'Orta' is the 'theme' of the moment; a light, milky white theme that has been carefully designed to make every part of your desktop feel 'just right'.
I've been on the hunt for a decent Oxygen theme to make Google Chrome look less orphan in Kubuntu 10.10 and finally found one. I thought I'd bookmark it here in public in-case other folks are also seeking one out.
Settle down for a minute or so and watch the trailer below for upcoming short Last Payment by Eric Kneifel which was made entirely in Ubuntu using FOSS apps!
Novell, Inc. - the company behind SUSE Linux, OpenSUSE, Banshee and a raft of other innovations - have announced they are to be acquired by the Attachmate Corporation in a deal worth a estimated $2.2 billion.
Dexter Jerome Smith sent us the following tutorial for syncing your online Yahoo! calendar with desktop based Evolution.
In this guest post, Jason DeRose of Novacut team explains about the design focus for their upcoming video editor.
Chalk another one up people for the latest developer builds of Clementine now supports the Ubuntu sound menu. If you want it now there's a PPA and some .deb's too!
Yesterday we mentioned that Firefox 4 Beta for Linux now boasts a 'menu' button rather than a menu bar. Whilst it's undoubtedly welcome it doesn't look as good as it could - nor should. Take a peek and see why.
This is not a personal appeal from the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales - but it is an extension which inserts one on every website you visit.
The Jolibook netbook from Jolicloud is available to purchase in the UK via Amazon and manufactuer Vye's own online shop.
Make Oxygen even more beautiful with transparent blurred windows.
A few of you have dropped us a line to point out that the Ubuntu Software Center has new 'paid' apps for sale.
The long-awaited ‘Firefox’ menu button has arrived in the latest nightly Linux builds – for now. The feature, already present in the Windows version of Mozilla’s browser, replaces the menu bar with a single button. […]
Last week I posted about Tommy Brunn’s ace Imgur nautilus script that makes image uploading a right-click breeze. On that post many readers wished for ‘login’ support so that images could be uploaded to their […]
Caution: Don’t get overly excited. We’re not even at Natty Alpha 1 yet so the updates below will change over the coming months. That said it’s always nice to check in and monitor the changes […]
Open Source language aid ‘OpenTeacher’ 2.0 has released its second beta. The self-described ‘easiest way to learn a new language’ tool allows you to ‘enter a list of words in both a known and a […]
Google ChromeOS will do many wonderful things – the free and open-source version ‘Chromium OS’ sadly won’t. Many of these ‘features’ can, given the nature of what Chrome/iumOS is, be enabled easily in both – […]
GTalk Empathy users may have come across the following bug: – You change your status to ‘hidden’ but Empathy shows you as ‘Busy’ – this can lead to all manner of super embarrassing moments… "Hey […]