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 […]
Come April 26th and the release of Ubuntu 12.04 a vast number of Ubuntu users will be getting their first taste of the Unity desktop since its basic beginnings as the Ubuntu Netbook Remix in the last LTS. But for all of the innovation, aesthetics and features that the unity desktop offers there is a chance that, for many, the change will be too much. But Unity is only one desktop environment available to install in Ubuntu.
Could you imagine a world without Linux? Such a thought could have been stark reality had Apple managed to successfully recruit Linus Torvalds back in 2000.
There are many ways to install Ubuntu on a computer, some of which are simpler and easier than others. WUBI (Windows Ubuntu Installer) is an example of the easy approach. It offers the Ubuntu curious a relatively safe way to install Ubuntu on their PC from within Windows - negating the need for disk partitioning and adding an easy way to 'uninstall it' through Windows 'Add or Remove' feature. But changes to way the way the tool is provided in Ubuntu 12.04 are now being discussed.
We recently ran a poll in conjunction with the Ubuntu Design Team to seek out your preferred option for the default Unity launcher behaviour for multi-monitor usage in Ubuntu 12.04. Almost 13,000 of you voted in that poll, and, based on those results, a decision on the default behaviour has been decided by the Ubuntu Design Team.
Gamers rejoice: a new Humble Bundle has arrived! The Humble Bundle for Android 2 comprises of 4 games of varying genres – from RPG to a ‘meditative puzzler’. But don’t let the ‘Android’ in the […]
Small Unity-tweaking tool ‘MyUnity‘ offers users of Ubuntu an easy way to customize parts of their desktop – from the size of fonts to the colour of the Dash. Presently MyUnity follows the trend of […]
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.
Ubuntu 12.04 has been adding much needed functionality to many of its default apps though new ‘quicklists’.
Two apps. Two new alpha releases. Two great new features.
Ubuntu's offer of 'Locally Integrated Menus' has intrigued many - but how much do you really know about them? To many they appear to offer a pseudo-compromise between the tidiness provided by Ubuntu's (oft-derided) App Menu and an atheistically pleasing but easily-accessible way of adding menus back to application windows. But what are Locally Integrated Menus? And how do they work? The Ubuntu Design Team's John Lea took some time out to dispel the myths and misconceptions surrounding the forthcoming feature...
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.