This weeks Ubuntu Developer Day held in Bangalore, India, was home to a few juicy news highlights...
The folks over at Spotify have sent over this sneak peek at some neat work they've been doing to integrate Spotify with Ubuntu's nifty Sound Menu.
KDE 4.6 has been released today, bringing with it five months worth of updates, fixes and changes. Quick overview of what's new and details for those keen to upgrade can be found by reading on...
Ubuntu Tips Applet shows useful tips with fortunes-Ubuntu-server package using notify. You can see a new tip on-call using the application’s Indicator Applet menu or, for a slightly more spontaneous fun, set a refresh rate […]
Yesterday I got a chance to sit down for an interview over lunch with one of the original founders of Ubuntu: ex-GNOME Release Manager and past Canonical employee Jeff Waugh.
Day two of Linux.conf.au has been and gone, with highlights for me being Vint Cerf's keynote, the RoboCup talk and a 40 minute interview with Jeff Waugh over lunch. Click through for day two's gallery of photos from LCA2011.
The latest Android-bound icon set from designer Nicklas Hirsch has caught a lot of attention recently – but not only from Android users.
Scoffing at the headline? Sure, it doesn’t sound entirely believable but, in a stroke of awesome-osity, it is. Developers at the Interactive Computing Lab of ENAC have created just that: the ability to use multi-touch […]
Windows users miss an easily accessible tray icon for un-mounting their drives safely in Ubuntu should check out ‘Ejecter‘ (*), an nitfy tool that has recently received some new features…
The first stable release of the free office suite 'LibreOffice' is now available for download.
I'm currently sitting in a very interesting and unique talk about the University of New South Wales and their Computer Science RoboCup team. Robocup, which you may have heard of, is an international competition where teams build and program fully autonomous robots to play a game of soccer.
Google's Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton Cerf is about to take the stage at Linux.conf.au to deliver the conference's primary keynote.
Just a short little update to let the OMG crowd be the first to hear. Andy Whitcroft reported in a bug report that Natty is about to get the 2.6.38 kernel. Meaning, slightly, better performance, Nick […]
I doubt that dictionaries are on the top of most peoples 'must have app' lists but the release of the elementary projects lush looking lexicon may just change that...
Want a three-finger pinch on your multi-touch trackpad to minimize all windows? Dream of a five-finger tap emulating your mouse scroll-wheel? Hyperbole aside, you got it with Touchégg. Touchégg Touchégg is a “multitouch gesture recognizer” […]
Day 1 of Linux.conf.au has come and gone, with talks on everything from building successful businesses on open source to making music with Linux. Here is a selection of photos from today.
Arjen Lentz is currently giving a talk at Linux.conf.au entitled "Creating the Business you want." At the beginning of his talk he handed out a sheet of A4 with 10 principles Lentz believes small companies should stick to when starting out.
Open source can provide an excellent foundation for building businesses, as we've seen from many companies past and present. But how does one utilize the tools and benefits of Open Source to create a successful business model and a sustainable company?