The release candidate of Speed Dreams 2.0 is out. I'm very proud of all the last minute graphic fixes i did and of course about all the bug fixes the coding guys did.

A very long time i was friend of editors in special PSPad (Windows) and Gedit (Gnome). I never was a friend of Eclipse based IDEs like Aptana.
After checking out Zend Studio and Phpstorm too now i'm using Netbeans 7.1 and like it much. The GUI is more space efficent then Eclipse and it has everything we need at work: HTML5 & CSS3 support (incl. vendor prefixes), Zend Framework, a TYPO3/ TypoScript plugin, Zen coding, and GIT build in for version control.
I'm very happy with it and there are so much amazing plugins to customize it to my needs!

Since 2.30 (Ubuntu 10.04) a color management tool ship with the Gnome desktop. Just install the package "gnome-color-management" and you will find it at "System > Preferences > Color Profiles" (or start gcm-prefs at the shell).
That sounds great but it didn't help you a lot when you do not have a color spider and your hardware is just customer level. A third part that is missing is the fitting color profile.
May you can download it on the manufactor page for some pro displays. But what to do if there is no manufactor support for color profiles? Then went over to the ICC Profiles and Monitor Settings Database and download it there.
This helps me a lot to get the colors of my new Dell L702x correctly display without the touch of too much blue.
BTW: There is a database of profiles for photographers too: http://www.drycreekphoto.com/icc/