The current default UbuntuOne icon in Karmic Koala is a bright, colourful and cheery icon which is great – expect it doesn’t match the rest of the default panel icons. This is actually a design choice by […]
Hulu, the popular American TV streaming site, today finally launched a native Linux desktop application for their service. Built on Fedora and Ubuntu 9.04, the app is designed to play nice with Ubuntu from the […]
With NASA due to crash a mechanical satellite into out beloved Moon later on today/tomorrow (time-zone depending), i decided it was a great (albeit spurious) way to foist a selection of Moon-related wallpapers upon you […]
Further to my previous post on “Why Google Chrome Should Be Your Default Browser“, I thought i’d post a boring-yet-useful list of 15 Chrome extensions that make an already awesome browser even more awesome… er. […]
pyGtranslator is a desktop application that utilizes Google Translate and lets you translate – from your desktop! Nice! Simple paste your text, select the “to” and “from” language and hit translate. Of course, translations are […]
Karmic’s GDM received some small updates today that brought with them a new HumanLoginIcon set full of beautiful glowing icons – much more akin to the mock-up than the previous humanity icons used in it’s […]
Want to try out the new “single window” Gimp? Here’s how! BEAR IN MIND THAT THIS IS IN DEVLOPEMENT SOFTWARE AND NOT DESIGNED FOR EVERYDAY USE. You will also need to remove any exising Gimp […]
The first glimpse at the long-awaited (and much-desired) single window Gimp has been posted on GIMP developer Martin Nordholts blog. He updates that progress is coming on well, spurred on in part by the “overwhelmingly […]
Want to get rid of the ‘60 Seconds Until Shutdown/Reboot/Logout’ countdown? Blog reader knorre handily posted the how-to in a comment, which I’m re-posting here so it’s not overlooked! Simply open a terminal and: – […]
Google officially released a collection of 100 “Artists Themes for Chrome” today – a bunch of not entirely successful skins for Google Chrome designed by some of the worlds “best artists”, including Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, […]
Emesene 1.6 has now been released ?” find out more @ omgubuntu.co.uk/emesene-1.6-released-whats-new.html ——————————————————!#——————– Emesene 1.5 is one of the best instant messengers available for use with the MSN Network thanks to its massive feature set […]
CPUFREQ applet allows you to control your CPU speed directly from the gnome-panel. It sadly comes with some of the most awful looking icons ever created! If you’re using Karmic (or the humanity theme in […]