[$] Previewing digiKam 3.0.0
DigiKam, the KDE-based photo organization tool, is slated to release version 3.0.0 at the end of January (to coincide with the release of KDE 4.10). The digiKam project has a rapid release schedule — with four or more stable releases per year being typical in recent years — which can make staying up to date a challenge. But the circumstances of my personal photo collection dictated an upgrade, so I spent some time at the end of December working with the latest build. DigiKam is not quite a one-stop-solution for photographers, although each release adds more features, but it still excels at the task of managing a large collection of images.