Users of Unity 2D might not be able to tweak as much of their desktop as those running the resource-requiring 3D version, but options are available - and third party tweak too 2D Desktop Settings lets you adjust many parts of the Unity 2D desktop.
Assumptions about Ubuntu users and their preferences are made on a daily basis. From “They hate Unity” to “No-one wants to use Ubuntu TV.” But with the launch of the Ubuntu User survey you can […]
A new release of lightweight webkit browser Midori is now available to download.
With only a handful of days left to submit entries to the Ubuntu 12.04 Countdown Banner contest I couldn’t resist trawling through the 20 entries so far. It’s fair to say the standard and response to […]
The Ubuntu 12.04 will remain small enough to burn to a regular blank CD. Discussions early on in the development of Precise had seen talk of the Ubuntu image size being raised from the sub-700MB size of previous releases to as much as 750MB.
You can help the Ubuntu design team decide on multi-monitor launcher usage by voting on the poll inside.
Development Update Only seven weeks until release. If you are excited, you’re not the only one. We still have two weeks until Beta 2 Freeze and three weeks until Beta 2 Release and if you […]
The Ubuntu One Control Panel in Ubuntu 12.04 has been remade in Qt - a move that hasn't found favour with everyone. But, development being development, the UI to the app has been tweaked again, adding graphics and colour to the previously pale set-up window.
KDE Tablet ‘Spark’ has been forced to change its name due to trademark issues. The €200 tablet, which saw pre-ordering closed due to ‘phenomenal demand’, has been renamed ‘Vivaldi’. Project lead Aaron Seigo explains that […]
Ubuntu 12.04 Beta users are being asked to help test an improved version of the Files Lens for Unity. The file search in the ‘testing’ version has been tweaked to look for files sources additional […]
The first official release of Songbird fork Nightingale has been made available for download. What's it like? Is it worth installing? Let's take a quick look and see...
Have you tried Windows 8 yet? I installed it on my Dell Duo over the weekend (it pays to keep an eye on the competition, folks) but for all of my own doubts and critique of the OS I didn't notice something that reader Jan B. did: the 'Share' button - which lets you easily share activity from the in-focus application - resembles the logo of a certain open-source operating system...