It's been a literal age since we last mentioned the neat semantic file and application launcher Synapse - but today saw the release of Synapse 0.2.8, and with a new release comes new features...
With Beta 2 of Ubuntu 11.10 quickly approaching us - it's due on September 22nd - things haven't exactly been standing still in development land. Below are a number of minor, but pretty noteworthy, visual tweaks that Ubuntu 11.10 has received over the last week.
This is the fifth article in a series to explain the basics of Ubuntu Development in a way that does not require huge amounts of background and goes through concepts, tools, processes and infrastructure step […]
A new version of Google Music Frame - the user-created desktop app for accessing Google's cloud-based music player - has been released with a new icon, support for multimedia keys, unity integration and a little bit more...
Software Developer Robert Sarkozi has a passion for photography, and uploads the best snaps he takes to his Flickr account. Rather than have them sit there unused and unseen he wants to 'share them with people'
A new development release of Psensor - a small utility for monitoring hardware temperature in Linux - is now available for download.
Does the world need yet another cloud storage/sharing service? Dropbox, SpiderOak, UbuntuOne - all of them provide the ability to upload a variety of files and then "publish" them for sharing. New York-based startup 'Minus' thinks so
Banshee contributor David Nielsen fills me in recent developments to the Mono-based music player, including work on GTK3, WebOS and Mac OS X ports.
It's almost here, folk: the first major update to video editor OpenShot in what seems like an eternity. (Well, since February to be exact.) What will be shipping in it? We take a look...
The first beta release from sketching and painting app Krita's 2.4 series has been made available for Download.
The bi-annual call for Ubuntu countdown banners seems to have been whispered rather than shouted this year, but if you're game for creating a mini-timer the world can plaster around the interwebs from Oneiric Beta 2 onward - now's your chance!
This is a guest post from Daniel Holbach, who will be posting updates about Ubuntu Development. (Original Post). Ubuntu Development Update We are racing towards the release of 11.10, and it’s only four weeks until […]
This is a guest post from Ahmed Kamal and Jorge O. Castro, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks (Original Post) The roll up to Beta two begins as the archive starts […]
You helped choose them, and now Lubuntu 11.10 has them.
Microsoft have been busy showing off Windows 8 today - and, to their credit, it's looking and behaving pretty different to any release of Windows in the past. Whatever your take on the release, there are a number of features and changes present in Windows 8 that may provide some competitive flair for Linux developers to work against.
Good things come to those who wait - particularly elementary fans willing to wait until April 2012...
Opera developers have confirmed that GTK3 support is in the works for the cult browser.
The 'Ribbon' interface Microsoft introduced with Office 2007 provided an innovative approach to the use and layout of toolbars in applications. Following the release, OpenOffice toyed with the idea of creating a similar 'tabbed toolbar' concept for use with its own office suite. Whilst the mock-ups and discussions never bore much in the way of fruit for OpenOffice the idea of a 'ribbon' for use in open-sources apps hasn't been abandoned.