Google’s Linux based Mobile Operating System ‘Android’ (Gee, try saying all that with a mouthful of doughnut!) comes with some very sexy fonts called ‘Droid’. The fonts are crisp, clear and far nicer looking/easier to […]
Playing around in Google Search Insights earlier, i punched in ‘Ubuntu’ to see which countries were searching for it most: – 2004 – Present That’s not entirely surprising – Cuba itself launched a version of […]
The oncoming release of Jaunty will also see the first release of an official netbook version of Ubuntu – namely the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Whilst the interface has been floating about for a while and is easily […]
Fotoxx is a very simple, straight forward photo editor that aims “…to meet most photo editing needs while remaining easy to use.” And it succeeds! It has many, many features a short selection of which […]
Gwibber is a microblogging client for the GNOME desktop. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, and RSS, with support for more services being added all the time. Gwibber allows you to post updates, read updates, reblog, retweet, […]
A not-entirely-major revision to the Jaunty Jackalope login screen was released today. Have a peek: – Doesn’t look any different to you? Here’s the original Jaunty GDM: – It’s a subtle change, but a good […]
Battery Screenlet This first one is a very simple battery screenlet that displays your real-time battery power as a graphic. It’s icon is based on the Tango battery icon, so it integrates well into […]
This wallpaper has just turned up in Jaunty! So far the Alpha’s have just been using Intrepid’s wallpaper. According to the information supplied with it, you’re looking at the new Jaunty Jackalope default wallpaper! What […]
A new theme for USplash appeared in the Jaunty repositories yesterday. Although USplash is being replaced in Karmic Koala (more on this soon), this new Ubuntu start up screen is kind of a good send […]
Gnome 2.26 has arrived and will be in Jaunty for sure. Here’s a quick overview of some of the mode notable new features and upgrade. 1. Brasero Brasero is now the default cd/dvd burning application […]
I currently use rhythmbox as my default music player/manager in Ubuntu so it’s with great sadness to hear that there will be no more development on it after it’s 0.12 release. From the rhythmbox development […]
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