The first release candidate of KDE software compilation 4.6 has been made available for download.
Flynn would totally use this 'Tron: Legacy: inspired Docky theme by our favourite deviant Docky theme maker half-left.
Mozilla has pushed out another beta of Firefox 4 – this time one with over 1,000 bug fixes.
The Document Foundation's "LibreOffice" Team has announced another release candidate that's now available for download.
It’s here, racing fans – a brand new version of iconic Linux game ‘SuperTuxKart’ is now available for download.
Elephants and readers with a good memory may remember an 'ambient boot splash' proposal we featured at the end of October.
So you have one photo you want to upload to Facebook but Shotwell seems over-kill and opening a browser seems too much effort. Well, take the hassle out of posting images to your Facebook profile with this nifty Nautilus Facebook uploader script.
No-one goes out of their way to lose their laptop let alone have it stolen. Usually in these situations there is a slim chance of getting you laptop back - providing it has your address scrawled on the back like a label in the back of a 5th graders’ coat. Common sense dictates to be prepared and you can be by installing free and open-source security application ‘Prey - which has just been updated to version 0.5.
So you don't want a DropBox and you're not one for Ubuntu One - but you do want to make a folder full of pictures, music or other oddities available to friends on the other side of the world. Using the following python script, created by gnome-look user hardball, you can do just that: share any folder via 'http on port 8000'. You can even share folders 'mounted by gvfs' - such as remote windows folders.
With Ubuntu 11.04 dropping the traditional GNOME panel many user-favourite panel applets will be going the way of the proverbial dodo. Not so the CPU Frequency switching applet which has had an indicator make-over by Артём Попов.
Long to try out the elementary projects revamped revision of Rythmbox? If you're not keen on building from source to test things out there is now a PPA, courtesy of hadret, and .debs files for easy installation.
I came across a cool 'flip clock' theme for the close widget in Screenlets, the widget framework that makes Linux desktops infinitely cooler. Check it out!