Earlier this week we filled you in on Michael Tunnell's work at bringing Wunderlist back to the Ubuntu desktop - and making it even better in the process. In that post we mentioned that you would need to add the 'Fogger Apps' PPA to Ubuntu in order to install it. Skip forward a few days: now you don't!
"Arrrgh" cried the perfectionist Ubuntu user when looking at his screen, "My window borders look awful!" If you are using Ubuntu's default Ambiance theme then you, like the exaggerated exmaple user above, have jagged window corners on your windows. It's not a big deal for most (cue comments of 'I never noticed") but for others it... well it irks....
It integrates web-based music players with the Ubuntu desktop and in its next release Nuvola music player is set to get even better. From new extensions and music services, to nifty features that make using it more enjoyable, here are our pick of the top 5 new features currently available to try in the most recent beta release.
Firefox 15 landed in Ubuntu 12.10 yesterday. brining with it a new native PDF viewer. PDF.js, to give the plugin its official name, lets you read PDF files - either online or local - inside your browser using nothing more than standard web technologies.
The third alpha release in the Ubuntu 12.10 development cycle has been made available for download. Various user-visible changes are present, including a new Session Menu, refined Software Updater and 3rd party driver installer.
Join us this Today at 1800 UTC for Ubuntu on Air Last cycle we decided to just hang out after a release, and we had such a good time and learned so much from our […]
Do you think Microsoft's bet on Windows 8 will pay off? Valve's Gabe Newell doesn't - even going as far as to call the OS a 'catastrophe for everyone in the PC space'. Newell - a former Microsoft employee - shared his thoughts on the controversial OS as part of a question on gaming on Linux.
A third-party developer has taken the code for Ubuntu TV and added some changes of his own. The results are pretty stunning.
The latest stable release of VLC is on its way to the Ubuntu Software Center, meaning you won't need to add unstable PPAs to be up-to-date. But before the 'stable release update' arrives, Ubuntu developer Benjamin Drung would like some plucky readers with the Precise-Proposed Repository enabled to test it.
A new radio lens has been added to the Ubuntu Software Center in Ubuntu 12.10. Station listings are fetched from the radio.de group of websites thus making over 7,000 radio channels accessible from the lens.
Pointless? Maybe. Cute? Definitely.
When it comes to Twitter applications for Linux it's fair to say that we are spoilt for choice. There's Ubuntu's default app Gwibber; the webkit loving Hotot; Choqok or Qwit if KDE is your sort of thing; the unstable but awesome Polly... The list goes on. So does gFeedline, a relatively new Twitter app for Linux, bring anything new to the table?