in KDE4 with dolphin file manager, and ark compression manager program installed, you have a contextual menu that enables you to simply zip and unzip your files. Unfortunately its default compression file formats are a bit weired and you will pretty soon feel the need to tweak them. Here is how:

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Many times, after patching your pictures in GIMP you need to make some blur in order to let the picture appear “more natural” and less tainted. This is accomplished in Photoshop with the Median Filter. In GIMP there is no filter named ‘median’, however the same effect can be achieved by the despeckle filter : [...]

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Starting from next Ubuntu version Karmic 9.10 new GRUB2 boot loader in installed by default. GRUB2 comes with a bunch of technical enhancements, most notably support for new filesystems, a modularized settings configuration, recovery support and indeed better background image support.

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