The official Ubuntu 10.10 countdown banners – as chosen earlier this month – are now available to use, download, embed etc. Speaking on the Ubuntu-art mailing list Matthew Nuzum said: – “Add them to your […]
Christian Giordano has posted a video mock-up of a motion-aware Ubuntu desktop today. The demo was created following internal discussions on how Ubuntu could make use of user-proximity based data in informing input on the […]
Jeremy Allison nabbed some really neat interviews with various awesome people related to/involved with GNOME at this years 2010 GUADEC event and since so many of you enjoyed our interview with GNOME Co-Found Federico Mena […]
There are many file conversion tools out there – Handbrake, Arista & command line based options using FFmpeg to name but a few. WinFF provides a GUI for the above mentioned command line video converter […]
Owners of Apple’s new ‘Magic Trackpad’ device will be pleased to hear that Ubuntu 10.10 has gained support for the device, thanks to the work of Canonicals’ Chase Douglas. Douglas’ work on adding Magic Trackpad […]
Afro over on our sister site OMG! SuSE! just posted a neat little guide on getting web browsers Google Chrome & Opera to look all neat and tidy within the KDE desktop. Since the tips […]
Periscope is a subtitles search engine add-on that takes the tedium out of tracking down your favourite TV or Movie text. It integrates with both Totem and Nautilus (via Right Click menu entry) making it […]
If you use the popular GnoMenu application in AWN you'll find yourself stuck with a gold foot as your main launch icon - which is great if you like giant golden feet, less so if you were hoping for something more configurable. Here's how to use your own icon.
Andrew Jorgensen has announced that the 2.8 preview of Mono is available. This is the first early version of what will become Mono 3.0, the next long term supported version of Mono (2.4.x and later […]
Unity may not even be officially released yet but already people are thinking about how it can improve for 11.04 and beyond. Take Michael Jonker’s awesome interactive Unity mock-up, as posted to the Ayatana mailing […]
Ever felt that your desktop has been bereft of a modern and capable download manager? Maia Kozheva felt the same and decided it was time to do something about it... Meet Steadyflow.
Merge and combine mulitple documents using Couturier - a PDF merge app inspired by iCombiner It's a flawlessly usable application that does what it's supposed to and not a jot more or less. Download link inside.
Maverick users who have either personally installed the Indicator-datetime applet or found it sat lovingly on their desktops after an upgrade may wish is was a little bit more... configurable. Getting it to display more than the time - e.g. the date, seconds and/or the day - is actually relatively simple, just following the following steps that lie herein.
All sorts of crazy tips came in over this last week, but rather then send barrages of tiny news, here's the whole group at once!
German designer Jan stopped by the OMG! mail box today to share his mock-ups for an Elementary style Rhythmbox and Evolution. “Today I did some mockup images for Rhythmbox and Evolution (mail and calenderview) how […]
The greatest screenshotting tool known to Linux users sees a new release today. Version 0.86.4 (don’t say that with a mouthful) adds many exciting new features. Ready for a rundown? Capture all workspaces as one […]
Last week we highlighted some gradiently-gorgeous (no, that is a word now) Ubuntu Radiance style replacement tray icons for everyone’s favourite MSN clone ‘Emesene’. Whilst many readers loved the simplicity behind them the author had stated […]
So you've removed a desktop panel you wished you hadn't, ditched an applet you now realised you were quite fond of or you just long for the halcyon days when your desktop panels were all neat and tidy like a fresh install, right? This script is there to help.