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How to re-enable notification area applets in Ubuntu 11.04
Can’t live without Shutter/Dropbox/Opera/insert-other-app-here sitting in Natty’s system panel? Quick fix ahoy.
Customizing Ubuntu 10.10 the Tyler way
Come take a look at how Tyler customizes and fine tunes his Ubuntu install in the way of software, eye-candy, and usability, and try out his Compiz profile!
Dropbox icons now respect your global theme (no more manually replacing them!)
Customizers rejoice: the latest experimental build of Dropbox now respects your installed icon set. This means users no longer need to manually replace them with theme-akin replacements. “We have changed the names of our tray icons and made them completely themeable. So if you want to use your own tray icons the suggested method is to [...]
Open source dropbox alternative SparkleShare releases first alpha
The first alpha release of open-source Dropbox competitor SparkleShare has been made available for testing today. SparkleShare is built on mono, GTK+ and requires users to use Git for storage. Don’t have a Git repo? “…you can create one on Gitorious or GitHub for free and upload your public key there (these are public repositories, [...]
Elementary style dropbox panel icons
Elementary users longing for some true Elementary-inspired Dropbox icons to use with the upcoming 0.8 release of the file-syncing application may wish to try the following icons, created by rugby471.Whilst we’ve featured many replacement icon sets for Dropbox before this is the first set designed specifically for Elementary users. Download Download the icons @ http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=128132 [...]
Auto-update to the latest Dropbox Experimental builds with dbupdater
DropBox users who like to live on the bleeding edge using the latest experimental builds with the latest features probably find the checking, downloading and installation of every new build a little bit of a chore. Cue Dusten Barker and his super ace automatic script which automates the entire process for you – checking, downloading [...]
SpiderOak Online Storage service is secure, speedy & simple to use
Linux users are already spoilt for choice when it comes to free online cloud storage. Ubuntu itself comes with 2GB of free space for all users via the UbuntuOne service. We’ve already looked at the Wuala service last week but now we turn our attention to SpiderOak – a lesser known rival which caught our [...]
Wuala – Linux friendly secure DropBox alternative
Linux users are already spoilt for choice when it comes to free online cloud storage. UbuntuOne and Dropbox both offer 2GB for nothing whilst newly announced project SparkleShare aims to better both of these. If none of those above mentioned options float your boat then check out free secure online storage service Wuala. The Swiss-based [...]
SparkleShare aims to better dropbox with open source gusto; collaboration tools
A new ‘dropbox style’ synchronisation and collaboration tool aimed at open-source users has been announced today by Hylke Bons. Called SparkleShare aims to provide all of the same features of Dropbox but with better GNOME integration, more real-time features for groups of people working together & the ability to host and add different folder on [...]
6 Replacement dropbox icon sets
Further to our post on the forthcoming release of Dropbox 0.8.x using an application indicator and allowing the panel icons to be customized many readers have been hard at work creating new icon sets. Below are a selection of great replacement icon sets for Dropbox. Set #1 By Incognitus Download Ubuntu Light version (for dark [...]
Dropbox adds indicator applet, customizable tray icon
The latest testing version of popular cloud storage service Dropbox has introduced indicator applet support and, what will surely be music to icon-set makers ears’ everywhere – the ability to finally customize the dropbox tray icon! Other fixes in the 0.8 series – codenamed Rainbow Shell – include improved startup time for large dropboxes, a [...]
How to install Dropbox in Lubuntu
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Lubuntu users wishing to install and use popular file-syncing application DropBox can now do so thanks to Lubuntu fiend Jeff Stone providing some easy-to-follow instructions.How to install Dropbox in Lubuntu Open up a terminal session and type the following lines separately, hitting return after each. cd wget -O dropbox.tar.gz http://www.dropbox.com/download\?plat=lnx.x86 tar -zxof dropbox.tar.gz wget -nd [...]
Vote To Change DropBox’s Tray Icons
As part of our on-going “Humanity Style Icons” series, lots of users have mentioned wanting to change their DropBox tray icons. Currently this is not possible, and affects users of all Operating Systems – not just Linux! If you want the option to change the icons there is a vote happening on the DropBox website’s [...]