Posts from October 2009

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Anjal – Slick Evolution Interface For Netbooks

Anjai is a custom Evolution interface designed for use on netbooks, with it’s main screen optimized for 1024×600 sized screens.     ROFL! Useless Trivia! Anjal means E-Mail in Tamil. Stylish (and useful!) Using WebKit […]

4 October 2009
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10 Reasons Why Google Chrome Should Be Your Default Web Browser

An official version of Google Chrome has been available to try out for several months. It fully supports flash and extensions, is super fast to both start-up and load pages and is so incredibly stable […]

4 October 2009
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Try Thunar – A Sleek Lightweight File Manager

Thunar is a lightweight file manager with a very light memory footprint, a less cluttered layout and pretty much all the features one needs in a file manager! Installing Thunar does not remove Nautilus so […]

2 October 2009
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How To Customize The New GDM In Karmic

Karmic’s new GDM isn’t as customizable as the previous version due to a complete re-write from the ground up. Just take a look at the login preferences screen from Jaunty: – and this is the […]

2 October 2009
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Use IMDB Art For Video Thumbnails In Nautilus

Want your video thumbnails in nautilus or thunar to display their official artwork from imdb? Say hello to imdb-thumbnail! Download Grab the official .deb file from the imdb-thumbnail launchpad @ : – https://launchpad.net/imdb-thumbnailer Installation Once […]

2 October 2009
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Karmic Allows One Click Installation Of New Fonts

Installing fonts in Ubuntu Karmic has been made so super easy you might just die of "about-time" shock. It’s all thanks to Gnome 2.28 that Karmic comes packed with. Double-clicking on font gives you this: […]

1 October 2009
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8 Karmic Coloured Wallpapers

What better way to celebrate the release of Ubuntu 9.10 Beta than a smorgasbord of Karmic friendly wallpapers?! Simply Ubuntu Karmic Circles PhotonBeam Coffee Cup Storm A day At The Savannah Ubuntu Ubuntu Tattoo Be […]

1 October 2009
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App Of The Week: ViewNior – Lightweight Image Viewer

ViewNior is a lightweight image viewer that was designed with “simple and fast” as it’s mantra – and boy does it live up to it! I’m kicking off my new ‘App Of The Week’ series […]

1 October 2009
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Karmic Koala Beta Released Today (Now Live)

The first and only Beta release of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala will be available for download later on today – exactly one month before the final release is due on October 29th. Alpha No Hable […]

1 October 2009