A few weeks ago we teamed up with promising new music player Guaydeque to help find them an awesome new icon that better represented their application. After an initial call for designs, twelve made the […]
Emesene Weather plug-in, perhaps not surprisingly, is a weather forecast plug-in for IM client Emesene. The plug-in inserts a basic weather forecast pane at the very bottom of the contact list window. The forecast displayed […]
Bored with how GRUB looks? Well if you don’t have the nerves to try total boot pimper BURG, the following simple script will help beautify your boot. The following simple script dolls up your GRUB […]
Shutter will be gaining a new ‘redo last capture’ tool in its next major release. The feature, already available in the ‘experimental’ branch allows a user to takes exactly the same screenshot again and again […]
Lucidity was a proposed theme for Ubuntu 10.04 but despite being only a mock-up it proved so popular with users that a Metacity based on it soon sprang forth. Now a GTK+ theme to match […]
Janet Jackson once sang “The best things in life are free” – which makes me wonder whether she was a closet Linux user! Docky is an example of something amazing yet free. Docky has gotten […]
OpenShot – OMG! Ubuntu!’s favourite video editor for Linux – released a new version today. Version 1.1 brings with it a buffet of new features, speed improvements and general all round greatness that we’ve come […]
GNOME Do developer Alex Launi announced this morning that, finally, Do and Docky are now separate applications. When we broke the news that Docky and GNOME Do were to split, back in October of last […]
Earlier today we wrote about Twitter application Pino getting updated and today sees it joined by a new beta release of premier KDE twitter application ‘Choqok’. The main new features in this version are: – […]
Twitter application Pino has graced the world with yet another update. Version 0.2.1 of the every-improving microblogging client sees it gain user look-up and information tools as well as chucking in the ability to follow […]
Further to our in-depth look at the Future of Nautilus a week back, the Nautilus-Elementary team – who we cited heavily in that previous article – have posted their own plans for the unkempt file-manager. […]
A fresh install of Ubuntu yields one annoyance that seems to irritate most people: the default ‘Sans’ font is set at a gigantic 10px. The effect of having the font so large is evident from […]