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If part of your workflow involves a lot of cutting and pasting, then you know how limiting the native clipboard feature is on your desktop no matter which platform you're using. If you want to add a little extra awesome to your cutting and pasting routine, then have a look at this roundup of clipboard tools that make the job go just a little easier.

Glipper - This clipboard manager for the GNOME panel. It keeps a history of copied text so you can refer back to it later. Glipper has support for Actions, Snippets, No-Paste services, and more. It's available in English, German, and Italian.

When you sit down to put together a blog post, the last thing you want getting in your way is a finicky blogging client. This week, we'll take a look at open source blogging software designed for the Linux operating system, as well as apps created specifically for the KDE and GNOME desktop. In fact, let's get started with KDE first.

Bilbo Blogger - The developers created this client with a single purpose in mind: simplicity. It's a full-featured WYSIWYG and HTML editor that supports Blogger, Movable Type, and other popular blogging platforms. Use it to create, modify, edit, and pre-schedule posts or simply rely on it to fetch blog entries for local storage. Have a look at this post for some great installation tips and tricks to get you started.

Users of the KDE desktop know it has a dozens of handy tools and functions built right in, but the beauty of open source means you can tweak it to your heart's content by adding extra plugins to make your desktop do even more. Here are five KDE desktop applications that you might not have ever heard of, but are definitely worth checking out.

soundKonverter - This handy app provides a front end to the audio converter you're already using. Use it for CD ripping, audio conversion, and replay gain calculation. This version of soundKonverter is designed for KDE 3.5.x, but a version for KDE 4.0 is in the works.

Typical Linux desktop options like KDE and GNOME? limit the way computer users interact with the applications and programs on their systems. There's not much to do beyond opening and closing an app, and moving or resizing a window. The development team behind ?toil? is building a desktop interface that aims to stand that idea on its head and let users create workflows that work best for them.

The GNUstep-based environment is built with lightweight and modular components that allow users to combine project- and document-oriented activities (or, services, as the ?toil? team calls them) more easily.

KDE users have a new online spot to get together and talk about their favorite desktop environment. The KDE Forum re-launched this week and is already over 17,000 members strong. There are plenty of categories that cover everything from troubleshooting Internet and network issues to canoodling about new styles and themes.