The latest stable version of desktop music player Banshee has been released. Now on version 2.4, the popular media app adds support for DVD playback, ‘genre’ and ‘years’ filtering of music, and UPnP music and […]
FS Icons - a glossy icon set inspired by an unused peice of Ubuntu branding - has been updated with a wider selection of icons and refreshed folders.
Our OMG! Ubuntu! themed typing game OMG! Words! has been updated with support for Ubuntu 11.10 and, ahead of its release this April, Ubuntu 12.04. Other than that there is nothing new: it still offers the same increasingly-frustrating game-play, cool soundtrack, and handful of annoying twists to make it a bit more challenging. Download instructions and more information tucked up inside.
Big changes are happening to Chrome OS – Google’s Linux-based ‘web only’ operating system. The most surprising of these is the introduction of a ‘desktop’ and window manager called Aura: – Now of course, you […]
The default Ubuntu icon theme isn't the most glamourous of icon sets but I like that; it doesn't distract me from working or get in the way. But that's not to say it couldn't do with a bit of oomph in a few places.
A bunch of bug fixes have been added to the latest release of YouTube Music Player MusicTube. The innovative application lets use YouTube’s vast inventory of videos as your own personal on-demand music library. You […]
A new experimental version of Spotify for Linux Preview is available to download. This minor update brings the client upto parity with the Windows and Mac clients, as well as fixing a number of bugs and crashes.
Users of Unity 2D might not be able to tweak as much of their desktop as those running the resource-requiring 3D version, but options are available - and third party tweak too 2D Desktop Settings lets you adjust many parts of the Unity 2D desktop.
The first official release of Songbird fork Nightingale has been made available for download. What's it like? Is it worth installing? Let's take a quick look and see...
The first beta release of the Ubuntu 12.04 development cycle is now available to download. Keeping to the mantra of 'polish, performance and predictability', Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 offers up a stable and usable desktop, a faster Unity experience, and a handful of neat new features. A second beta candidate is due out in 28 days time, March 29th, with the final release itself expected to pop out on April 26th.
Third-party Unity tweaking tool MyUnity has received new features and a whole new look in its latest release. Now sporting a linear layout with tabs at the top, MyUnity looks and feels that bit more […]
A few minor application updates have slipped out this weekend. ViewNior The lightweight image viewer ViewNior has been updated with a ‘single’ button menu, wallpaper setting support for GNOME 2, GNOME 3 and XFCE. It […]
Broadcom’s cheap and cheerful CrystalHD card, which can found in many netbooks, laptops and desktops, offers real-time hardware-accelerated decoding of HD video content – including HD flash – at up-to 1080p. Broadcom provide a set of […]
Developers continue to cook up intuitive uses for Unity's Lenses feature - the latest of which of a Cooking Lens. The lens uses social food network 'recipefy.com' as its search back-end, meaning access to a searchable catalog of 4000 recipes is placed within easy reach. You can search by keyword, ingredient, or dish type, and see information such as cooking time required and difficulty level.
Last.FM scrobbling, faster music library scanning and improved album art detection all feature in the latest release of music player Musique.
The developers behind puzzle game Bobby have made the title free to download and play. Whilst the game is devilishly simple in theory - you, as a jet-pack powered hero called Bobby, have to knock bouncing balls into the spiralling vortex - it's a lot (read: much) harder in practice.
Ever since Spotify for Linux gained Apps support its stability has taken a noticeable nosedive. Thankfully Benjamin Kerensa (yes, of 'FOSS Yeah' fame) has put together a short script that tempers the buggy attitude caused, says Kerensa, by 'unwanted data being left in cache or config temps'.
LibreOffice 3.5 has been released. It's the third major release of the free open-source office suite since the project was forked from OpenOffice.