If you're one of our regular readers you may have been wondering where the Dapper Drake we've been for the last few weeks. Well here's where, and why it's actually turned out for the best.
In news that most of you won't give two sugar lumps about, the packages.ubuntu.com website has been updated to match the "new" Ubuntu branding. Where "new" means "introduced in 2010".
Although it will be a month or so before we can get our hands on an image of the Ubuntu Phone, Android developers have already been making apps using design elements from it...
Ubuntu's default music player Rhythmbox won't ship with the Ubuntu One Music Store plugin in 13.04. Sounds like a bad move, but it's actually for the best...
New options have been added to the Appearance Settings pane in Ubuntu 13.04. With a click you can now disable the 'Workspace Switcher' item, used to navigate between the four workspaces Ubuntu provides by default.
Backyard karting game 'RC Mini Racers' was Ubuntu's top selling paid application in December. The game managed to better its November position of #2.
Access to the Linux version of professional-grade video editor Lightworks has been widened today - but only for a 2 hour window. Lightworks saw a limited Linux Alpha release back in October of last year, much to the disappointment of many. Describing that initial Alpha test period as 'extremely successful', Lightworks are moving forward again with a new alpha testing period. This, they say, is ahead of public beta release scheduled for early spring.
zsync is a nifty command-line utility that can keep files up-to-date with remote ones. One of the most popular uses of zync on Ubuntu is for updating Ubuntu's daily build image with the latest changes - saving the need to download the entire 800MB .iso again. And in this guide we'll show you how to use it.
It might not be the strongly-rumoured Steambox games console itself, but on the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show 2013 a physical prototype of a Steam-powered mini-PC has been on show. Valve have teamed up with hardware vendor Xi3 to build a modular, miniature PC, which is currently code-named 'Piston'.
Earlier today we brought word that Adobe's CS2 suite of apps were, rather suddenly, free to download and install. It now transpires that we were misinformed. Adobe employee Dov Isaacs took to the Adobe forum earlier this evening to say that Adobe are 'absolutely not' giving away free copies of Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2 or any other part of the Adobe Creative Suite - CS2 or otherwise.
An installable image of Ubuntu for the Galaxy Nexus handset will be released 'late February', Canonical's Alan Pope has said. The Galaxy Nexus is the main device currently used by Canonical for demoing the OS, which boasts a touch-centric version of the Unity interface. At last weeks press event unveiling the device, Mark Shuttleworth had said that an image would be available 'in the coming weeks'.
Adobe have apparently made Photoshop, along with several other Creative Suite 2 applications, free to download. And the best bit? Photoshop CS2 will even run on Ubuntu.