When the fear of hardware incompatibilities puts you off buying a new computer be sure to run your intended purchase through Canonical’s ‘Ubuntu Certification’ website.
Display the time in style on your desktop without needing to install entire widget frameworks or mess with complicated conky codes using Cairo-Clock – a themeable, resizable and moveable analogue clock application.
Easily and quickly edit RAW images with RawTherapee - a free multi-platform RAW converter and digital photo processing application. Developed around the premise that a most users’ only need to 'adjust the white balance or brightness of a photo', RawTherapee isn’t loaded with filters, fancy frames or specific editing tools, instead focusing on providing the tools most users actually need.
Easy to use hardware and power management applet Jupiter may stop unnecessary power drain on your Linux netbook but its brightly coloured tray icons can’t do the same for desktop cohesion. Help is here in the shape - or should that be colour - of the following Ambiance-style mono icons for Jupiter, created by Nick Campbell.
Free and open-source Live DJ software Mixxx, which is developed by a community of DJ’s, has today released a new and improved version.
Canonicals' cloud storage service Ubuntu One has received a pricing and service refresh today.
A new ‘Linux counter’ initiative that aims to disprove press claims than Linux is used by less than 1% of the worlds desktop computer users has been launched.
Lubuntu users wishing to test out some potential future additions to the lightweight distro should consider adding the Lubuntu Desktop PPA.
Force-use Ubuntu’s default font on pretty much any website you wish with this handy bookmarklet - ‘a small computer application, stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser’ - by reader Miguel Fernández.
Several readers sent us a link to the following wallpaper by ~jbaer - and we can see why! Titled ‘Maverick Dunes’ and created solely in Inscape, the wallpaper makes a wonderful alternative to the default Ubuntu wallpapers in both Lucid and Maverick. Download link inside, kiddies!
It may be the most powerful consumer-orientated video editor for the Linux desktop but OpenShot has long held a website not-quite befitting its awesome status. That is until today.
We show off a set of slick new themes by jurialmunkey, including installation instructions.
Animated short fantasy film Sintel, created entirely in open-source 3D graphics suite Blender, has garnered over 1 million YouTube views, less than a week after its premiere.
The case designs for the Ubuntu 10.10 have been revealed in the Ubuntu store, as pre-orders for Ubuntu 10.10 discs begun to be taken.
Screenkey display key presses on-screen, making it a perfect foil for use in 'how-to' or tutorial videos.
Yesterday you were all, evidently, touched by the story of fellow Linux user Bryens loss of hardware, today I am happy to report that we not only met the pledge target but exceeded it.
OMG! Reader Nicholas Ipsen dropped by our inbox earlier today to show us some sweet Ubuntu font action in Android. As you might expect, the new font that Canonical contracted type foundry Dalton Maag to design looks brilliant on Google's mobile operating system. More screenshots after the jump.
Today our compendium of computing curiosities (commonly called ‘OMG! 5!’) sees us poke around in the software drawers of everyone’s favourite social network Facebook. Below you’ll find five Facebook-only notification applications for use on the Ubuntu […]