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.
Canonical's newly announced 'Ubuntu for Android' technology has made a lot of people very excited. But words and pictures can only relay so much about how the device, which is still a prototype, works. Can you run Android apps on thedesktop? How flawless is the Ubuntu experience? How do I connect to the mobiles 3G via Ubuntu? All of those questions and more are answered in the following 3 minute and 57 second long walkthrough of Ubuntu for Android...
Pre-order registration for the KDE Plasma Active tablet 'Spark' has been closed due to 'overwhelming demand'. "It has been so successful that we've reached our initial production capacity and have closed the pre-order program for now," writes Spark project lead Aaron Seigo on his blog.
Meet 'Ubuntu for Android' - a side-by-side pairing of the Android and Ubuntu OSes on a single phone, the latest part of Canonical's 'multi-device' future for Ubuntu.
Small indie game developer Cube Noir recently gave let us play with their forthcoming ‘text based adventure game’ Incursion. By their nature ‘text based’ games are considered old hat these days; in an era of […]
The results of the recent Ubuntu Sound Theme survey, which asked users to pick a new start up for Ubuntu 12.04 from a shortlist of 4 sounds, are in. Was your favourite chosen? Find out inside...
Vodafone have chosen to stock the Ubuntu One Files app in their custom Android app store "Vodafone AppSelect". The app store, which comes pre-loaded on Vodafone-branded Android mobiles across Europe, provides a range of applications that have gone through Vodafone's thorough app approval process.
The latest update to open-source media player VLC has been released, and brings with it multi-threaded decoding for a variety of popular formats. Read on for easy installation instructions for Ubuntu 11.10.
Unity 5.4 has landed in Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin'. The update brings performance, stability and bug fixes, as well as a handful of minor visual changes and features.
Last.FM scrobbling, faster music library scanning and improved album art detection all feature in the latest release of music player Musique.
AIM have no plans to create a messaging client for Ubuntu, a company spokesman has said. The announcement comes after a call to support Ubuntu became the most popular suggestion on their 'User Voice' feedback service.
An auto-updating Twitter stream has been added to the Ubuntu 12.04 installer. The stream shows tweets containing the hashtag #ubuntu, and appears alongside a short blurb on Ask Ubuntu. The slide, titled 'Any Questions?', is the last item shown during installation of Ubuntu.
The fourth and final maintenance release of Ubuntu 10.04 is now available to download.
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.
Pre-order registration for forthcoming KDE tablet 'Spark' is now open. The Spark team hope to use the registration period as a means of gauging demand for the fledgling tablet. Those who register now will be given a 'priority order code' when pre-ordering begins that will 'jump your order to the front of the line'.
Searching for something to watch will be much easier in Ubuntu 12.04 thanks to addition of a new default Video Lens. As well as being able to sift through the metadata of local files stored in your Videos folder based on a search term, the lens is backed by a set of smart 'remote video' scopes that query online services such as YouTube Movies, Amazon, indie service VODO and, for British users, the hallowed BBC iPlayer.
Apple today lifted the lid on the next iteration of their OS X operating system - OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Exciting news in itself for Mac fans, but the reveal introduces a number of new features to the OS X desktop that Ubuntu users have enjoyed for a little while...
The Linux port of professional-grade video editor Lightworks is still 'on its way' according to an Editshare spokesperson - but is still not ready for general beta release. The assurance follows repeated failures to launch a beta version of the application on given dates - the first in Autumn of 2010; the latter in December of 2011.