‘Facebook Qt’ Offers Linux Users Standalone Social Network Experience

'Facebook Qt' is the latest attempt at marrying the web's most visited website with the traditional desktop OS.

2 April 2013

In-Dash Music Purchasing Proposed for Ubuntu 13.04

Ubuntu 13.04 wants to let users buy music from the Ubuntu One Music Store directly from the Dash - no web-browser transactions needed. But 'want' doesn't always 'get'.

2 April 2013

WUBI To Be Dropped from Ubuntu 13.04, Windows Users Lose Out

In a message to the Ubuntu Devel Mailing list, Canonical's Steve Langasek states that the Ubuntu Foundations team '...does not expect Wubi to be in a releasable state for 13.04.'

1 April 2013
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[How To] Reset Unity & Compiz in Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04

Ever wondered how or needed to reset Unity and Compiz back to their default settings? We'll show you.

1 April 2013

‘Copy’ – New Cloud Storage Service With Apt Name, Linux Client

Copy, a relatively new entry into the 'cloud storage' service arena - but is it any good? We give it a quick glance over...

1 April 2013

Hands on With New Linux Twitter App ‘Birdie’

As an avid Tweeter I was pretty pleased to learn of a new desktop twitter app in development - Birdie. But what's it like? We find out...

31 March 2013

Think You Saw Unity In Last Night’s Doctor Who?

Put your hands up if you think you spotted Ubuntu's Unity desktop being used during Doctor Who's most recent episode...

31 March 2013

Smart Scopes ‘Not Mature Enough’ to Ship in Ubuntu 13.04

Smart Scopes will not ship as part of the Ubuntu 13.04 desktop as originally planned.

29 March 2013

Minimal GNOME Video Player ‘Snappy’ Hits 0.3, Improves Feature Set

Does Linux really need yet another video player? Probably not. But is it cool to have yet another anyway? For sure!

29 March 2013

Ubuntu Powered Promo Booth? You Bet [Ubuntu In The Wild]

Every day we walk past and interact with machines that run Linux, without ever noticing. But every now and then these machines go wrong, and their underlying OS is exposed for all to see...

29 March 2013

Lightworks’ Linux Beta Gets April Release Date

Longing to try the professional-grade video editor Lightworks on Linux? Well, you don't have long to wait...

29 March 2013
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Mark Shuttleworth ‘Most Disruptive Name in Computing’ Says Forbes

Mark Shuttleworth has been named as one American magazine Forbes' '12 Most Disruptive Names in business'

27 March 2013