Finding and reading the latest news on any subject has just gotten super easy in Ubuntu...
Here's where you folks get to call me uncool: I hadn't, until today, ever heard of the notoriously violent racing game (and then some) Carmageddon. But that's now changed. The team behind the iconic 90s game are raising money on Kickstarter to redevelop and reboot the game for today's generation of gamers - including those on Linux.
Unity's 'chameleonic' colour matching feature is great at giving the Ubuntu desktop to give your desktop a subtle but consistent feel. It takes the 'average' colour of your desktop wallpaper and uses this to 'tint' the Unity dash, launcher and notification bubbles. But what if it went a bit further and used this colour in the default GTK theme? That 'What if' has now been answered by developer David Callé.
Buying additional storage space or purchasing an on-the-go music streaming subscription from Ubuntu One has just gotten easier. The Canonical-owned service has added support for payment by PayPal to the checkout options for all of its packages.
Handy note-taking app NitroTasks has added task syncing support in its latest release. The feature uses Ubuntu One or Dropbox to 'sync' your to-do lists across all of your computers on which Nitro is installed.
Can you recall Neil Armstrong's famous words as he set foot on the Moon? If not then look them up because chances are they will be referenced a lot later this year when the Minority Report-esque 'Leap' gesture-controlled interaction device goes on sale.
Retro-styled running game Bit.Trip.Runner is now available to buy on the Ubuntu Software Center. The critically-acclaimed game is described by its developers as 'the fastest, most exhilarating music/rhythm-platformer to hit Ubuntu!'.
Linux users of Logitech's Performance Mouse MX are asking the hardware company to introduce proper Linux support for the high-end product. "I recently purchased a Logitech Performance Mouse MX, and I love it." writes Linux user atarian88 on the Logitech support forms. "It feels just right in the hand, and it has so much potential. Note the use of the word "potential"; the mouse could be so much better under my operating system of choice."
They're best known for making Ubuntu laptops and PCs but ZaReason are about to dip their toes into fresh waters with the launch of a tablet. But, unlike the rest of their hardware line up, the 'ZaTab' doesn't come with Ubuntu but the tried-and-tested tablet Android 4.0 operating system.
This is a guest post by Tom Slominski, a 15 year old Ubuntu user who 'loves Linux, open source and web development with a tad of alternative rock sprinkled on top.' Here Tom runs through his top 5 app picks for Ubuntu.
A new stable release of Skype-Wrapper is available for download. Skype-Wrapper is a small third-party 'plugin' that integrates many of Skype's features directly into the Ubuntu desktop. This includes support for Ubuntu's Messaging Menu, notification system and Unity launcher.
If you use any web-apps or websites in Chrome that provide notification pop-ups on your desktop then you'll know how out of place they look in Ubuntu. But all it takes to enable native notifications is one extension. Read on for more.