossover for the few Windows applications that I still use, like Photoshop and Flash. Lately I found that Wine runs these applications better than Crossover Office and for free to boot! Crossover Office is a commercial product. In the course of looking up some Wine related items I found a little application named Wine-doors .

KDE 4 was released on the eleventh and I haven't really had time to play with it. Since Kubuntu has a live cd I gave it a spin. This is really nice if you want to check it out without installing anything. I was impressed and disappointed. I think I will wait to put it on my machine and play with it, juts seemed to me like a hacked KDE. The widgets are nice but I couldn't figure out how to resize the stupid panel and if I have less control over theming I don't see the point because it is still nothing more than KDE 3 and Superkaramba. For more information check out KDE and Plasma sites.