Users of Ubuntu's Unity 2D desktop - the lighter, less resource hungry version of Unity - might wish to tweak certain part of their desktop - such as when or how the Launcher hides. '2D-Desktop Settings' is a small third-party tool that provides users with a simple way to do just that
Popular desktop icon-set Faenza has been updated with new icons and Ubuntu 11.10 support.
Sometimes applications crashes, freeze or otherwise develop an appetite for every last byte of system resources. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. When an application 'crashes' it usually doesn't require any input from you (other than banging your head against the wall at any unsaved work now lost). But applications that decide to 'hang' or 'freeze' not only get in the way of you carrying on with whatever you were doing but can often max out your system resources - leaving you with no option but to reboot or nose-dive into the command line. That's where FlashFreeze by Sergey 'shnatsel' Davidoff is of use.
GNOME Shell users are spoilt for choice when it comes to beautiful looking 'Shell' themes - a fact made even more apparent with the updated release of 0rAX0's 'Nord' theme.
Over the last few weeks I have been working on some nifty Zeitgeist extensions for GNOME Shell. I finally managed to finish all of these Zeitgeist extensions, and figured I'd share them with the OMG! Ubuntu! audience. Here's a brief rundown and instructions on how to install.
The winner of the 'Ubuntu 11.10 Countdown Banner' contest has been revealed.
The latest 'stable' (stop chuckling at the back) version Adobe's Flash Player has been released.
A new pre-alpha release of multi-column twitter application Polly is available for download.
Whether or not you’re a fan of GNOME 3’s default ‘stripy blue’ wallpaper there’s no denying that it is striking. If you plan on using GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.10 (it’s just a click away) […]
Airtime - an open source application designed to make radio station management easier - has seen a new release with .deb packages available for Ubuntu. The award-winning software has been bumped to version 1.9.4, and along with a host of bug fixes, now includes handy packages for your favourite Debian based distribution to make installation and updating easy. Powering stations like London’s Resonance FM, Senegal’s West Africa Democracy Radio and Canada’s NationTalk, Airtime platforms have been receiving industry acclaim including a Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism. Airtime is also a finalist in the Packt Open Source Multimedia Software Awards 2011 alongside Blender, GIMP and Inkscape.
Long-time users of Ubuntu might recall that a handy 'Force Quit' applet was once available to add to the desktop panel, which made 'closing' misbehaving applications a cinch. Thankfully for the lazy amongst us reader Josh Leverette has put together a script that adds a 'Force Close' button to the Unity Launcher. With one click you can once again kill crashy, CPU-hogging applications without having to reboot or revert to the Terminal.
Early demonstrations of Ubuntu 11.10’s new ‘login manager’ LightDM showed it changing wallpaper background based on the account selected. This feature has yet to appear in the current implementation rocking out in the Ubuntu beta, […]