Posts from March 2013

Hands on With New Linux Twitter App ‘Birdie’

As an avid Tweeter I was pretty pleased to learn of a new desktop twitter app in development - Birdie. But what's it like? We find out...

31 March 2013

Think You Saw Unity In Last Night’s Doctor Who?

Put your hands up if you think you spotted Ubuntu's Unity desktop being used during Doctor Who's most recent episode...

31 March 2013

Smart Scopes ‘Not Mature Enough’ to Ship in Ubuntu 13.04

Smart Scopes will not ship as part of the Ubuntu 13.04 desktop as originally planned.

29 March 2013

Minimal GNOME Video Player ‘Snappy’ Hits 0.3, Improves Feature Set

Does Linux really need yet another video player? Probably not. But is it cool to have yet another anyway? For sure!

29 March 2013

Ubuntu Powered Promo Booth? You Bet [Ubuntu In The Wild]

Every day we walk past and interact with machines that run Linux, without ever noticing. But every now and then these machines go wrong, and their underlying OS is exposed for all to see...

29 March 2013

Lightworks’ Linux Beta Gets April Release Date

Longing to try the professional-grade video editor Lightworks on Linux? Well, you don't have long to wait...

29 March 2013
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Mark Shuttleworth ‘Most Disruptive Name in Computing’ Says Forbes

Mark Shuttleworth has been named as one American magazine Forbes' '12 Most Disruptive Names in business'

27 March 2013

GNOME 3.8 Released

The fourth major update to the GNOME 3.x line has been released, bringing enhanced applications and a focus on privacy.

27 March 2013

The 10 Best Features New To GNOME 3.8

The latest iteration of the popular GNOME desktop, version 3.8, sees release today - but what are notable changes and improvements should you be looking out for? Here's a list of our 10 favourite changes - in no specific order - new to this release.

27 March 2013

Cloud Service Dashboard Jolidrive Adds Support for Ubuntu One

Jolidrive, a dashboard for managing various online accounts including Dropbox and Google Drive, has added support for Ubuntu One.

26 March 2013

WPS Office – A Faithful Microsoft Office Clone for Linux

When is Microsoft Office not Microsoft Office? When it's actually a faithfully-crafted imitation, of course!

26 March 2013

Ubuntu’s Chinese Spin ‘Kylin’ Adds Custom Icons, Tweaked Theme

Ubuntu Kylin, the newly-sired Chinese edition of Ubuntu, is already starting to mould its own identity.

26 March 2013