Decent Wine integration in Ubuntu is something many of us would love to have - and we can thanks to an application called 'Vineyard'. Vineyard provides two useful features: firstly it provides a native way to configure Wine and Wine preferences and secondly it creates tight integration between Wine and the Ubuntu desktop.
It seems there are more ways to change desktop wallpaper in Ubuntu than there are wallpapers. DesktopNova is another tray-based tool for switching between wallpapers but one which , thanks to Michael Otto, now has a shiny application indicator to control it with.
Boot screens: generally the land of the bland. But not so anymore.
GIMP 2.8, a.k.a. 'the one with single window mode', won't see release on December 26th as planned. But why? Read on to see.
Reader Vjjustin has written up an interesting little tutorial on creating a ‘wingpanel’-style panel using nothing more than the default GNOME panel.
Check out this Skype zeitgeist logger I have been working on.
More information has surfaced on the new Ubuntu-powered tablet device we wrote about last week. The ‘TENQ P07’ tablet aims to launch early next year an will sport Ubuntu 10.10 atop an 1.6Ghz Atom CPU, […]
A new release of an Ubuntu port project for the HTC HD2 phone has been released. Ubuntu 0.3 for HTC HD2 uses Ubuntu 10.10 with the Unity (Mutter) interface, performance and stability fixes as well […]
A new docklet for Docky aims to make clipboard history management a breeze.
Indicator-Virtualbox offers a quick way to launch virtual machines via the desktop panel.
Fans of universal e-mail notification indicator tool 'Popper' will be pleased to hear that it recieved an update over Xmas. What's new? Read on for more!
Over on DevinatArt, designer Izobalax has been musing on a minor flaw in Zeitgeists armour: the ability to easily 'take' your logswith you.
Feeling full after xmas? Me too. Time for a post-gluttonous recap on a apps which sneaked out new releases whilst the rest of us where noshing down stodgy cake and irrepressible amounts of mince pies... First up: Ubuntu Tweak.
Santa is not the only one delivering presents, the always hardworking Olivier Dufour, has just gotten past the last major technical hurdle in adding the DVD support he and Alex Launi have been working on. […]
We're a long long way from the release of Ubuntu 11.04 - 123 days at the time of writing, in fact. Stat hounds, infor junkies and those forever with an eye on the time may wish to add a Natty countdown widget to their blogs or forum signatures can now do so using this ace widget by reader Valentin.
Remember that awesome 'flip style' clock screenlet theme we mentioned earlier last week? Well it's since been souped up, made themeable and capable of displaying even more information.
Giz-China has revealed some images of an Ubuntu powered multitouch tablet by an unknown manufacturer showing off the Unity interface.
Flickr fans may be pleased to hear that cutely named 'Frogr' Flickr uploading tool has hit version 0.3